Financial services tech investment rebounding after August valley
Investment within the financial services technology sector is creeping back up after plummeting in August. Following a July peak, Bank ...
Tag: DeFi
DeFi magic and credit default swaps converge in opaque lending market
Credit default swaps are hard enough to figure out. Shadow lenders and their repackaging of cash flows from loans into securities come ...
Revolut’s Storonsky says it has enough funding for two years
The boss of Revolut Ltd. said his fintech startup has enough funding for at least two more years and would ...
DeFi in turmoil as eye-popping yields prove too good to be true
The notion that the cryptocurrency industry has near-magical powers to pay out yields that dwarf those found in the traditional financial world ...
Fintech Funding: Automated mortgage fintech EarnUp closes $31M series C
Automated payments fintech EarnUp announced Tuesday that it raised $31 million in a series C funding round. KeyBank and LendingTree ...
Bots are overrunning crypto networks like Solana as they hunt for profits
Deploying funny-sounding strategies like “sandwich trading,” bots have conquered much of the market for Ethereum-based digital tokens, scooping up hundreds ...
How DeFi can bring accountability to ESG
On the surface, decentralized finance (DeFi) and environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards may seem like two completely separate themes ...
‘DeFi’ decentralization promise is an illusion, BIS chief says
Advocates of a decentralized future of money based on distributed ledger technology are chasing an illusion, according to Bank of ...
Blockchain-based startup figure creates platform for raising equity
Figure Technologies Inc., the startup co-founded by Mike Cagney, created a platform to help private companies raise and trade equity ...
Crypto unlikely to survive as investment if unregulated, SEC chairman says
Cryptocurrency as an asset class won’t survive unless it’s properly regulated, and while it isn’t, investors face harm — and ...
