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Company update/people
Binance, the world’s leading crypto and blockchain infrastructure provider, today announced the hiring of Steven McWhirter and Seth Levy, former regulators from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) respectively.
21 April 2022
Company update/predictions
In recent years, emerging market economy (EME) central banks have increasingly engaged in projects related to central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).
14 April 2022
Company update/crime
Napier, provider of leading anti-financial crime compliance solutions, announced that OwlTing Group, a blockchain technology enterprise, is the latest to leverage Napier’s AI-enhanced technology solutions to develop an effective financial crime compliance system, which improves its anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CTF) defenses and meets relevant regulatory requirements.
13 April 2022
News/crypto
Sweatcoin, an app that pays people to walk, is set to launch its own crypto token.
Centre – the consortium founded by Circle Internet Financial, LLC and Coinbase Global, Inc. to serve as a network governing and standard setting body for blockchain-based financial services – has announced new appointments to its growing team.
12 April 2022
Company update/startups
RociFi, a decentralized zero and under-collateralized lending protocol, has announced completing a seed funding round of $2.7 million USD (closed in November 2021) from Arrington, Goldentree, Nexo, LD Capital and Skynet Trading.
Company update/markets
Whitehall Capital is offering an innovative approach to holding investments within its specialist bridge financing fund, Whitehall Capital Management Limited.
Company update/wealth
Wealth managers can now introduce more of their end-investors to the world of private investments through a newly-launched institutional service on digital securities exchange ADDX. Corporate treasuries and family offices can also take part in the space via a corporate service to diversify their portfolios through private market products.
08 April 2022
Tribal, a B2B payments and financing platform for emerging markets, has launched a venture fund to invest in early-stage fintech companies.
Company update/crypto
CoinSmart Financial Inc. (NEO: SMRT) (FSE: IIR) (“CoinSmart” or the “Company”) one of Canada’s leading crypto asset trading platforms, today announced its strategic investment in NFT cross-bridge marketplace, Curate.
05 April 2022
The UK government has commissioned the Royal Mint to create an NFT as part of a push to make the country a "global hub for cryptoasset technology".
Company update/identity
Centre – the consortium founded by Circle Internet Financial, LLC and Coinbase to serve as a network governing and standard setting body for blockchain-based financial services – has added Polygon, the leading full-stack scaling solution for the Ethereum blockchain, and Credix, the institutional private credit marketplace on Solana to its list of partners collaborating on its decentralized identity solution, Verite.
31 March 2022
TRM Labs, the leading provider of cryptocurrency anti-money laundering (AML) and investigations software, announced today that former IRS-Criminal Investigations (IRS-CI) Special Agent Chris Janczewski has joined TRM as Head of Global Investigations, bringing extraordinary investigative expertise to the next generation blockchain intelligence company.
Company update/wholesale
Bolero International, the leading provider of cloud-based trade finance digitisation solutions, announced today a collaboration with TradeLens, the blockchain-based global trade platform for containerized goods, with the goal of delivering a seamless digital experience for customers using electronic bills of lading in trade finance transactions.
29 March 2022
News/markets
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is set to enforce a further delay to the cutover of its blockchain-based post-trade network, which was initially set for go-live in April 2021.
28 March 2022
News/regulation
Cross River, a US provider of core infrastructure and embedded financial technology to fintech companies, has teamed up with blockchain data platform Chainalysis to expand its crypto services.
24 March 2022
Linklogis, a leading supply chain finance technology solutions provider, has commenced an ongoing collaboration with Trade Information Network (‘Network’) by joining as a financier on the Network.
23 March 2022
News/sustainable
The non-profit arm of insurance unicorn Lemonade has formed a coalition building a blockchain-based climate insurance offering for subsistence farmers and livestock keepers in developing markets.
22 March 2022
I’m pleased to share that we’ve acquired the OTC trading and executions business of Singapore-based Altonomy to accelerate the growth of our institutional business.
Euroclear has invested in Fnality, the international consortium of global banks focused on building a blockchain-based payment system to support the adoption of tokenised assets and marketplaces.
21 March 2022
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