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April 24, 2024 @ 11:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

To accelerate its growth in the United States and its presence in the fast-expanding online gaming market, Thunes, a global cross-border payments company, is proud to announce that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Tilia LLC, an all-in-one payments platform. Tilia is licensed in… Read More

April 24, 2024 @ 10:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

iLex, the loan distribution platform, announced today the appointment of Sean Tai as Head of Business Development. Sean will lead the development, commercialization and “adoption of the iLex loan distribution platform globally and reinforce the iLex executive team in delivering its ambitious roadmap.” Based in… Read More

April 24, 2024 @ 5:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Upflow is pleased to announce that we’ve secured $5 million in new funding to bring Payments by Upflow to market. This Series A extension will help them “bring the best of consumer e-commerce to B2B payments.” Designed specifically for B2B businesses, Payments… Read More

April 24, 2024 @ 4:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Xero, the global small business platform, released its latest Xero Small Business Insights (XSBI) quarterly update for Canada, based on data from October to December 2023. The data showed that Canada’s small business sales decline “may be levelling off, which is an encouraging signal for… Read More

April 24, 2024 @ 4:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

US regulatory authorities are requesting that Terraform Labs and its co-founder Do Kwon be fined $5.3 billion for allegedly defrauding investors. This update has been announced after the two parties had been found liable for a massive fraudulent scheme. As stated in court papers dated… Read More

April 24, 2024 @ 12:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Jonathan Chang, the COO of Nibiru, the new Layer-1 chain co-founded by veterans from Google, Tendermint, and JP Morgan. In addition to a throughput-optimized infrastructure with a comprehensive developer toolkit suite, Nibiru provides an open, permissionless version of interconnected CEX-style applications,… Read More

April 24, 2024 @ 11:34 am By JD Alois  |  

ComplyAdvantage has acquired Golden, according to a statement issued by the company. ComplyAdvantage is a firm that provides AI-powered financial crime risk data and fraud detection technology. Golden is a data-mining firm that uses natural language processing to drive value from dispersed sources of information…. Read More

April 24, 2024 @ 9:27 am By JD Alois  |  

PeppercornAI has raised £3.25 million in a funding round aided by the participation of Wealth Club, which invested £1.9 million in the Insurtech firm. The funding included high-net-worth investors and existing investors EHE Capital and Angels Invest Wales. Wealth Club offers sophisticated investors investment opportunities typically… Read More

April 24, 2024 @ 8:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Archax, the FCA-regulated digital asset exchange, broker, and custodian, announced that it is expanding the range of fund shares it offers in tokenized form with the provision of the BlackRock ICS US Treasury money market fund1 (MMF). This builds on its launch of tokenized access… Read More

April 24, 2024 @ 8:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK Finance, in association with law firm Addleshaw Goddard LLP, is announcing a report on the use of model clauses to support the development of the Variable Recurring Payments (VRPs) for commercial applications in the UK. VRPs are a form of payments instruction that “allows… Read More

April 24, 2024 @ 8:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The United States Department of Justice is reportedly seeking a 36-month prison sentence for Binance founder and former CEO Changpeng Zhao, or “CZ.” US prosecutors are said to be seeking a potential 3-year prison sentence for Changpeng Zhao, who is the founder Binance, the world’s… Read More

April 23, 2024 @ 11:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

GoCardless, the bank payment company, has expanded its partnership with Intuit QuickBooks, a financial management software, with two new launches. The fintech has now introduced a GoCardless app in the Intuit Quickbooks Marketplace in Australia and the United States, “enabling more than 225,000 QuickBooks users… Read More

April 23, 2024 @ 10:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Trustly announces a pledge to boost growth for businesses across Europe. In a major move to enhance the checkout experience “for millions of people,” the payments tech firm unveils the new Trustly Growth Guarantee. They are offering clients – current and new – a fresh… Read More

April 23, 2024 @ 9:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

VC activity has remained consistent throughout the VC downturn since Q3 2022, “leaving aside the tech giant megadeals that commit upfront funds for future cloud purchases,” according to an update from PitchBook. PitchBook notes in a report that they have “tracked $22.3 billion invested in… Read More

April 23, 2024 @ 9:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Airwallex, a global payments and financial platform for modern businesses, today announced its partnership with Bird (formerly MessageBird), a global communication platform, to power Bird’s international payments operations. Powering Bird’s global payments infrastructure Bird’s platform, applications and APIs help 29,000+ businesses “to streamline conversations and… Read More

April 23, 2024 @ 9:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The KILT team has completed all milestones of the Polkadot Treasury Grant for developing the Decentralized Identity Provider (DIP), and DIP is now ready for use. Using DIP, any chain can become “an identity provider, and any parachain (and, in the future, external chains) can… Read More

April 23, 2024 @ 9:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The future is multichain, according to an update from Uniswap Labs. Over 3M addresses have swapped on multiple chains with Uniswap, the team at Uniswap Labs reveals. As covered, the Uniswap Protocol claims to be the largest decentralized trading and automated market-making protocol on Ethereum… Read More

April 23, 2024 @ 8:28 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

On April 21, Trulioo, an identity verification platform, announced a collaboration with Nium, a provider of real-time cross-border payments. Nium integrated Trulioo’s Person Match identity verification capability to deliver compliant payment experiences for its U.K. operations. The companies first partnered in 2015, initially for Nium’s… Read More

April 23, 2024 @ 8:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PeerBerry’s business partners – real estate developers Lithome and SIB Group– have now reportedly repaid investors two loans totaling €1.79 million with interest. As noted in a blog post by PeerBerry, Lithome has repaid a one-year term loan of €750,000 (the real estate project “Baltupio… Read More

April 23, 2024 @ 8:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CoinMENA B.S.C., a crypto asset platform licensed by the Central Bank of Bahrain and sister company CoinMENA FZE, licensed by the Dubai Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA), proudly announces a partnership with Zodia Markets, a UK headquartered digital asset trading business, backed by Standard Chartered…. Read More