We are still in a phase of looking at the observable short-term knock-on effects of the pandemic. Our friends at Crowdfundinsider report on one of them. See the short excerpt below. The United Kingdom has long been a top global Fintech hub – a title it is keen to maintain. The combination of a pretty […]
The Cambridge Centre For Alternative Finance (CCAF) has just issued its latest global report on alternative finance. Money&Co. participated in this important piece of research. The full report is available here. Our friends at Crowdfundinsider highlight various points from this huge piece of work. Here’s an excerpt of the reporting on Europe and the UK’s […]
The governments and regulatory authorities of developed nation states have a major imperative: to control the nature of cryptocurrencies and the way they do business. Our friends at Crowdfundinsider reports on a seminal piece of litigation in the US: In December 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a complaint in a New York federal court against Ripple […]
Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are a key battle ground in the competition to dominate the world of digital money. Crowdfundinsider reports the G7 joint statement on innovation in digital money and central bank digital currencies. After Crowdfundinsider’s reporting, we add commentary of our own: To quote the G7: “G7 Central Banks have been exploring […]
Why do valuations of Fintech companies keep tripling? Our friends at AltFi ask, and partially answer, this question… This year so far has seen some of the biggest fintech funding rounds in history, with some of the biggest names in fintech picking up billions of dollars worth of VC funding. In the first quarter of […]
A side-effect of the growing convergence between the mainstream and cryptocurrencies is a curiosity and a desire amongst more and more people to find a way to invest. Crowdfundinsider runs a feature interview with Danial Daychopan, CEO and Founder of UK-based Plutus, a financial services provider that aims to bridge that gap between traditional fiat currencies and […]
The central banks are coming. Further to yesterday’s announcement of more preparatory moves for the Bank of England’s Britcoin, a central bank digital currency (CBDC), there’s more from China. The Chinese are far ahead in the CBDC area, and are actively trialling digital payment systems. Our friends at Crowdfund insider report: China is reportedly expanding […]
There’s a whole host of news about non-fungible tokens, the digital vehicles being used to promote what is effectively a new market in art, but we’ll reprise events there next week. Meanwhile, here’s news of an industry projection of the future of banking and alternative-financial services. Our friends at Crowdfundinsider report: Ten of the United […]
Today we bring news of success for early FinTech investors. Crowdfundinsider reprises the news: Six early investors in UK stock trading app Freetrade have seen their stakes in the firm surge to be valued at around £1 million after the business saw its valuation increase to over £265 million, according to a report in the Telegraph. The reported returns […]
After an unsurprisingly difficult 2020, this year is set to show solid growth in crypto-related mergers and acquisitions, according to extensively quoted research from PWC. The data shows that the crypto M&A sector more than doubled last year to $1.1 billion from 2019 figures. This year’s surge in crypto prices is leading a major boom […]