June 9, 2024 @ 12:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Marathon Digital Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MARA), a global firm focused on leveraging digital asset compute to support the energy transformation, has released unaudited bitcoin (BTC) production and miner installation updates for May 2024. Fred Thiel, Marathon‘s chairman and CEO said: “The strength of our MARA… Read More

June 9, 2024 @ 11:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockdaemon recently introduced its DeFi API. The Blockdaemon DeFi API reportedly “simplifies DeFi interactions, enhances liquidity management, offers unified asset tools, and caters to B2B2C and institutional needs.” The Blockdaemon DeFi API is described as being “the complete institutional solution for seamless, secure, and efficient… Read More

June 9, 2024 @ 10:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PitchBook has provided a comprehensive update focused on the retail Fintech sector. PitchBook provides insights in its report on Deal value: Retail fintech VC deal value continued to be muted, “declining 15.3% YoY and 30.8% QoQ to $1.9 billion in Q1 2024.” Aside from the… Read More

June 9, 2024 @ 10:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A group of financial institutions and Web3 innovators have contributed to an in-depth paper on a path to achieve interoperability for tokenized assets across public blockchains, private blockchains and legacy systems. Released recently, “Institutional Interoperability: How Financial Institutions Navigate a Multichain World” addresses how to… Read More

June 9, 2024 @ 10:03 am By Michael Wong  |  

Global payments platform Thredd has partnered with Discover Global Network to expand its network access, thereby enhancing service offerings for its clients. Announced at the Money20/20 event this week, the partnership is set to provide Thredd’s clients with broader operational capabilities, enabling them to introduce… Read More

June 8, 2024 @ 9:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mihkel Stamm, CEO of Estateguru, says that the firm will reach profitability by the end of the year. Estateguru, a real estate-backed crowdfunding platform, announced several decisions this week that should “enable the company, which has struggled with losses in recent years, to end this… Read More

June 8, 2024 @ 9:30 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The American Fintech Council (AFC), an industry association representing Fintech companies and banks, applauded the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) on the expansion of REACh 2.0 and continued commitment to collaboration. The AFC said the agency has continued its pragmatic approach to… Read More

June 8, 2024 @ 6:34 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Filipinos’ reliance on digital financial services intensified in 2023, with users spending a cumulative 1.3 billion seconds, or 42 years, on digital lending applications, marking a 37-percent surge from the previous year, a report by consumer credit service Digido revealed. According to the study, personal… Read More

June 8, 2024 @ 4:54 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Almanax, a blockchain startup specializin in security solutions for the Web3 sector, has secured a pre-seed investment from defy.vc, a venture capital firm based in San Francisco. Additionally, the company has been selected to participate in NVIDIA’s Inception Program, a prestigious initiative aimed at nurturing… Read More

June 8, 2024 @ 4:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Despite more customers than ever interacting with their banks and credit card providers via mobile apps and websites in Canada—and investment continuing to pour into the user experience of those digital channels—customer satisfaction with those tools is not improving. This, according to an update from… Read More

June 8, 2024 @ 2:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

While many Americans are planning to travel and take a road trip this summer, inflation and high costs on essentials may put a damper on their fun in the sun. This, according to an update from Experian. Experian notes in a blog post that some… Read More

June 8, 2024 @ 1:32 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Elevate, a Fintech startup supported by Y Combinator, has announced a successful $5 million funding round to bolster its operations in the Philippines, bringing its total raised since 2021 to $10 million. This recent influx from backers such as Y Combinator, Goodwater, Global Founders Capital,… Read More

June 8, 2024 @ 12:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Animoca Brands Corporation Limited, the company advancing digital property rights for the open metaverse, and its subsidiary Bacasable Global Limited, operator of The Sandbox, a user-generated content (UGC) metaverse platform, announced that The Sandbox has raised US$20 million of convertible promissory notes with a US$1… Read More

June 8, 2024 @ 11:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) announced a significant milestone achieved by its tokenization technology, revealing that Visa tokens have generated more than $40 billion in incremental ecommerce revenue for businesses globally and saved $650 million2 in fraud in the last year. Visa also announced it has issued… Read More

June 8, 2024 @ 9:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

For a long time, the German property industry experienced a boom, but with increasing regulation and rising cost and efficiency pressure, “the pressure on companies to innovate is increasing,” according to report from KPMG. The majority of companies have recognized the need “for more innovation,… Read More

June 8, 2024 @ 9:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Customers are prioritizing spending on entertainment while cutting back on home decorating, new data from UK’s NatWest Group has revealed. The latest debit card spending data from NatWest, “comprising the anonymized transactions of almost 10 million customers, shows recreation spending increased 10% (10.21%) in April… Read More

June 8, 2024 @ 9:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Jonathan Gurwitz, the Credit Lead at Plaid helping customers incorporate cash flow data to make smarter risk decisions, noted recently that Plaid is announcing its Consumer Report, a new solution that “brings businesses real-time, actionable cash flow data along with credit risk insights through Plaid… Read More

June 7, 2024 @ 6:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

10x Banking, the transformational cloud-native SaaS core banking platform has announced a new alliance with Deloitte Australia to further strengthen cooperation in delivering technology-enabled transformation to mutuals. Building on the strategic alliance recently announced with Deloitte UK and US, the move furthers the companies’ commitment… Read More

June 7, 2024 @ 5:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Majid Al Futtaim, a shopping mall, communities, retail, and leisure pioneer across the MENA region, announced a new partnership with Checkout.com, a global digital payments provider. The agreement will see the 15 million plus customers “that shop Majid Al Futtaim’s online stores each month provided… Read More

June 7, 2024 @ 1:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NEXT Insurance, a digital insurer transforming small business insurance, announced the availability of its Business Owner’s Policy (BOP), a comprehensive insurance solution designed with the specific needs of small businesses in mind. Building upon NEXT’s AI-powered, proprietary platform and underwriting expertise, NEXT’s BOP offering “enables… Read More