March 13, 2024 @ 12:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Treasury Prime, an embedded banking software company, announced that OMB Bank has joined the Treasury Prime Bank Network to offer innovative embedded banking solutions to customers in the fintech space. The partnership marks the latest addition to Treasury Prime’s -bank network, which now totals more… Read More

March 13, 2024 @ 12:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sumsub, a global full-cycle verification provider, announces its integration with Chainalysis, the blockchain data platform. This partnership combines Sumsub’s Transaction Monitoring and Travel Rule solutions with Chainalysis’ blockchain analytics platform and services, “enabling regulatory compliance, secured data storage and automated crypto transaction monitoring for client… Read More

March 13, 2024 @ 12:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Quantexa, a global firm focused on decision intelligence solutions for the public and private sectors reveals its Decision Intelligence Platform roadmap, and provides an update on Q Assist, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that previewed in July last year. Quantexa also announced a partnership… Read More

March 13, 2024 @ 12:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Thames Technology, a provider of cutting-edge payment solutions, has announced a strategic partnership with Ellipse World, Inc., a Los Angeles based innovative FinTech company, to offer an additional layer of advanced protection for its banking cards. The collaboration enables Thames Technology to “integrate Ellipse’s EVC… Read More

March 13, 2024 @ 12:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

Financement Participatif France (FPF), the French Crowdfunding Association, has distributed an X that highlights women’s participation in the securities crowdfunding sector. Notoriously, the VC sector has supported fewer female-founded firms than crowdfunding platforms. Recently, Financement Participatif posted a report on investment crowdfunding activity in the… Read More

March 13, 2024 @ 12:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  Do we need to brace ourselves for liquidity strains? Liquidity dried up in 2022, and while analysts expect the 2024 BTC ETF approval will help boost trading volumes, the truth is that the ‘Alameda Gap’ remains, according to Ben Roth from Auros. Even as… Read More

March 13, 2024 @ 11:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

IQ-EQ, a global firm focused on investor services, has appointed Romain Mifsud as Chief Commercial Officer for activities in France as well as Switzerland. With 14 years’ experience in the private market industry, Romain reportedly “specializes in private equity, real estate, private debt and securitisation.”… Read More

March 13, 2024 @ 10:34 am By JD Alois  |  

Honeycomb Credit, a FINRA-regulated funding portal that provides online capital formation for small businesses, is reporting that it has surpassed $25 million in money raised for small businesses. Honeycomb can help SMEs sell securities online under the Reg CF (Regulation Crowdfunding) securities exemption. Firms may… Read More

March 13, 2024 @ 9:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

DTCC is reporting that its Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) Treasury clearing volumes have grown 31% year over year, “processing a daily average volume of USD$7.019 trillion.” This growth comes at a time when market participant firms “are assessing the impact of the U.S. Securities and… Read More

March 13, 2024 @ 8:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tide, the UK’s business financial platform, is to launch in Germany, with the country becoming Tide’s second market outside of the UK, following the successful start of its operations in India in 2022. In the UK, Tide offers small businesses “that don’t have a finance… Read More

March 13, 2024 @ 8:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Starling Bank announces the appointment of Raman Bhatia as Group Chief Executive Officer. He will take over from John Mountain, who has “been acting as interim CEO since our founder Anne Boden announced she was stepping back from the role last year.” Raman is currently… Read More

March 13, 2024 @ 5:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SmartStream Reference Data Services (RDS), a provider of financial reference data, has announced the launch of an enhanced derivatives data service, providing in-depth insights into futures related transactions. This expansion is said to be crucial for “meeting EMIR Refit reporting requirements.” The EMIR Refit initiative… Read More

March 12, 2024 @ 11:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pacaso, the technology-enabled real estate marketplace that helps people buy, co-own, and sell a vacation home, unveils ‘Rosemary Shores’, signifying the company’s expansion into the vibrant seaside community of Rosemary Beach, Florida. The home also marks Pacaso‘s collaboration home “with a design partner, luxury interiors… Read More

March 12, 2024 @ 11:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Finastra announced that Jefferson Bank, an independent bank serving communities across Texas, has selected Finastra Payments To Go, a payments-as-a-service solution for its new instant payments services. The cloud-based payments solution will “help Jefferson Bank to efficiently deliver both RTP TCH and FedNow services 24/7,… Read More

March 12, 2024 @ 11:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether Operations Limited (Tether), which claims to be the largest company in the cryptocurrency industry, announced that USDT will launch on Celo, a mobile-first and EVM-compatible blockchain network that’s built for the real world and designed for fast, low-cost payments worldwide. This strategic collaboration between… Read More

March 12, 2024 @ 11:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CQG, a global provider of high-performance technology solutions for market makers, traders, brokers, commercial hedgers and exchanges, announced completion of internal testing and proof-of-concept using live data on what the firm believes to be a first-of-its kind artificial intelligence (AI) predictive model for traders. Following… Read More

March 12, 2024 @ 11:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Animoca Brands, the company advancing digital property rights for gaming and the open metaverse, announced that it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) to collaborate to advance the Web3 and gaming ecosystem in the… Read More

March 12, 2024 @ 10:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bybit, which claims to be one of the largest crypto exchanges in terms of trading volume, is pleased to announce the Bybit Card is now available in Australia. Issued by Flywallet and leveraging Mastercard‘s global payments network to process transactions securely, this card debits crypto… Read More

March 12, 2024 @ 10:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Deloitte announced the launch of InvestAcceleration, a new suite of solutions designed specifically for the investment management industry and is an industry-specific approach to implement Workday Financial Management. InvestAcceleration, helps investment management firms “address risks and challenges, including lack of agility, complex workflows and disparate… Read More

March 12, 2024 @ 10:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Jada Fund of Fun​ds has announced its first investment in Venture Debt and second in the private credit space in Partners for Growth VII, managed by global private credit manager Partners for Growth, “with SAR 3.75 billion (USD 1 billion) in assets under management, to… Read More