DTCC, a provider of post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, announced this week that, according to new industry feedback, daily Treasury volumes through its Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) are expected to rise by more than $4 trillion once the SEC’s expanded U.S. Treasury clearing… Read More
Panax, a cash management platform powered by AI [artificial intelligence] and Open Banking, has raised $10 million in Series A funding. To date, Panax has raised $15 million. Panax targets mid-market and large firms with complex treasury demands. The service enables the management of numerous… Read More
The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service have recently issued an announcement informing businesses that they do “not have to report the receipt of digital assets the same way as they must report the receipt of cash until Treasury and IRS issue regulations.” The Infrastructure… Read More
GTreasury, a treasury, payments, and risk management software provider, and Convera, the largest non-bank global B2B payments provider, announced a partnership to offer an integrated payments service on GTreasury’s treasury management system (TMS) software. A key player focused on streamlining B2B cross-border payments, Convera is… Read More
ION, which claims to be a global leader focused on trading, analytics, treasury, and risk management solutions for capital markets, commodities, and treasury management, announces that Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) has “implemented ION’s new ISO 20022 solution.” A corporate and investment bank in Austria and… Read More
Aragon, the platform for building and running decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), has implemented a number of safeguards to protect its treasury in response to a coordinated attack focused on draining value from the project. In the wake of the attack and in order to mitigate… Read More
SCRYPT Digital, the Swiss-regulated company offering a single point of access into digital assets for institutions, has been chosen by Kiln, the tech provider behind the first enterprise-grade liquid staking protocol, in order “to provide a seamless on/off-ramping service for its treasury.” The partnership will… Read More
Following a “successful” inaugural tax season, April Tax Solutions Inc., a personal income tax platform that embeds into digital financial apps, announced that it has raised $30 million in a Series A round. The Fintech startup has “gained the attention of unicorn founders and leaders… Read More
Betterment, a leading Robo-advisor, has raised $160 million in growth capital. The investment includes $60 million in Series F equity capital and $100 million credit facility. Betterment received a valuation of over $1.3 billion. According to a company release, the equity investment was led by… Read More
Covered by SAGE, a modern, tech-enabled Property and Casualty (P&C) insurance brokerage, announced this week it secured $6 million through its latest seed funding round, which was led by NFX with participation from Tectonic Capital and Treasury, the fintech platform launched by Acorns and Betterment Co-Founders…. Read More
Australia is embracing the innovation of Fintech. The advancement in the rest of the world has not been ignored. Seeing opportunity, the Australian government has been working on crafting an environment where rules do not hinder financial innovation and regulations are crafted to encourage competition… Read More
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) published a document this fall that reviewed the growing usage of Bitcoin and other digital currencies in the private sector. While acknowledging there are benefits to “virtual currencies” including lower transaction fees and faster transfer of funds… Read More
As expected, the US Treasury Department has published a white paper addressing the emerging marketplace lending sector of finance. Entiteled “Opportunities and Challenges in Online Marketplace Lending”, the document follows a “Request for Information” from 2015 where approximatley 100 different platforms and industry observers… Read More
This past Tuesday (May 3rd), twenty members of Congress joined to ask the Secretary of the Treasury, Jack Lew, to tread lightly when it came to the emerging marketplace lending industry. The timing of bi-partisan missive is important as Treasury has announced it will… Read More
The US Department of Treasury has announced its intent to release a white paper next week pertaining to their review of the marketplace lending industry (orginally labeled peer to peer lending). The document is expected to encapsulate the many comment letters submitted to Treasury following… Read More
Last month the US Department of Treasury, Division of Financial Crimes and Enforcement Network (FinCEN), announced a proposed rule change that will impact Reg CF crowdfunding portals. Now the concept of a crowdfunding portal is a new approach that was legalized under the JOBS Act… Read More
“I think Fintech, particularly as it applies to lending, has the capacity to completely transform how consumers and small business use credit. The best platforms are true innovators, underwriting consumers and small businesses in new ways using data that was simply unavailable ten or… Read More
Online lending is undergoing a bit of an introspective period. The US Department of Treasury published a request for information which posed multiple questions to industry participants and interested observers. The UK P2PFA took the opportunity to share their point of view from across the… Read More
The US Department of Treasury issued a “Request for Information” (RFI) on the burgeoning Marketplace / P2P lending sector several weeks back. As summer vacations are quickly coming to an end, Treasury has decided to give direct lenders and interested parties a bit more time… Read More
On August 5th the US Department of Treasury hosted over 80 individuals as part of a series of roundtables and information seeking events to discuss the fast growing sector of Marketplace Lending. This past July, Treasury published a “Request for Information” regarding Peer to Peer… Read More
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