PayPal’s PYUSD Stablecoin Now Available to Venmo Users
Individuals with compatible external wallets, as well as merchants who embrace PYUSD for payments, will be able to receive transfers from Venmo users.
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PayPal Releases First PYUSD Transparency Report, Shows Slow Adoption
Despite the slow uptake, the transparency report suggests that PYUSD is effectively backed up by reverse repurchase agreements.
Revolut Backer Lakestar Announces $40M Investment in Fintech Startup Swan
Swan plans to allocate the newly acquired funds to expand its operations in the Netherlands in the immediate future. Lakestar said that they are quite satisfied with Swan’s progress over the last year.
Klaytn Foundation Aims to Deliver Positive Social Change through Financial Accessibility and Tokenization
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Tolu Ajiboye
Klaytn is expanding its offerings to focus on the tokenization of real-world assets like jewelry and real estate on its blockchain.
PayPal Launches USD Off-Ramp Service Following Recent On-Ramp Partnership with Ledger
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Tolu Ajiboye
PayPal says that by launching the new service to USD on ramp, it hopes to simplify customer interactions with cryptocurrencies.
UK Neobank Zopa Secures Another $93M in Funding
With £3 billion in deposits, over £2 billion in loans on its balance sheet, and more than 400,000 credit cards issued since its launch in 2020, Zopa has rapidly established itself as a prominent player in the UK banking landscape.
Ant Group Rolls Out New Blockchain Platform for Web3 Development ZAN
ZAN is powered by technical innovations from AntChain Open Labs.
Visa Adds Solana for Cross-Border Payments with ‘Multiple Blockchains’ and CBDCs to Follow
Sheffield said that Visa sees great potential for blockchain technology, especially in global and cross-border payments.
Solana Token Rises Following Visa USDC Settlement Announcement
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Tolu Ajiboye
Visa will now use payment processors to facilitate cross border transactions via the USDC stablecoin on Solana Pay.
Wise Accidentally Facilitates Withdrawal for Sanctioned Russian
While the sum involved in this sanction violation might appear insignificant, it highlights the industry’s ongoing struggle to prevent breaches following global geopolitical events.
Financial Technology News
The word “fintech” is derived from “financial technology” which means the integration of technological tools and innovations into financial operations in order to enhance and automate the financial processes. Fintech is used to assist financial institutions, businesses in the management of their operations to provide better services to their customers. As the industry of fintech is actively evolving, there is no surprise at all that the news from this sphere can attract wide attention.
Adoption of fintech by a company would mean a significant change to their mode of operations as it involves the use of specialized algorithmic models, mobile applications and dedicated computer software packages.
At its initial introduction stage, companies from a range of industries including banking, education, fundraising, health, venture management, etc. only used fintech for back end systems where they get absolute and full control. Nowadays, most industries have started using the innovation for consumer-oriented services in an attempt to serve their clients better while increasing the transparency in their operations.
Impact of Fintech News
As we move towards a significantly digitized world, from the introduction of the internet to social media, smartphone evolution and now blockchain technology, the need for adoption of cryptocurrency cannot be overemphasized. As the underlying framework of pioneer cryptocurrency bitcoin, the blockchain is a vital part of fintech. We’ve seen a number of blockchain-powered fintech apps being employed by banking industries and data inclined platforms.
Fintech has become a major part of the finance space in recent years, this points to the fact that major conglomerates have identified and prioritized its importance in growing their businesses. Fintech works closely with other new technologies such as data-driven analytics and marketing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, etc.
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