Tagged: treasury

Treasury, IRS Announce that Firms Do Not Have to Report Certain Transactions Involving Digital Assets Until Regulations Are Issued

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

Fintech GTreasury, Convera to Provide Integrated Payments Offerings

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

European Financial Institution Raiffeisen Bank International Adopts ION’s Messaging Solution

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

DAOs: Aragon, the Platform for Building Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, Implements Safeguards to Protect Treasury

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, a Firm Focused on Digital Assets for Institutions, Chosen by Kiln

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

Embedded Tax Platform April Finalizes $30M Series A Round

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

Robo-Advisor Betterment Raises $160 Million in Debt and Equity

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 Secures $6 Million Through Seed Funding Round Led By NFX

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

Treasurer of Australia Scott Morrison: “We must ensure that our policies and actions harness and realise the full potential of Fintech —by removing barriers to these innovations”

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 US Government is Worried that Usage of Digital Currencies will Lead to Tax Avoidance

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

US Treasury White Paper on Marketplace Lending: Opportunities & Challenges

  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

Dear Jack Lew: Please Do Not Dampen Marketplace Lending Innovation

  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

Department of Treasury to Release Report on Marketplace Lending

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

The Reason Treasury Wants Crowdfunding Portals to Be More Like Broker Dealers: Turf

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

Peter Renton, Founder of Lend Academy & LendIt Conference, Contributes to Marketplace Lending’s Global Understanding, Growth & Success

  “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

What Does the UK Think of the US Marketplace Lending Sector? They Tell Us Here

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

US Department of Treasury Extends Deadline for Comments on Marketplace Lending

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

Orchard Shares Thoughts on US Treasury’s Interest in Marketplace Lending

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

Marketplace Lending: A Need for Some Definition, Data & More Discourse. A Response to the US Treasury RFI

  As traditional lending tightened for consumers and small businesses, following the 2008 recession and the Dodd Frank regulatory environment that followed, alternative lending has now become quite the burgeoning new industry. And with alternative lenders ranging the gamut from near-bank products and terms to… Read More

US Treasury Shares Panelist Names from Today’s Marketplace Lending Forum but Little Else

The US Department of Treasury held a discussion today regarding the fast growing Marketplace Lending industry.  Treasury released a brief statement regarding the event highlighting the panelists which included: Michael Barr, University of Michigan Law School William Black, Moody’s Investors Services Nick Bourke, Pew Charitable… Read More