Tagged: infrastructure

May 17, 2023 @ 11:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Pagaya Technologies LTD. (NASDAQ: PGY), a global technology company delivering artificial intelligence infrastructure for the financial ecosystem, announced a partnership with a group of alternative investment firms – Angelo Gordon, ATLAS SP Partners, and Värde Partners – to provide funding for a multi-billion dollar credit… Read More

May 15, 2023 @ 11:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Astra, a provider of infrastructure for faster payments, today announced a partnership with Fortress Trust, a custodial trust company in the blockchain infrastructure space, to bring enhanced security and real-time settlement to new use cases within financial technology. By combining their respective solutions, the two… Read More

May 13, 2023 @ 10:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FIA Tech, the exchange-traded derivative industry technology provider, is partnering with Symphony, the markets’ infrastructure and technology platform to improve data query workflows in capital markets. FIA Tech will “integrate its Databank Network into the Symphony platform through the introduction of a new FIA Tech… Read More

May 9, 2023 @ 9:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, today unveiled Stripe Reader S700 to help businesses bring their online and in-person payments experiences closer together than ever before. The new, Android-based smart reader is “part of Stripe Terminal, a set of developer interfaces, pre-certified card readers,… Read More

May 8, 2023 @ 9:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fireblocks, which claims to be among the “highest-valued” digital asset security infrastructure platforms, recently announced the launch of its Fireblocks Compliance Solutions Suite in order “to streamline and simplify how institutions meet digital asset regulatory requirements and stay ahead of industry threats.” With the industry… Read More

May 6, 2023 @ 11:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Pagaya Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: PGY), a global technology company delivering artificial intelligence infrastructure for the financial ecosystem, has named two executives with “proven” track records to its team – Giancarlo Marchesi as General Manager and Eric Watson as Chief Legal Officer – adding to its… Read More

May 1, 2023 @ 4:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

At Alpaca, their vision is to build a global de facto standard infrastructure for investing, and for that, they claim it is critical that they continue to provide technology infrastructure to support this vision. They prioritize their API platform, “designed with developers in mind, and… Read More

April 30, 2023 @ 11:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The crypto lending business model has come under intense scrutiny following a spate of recent credit events. Credora is helping “rebuild confidence in credit markets through transparency, and the lending infrastructure provider announced a $6 million strategic funding round with S&P Global and Coinbase Ventures… Read More

April 28, 2023 @ 2:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PPRO, the digital payments infrastructure provider, has signed a strategic agreement with NPCI International Payments Limited (NIPL) in order “to offer global partners access to Unified Payments Interface (UPI), India’s fastest-growing, real-time payment system, for cross-border transactions.” This latest agreement, “supported by a new framework… Read More

April 28, 2023 @ 8:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TransferMate, the provider of B2B payments infrastructure as a service, has been granted authorization as an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) by the Central Bank of Ireland. Acquiring EMI authorization allows TransferMate “to offer an extended service to their customers and partners.” It means customers can… Read More

April 27, 2023 @ 3:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Axoni, a provider of data synchronization technology and financial market infrastructure, announced “the close of a $20 million equity financing round led by EJF Ventures, with participation from Laurion Capital Management, Communitas Capital, and existing investors. Axoni has raised more than $110 million since inception.”… Read More

April 25, 2023 @ 3:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Aegis Trust, which claims to be one of the select few digital asset qualified custodians in the U.S. offering client-centric technology infrastructure and regulatory-compliant solutions, announced that Anthony Botticella has been “appointed as the new President of the company, as well as its global custodian… Read More

April 23, 2023 @ 2:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Gr4vy, the Cloud-native payments infrastructure company, announced Setplex, a full-service IPTV/OTT solutions provider, has selected the company’s cloud-native payment orchestration platform (POP) “to accelerate time-to-market, onboard new merchants and quickly implement locally preferred payment methods.” John Lunn, founder and CEO of Gr4vy, said: “Offering local… Read More

April 23, 2023 @ 12:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Celo, the carbon-negative, mobile-first EVM-compatible layer-1 blockchain is now integrated with Safe, the self-custody infrastructure provider and trusted decentralized custody protocol. Users and builders can now use Safe’s custody and asset management solution “natively on the Celo blockchain.” The events of the past year “have… Read More

April 23, 2023 @ 10:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Cardano Foundation, an “independent,” Swiss-based non-profit organization tasked with advancing the public digital infrastructure Cardano, launched its inaugural Annual Report today. From technical infrastructure support to spreading knowledge or establishing targeted partnerships and collaborations, the report highlights the Foundation’s work “across its three core… Read More

April 17, 2023 @ 10:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Templum, Inc., a provider of Cloud-based capital market infrastructure for alternative assets and private securities, announced today its partnership with Sydecar, a “frictionless” deal execution platform that provides venture investors, syndicates, and funding platforms with the foundational services needed to execute deals. The explosion of… Read More

April 16, 2023 @ 10:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

WealthKernel, a provider of digital investment infrastructure, announces the appointment of capital markets veteran Brian Schwieger as its new Chair of the Board. Brian was previously working as “the Global Head of Equities and ETF trading at the London Stock Exchange (LSE), bringing decades of… Read More

April 13, 2023 @ 10:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nium, the global payments infrastructure for the on-demand economy, announced the appointment of Anupam Pahuja to EVP and General Manager of Asia Pacific, MENA. Pahuja will “build on Nium’s success in Southeast Asia, where the fintech unicorn was founded, and will quickly expand Nium’s presence… Read More

April 13, 2023 @ 7:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SMBs based in Latin America have received another boost in lending services with the recent $4 million investment in Kala, a Colombia-headquartered firm creating Fintech infrastructure for enabling more efficient lending. The firm, which has been co-founded by Manuel Alemán, Rodolfo Lazo and Pablo Cattólica… Read More

April 13, 2023 @ 8:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Jeremy Fox-Geen. Chief Financial Officer at Fintech firm Circle and Kash Razzaghi, the firm’s Chief Business Officer, have noted that digital currencies and the blockchains on which they travel can offer considerable utility “as a new, unified infrastructure for payments, commerce and capital markets built… Read More