December 7, 2021 @ 10:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Phase One of the NEVM launch is now officially complete, the Syscoin team announced in a recent update. Their Bitcoin-secured Layer 1 for EVM smart contracts “reached mainnet on block 1,317,500, December 6th, 2021,” according to an update shared with Crowdfund Insider. With this upgrade… Read More

December 7, 2021 @ 10:07 am By JD Alois  |  

Solana-based NFT platform Holaplex has raised $6 million in seed funding according to a public statement. The funding was led by CoinFund with participation by Social Capital, Valor, Collab+Currency, Blockchain Coinvestors, and Solana Capital. The funding is said to support the growth and development of the… Read More

December 7, 2021 @ 9:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zephyr Homeloans, the specialist buy-to-let (BTL) lender that is owned by Computershare, has unveiled several new products as part of a range redesign intended to support greater energy efficiency in the United Kingdom‘s private rental sector. Zephyr’s management noted that their new EPC Deal products… Read More

December 7, 2021 @ 9:06 am By Dmytro Spilka  |  

Brazil’s Fintech decacorn, Nubank is all set for a blockbuster IPO on the 8th of December that’s certain to resonate across the world of finance. Whilst the company has been forced to cut its valuation target by around $9 billion to a total of around… Read More

December 7, 2021 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

The HBAR Foundation, the entity that aims to boost the development of the Hedera ecosystem, has announced a partnership with DECA4, a blockchain consultancy based in the UAE. The partnership is expected to help build and support decentralized projects in the Middle East on the… Read More

December 7, 2021 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-headquartered Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) Fintech Butter is planning to compete with and potentially replace traditional credit cards with the introduction of its own BNPL card. Although 65% of UK consumers carry credit cards, the number being issued has declined by around 3% during… Read More

December 7, 2021 @ 8:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital wealth management platform Moneyfarm has confirmed that it will acquire Wealthsimple’s UK business book. Wealthsimple UK has reportedly agreed to transfer its 16,000 UK clients to Moneyfarm by the end of January 2022. The Canadian Robo-advisor said it would no longer be offering its… Read More

December 7, 2021 @ 7:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SETL, a blockchain settlement and payment infrastructure provider, reveals that it has had one of those “breakthrough moments” after its Regulated Liability Network (RLN) was reportedly able to demonstrate that it successfully processed 1 million transactions per second (TPS). The RLN is described as a… Read More

December 7, 2021 @ 7:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Marqeta (NASDAQ: MQ) has worked with Klarna since 2018 and today the two companies are broadening their relationship. According to a statement from Marqeta, its partnership with Klarna will expand into 13 new European markets: the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium,… Read More

December 6, 2021 @ 10:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UniTeller, a global remittance payments processor with head offices in the US, has reportedly extended its remittance services to more clients residing in the Asia Pacific by teaming up with Malaysia’s cross-border payments Fintech Tranglo. UniTeller’s partnership with Tranglo will enable UniTeller to continue expanding… Read More

December 6, 2021 @ 10:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Beginning on December 2, 2021, people may sign up to get first access to the Blockchain.com NFT marketplace. In the coming weeks, users may start purchasing, selling, and storing non-fungible tokens or NFTs right inside their Blockchain.com Wallet. As mentioned in an update from Blockchain.com… Read More

December 6, 2021 @ 10:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

i2c Inc., a provider of digital payment and banking tech, has announced its partnership with BEYON Money, the mobile super app introduced by Batelco Financial Services, which is the Fintech unit of Bahrain’s digital solutions and telecommunications provider. Backed by a recently-secured Open Banking license… Read More

December 6, 2021 @ 9:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PeopleFund (CEO Joey Kim), South Korea’s online lending platform focused on consumer loans, announced recently the completion of a KRW75.9 billion (appr. $6.45 million) Series C round of funding raising from international financial institutions – which includes Bain Capital, Lending Ark Asia Secured Private Debt… Read More

December 6, 2021 @ 9:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

B2B cross-border payment provider, Verto, has teamed up with payments bank, Banking Circle, in order to streamline global payments for its customers. Utilizing the Banking Circle Virtual IBAN solution, alongside access to Banking Circle’s domestic payment channels, Verto is “addressing the pain points of complicated… Read More

December 6, 2021 @ 6:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

Stripe, a global payments and digital banking Fintech, has acquired OpenChannel, a company based in Canada that helps businesses to build, launch, and manage app ecosystems. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. In a brief statement, Stripe stated that OpenChannel will join Stripe’s… Read More

December 6, 2021 @ 5:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crypto 1 Acquisition Corp. a special purpose acquisition corporation (SPAC), is expected to trade on the Nasdaq this week. The securities of the SPAC were certified on Friday, and registration was approved on the same day. In fact, Nasdaq has them on their calendar to… Read More

December 6, 2021 @ 5:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The announcement shared below was reportedly provided to AS Mintos Marketplace (Mintos) by Eleving Group, a cooperation partner of Mintos that provides various investment opportunities via Mntos.com. Following Eleving Group’s strategy to consolidate investments in its “best-performing markets, a decision has been made to exit… Read More

December 6, 2021 @ 3:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In the Caribbean, a new neobanking platform has been introduced. It aims to offer all the features provided by digital banking platforms along with support for crypto-assets. As mentioned in an announcement, neobank Migom offers banking services to SMEs operating in emerging markets. Migom Bank‘s… Read More

December 6, 2021 @ 3:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

Nu Holdings (Nubank), a Brazil-based Fintech, is expected to go public this week as shares are set to trade under the ticker symbol “NU” on the NYSE. Late last month, Nubank updated its price range to $8 to$9 per share. If the neobank bank floats… Read More

December 6, 2021 @ 3:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with James Bayly, the Head Of Business Development at SubQuery & OnFinality. Bayly explained that SubQuery serves as a decentralized data aggregation, indexing, and querying layer between L-1 chains and dApps. He confirmed that his team is focused on Polkadot (DOT)… Read More