7/26/2023 5:47:16 PM Exponential Exchange raises $7.4m in Seed funding By Louden Richason Washington D.C. based vehicle derivatives startup raised $7.4m in Seed funding led by MaC Venture Capital.
7/9/2021 10:01:28 PM Ex-NYSE President Tom Farley’s SPAC to merge with Bullish to bring planned crypto exchange public By FinTech Collective Tom Farley’s Far Peak Acquisition Corp. announced a deal Friday to bring crypto start-up Bullish public. Farley, formerly the New York...
7/1/2021 11:19:44 PM Mercado Bitcoin, Brazil’s first crypto exchange, raises $200m from SoftBank By FinTech Collective Brazil based digital assets exchange raised $200m in Series B funding led by Softbank at a post money valuation of $2.1b.
6/18/2021 6:32:05 PM Payment firm Wise plans direct listing in tech win for U.K. By FinTech Collective Reflecting a significant win for the London exchange and European tech in general, and a sign of potential deregulation to come, Wise...
5/28/2021 2:26:07 PM Upstart peer-to-peer crypto exchanges take aim at Coinbase By Carlos Alonso Torras Coinbase Global Inc is facing competition from a new breed of upstarts that look less like the New York Stock Exchange and more like...
7/26/2019 6:53:59 PM China's new Nasdaq-style exchange had crazy first day By FinTech Collective Stocks listed on China's new "Star Market," which is part of China's broader initiative to entice local wealth away from New York and...
5/8/2019 11:59:09 PM Hackers stole $40m from Binance cryptocurrency exchange By Sean Lippel In yet another centralized exchange breach -of which there has now been $356m stolen in 2019 alone -hackers have stolen $40m from...
2/5/2019 3:04:48 AM Canada's biggest cryptocurrency exchange can't access $190m in crypto holdings By Sean Lippel The biggest news in crypto this week is the sudden death of QuadrigaCX's 30 year old founder from Crohn's disease, leaving 115k clients...
6/2/2017 12:28:14 PM Uber for trucks is here. Here’s how it will work. By Gareth Jones Uber Freight was created after the company acquired self-driving trucking company Otto. The idea is to create a shipping network and...
3/3/2016 3:20:09 AM LSE, Deutsche Boerse Do ‘Street Sweep’ to Hinder Rivals By Gareth Jones The LSE and Deutsche Boerse have gone on a hiring spree for banks in a so-called "street sweep". The sweep is a classic M&A defense move...
4/2/2015 11:53:37 AM Stock Exchanges Are Beginning to Take Bitcoin Seriously By Gareth Jones Nasdaq OMX and NYSE are dipping their toes into the world of Bitcoin and the Blockchain. Nasdaq revealed recently that NYC based Noble...
4/28/2014 12:24:57 AM Tradier Nets $3.1 Million in funding to Build A Software Toolkit For Financial Services By Gareth Jones Really very interesting.. Well done to our friends at Devonshire Investors for getting involved early..
4/28/2014 12:15:18 AM Backbone of U.S. Stock Trading Is Poised for Upgrade By Gareth Jones The Nasdaq outage last summer prompted U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Jo White (pictured below) to demand market...