London fintech TransferGo raises $50m after pandemic fuels growth September 30, 2021 London-based international money transfer fintech TransferGo has raised another $50m in funding in its Series C round. Co-led by Elbrus Capital’s third fund and Black River Ventures, the latest round brings the total TransferGo has raised thus far to $77m. Existing investors Hard Yaka, VEF, SmartHub and Milano Investments backed the round, and new investor [...]
FTX recovers $5 billion of liquid assets, SEC charges Gemini and Genesis, and the crypto market bounces back January 16, 2023 CryptoCompare data shows the price of Bitcoin moved up significantly over the past week, starting at around $17,000 and rising towards $21,000.
Redesigning the global financial infrastructure for the digital-age August 6, 2021 Since the ‘DeFi Summer’ of 2020, the DeFi market has grown by 40 times, with the Total Value Locked currently standing at $61B. Stablecoins, one of the major pillars of DeFi, almost quadrupled in the first half of 2021 to $112 billion. Novum Insights’ latest report Decentralized Finance: Re-designing the global financial infrastructure for the [...]
Uncharted movie review: Action blockbuster will make you smile February 16, 2022 Having become the champion of pandemic cinema with Spider-man: No Way Home, Tom Holland looks to make himself a new franchise in this live action adaptation of the Uncharted video game series. He plays Nathan Drake, a barman and small-time thief with an encyclopaedic knowledge of history thanks to his missing older brother Sam. He [...]
The end of the bear? This time is different August 11, 2022 Dr Chris Kacher unveils the exciting possibilities that lie ahead in the crypto markets, but with one eye on the macro.
Game over: China suspends approval for all new online video games September 9, 2021 China has suspended approval for all new online games in a bid to curb a gaming addiction among young people, the South China Morning Post reports this afternoon. Watch the full report.
Bitcoin continues to gain ground as crypto markets look to establish stability January 11, 2023 The price of Bitcoin is up by 1% over 24 hours at $17,440 this morning while Ethereum is changing hands for $1,335 - a modest rise of 0.49%.
iPhone 14 Pro Max review: The notch is gone and other stories September 30, 2022 When Apple went fullscreen with the iPhone X, doing away with all but the slimmest black frame around the display, it divided the world into two categories: regular people, and those who vehemently, violently hated “the notch”. The notch, for those struggling to remember the furore it caused back in November 2017, is the little [...]
Don’t Get Rekt! DeFi through the eyes of a risk manager September 29, 2022 Evgeny Gokhberg of re7.capital takes a look at decentralised finance through the sophisticated lens of a risk manager.
Inside UK banks’ arms race against fintech start-ups June 8, 2024 The UK’s major banks are muscling into new areas of the fintech space as they look to keep up with a wave of young challengers and grab a slice of the lucrative market.