August 19, 2024 @ 3:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

Perhaps it was a head fake? Recently, it was reported that the Democrat Party was attempting to repair the bridges destroyed by the Biden Administration regarding digital asset innovation and the entrepreneurs in this industry. President Joe Biden has been determinably anti-crypto, thus driving this sector… Read More

August 19, 2024 @ 2:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

GAMEE, the “high-engagement” Web3 and mobile gaming platform and subsidiary of Animoca Brands, announced it has received an investment from TON Ventures, the first venture fund of The Open Network (TON). Managed by a DAO with a mandate to invest in projects built on TON,… Read More

August 19, 2024 @ 12:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Italian Banca Sella now provides Bitcoin (BTC) trading. Established back in 1886, Banca Sella is one of the most well-known banking institutions in Italy. Its mobile banking platform, known as Hype, now also includes a Bitcoin trading service as it operates with more than 1.2… Read More

August 19, 2024 @ 11:53 am By JD Alois  |  

Gate Ventures, part of Gate.io, and the Blockchain Center in Abu Dhabi have announced a collaboration on a $100 million fund to support early-stage blockchain firms. The new fund, Falcon Gate Ventures, is on a mission to drive blockchain innovation on a global scale. Abdulla… Read More

August 19, 2024 @ 11:20 am By JD Alois  |  

Platonic has announced the launch of a decentralized tokenization platform. According to a company statement, Platonic offers the “tokenization of a wide range of assets.” Violet Abtahi, founder and CEO of Platonic, said their vision is to provide a fresh take on tokenization and disrupt… Read More

August 19, 2024 @ 11:10 am By JD Alois  |  

CoinShares Head of Research James Butterfill has shared some insight into institutional holdings of crypto ETFs – Bitcoin based funds. Butterfill has reviewed all of the all the Bitcoin ETF filing data and looked at prior filings in March to see how positions have changed…. Read More

August 19, 2024 @ 10:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Legendary investor Carl Icahn has been charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) with failure to disclose the use of company’s securities being pledged for personal loans. The SEC states that the outstanding principal amounts of the individual loans ranged from $150 million to… Read More

August 19, 2024 @ 9:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Standing as the number one business priority for Nu in 2024, Mexico has proven to be a savvy choice in the company’s international expansion strategy: one year after the launch of Cuenta, the company has already surpassed 8 million customers in the country and $3.3… Read More

August 19, 2024 @ 8:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Minnadeooyasan-Hanbai (MOH Nippon) (LSE: MOH)has joined the London Stock Exchange (LSE) via a reverse  merger. According to a note from the company, Minnadeooyasan-Hanbai is the first Japanese firm to trade on the main market of the LSE in over 20 years. The company has changed… Read More

August 19, 2024 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SCB 10X, the technology investment arm of SCBX Group, has announced their participation in the series A funding round for Ema, a San Francisco-based generative AI company creating Universal AI Employees of the future. The $36M Series A extension investment round, “co-led by Accel and… Read More

August 19, 2024 @ 7:26 am By JD Alois  |  

Real estate investment platform CapitalRise is reporting a record breaking month as July originated almost £50 million in loans (£49.4 million). At the same time, CapitalRise said that it has now surpassed £400 million in total loan originations. CapitalRise is a specialist property financing provider… Read More

August 19, 2024 @ 7:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Preqin, the global firm focused on alternatives data and insights, recently released its Investor Outlook H2 2024 report. Their Investor Outlook report series occurs on a biannual basis and is based on surveys conducted in-house. Alternative investors’ responses provide exclusive insight “into their current sentiment… Read More

August 19, 2024 @ 7:16 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

This past week, Chaos Labs, an on-chain risk management provider, announced a $55 million Series A funding round led by Haun Ventures. The funding round attracted F-Prime Capital, Slow Ventures and Spartan Capital. They join Lightspeed Venture Partners, Galaxy Ventures, Wintermute Ventures, PayPal Ventures, General… Read More

August 19, 2024 @ 7:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets firm Gemini has shared a detailed analyst note, addressing the following: When Will The Pain Subside? Examining Signals After the Crypto Sell-Off? In Gemini’s previous analyst note, “Where Are We in The Crypto Cycle?” the crypto firm looked at how macro indicators could… Read More

August 19, 2024 @ 7:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FIS (NYSE: FIS), a global firm focused on financial technology, announced that it is unlocking the Neural Payments solution to its clients, expanding the availability of peer-to-peer (P2P) payments by leveraging the company’s global scale and NYCE debit rails to bring this capability to a… Read More

August 19, 2024 @ 4:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Auto insurance purchasing volume set a new record for the second consecutive quarter, according to new research from TransUnion (NYSE: TRU). The number of U.S. consumers shopping for auto insurance “was up 7%, compared to Q2 2023 (YoY).” This trend has been driven in recent… Read More

August 18, 2024 @ 11:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

According to the Bank of Ireland fraud data for the first half of 2024, the volume of investment fraud attempts has surged by 76% compared to the same period in 2023. Investment fraud happens when fraudsters, “posing as legitimate firms, offer consumers investment opportunities on… Read More

August 18, 2024 @ 9:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ClearBank has shared embedded banking ROI insights from the Forrester Report. ClearBank has, from its inception, been focused on “providing the infrastructure that enables firms to innovate, differentiate and grow.” A core element of that vision is the Embedded Banking proposition “that offers firms the… Read More

August 18, 2024 @ 7:47 pm By Michael Wong  |  

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), the central bank of the Philippines, along with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) held the 2nd Financial Inclusion Forum for the Labor and Employers Sector on July 30 at the BSP’s Manila Head Office. The discussions centered… Read More

August 18, 2024 @ 6:11 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Small business owners are, on average, 42% overconfident in their money management, according to a new survey of more than 750 SMBs by online banking and money management platform Relay and independent research company RKI. This overconfidence score reflects a significant gap between the perception… Read More