February 12, 2022 @ 2:56 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The explosive growth of Fintechs and their rising influence in finance has been neatly summarized in F-Prime’s State of Fintech Report for 2021. Start with the raises. In 2021 Fintechs attracted close to $120 billion of capital in private markets, with more than 300 nine-figure… Read More

February 12, 2022 @ 2:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sardine, the fraud and compliance platform for Fintech firms, completed a $19.5 million in Series A round from Andreessen Horowitz, NYCA, and Experian Ventures “to enable companies to protect customers from financial fraud.” As mentioned in the update, Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Angela Strange joins… Read More

February 12, 2022 @ 11:40 am By JD Alois  |  

Last week, the SEC Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee (SBCFAC) held a meeting to discuss the definition of an accredited investor. As CI has frequently covered in the past, this definition determines who may, or who may not, participate in Reg D securities offerings…. Read More

February 12, 2022 @ 11:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at GoCardless notes that Open Banking is the key to changing how we make payments, and get paid. So when GoCardless finalized their Series F investment round at the end of 2020, they immediately put that investment to work – “accelerating [their] product… Read More

February 12, 2022 @ 11:03 am By JD Alois  |  

Chronicle, a “digital collectibles marketplace,” has announced a secondary marketplace, auctions, and crypto integrations. Simultaneously, Chronical has announced that it will enable payments from USDC, the dollar-based stablecoin issued by Circle. Launched last year, the NFT platform targets a global market that offers “authenticated” digital… Read More

February 12, 2022 @ 9:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Northspyre, a financial tracking and project delivery automation platform for real estate developers, has reportedly acquired $25 million via a Series B round to further grow its business and expand its solution “to improve the development process within the multi-trillion dollar commercial real estate industry.”… Read More

February 12, 2022 @ 9:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BlockFi Inc. is reportedly getting ready to pay $100 million in order to settle allegations from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and State regulators that it had been illegally offering a product that pays clients really high interest rates to lend out their… Read More

February 12, 2022 @ 9:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FNZ, the wealth management platform, has acquired $1.4 billion in new equity funding from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Motive Partners, in one of the largest primary equity raises in the wealth management industry. The raise now values FNZ at more than $20 billion… Read More

February 11, 2022 @ 7:01 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Infina, a retail investing app focused on Vietnam, this week announced they have closed a $6 million seed funding round from investors such as Sequoia Capital India’s Surge, Y Combinator, Saison Capital, Starling Ventures, Alpha JWC, and AppWorks. Additional investors who have backed Robinhood, Coinbase,… Read More

February 11, 2022 @ 6:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed charges against Wahed Invest, a “robo-advisor,” for “misleading statements and breaching its fiduciary duty, and for compliance failures.” Wahed has consented to the, without admitting or denying the SEC’s findings, while paying a penalty. Wahed Invest… Read More

February 11, 2022 @ 5:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

In a bit of good news for the crypto mining sector and staking platforms, it is being reported that crypto miners and stakers will not have to report transactions to the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The news was posted by Bloomberg who stated it… Read More

February 11, 2022 @ 5:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase Global (NASDAQ: COIN) has reportedly removed “how to buy” instructions for around three digital tokens which have been the subject of “rug pull” warnings – which claims that people could lose their funds. Coinbase’s management also mentioned that they are focused on enhancing safeguards…. Read More

February 11, 2022 @ 5:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

An email distributed this week by Tokeny CEO Luc Falempin provided some perspective as to why Tokeny opted to utilize Polygon as opposed to other blockchain options. Tokeny is a leading European tokenization or digital security platform. The Luxembourg-based firm is building compliance technology for… Read More

February 11, 2022 @ 3:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ocean Protocol, the decentralized data exchange protocol that taps into data for AI, is pleased to confirm the introduction of DataX Protocol, an initiative financed via OceanDAO, Ocean’s community-curated grants program. DataX Protocol has a lineup of various DeFi tooling solutions for datasets in the… Read More

February 11, 2022 @ 3:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

EBANX, the payments platform in Latin America, is celebrating 10 years since its founding as it closes in on a key milestone of 1 billion transactions processed across 15 different countries. The Brazilian Fintech firm, co-founded by Alphonse Voigt, João Del Valle and Wagner Ruiz… Read More

February 11, 2022 @ 12:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

METL is introducing what it claims to be the first-ever decentralized fiat gateway infrastructure of its kind “bridging Web 2 to Web3 in collaboration with Prime Trust and Avalanche.” METL’s roots date back to 2018 when the first MVP was created, in order to demonstrate… Read More

February 11, 2022 @ 11:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Volt, the open payments gateway, has reportedly appointed Nathan Marion as General Manager LATAM, in order to lead its strategic expansion in Latin America (LatAm). This follows the Fintech firm’s integration of Brazil’s instant payments system, Pix. Marion joins from e-commerce platform VTEX. There, in… Read More

February 11, 2022 @ 9:58 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdcube, a leading European investment platform, is promoting the overall returns generated by investors. The crowdfunding platform recently tweeted out a link to a page that outlines some of the issuers that have created positive returns for its investors. According to Crowdcube, “over 50,000 investors… Read More

February 11, 2022 @ 9:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Algorand Foundation has confirmed the appointment of Staci Warden as its Chief Executive Officer. Warden, who has served on the Algorand Foundation’s Board since September of last year, steps into the additional role of CEO effective February 11, 2022. Warden has reportedly led international… Read More

February 11, 2022 @ 8:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin payment provider OpenNode has finalized a $20 million Series A round that was led by U.K. firm Kingsway at a $220 million valuation in order support its international  expansion. Other participants in OpenNode’s investment round include Twitter, venture capital investor Tim Draper and Avon… Read More