August 29, 2022 @ 7:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE), a provider of global market infrastructure and tradable products, announced the initial group of firms that intend “to become equity investors in the Cboe Digital business.” Cboe’s advanced discussions with potential equity partners “involve a broad and diverse range… Read More

August 29, 2022 @ 6:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

Boxabl, a pre-fab, modular housing concept that has generated some solid traction on the market, closed its Reg A+ securities offering on StartEngine last Friday. The offering was simultaneously listed on Republic. According to the Reg CF offering page, Boxabl closed at over $24 million… Read More

August 29, 2022 @ 6:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Security Token Market, a global oracle for all security token financial data, media, and research is pleased to announce a new investment from SPiCE VC, a venture capital firm focused on the growth and development of the blockchain and tokenization ecosystem. SPiCE is considered to… Read More

August 29, 2022 @ 5:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

Earlier this month, FIS (NYSE:FIS) and the Venture Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, announced the ten new firms joining the 2022 FIS Fintech Accelerator class. The FIS Accelerator is described as a key aspect of FIS Impact Ventures – the VC arm of FIS. The… Read More

August 29, 2022 @ 4:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Carta notes that they’re making a visual change which is indicative of “the external manifestation” of the next evolution of their platform. The first problem they had set out to solve at Carta was “the electronic issuing and signing of private stock… Read More

August 29, 2022 @ 1:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) plans have taken over as a “popular” financing option for consumers, partly due to “an increase in online shopping demands during the pandemic,” the TrueAccord team notes in a blog post. In 2021, Americans “spent more than $20 billion through… Read More

August 29, 2022 @ 12:47 pm By JD Alois  |  

MAS Supports Digital Asset Innovation, No Ban on Crypto Trading but Seeks to Limit Retail Access Singapore is a top global Fintech hub and the leading Asian center for innovation in financial services. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has long aided the digitization of… Read More

August 29, 2022 @ 10:59 am By JD Alois  |  

Crypto Insurance Firm Breach Offers Investment Opportunity to Republic Community Demand meet supply.  The frequency of crypto thefts and other malfeasance has become so mundane people tend to accept that some digital assets will just go bad. Hacks, ransomware etc., have led to billions of… Read More

August 29, 2022 @ 10:37 am By JD Alois  |  

Investor’s Business Daily and MarketWatch, two financial publications, have published a list of the most trusted financial companies without a single Fintech being recognized. According to IBD, Marketwatch, the best of the lot went it comes to consumer trust are as follows: USAA: Auto Insurance… Read More

August 29, 2022 @ 10:12 am By JD Alois  |  

As Bitcoin struggles to hold onto $20K and Ethereum wobbles in advance of the Merge, Coinshares most recent report indicates that investors continue to de-risk from crypto – albeit with small aggregate amounts. According to the weekly report, digital asset fund flows delivered a net… Read More

August 29, 2022 @ 8:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s Atom Bank reveals that the 6-month trial of a 4-day work week was really positive for workers and that customer service ratings have not been negatively impacted. App-based Fintech Atom bank said that its four-day working week trial was a success due to several… Read More

August 29, 2022 @ 8:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Embedded finance Fintech Railsr, previously doing business as Railsbank, has entered a new partnership with specialist insurance intermediary Elmore. Via the collaboration, Elmore will aim to offer “specialist” Fintech insurance for Railsr’s client internationally, with products that offer protection against operational risks, and which also… Read More

August 29, 2022 @ 8:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SolanaFM, a Solana blockchain explorer offering indexing and analytical services, recently announced that it has “secured $4.5 million in a seed funding round led by SBI Group’s Digital Asset Opportunity Fund.” The seed funding round that was led by SBI Group’s Digital Asset Opportunity Fund… Read More

August 29, 2022 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Mermade Seafoods , an Israel based Foodtech startup, has raised $3.3 million in an oversubscribed Seed funding round. Investment marketplace OurCrowd participated in the funding along with Fall Line, Sake Bosch and others. Mermade was founded in July 2021 by CEO Daniel Einhorn, CTO Dr…. Read More

August 28, 2022 @ 11:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech Revolut, the global financial superapp with over 20 million customers, has appointed Raymond Ng as Singapore CEO “as it continues to grow in Singapore.” The new appointment “follows Revolut recently announcing the launch of its crypto products in Singapore.” Revolut‘s customer base in Singapore… Read More

August 28, 2022 @ 11:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Boris Ilyevsky, Head of Coinbase Derivatives Exchange (at Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN)) notes that the platform will be launching a Nano Ether futures contract (ET) on August 29, 2022 as they continue “to build an accessible futures market for the retail trader.” Sized at 1/10th of an… Read More

August 28, 2022 @ 10:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

ADDX, facilitating private digital securities, now offers a cash management option in collaboration with OCBC Group’s Lion Global Investors. Parked cash loses value and now ADDX users to sweep funds into a digital wallet with an interest-generating account. ADDX, a company backed by SGX, leverages… Read More

August 28, 2022 @ 10:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Billtrust (NASDAQ: BTRS), a B2B accounts receivable automation and integrated payments provider, and Johnstone Supply, a cooperative wholesale distributor in the HVACR industry, recently announced a strategic collaboration that will “help their 90+ individual Johnstone Business Owners take control of the order-to-cash process.” Billtrust has… Read More

August 28, 2022 @ 9:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Netcapital Inc. (Nasdaq: NCPL, NCPLW), a digital private capital markets ecosystem,  announced “the successful completion of a capital offering by Avadain, which developed a green manufacturing technology to manufacture high quality graphene flakes and is backed by Panasonic.” Avadain’s offering “closed on July 28, 2022,… Read More

August 28, 2022 @ 9:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

Jupiter Fund Management is interested in parting with its 10% ownership stake in top UK digital bank – Starling Bank, according to a report. Sky News says that Jupiter may sell the shares at over £200 million, perhaps a transaction may entail a discount. The… Read More