NYDIG, a crypto financial services firm, announced on Tuesday that it raised $1 billion in a funding round led by WestCap, valuing the Morgan Stanley-backed Bitcoin company at more than $7 billion. According to Reuters, growth equity firm WestCap led the round with other backers like Bessemer Venture Partners, FinTech Collective, Affirm, Fiserv, MassMutual, New…
The industry that once focused solely on Bitcoin is rapidly evolving. Developers are striving to find decentralized blockchain products that are both scalable and secure, writes Merav Ozair, Ph.D., a leading Blockchain Expert and a FinTech professor at New Jersey’s Rutgers Business School. When Bitcoin was introduced by the Satoshi white paper in 2008, it…
Robinhood will be partnering with crypto tracing firm Chainalysis to get data and tools for trading in advance of the app launching its crypto wallet. The trading app will adopt Chainalysis’ monitoring compliance solution Know Your Transaction and the Chainalysis Reactor, its investigations software, to meet compliance requirements. On Monday, Chainalysis announced the integrated partnership…
A significant share of institutional investors is expecting a major correction in the crypto market in 2022, a survey published by Natixis Investment Managers said. Despite this, institutional investors are increasingly warming up to crypto-assets. Natixis Investment Managers published the results of a global institutional investor survey. The company polled 500 institutional investors who collectively…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) called for a “comprehensive, consistent, and coordinated” approach to harness the benefits of crypto’s underlying technology while mitigating its risks. The fund plans to work closely with the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and other members of the international regulatory community to develop an effective regulatory approach to crypto-assets. In a…
Japan’s SoftBank is investing 10% of the company’s $5 billion funds in crypto-related assets, a strategy that the bank’s managing director supports even if some tokens are overvalued. According to the managing director of SoftBank’s Latin America Fund, Paulo Passoni, the most attractive place to invest in Latin America is cryptocurrencies, Bloomberg reported. “Of course,…