November 13, 2022 @ 10:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Originally coined in 2015 by Chris Messina, conversational commerce has become “an increasingly familiar term in the communications and eCommerce markets,” according to an update from Juniper Research. It refers to “the intersection of messaging apps and online retail.” Juniper Research defines conversational commerce as:… Read More

November 13, 2022 @ 10:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wayhome has raised 102% (£3,087,566) of its £3,000,001 target from 448 investors via its crowdfunding campaign, carried out via Seedrs. There are now (at the time of writing) 20 days left in this sale. According to the Wayhome team, they aim to offer “a new… Read More

November 13, 2022 @ 10:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ChainUp, a global blockchain technology solutions provider, announced that it will be providing crypto exchanges “with a Merkle Tree Proof-of-Reserves solution to promote transparency of crypto assets.” A Merkle Tree is “a cryptographic tool that enables the consolidation of large amounts of data into a… Read More

November 13, 2022 @ 5:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech Connect 2022, Europe’s Fintech event for the entire ecosystem, recently released its 2022 Industry Benchmark Report, Fintech in Flux: Thriving in the Age of Uncertainty, showing that customers “remain the biggest focus, with 86 per cent of respondents investing in AI to stay competitive.”… Read More

November 13, 2022 @ 5:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

As details of the FTX collapse continue to emerge, criticism has turned into a pile-on in regard to Sam Bankman-Fried’s mismanagement of the crypto exchange and affiliated entities, including his hedge fund Alameda Research. Bankman-Fried is said to be in the Bahamas, where authorities are… Read More

November 13, 2022 @ 4:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hilary Wiek, CFA, CAIA Lead Analyst, Fund Strategies & Sustainable Investing at Pitchbook, notes that through the first quarter of 2022, one-year private fund performance was still “at historically high levels, as more muted performance in Q1 2022 was still overcome by three quarters of… Read More

November 13, 2022 @ 4:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

Twitter’s filing with FINCEN (the US Department of Treasury, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network), has surfaced in the agency’s database. According to the filing, Twitter Payments, LLC has filed to become a Money Transmitter in all 50 states and territories. Twitter Payments joins over 25,000 Money… Read More

November 13, 2022 @ 4:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

European financing platform Debitum notes that its partner company Triple Dragon – an “innovative,” “fast-growing,” specialist lender in the gaming and mobile app industries – in December 2022 will mark their 6th year anniversary. During these years Triple Dragon have reportedly “managed not only to… Read More

November 13, 2022 @ 1:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

YouWrk, which claims it is recruitment that “works for everyone,” blending the “best” of digital and human, with Stripe-powered technology and “hands on account management,” has raised 95% (£143,344.58) of its £150,000 target from 87 investors with 9 days left (at the time of writing)… Read More

November 13, 2022 @ 12:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitfinex, a digital asset trading platform, claims that it has “not been impacted by the latest market events.” The exchange reportedly “remains liquid, stable and strong, and has no exposure to FTX or its FTT exchange token.” Over the past week, Bitfinex has “witnessed an… Read More

November 13, 2022 @ 12:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

It’s been a time of “great change” in the UK, with political events unfolding alongside global economic themes, including high inflation and rising interest rates, the team at PensionBee notes. According to PensionBee, there’s “an interconnected relationship between inflation and interest rates; often when one… Read More

November 13, 2022 @ 12:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

RockX, which claims to be one of Asia’s largest staking solutions and institutional-grade blockchain access node providers, announced that it has “integrated with OKX Chain (OKC), an EVM-compatible layer one blockchain, to provide cross-chain node services for users to access the OKC ecosystem.” With this… Read More

November 12, 2022 @ 4:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hash Blockchain Limited, a member of the HashKey Group, a digital asset financial services group in Asia, has “received approval” from the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong (SFC) in order “to operate a virtual asset trading platform, under a Type 1 (dealing in… Read More

November 12, 2022 @ 3:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Securities Commission of The Bahamas (the Commission) took action “to freeze assets of FTX Digital Markets and related parties.” The Commission also “suspended the registration and applied to the Supreme Court of The Bahamas for the appointment of a provisional liquidator of FTX Digital… Read More

November 12, 2022 @ 3:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Bank of Russia proposes to discuss possible circulation of digital assets “at exchange trading, harmonization of approaches to their taxation with traditional financial instruments, conditions for acquiring digital assets by individual institutional investors, establishment of the accounting procedure for such investments, as well as… Read More

November 12, 2022 @ 3:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Globally, rising inflation, a higher cost of living, and slower wage growth are impacting the lives of people right around the world. A recent report suggested that many consumers are turning to physical cash to help manage their finances amid the cost-of-living crisis. But Muhannad… Read More

November 12, 2022 @ 9:38 am By JD Alois  |  

Insult upon injury, FTX is now dealing with “unauthorized transactions” that have led to the theft of crypto as FTX moves to place all crypto in cold storage. Ryne Miller, FTX.us GC, appeared to confirm the hack in a series of Tweets. https://twitter.com/_Ryne_Miller/status/1591326796305530880?s=20&t=gT0NTB2Hnmugn-deop6-gA   Elliptic… Read More

November 12, 2022 @ 9:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The latest funding round closed by Fintech Ramp brings the total raised by the firm to $122.7m over the past 12 months alone, “despite the current crypto bear market.” Ramp says it is pleased to announce that they’ve just secured $70M via their series B… Read More

November 12, 2022 @ 9:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Evmos, the port-of-entry from Ethereum to Cosmos, launched its partnership with Anchorage Digital in order “to offer institutions secure custody and staking of EVMOS, the native token of the platform.” As Evmos continues to attract builders to deploy dApps on its cross-ecosystem interoperability platform, institutions… Read More

November 11, 2022 @ 10:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

CapitalRise has financed an £8.5 million loan for the acquisition and development of a detached 13,000 sq. ft house on the private Wentworth Estate in Virginia Water. CapitalRise notes that the new detached house on the plot has an estimated sales price of £16 million… Read More