Tagged: research

March 22, 2022 @ 12:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

  Cryptocurrency-based lending has emerged as an important trend in the decentralized finance (DeFi) market. However, it faces certain challenges relating to Know Your Customer (KYC) considerations, risk management and risk pricing. This, according to a report from Huobi, which noted that these challenges can… Read More

March 21, 2022 @ 11:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Callsign, the digital trust pioneer, recently announced the results of their first Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) survey which polled over 2,000 U.S. adults on their experience with Buy Now Pay Later services “offered via retail sites.” Buy Now Pay Later services have “continued to… Read More

March 15, 2022 @ 4:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Huobi Research Institute, the blockchain research organization, recently shared a detailed report on Ethereum rollup solutions, titled “How Far is Rollup from Maturity: A Dive into Rollup’s Development Path.” In the extensive report, Huobi Research Institute analyst Barry Jiang points out some of the “drawbacks”… Read More

March 14, 2022 @ 8:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Recent data from Fintech firm Klarna, an international retail bank, payments, and shopping service, indicates that UK consumers are saving a larger share of their earnings every month when compared to their global peers. However, UK consumers are also less interested in investing their funds… Read More

March 10, 2022 @ 9:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Fintech ecosystem in Bahrain has matured “on many fronts,” according to a new report. As noted in the update, new developments from government, corporate, and investment stakeholders have “created a more conducive environment for local and international startups to grow and scale from the… Read More

March 8, 2022 @ 10:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

February has seen “a number of regulatory updates,” as well as more reports of growth within the UK Fintech sector, the team at Banking Circle noted. At Banking Circle, they released their new whitepaper, ‘Payments without Barriers: Focus on Denmark’, examining “the potential from improved… Read More

March 8, 2022 @ 8:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European lender Mintos has posted its monthly publication that offers an overview of what’s been happening on the platform, “including recent investor activity, educational topics, and more.” Here are the main takeaways: Investors are now “able to donate to help the people in Ukraine and… Read More

March 8, 2022 @ 8:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Venture capitalists’ enthusiasm or eagerness to invest in Fintech platforms, which ranked as one of the most active industry segments for startup investments in 2021, is showing signs of slowing down. During the last few weeks, a total of 51 Fintech firms secured a total… Read More

March 7, 2022 @ 10:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

India’s Venture Debt Report 2022, released by Stride Ventures, reveals that the year 2021 saw 111 firms acquiring funds via debt, of which 91 companies were categorized as unique. Bengaluru reportedly saw the highest number of venture debt deals, making up 40% of all such… Read More

March 6, 2022 @ 4:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The correlation of Bitcoin to the Nasdaq is currently ~57%, “climbing over the past week,” according to an update from BitOoda. As the team at BitOoda had noted this past week, the Russian invasion of Ukraine led to “a large sell off that reversed faster… Read More

March 4, 2022 @ 8:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In order to assist investors, company founders, and workers with making informed decisions and benchmark past performance, Carta has shared key insights from their private market data. Carta points out in an extensive report that this past year saw an “astonishing new high in rounds… Read More

March 4, 2022 @ 8:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

January 2022 was a “turbulent” month for the cryptocurrency sector as market participants saw “a broad sell-off,” the team at Kraken noted in an update. Kraken wrote in a blog post that the “continued uncertainty about the proposed U.S. Fed rate hikes in March and… Read More

March 3, 2022 @ 5:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Gross Payment Volume (GPV) is a term commonly used in payments to “describe the total monetary value of transactions that pass through a payments system (Merchant, Payment Facilitator, Payment Processor, etc.) within a defined period of time.” As noted in an update from Finix Payments,… Read More

March 3, 2022 @ 10:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Clearco notes that if you are not familiar with revenue-based financing (RBF), then you should know that it may be traced back over 30 years, “yet surprisingly few founders and entrepreneurs know about its many benefits.” Revenue-based financing is “a form of… Read More

March 2, 2022 @ 3:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Most US consumers are in enough credit card debt and they might do anything to “go back in time and change the outcome of their financial situation,” according to research shared by Fintech firm TrueAccord. TrueAccord notes that a survey of 2,000 general population Americans… Read More

February 28, 2022 @ 11:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Globally, 84% of consumers agree that they should “have control of their financial data, and banks should not prevent the movement of money between other financial services.” These are the principles that are the “basic tenets of open banking,” according to an update shared with… Read More

February 27, 2022 @ 6:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset firm Kraken notes that generating passive rewards on your money in traditional finance is not so rewarding these days. However, crypto provides participants “a novel opportunity to receive rewards through a process known as staking.” As participation in Proof-of-Stake networks increases and users… Read More

February 26, 2022 @ 11:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Spencer Noon, an investor in Variant, a first-check cryptocurrency venture capital fund, has released their latest Network report. Spencer Noon, the co-founder and General Partner at Variant,  notes in an update that Solana reached 299k daily active users. As mentioned in the report, Solana’s unique… Read More

February 25, 2022 @ 6:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Croatian P2P lender Robo.cash turned 5 years old, according to an update posted on February 22, 2022. As mentioned in a blog post by Robocash: “During this seemingly not so long period we have managed a lot. And there is more ahead of us.” CEO… Read More

February 25, 2022 @ 4:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

James Butterfill and Christopher Bendiksen from CoinShares have noted in a blog post dated February 24, 2022 that Bitcoin had an “immediate” price response to the Ukraine invasion when the news broke early this morning. According to the CoinShares researchers, it has become evident that,… Read More