Tagged: data

November 1, 2021 @ 7:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Open Banking is driving the “largest disruptors” in the virtual banking market, BaaS (Banking-as-a-Service) and embedded finance, by serving as an “enabler for delivery of these concepts,” according to a report from Juniper Research. As noted in a whitepaper, shared by Juniper Research: “While the… Read More

October 26, 2021 @ 3:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Arturo, an artificial intelligence-powered platform that derives property insights and predictive analytics from aerial and satellite imagery, announced that it has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN). By joining the APN, Arturo becomes part of the international community of Partners that are… Read More

October 8, 2021 @ 12:59 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Permission-based advertising provider Permission.io this week announced the development of their demand side platform (DSP), Permission Ads. The patent-pending, ad-buying platform offers advertisers a new way to run consent-based ad campaigns offering consumers cryptocurrency rewards in the form of ASK digital currency, in exchange for their… Read More

September 2, 2021 @ 6:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Databricks, the data and AI firm, reveals that it has completed a $1.6 billion round in order to promote the innovation and adoption of the data lakehouse, as the data architecture’s utilization across data-oriented organizations keeps growing rapidly. The Series H investment round in Databricks… Read More

June 29, 2021 @ 3:03 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Data analytics and research company Brave New Coin is teaming with systematic trading solutions provider QuantHouse to provide its data feeds, indices, and analytics to QuantHouse customers.  Once the integration is complete QuantHouse’s data offerings will include Brave New Coin’s top 10 crypto asset high-speed… Read More

May 10, 2021 @ 11:06 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Covalent, a Canada-based blockchain data provider, announced on Monday it has sold $10 million worth of native token CQT through a CoinList token sale. Founded in 2018, Covalent describes itself as a technology company that is solving the huge infrastructure problems inhibiting blockchain adoption. The company reported that its… Read More

April 8, 2021 @ 10:25 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

    NYMBUS, a U.S. financial service platform provider, announced on Thursday it has teamed up with data and analytics company Segmint to enhance its’ customer-based transaction data across its entire suite of banking products and services.The collaboration comes less than two months after NYMBUS… Read More

March 19, 2021 @ 1:55 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Noyo, a U.S.-based API platform for improving the speed and accuracy of health insurance data exchange, announced earlier this week the launch of its new API product, Noyo Sync, which enables automated, flexible, and embeddable benefits data. According to Noyo, the product allows users to… Read More

March 9, 2021 @ 1:27 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  LendingPoint, a data and technology platform dedicated to democratizing credit and accelerating commerce, announced on Tuesday the closing of an up to $110 million, 5-year corporate mezzanine credit facility with new partners MidCap Financial Trust (MidCap), managed by a subsidiary of Apollo Global Management,… Read More

January 5, 2021 @ 10:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), a global financial institution that’s owned by reserve banks and aims to “foster international monetary and financial cooperation and serves as a bank for central banks,” is reportedly developing a data-streaming prototype that will be able to handle 2,000… Read More

November 3, 2020 @ 7:40 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS) announced on Tuesday the launch of its new Data and Analytics (DNA) organization. Discover revealed that the new organization represents its commitment to technological advancement in financial services with a focus on customer engagement and marketing technologies. The organization combines… Read More

November 3, 2020 @ 7:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers of the Ocean Protocol (OCEAN), which allows software engineers to build marketplaces and other apps to privately and securely publish, exchange, and consume data, have partnered with the Central Bank of Germany. Through the partnership, both organizations will develop a “decentralized” data sovereignty… Read More

September 25, 2020 @ 12:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Trent McConaghy, Founder at Ocean Protocol, which allows software engineers to build marketplaces and other apps to privately and securely publish, exchange, and consume data, explains that the Ocean Protocol aims to “equalize the opportunity to access and monetize data.” According to McConaghy, data marketplaces… Read More

September 21, 2020 @ 9:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Ocean Protocol, which allows software engineers to build marketplaces and other apps to privately and securely publish, exchange, and consume data, have introduced an initiative, called Ocean Shipyard, which is an early-stage program for Web 3.0 focused startups and projects that aim… Read More

August 12, 2020 @ 4:16 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Robinhood, a modern trading platform that offers both traditional securities as well as crypto, has quietly turned off its stock popularity data feature. The feature allowed anyone to see which companies’ shares were surging in popularity by the masses of traders. Robinhood has been credited,… Read More

April 29, 2020 @ 8:37 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Skew, a UK-based crypto data provider, announced on Wednesday it secured $5 million through its latest investment round, which was led by Octopus Ventures with participation from Digital Currency Group, as well as existing investors Firstminute Capital and Seedcamp. Founded in 2018, Skew claims to… Read More

February 7, 2020 @ 8:20 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Nomics, a provider of cryptocurrency market cap and pricing data, announced on Thursday it has completed its deep data integration with U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange BitShares. According to the duo, this new integration has allowed Nomics to vet BitShares’ trade history and verify that it meets… Read More

October 24, 2019 @ 10:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

New York-based Blockstack, a decentralized computing network where users control their data and login information, announced that its Stacks (STX) token has been listed on digital asset exchanges Binance and HashKey Pro. Hashkey Pro is a Hong Kong based digital asset exchange for institutional investors…. Read More

May 28, 2019 @ 12:12 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Refinitiv, a provider of financial markets data and infrastructure that has served more than 40,000 institutions in over 190 countries, recently announced it has acquired AlphaDesk, a cloud-based Order Management System (OMS) that offers order and portfolio management, risk, and compliance solutions for buy-side clients…. Read More

May 2, 2019 @ 9:15 am By JD Alois  |  

Many cryptocurrency exchanges are lightly regulated or simply not regulated at all. This has led to rampant claims of bogus trading volumes as some exchanges use wash trading or other ploys to boost volume and the appearance of relevance. The Blockchain Transparency Institute has been… Read More