Cryptocoins News / Finance Magnates - 2 years ago
VTB Factoring, a subsidiary of Russia’s state-owned bank VTB, announced on Wednesday that it had conducted the first cash-backed major transaction with crypto assets.
Take Advantage of the Biggest Financial Event in London. This year we have expand...
Cryptocoins News / CryptoNinjas - 2 years ago
Colendi, the fastest-growing embedded fintech services platform in Turkey and surrounding regions, today announced it has acquired London-based blockchain settlements and payments provider SETL.
Launched in 2015, SETL is an enterprise blockchain com...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Anne Boden is more than skeptical about crypto, as she criticizes their use worldwide. The Goldman Sachs-backed digital bank’s CEO has gone head-on against cryptocurrencies, warning users to refrain from digital assets.
Established in 2014 by A...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Forbes has just released its listing of the top 50 financial tech companies in the world. Nine of them come from the cryptocurrency industry.
In 2021, as the global health crisis drove more purchasing and banking online and the price of bitcoin and t...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
For years, traditional financial institutions in different parts of the world have been attempting to narrow the financial exclusion gap by extending their services to the unbanked population. Yet for many reasons, these institutions still cannot ava...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Digital assets infrastructure provider Fireblocks has the onboarding of Varun Paul, the former head of fintech at the Bank of England (BoE) as its new Central Banking Digital Currency (CBDC) and Market Infrastructure Director.
In the latest appoin...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Merge, a next-generation fintech startup that provides crypto and web3 companies with a range of banking and payments solutions has $9.5 million from venture capital firms led by Octopus Ventures.
While the valuation of the company remains unknow...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Sequoir, a Green Bay-based fintech company, announced on Wednesday that it is developing an offering that will enable community banks to hold and execute such trading.
Justin Seidl, the founder and CEO of Sequoir, talked about the development and...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
London-based asset manager Fasanara Capital has launched a $350 million investment fund to back fintech and cryptocurrency startups that can deliver new use cases for the emerging Web3 economy. The company, which manages $3.5 billion in assets, is ta...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Africa’s largest economy and most populous country “Nigeria,” launched the continent’s first digital currency, the e-Naira, back in October 2021.
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) carries over plans to upgrade the country̵...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
A new report has concluded that restrictions on cryptocurrency trading, as well as the banning of Twitter by Nigerian authorities, may have “crippled foreign direct investment in the fintech industry.”
Foreign Direct Inves...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is moving ahead with plans to upgrade the country’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) to be used on a wider range of goods and services. It is also maintaining harsh crypto restrictions that cripple the country’s...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The African fintech industry has grown rapidly over the past few years and this has caught the attention of some well-resourced venture capital (VC) firms. As one would expect, Nigerian fintech startups have dominated the continent in terms of funds...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
On May 4, the product comparison platform finder․com published a ripple price prediction report that polls 36 fintech specialists. According to findings stemming from the participating panelists, ripple could jump to $2.55 per unit by December...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Bitlocus – a global emerging fintech company based in Lithuania – announced on Thursday that it has partnered with Estonia-based fintech company Striga, which develops tech infrastructure for crypto companies, to roll out crypto-friendly debit cards...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Cryptocurrency markets remain caught in a macro-based downtrend, with Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) showing further signs of weakness at the end of April. But, venture capital activity in the crypto and blockchain sectors is the strongest it has ever...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
Canadian fintech firm Stablecorp that it has secured $1.5 million in participation from crypto market leaders, including Circle Ventures, the issuer of USD Coin (USDC) in the Pre-Series A Funding Round.
Stablecorp is committed to providing blockch...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
The FinTech Association of Hong Kong () has published a response to the Hong Kong Monetary Authority's (HKMA) January discussion paper on crypto assets and stablecoins.
The FTAHK said that it is in principle supportive of the HKMA's proposed risk-b...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Cryptocurrencies have been proven to be a financial tool that can be used to store value or make payments by those excluded from the financial system. Yet, despite this being true in many jurisdictions, many of those that might benefit from cryptocur...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Cryptocurrencies have been proven to be a financial tool that can be used to store value or make payments by those excluded from the financial system. Yet, despite this being true in many jurisdictions, many of those that might benefit from cryptocur...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 2 years ago
With the fintech industry making significant strides within a short time, the banking sector ought to integrate blockchain technology to keep pace with this area, to HashCash CEO Raj Chowdhury.
For a holistic transformation to be witnessed in the...
Cryptocoins News / CoinJournal - 2 years ago
The HBAR Foundation has launched a $50 million fintech and payments fund to encourage fintech companies to leverage Hedera’s speed, cost, stability, and carbon-negative footprint to create essential new financial products and services, CoinJournal...