October 4, 2022 @ 6:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Commonwealth Bank’s venture-scaling arm, x15ventures, has announced a $250,000 investment in Paytron, “after the full-suite workflows and spend management platform won this year’s Xccelerate program.” Paytron was founded by Jaco Veldsman and Francois Henrion “to transform business spend, with integrated workflows to control every transaction.”… Read More

October 4, 2022 @ 4:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Robocash Group has distributed its first six months of 2022, ending June 30, financial results. According to the company, revenue is up by 53.1% to USD$ 214.2 million from USD$ 139.9 million, year over year. The report was reviewed by FBK Grant Thornton and did… Read More

October 4, 2022 @ 3:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has penalized Choice Money Transfer, dba Small World Money Transfer, for multiple violations of the Remittance Transfer Rule and the Electronic Fund Transfer Act (EFTA), according to public statement. The CFPB claims that it found the company did not… Read More

October 4, 2022 @ 3:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Uniqo, an innovative decentralized finance (DeFi) project for stable and secure financial investments, has reportedly launched a new feature. As the “first” Rebound protocol in the emerging space, Uniqo aims “to address all of the problems of the crypto market—unstable returns, extreme volatility, questionable smart… Read More

October 4, 2022 @ 1:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) announced it is bringing added value to U.S. small business cardholders with new and expanded benefits, with “a focus on convenience, efficiency and cyber security, to directly address some of their most pressing wants and needs.” As reported by the SBA, small… Read More

October 4, 2022 @ 12:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday, as was widely reported, well-known celebrity and influencer Kim Kardashian settled an enforcement action brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The infraction had to do with an Instagram post for EthereumMAX, the issuer of the EMAX token. The post, which was tagged… Read More

October 4, 2022 @ 11:26 am By JD Alois  |  

Pending digital asset legislation is piling up in the US House and Senate with some of these bills poised to move forward following the outcomes of the midterm elections. Last week, Senator Bill Hagerty, a member of the Senate Banking Committee, introduced the Digital Trading… Read More

October 4, 2022 @ 11:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSNC) announced at its SS&C Deliver Conference the rollout of its intelligent automation portfolio “under the SS&C Blue Prism brand.” SS&C Blue Prism “combines RPA, BPM and low and no-code capabilities to provide a comprehensive menu of intelligent automation (IA)… Read More

October 4, 2022 @ 10:58 am By JD Alois  |  

DBT, a Swedish online lender serving SMEs, has raised a SEK 3.1 billion (~$285 million) debt facility from UK-based NatWest and Värde Partners, according to a company statement. Värde Partners is a US-based investment firm and currently manages $2 billion of financial services debt and equity… Read More

October 4, 2022 @ 10:10 am By JD Alois  |  

  Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) based on crypto assets swooned by 11% during the month of August according to a report by Fineqia. While the decline should come as no surprise as many markets have been sinking due to many different reasons, this report applies… Read More

October 4, 2022 @ 9:18 am By JD Alois  |  

As part of Lugano, Switzerland’s Plan ₿, a joint initiative between the City of Lugano and Tether to accelerate the use of Bitcoin, the city now accepts Bitcoin and USDT at the communities merchants. The service is using GoCrypto to enable crypto payments. USDT is… Read More

October 4, 2022 @ 8:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

  Finastra revealed a sneak peek at its annual State of the Nation Financial Services research. Results point to the significant progress the industry “has made around open finance and collaboration, despite the challenging market conditions of the last few years.” The research takes in… Read More

October 4, 2022 @ 7:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockchain technology company TradeStrike BVI has announced the launch of its new mobile crypto wallet, which will “enable retail investors, as well as the 10,000+ holders of its $STRX utility token, to track their portfolio’s performance via a mobile app.” The launch has been “accompanied… Read More

October 4, 2022 @ 12:01 am By JD Alois  |  

Following a €400 million funding round this past July, Casavo will launch in France bringing a “unique guaranteed sale offer” to its platform. Casavo was founded in Italy in 2017 and has since expanded into Spain and Portugal. The Proptech has acquired Proprioo – a… Read More

October 3, 2022 @ 11:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) recently announced a technology agreement with DBS Bank (SGX:D05). DBS will leverage Nasdaq’s technology as they seek “to advance its surveillance capabilities and continue to protect its clients from market abuse.” DBS Bank, a financial services group in Asia, will “leverage Nasdaq… Read More

October 3, 2022 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Regtech Coinfirm has been integrated into Shyft Network’s Veriscope, a Travel Rule product. Shyft Network is “a public protocol designed to power data discoverability and compliance into blockchain while preserving privacy and sovereignty.” Facilitating the transfer of verifiable data between centralized and decentralized ecosystems, Shyft… Read More

October 3, 2022 @ 10:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Savana, which claims to be one of the industry leaders in financial software for banks and Fintechs, announced that Battle Financial, Inc., building the proposed Eagle County Colorado-based Battle Bank, has selected Savana “as the digital delivery platform to orchestrate its technology ecosystem and automate… Read More

October 3, 2022 @ 10:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at NEO are pleased to announce the launch of NeoNS — which is described as  the first Neo name service provider on Neo N3. NeoNS reportedly offers “a more streamlined, efficient and functional experience within the Neo ecosystem and beyond.” You can visit NeoNS… Read More

October 3, 2022 @ 10:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PwC Hong Kong announces the signing of a collaboration agreement with TerraZero Technologies, Inc. With offices in Vancouver and Los Angeles, TerraZero brings together specialists and entrepreneurs “from blockchain, web3, design, programming, entertainment, marketing and finance backgrounds.” PwC and TerraZero are “devising a go-to-market strategy… Read More

October 3, 2022 @ 9:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

With Solana’s repeated run-ins with bots and outages, it affects not just traders but projects “building on top of Solana,” according to an update shared with CI. Zebec claims it is “becoming the largest business-facing protocol on Solana, with over 200 Solana projects utilizing Zebec.”… Read More