June 15, 2024 @ 5:03 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

European Blockchain Sandbox Brickken, a Barcelona-based startup that tokenizes real-world assets, has been selected to participate in the European Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) Regulatory Sandbox. This regulatory sandbox will provide legal certainty for decentralized technological solutions, including blockchain, by identifying deployment obstacles from… Read More

June 15, 2024 @ 3:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Over 25% of the 474 investigations carried out by the MFSA in 2023, were related to persons or entities which were suspected of undertaking licensable activities without having obtained the necessary authorizations, or scams. These investigations include suspicious activity or dubious schemes which “appeared to… Read More

June 15, 2024 @ 12:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM), the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth, today announced a partnership with full-service hospitality management company Brittain Resorts & Hotels. Now, approved hotel guests can book accommodations “at more than 15 hotels and resorts and pay over time… Read More

June 15, 2024 @ 11:54 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, Neon Money Club, a lifestyle finance platform that created The Cream Car on the Amex Network, launched the interactive financial wellness game and resource center Get the Bag. Get the Bag is designed to use raw fun to educate people on financial fundamentals. Inspired by No Internet… Read More

June 15, 2024 @ 11:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Figure Technology Solutions, the technology platform streamlining the private credit and housing markets, announced the launch of Figure Connect, a blockchain-based multi-seller, multi-buyer marketplace of private credit loans. Figure Connect brings Figure’s broad and deep capital markets buyer universe “directly to Figure’s loan origination partners.”… Read More

June 15, 2024 @ 10:08 am By Michael Wong  |  

Ant Group, the Fintech arm of Chinese tech major Alibaba, ramped up its research and development expenditures to a record 21.2 billion yuan ($3.05 billion) last year, according to its latest sustainability report. This move highlights the company’s increasing focus on technology innovations, including artificial… Read More

June 15, 2024 @ 9:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OKX‘s investment arm, OKX Ventures, announced that it has become a founding member of SOFA.org, an open-source and non-profit decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) focused on developing a DeFi ecosystem that facilitates atomic, blockchain-based settlements of financial assets. Through its collaboration with SOFA.org, they seek “to… Read More

June 15, 2024 @ 9:21 am By Michael Wong  |  

AccountsIQ, a cloud-based accounting platform, has raised €60 million (about $64 million) in a Series C funding round anchored by business-to-business (B2B) software-as-a-service (SaaS) growth equity fund Axiom Equity. The investment is set to bolster AccountsIQ’s product development, enabling the firm to integrate advancements in… Read More

June 15, 2024 @ 9:07 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, professional services firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP announced the arrival of financial services partner Mike Katz in its New York office. Most recently overseeing legal, regulatory and policy across deals, strategic advisory and regulation for a venture capital firm in the digital asset… Read More

June 15, 2024 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BVNK, a London-based firm focused on payments innovation, enhanced its stablecoin liquidity operations by leveraging Talos’ advanced trading technology and extensive partner network. This collaboration has added new liquidity providers “at significantly reduced integration times, resulting in a nearly two-fold increase in trading volumes –… Read More

June 15, 2024 @ 7:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK Finance released its latest Household Finance Review for Q1 2024, exploring trends across household, spending, saving, and borrowing. Mortgage borrowing in Q1 was down “compared with the same period the year before, despite growth in mortgage applications at the end of 2023.” Consumer spending… Read More

June 15, 2024 @ 5:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TrueLayer, Europe’s open banking payments network, announces a partnership with digital lender Jaja Finance to enable credit card repayments. Jaja will leverage TrueLayer’s payments product “to offer instant pay-ins, allowing customers to make one-off credit card repayments directly from their bank account.” This functionality is… Read More

June 15, 2024 @ 4:53 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Nexus Laboratories, a zero-knowledge cryptography company, has secured $25 million in Series A financing co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Pantera Capital. The round included participation from Dragonfly Capital, Faction Ventures, and Blockchain Builders Fund. The funds will help accelerate the company’s go-to-market efforts and… Read More

June 14, 2024 @ 11:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) is pleased to announce that it has signed a cooperation agreement with a unit of Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE), to support the development of HKEX’s Integrated Fund Platform (IFP). This cooperation will see Shenzhen Securities Communication Co. Ltd… Read More

June 14, 2024 @ 10:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Almost two-thirds (63%) of companies say they are very or extremely confident that they will be ready to report under the EU’s new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), according to PwC’s inaugural 2024 Global CSRD Survey, published today. The global survey, of more than 500… Read More

June 14, 2024 @ 7:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) have developed a blueprint for a platform that integrates regulatory and climate data to help financial authorities identify, monitor and manage climate risks in the financial system. Integrating climate risk analysis into… Read More

June 14, 2024 @ 6:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

BNP Paribas Personal Finance UK has commented on its most recent cohort of its UK Fintech Incubator Programme. In an event held at STEAMhouse, eight Fintechs showcased their products, which are focused on how to harness data to enhance engagement with customers in the financial… Read More

June 14, 2024 @ 6:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

Spiko, co-founded in 2023 by Paul-Adrien Hyppolite and Antoine Michon, has raised €4 million in pre-seed funding. Spiko is a tokenization platform that claims to be the first provider in the world to offer fully tokenized Money Market Funds (MMFs). The digital assets leverage both… Read More

June 14, 2024 @ 5:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Remote working Fintech Deel has introduced a new AI tool for enhancing various tasks. Deel says that this Ai tool helps with double-checking compliance rules. It assists with digging into your global workforce data, and then “making smarter business decisions faster using AI.” As explained… Read More

June 14, 2024 @ 5:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The world of SaaS startup fundraising is unique, according to an extensive update from Capchase. It’s fast-paced, data-heavy, and can be “unpredictable at times,” Capchase notes in a blog post. As explained by Capchase, today’s funding landscape “has more to offer founders than ever before.”… Read More