April 4, 2024 @ 10:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Wyoming-based digital asset bank Custodia will continue its efforts to obtain access to a Federal Reserve master account. Wyoming is a digital asset-friendly jurisdiction. A Federal Reserve master account is an account in which a Reserve Bank allows banks or credit unions to use the… Read More

April 4, 2024 @ 9:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain LightLink has closed on a $6.2 million seed round, according to a note from the company. The funding came from MH Ventures and NxGen as well as several “high-profile individual crypto investors.” LightLink aims to provide dApps and enterprise users with… Read More

April 4, 2024 @ 8:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The British Business Bank has agreed a facility increase that will provide £29.4m of funding to smaller UK businesses, through an existing ENABLE Funding transaction with independent specialist finance provider, Time Finance. The additional funding brings the total small business funding “available through the facility… Read More

April 4, 2024 @ 8:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

N26 announced the launch of its Stocks and ETFs trading product in Germany. The company also announced “an increased interest rate of 4% on Instant Savings for N26 Metal customers from April 9th, 2024, as it continues to expand and improve its integrated savings and… Read More

April 4, 2024 @ 7:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Metro Bank is advising about investment scams which is its Scam of the Month for April – last year the Bank reported over six victims every week. UK Finance reports investment scams at “over £2m per week and Metro Bank has already seen over £4m… Read More

April 4, 2024 @ 7:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Karim Haji, Global and UK Head of Financial Services at KPMG, comments on the recent Money and Credit data from the Bank of England. Karim noted that mortgage approvals rising for the fifth month in a row shows the housing market recovery “is still moving… Read More

April 4, 2024 @ 7:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

DTCC, the post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry,  announced that Societe Generale is reportedly the first Prime Broker to leverage CTM’s new automated tri-party trade matching workflow as the industry prepares for the increased focus on global accelerated settlement requirements. CTM’s new… Read More

April 4, 2024 @ 5:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

LendInvest Mortgages, the UK’s platform for mortgages, has announced a limited edition Easter incentive for its Buy-to-Let landlord customers as it reduces rates up to 15bps. The limited edition offer is targeted “at first-time landlords, and offers free valuations on Small HMO properties up to… Read More

April 3, 2024 @ 10:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Keeper Security, the provider of zero-trust and zero-knowledge cybersecurity software protecting passwords, passkeys, privileged access, secrets and remote connections,  releases its 2024 Keeper Security Insight Report, The Future of Defense: IT Leaders Brace for Unprecedented Cyber Threats. The survey of more than 800 IT and… Read More

April 3, 2024 @ 10:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Commerzbank is updating its existing payment platform in Germany to process cross-border payments via the SWIFT network and to process high-value and urgent payments via the TARGET 2 or EURO 1 payment systems. To achieve this, the Bank is using the TRAVIC-Payment Hub developed by… Read More

April 3, 2024 @ 10:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Matrixport, which claims to one of the leading digital assets ecosystems, recently unveiled its new prime brokerage service, Phoenix Prime. This breakthrough offers the first unified access “to the crypto market, featuring a tech-enhanced trading infrastructure with minimal microsecond latency, and a quant-driven, capital-efficient system… Read More

April 3, 2024 @ 10:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Treasury Prime, an embedded banking software company, announced today its strategic partnership with Narmi, a provider of digital banking solutions for financial institutions. This collaboration enables Treasury Prime’s banking customers “to send and receive money instantly through the FedNow Service and integrate the FedNow experience… Read More

April 3, 2024 @ 8:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sumsub has teamed up with Mercuryo, a global payments infrastructure platform, to publish a detailed update for Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs), titled “Mastering Travel Rule Compliance”. The update reportedly covers everything businesses in “the digital token space need to know about the Travel Rule… Read More

April 3, 2024 @ 8:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The U.S. real estate market has a record-high 550 “million-dollar” cities — cities where the typical home is worth $1 million or more — a new Zillow (Nasdaq: Z and ZG) analysis shows. That is 59 more million-dollar cities than a year ago,  “reversing losses… Read More

April 3, 2024 @ 8:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A new study from Juniper Research, the researchers focused on fintech markets, has forecast that the value of global POS (Point-of-Sale) terminal transactions will reach $17 trillion by the end of 2024, and grow by 25% to 2028. This growth comes despite the recent POS… Read More

April 3, 2024 @ 8:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

AGL Credit Management LP, an investment manager specializing solely on corporate credit strategies, and Barclays Plc, a global Investment Bank, announced an exclusive Cooperation Agreement and the launch of a new private credit investment platform, AGL Private Credit. AGL PC combines AGL’s established credit competency… Read More

April 3, 2024 @ 6:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

The House Financial Services Committee has scheduled a hearing on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) recent rule change that requires public firms to disclose climate impact. The new ESG-type rules have been controversial at best, with some lambasting the Commission as becoming the Securities… Read More

April 3, 2024 @ 5:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cover Whale Insurance Solutions, Inc., an Insurtech specializing in connected insurance for commercial auto insurance, continues its expansion across the United States, announcing the availability of its auto liability coverage for truckers and fleets in six additional states: Maine, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota,… Read More

April 3, 2024 @ 5:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

While everyone understands that securities will inevitably become digital, policymakers have been slow to provide an ecosystem to support the nuances intrinsic to the transition from analog. Eventually, digital securities will become the dominant sector of digital assets, and clear-cut rules are needed. Today, the… Read More

April 3, 2024 @ 10:52 am By JD Alois  |  

The American Fintech Council (AFC) has added ZayZoon as a member. ZayZoon was founded in 2014 and it is a Fintech that provides Earned Wage Access (EWA) for small and mid-sized businesses. Phil Goldfeder, Chief Executive Officer of the AFC, said that ZayZoon is a… Read More