Nium Appoints Robin Gandhi as Chief Product Officer
January 20, 20225 min
As a payment industry innovator, Gandhi brings a comprehensive mix of product vision and strategy to Nium's award-winning global payments infrastructure
Over Half of Crypto-Natives Would get Salary in Cryptocurrency
January 11, 20225 min
Out of the 30 million+ crypto owners in the U.S. & U.K.*, 55% would like to get paid their full salary in crypto rather than fiat currencies
Insights on the Digital Payment Global Market to 2026
January 7, 202217 min
The “Digital Payment Market Research Report by Component, by Deployment Type, by Organization Size, by Mode of Payment, by Vertical, by Region – Global Forecast to 2026 – Cumulative Impact of COVID-19″ report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. The Global Digital Payment Market size was estimated at USD 58.31 billion in 2020 and expected to reach USD 69.91 billion in 2021, at a CAGR of 20.23% to reach USD 176.21 billion by 2026.Market Statistics: The report provides market sizing and forecast across five major...
Rupertus Rothenhaeuser Joins BitMEX as Chief Commercial Officer
January 4, 20224 min
Crypto exchange BitMEX is pleased to welcome Rupertus Rothenhaeuser as its new Chief Commercial Officer (CCO). As CCO, Rupertus will spearhead BitMEX’s ‘Beyond Derivatives’ plan to expand into spot, brokerage, custody, information products, and establish BitMEX Academy. In particular he is responsible for developing the exchange’s global client relationships, overseeing the commercial success of its expanding range of products, and growing BitMEX’s market share in the hyper-competitive crypto space. Reporting directly to BitMEX’s CEO, Alexander Höptner, Rupertus...
Crunchfish announces Digital Cash Wallets’ architecture
December 20, 20215 min
Crunchfish Digital Cash AB (“Crunchfish”) is announcing a patent-pending architecture of Digital Cash Wallets. In addition to Crunchfish’s original Digital Cash Wallet offline, that is integrated in a mobile app, an architecture spanning from Core Banking Systems to Digital Cash Wallets either online or offline, in mobile apps or on non-mobile devices is presented. This provides the foundation of Crunchfish’s ambition to take a global leadership position within digital payments. The Digital Cash Wallets online...
Anchorage Digital Raises $350 Mn Led by investment firm KKR
December 15, 20216 min
New round values premier digital asset platform at over $3 billion
Insurtech leader Exdion Solutions Wins Insurance Innovator Award
December 10, 20213 min
Exdion Solutions and its Exdion Policy Check product was cited by PropertyCasualty 360 as a Technology Innovator in its 2021 awards program. Exdion Policy Check is an AI powered solution for automated policy checking to mitigate insurance brokerage Errors & Omissions risk, customer dissatisfaction, and operational inefficiencies in real time. The Policy Check product is a part of Exdion Edge, the industry’s only comprehensive digital suite, that leverages AI, ML, NLP and various automation techniques...
KuCoin Reaches 10 Million Global Registered Users
December 9, 20214 min
KuCoin, the world’s leading crypto exchange, announced it has crossed the 10 million global users mark. Hitting the 10 million mark means that KuCoin has made it to the top 5 cryptocurrency exchanges, sharing the same number of users with the largest digital assets platforms. According to the latest statistics, KuCoin experienced a 9-fold increase in newly registered users compared to the previous year, and 23 times year-over-year growth in trading volumes. The growth of...
MoonPay, Closes $555 Million Funding
December 3, 202114 min
FinancialNewsMedia.com News Commentary – Leading crypto payments infrastructure provider, Moonpay just closed a $555 million Series A financing to rapidly accelerate its global footprint, invest in its world-class team, and underwrite an expanding number of innovations in the crypto economy. The funding, which has sent the crypto start-ups’ valuation to $3.4 billion marks yet another massive funding in the crypto space. Not only is funding in the space increasing, but crypto is also becoming more mainstream with institutional and even traditional investors...
Bexs Banco & Thunes to Enable Real-time Payments to Brazil
December 2, 20214 min
Thunes, a Singapore-headquartered global payments company, today announced a partnership with Brazil’s Bexs Banco (“Bexs”), a pioneer in international digital payments, to help global businesses and customers make real-time payments to Brazil, including payments to Pix, the instant payment system developed by Brazil’s Central Bank. With this partnership, Brazilian recipients will be able to enjoy increased speed and transparency of inbound transactions processed by Thunes. Those using Pix will receive payments instantly. Since launching in November 2020, Pix has already gained more than 112...