June 29, 2024 @ 4:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V)  has announced a new collaboration with Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) that will provide Canadian consumers with more choice at checkout. When shopping online on Amazon.ca or on the Amazon app, eligible RBC and Scotiabank credit cardholders will now have the option “to select Installments… Read More

June 29, 2024 @ 4:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Insurtech wefox, which is experiencing significant operational challenges, is now reporting that the insurance technology company is focused on its restructuring efforts as it receives support in the form of “strong’ investor support. At an Extraordinary General Meeting of wefox Holding AG held recently, all… Read More

June 29, 2024 @ 4:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Feedzai and STET, a European company focused on payment market infrastructures, which processed more than 35 billion transactions in 2023, are working together “to offer concrete and innovative solutions to financial institutions to help them in the fight to protect their customers from payment fraud.” Feedzai’s… Read More

June 29, 2024 @ 4:01 pm By Michael Wong  |  

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced a significant expansion in its asset tokenization initiatives, aiming to set industry-wide standards across various financial sectors, including fixed income, foreign exchange (FX), and asset & wealth management. The announcement includes the successful completion of the first phase… Read More

June 29, 2024 @ 4:00 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Fintech firm Chime announced its acquisition of Salt Labs, an enterprise technology company dedicated to enhancing the financial stability of hourly workers. The transaction, which did not disclose its financial details, positions Chime to tap into new growth and revenue opportunities through Salt Labs’ extensive… Read More

June 29, 2024 @ 8:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SteelEye‘s Communications Surveillance solution, powered by our Compliance CoPilot, is said to enable compliance teams to “master” eComms and vComms compliance. The platform claims to support any communication channel “including voice, chat, email, meetings, and social messaging.” SteelEye explains that it “provides language detection, transcription,… Read More

June 28, 2024 @ 10:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

With the end of financial year (EOFY) around the corner, new research from digital bank, ubank, revealed what’s on the minds of Gen Z and Millennials when it comes to tax time. According to ubank’s research, which “surveyed 1,311 adults between the ages of 18… Read More

June 28, 2024 @ 9:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Global payments and financial platform for modern businesses, Airwallex, has continued on its growth trajectory, delivering a 93 percent increase in year-on-year (YoY) revenue across Australia and New Zealand (ANZ). Airwallex also reports that it recorded strong global revenue growth, “up 84 percent YoY, while… Read More

June 28, 2024 @ 6:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Galaxy Asset Management, an affiliate of Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd. (TSX: GLXY) and one of the “largest” digital assets and blockchain investment managers, and State Street Global Advisors, the asset management business of State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT), announced they are collaborating to bring investors… Read More

June 28, 2024 @ 6:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

While there are crickets at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), a Commissioner at the Commodities Futures Trading Commission has welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision this week in SEC v. Jarkesy. CFTC Commissioner Caroline Pham has issued the following statement on the ruling: “As I’ve said… Read More

June 28, 2024 @ 5:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nubank (NYSE: NU), which claims to be the largest digital banking platform in the world outside Asia, announced on the results of the seventh edition of Nubank Data, this time with the theme Financial Health and Well-Being: Access Beyond Credit. The study focuses on the journey… Read More

June 28, 2024 @ 5:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Celo Foundation is partnering with EigenLayer to integrate the off-chain data availability layer, EigenDA, into the forthcoming Celo Ethereum Layer-2. Initially launched as an EVM-compatible standalone blockchain on Earth Day 2020, core contributors cLabs proposed “bringing the network home to Ethereum during EthCC 2023.”… Read More

June 28, 2024 @ 5:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Retail investors are often seen as overly indexing tech stocks; however, financial services is the most owned sector among this group, according to data from the latest Retail Investor Beat (RIB) from trading and investing platform eToro. In the study of American retail investors, 54%… Read More

June 28, 2024 @ 5:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ramp is completing a $150 million Series D-2 funding round, raising the company’s valuation to $7.65 billion. This investment round was co-led by Khosla Ventures and Founders Fund ‘with additional new investors Sequoia Capital, Greylock, and 8VC.’ Ramp‘s existing investors Thrive Capital, General Catalyst, Sands Capital,… Read More

June 28, 2024 @ 1:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

Consensys, founded by an Ethereum co-founder, has been hit with charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleging the offer and sales of unregistered securities via its Metamask staking service. Metamask offers staking of Ethereum for users to generate “rewards.” Consensys is one of… Read More

June 28, 2024 @ 12:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

On 2024 International MSME Day, Ant International, a digital payment and financial services provider, shares that it supports almost 100 million Micro, Small, and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) worldwide across its businesses and partner programs; and reinforces its commitments towards MSME digitalization and inclusion through the… Read More

June 28, 2024 @ 12:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna, the AI-powered global payments network and shopping assistant, released the results of a national survey exploring financial language understanding across the UK. The report, part of Klarna’s commitment to “improving greater transparency in the financial industry, reveals millions of UK adults (40 per cent)… Read More

June 28, 2024 @ 12:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

Mt. Gox will soon start distributing around $9 billion in Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash. In a notice posted on the Mt. Gox website, the entity said distributions will start in July: “The Rehabilitation Trustee has been preparing payments in Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash in accordance… Read More

June 28, 2024 @ 11:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Jumio, a provider of automated identity verification, and risk signals has released new findings from its Jumio 2024 Online Identity Study. This year’s results highlight growing anxiety “among consumers that weaknesses in their banks’ fraud-protection measures could leave them exposed to scammers, which would result… Read More

June 28, 2024 @ 11:38 am By JD Alois  |  

Top European tokenization platform, Tokeny, has distributed an email highlighting the fact that MiCA or Markets in Crypto Assets regulation, does not regulated digital assets which are securities or other financial assets. MiCA goes into force on June 30, 2024. The EU regulation provides rules… Read More