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Worldline expands reach of Metaverse shopping hub

Worldline [Euronext: WLN], a global leader in payments services, has released the Worldline Metaverse Shopping Hub within Spatial, a significant upgrade to its white-label solution for merchants seeking access to the Metaverse.

/crypto

Laser Digital makes Metaverse debut

Laser Digital Holdings AG, in cooperation with Nomura Holdings, Inc., is delighted to announce its debut of the ‘Nomura & Laser Digital Botanical Garden’ in The Sandbox metaverse.

/crypto

US metaverse app Upland extends Series A funding

Upland, the web3 Metaverse Super App, announced an extension to its Series A funding, securing an additional $7 million. This recent investment further positions Upland as one of the most widely-used web3 apps, with over 3 million registered accounts on the EOS blockchain and nearly 300,000 virtual property owners, greatly outpacing its competition. The Series A extension adds EOS Network Ventures as a new investor, alongside participation from existing investors C3 Venture Capital, Animoca Brands, and angel investors.

/retail

DBS creates Mateverse adventure to spotlight global food waste

DBS today unveiled its metaverse concept for DBS BetterWorld, a gamified adventure to demonstrate how the metaverse can be leveraged as a force for good.

/sustainable

DBS unveils Metaverse adventure to spotlight global food waste challenge

DBS today unveiled its metaverse concept for DBS BetterWorld, a gamified adventure to demonstrate how the metaverse can be leveraged as a force for good.

/startups

Sella Group selects four startups for metaverse incubation programme

The four startups selected by dpixel - the Sella group Venture Incubator - as part of “Metaverse 4 Finance”, the first Italian acceleration program aimed at identifying and supporting the growth of national and international startups for the development of innovative, economically sustainable, inclusive, and secure solutions in the field of metaverse applied to finance, come from the USA, United Kingdom, Romania, and Switzerland.

/retail

Sella Group receives 117 applications for metaverse acceleration programme

There are 117 projects nominated to participate in "Metaverse 4 Finance", the first Italian Web3 acceleration program - promoted by the Sella group and implemented by its Venture Incubator dpixel in collaboration with the Global Partner VISA.

/retail

Caixabank's imagin and PlayStation to run virtual reality game development hackathon

imagin, the digital services and lifestyle platform led by CaixaBank, and PlayStation, through PlayStation Spain and PlayStation Talents, have jointly organised a hackathon to develop video games in virtual reality.

/regulation

ADGM takes mediation to the metaverse

The ADGM Arbitration Centre, the state-of-the-art hearing facility for arbitration and mediation situated in the international financial centre of the UAE’s capital, has launched a world’s-first service that hosts mediation in the metaverse.

/crypto

Sygnum opens metaverse hub

Sygnum announces the opening of the first metaverse hub by a Swiss bank in the virtual equivalent of New York’s Times Square.

/markets

Franklin Templeton launches Metaverse ETF

The metaverse is a virtual shared space created by the convergence of virtually enhanced physical reality and physically persistent virtual space, including the sum of all virtual worlds, augmented reality, and the Internet.

/crypto

Bitso and Mexican Football Federation launch NFT jerseys

Bitso, the leading cryptocurrency platform in Latin America with more than 5 million users, and the Mexican Football Federation (FMF) launched the first collectible NFT of the Mexico National Team’s jerseys that was acquired in cryptocurrencies.

/startups

Stripe and Saison Capital partner on insights programme for Southeast Asian startups

Saison Capital will be introducing to its portfolio companies a new insights program in collaboration with Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses.

/crypto

Hong Kong's Bloom partners with Web 3.0 participants to support crypto rebates

Local technology startup Bloom announced that starting today, Bloom members can get spending rebates in the form of cryptocurrency. This move will see the Bloom App become Hong Kong’s first spending app that supports cryptocurrency rebates for any Visa card transaction in Hong Kong, marking a major breakthrough in a spending landscape dominated by cash rebates and reward points.

/predictions

Kiya.ai launches Indian banking metaverse

Ever imagine being able to visit your bank branch virtually (without leaving your home) or conveniently discussing investment plans with an advisor?

/retail

Flybits introduces OpenDome platform to help banks create multi-dimensional metaverse experiences

Flybits, a global leader in Enterprise-grade Experience Design solutions for the financial industry, today announced the launch of its new Metaverse authoring platform called OpenDome.

/retail

FIS showcases bridge to the metaverse

The metaverse is opening a new frontier of opportunities in the digital economy.

/startups

SC Ventures partners Japanese financial conglomerate SBI

SC Ventures, Standard Chartered’ s innovation, fintech investment and ventures arm, announced that it had entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with SBI Holdings, Inc to expand their portfolio, both at a business and geographic level, and to explore new ecosystems through this partnership.

/retail

Signzy receives US patent for banking in the metaverse

In a major breakthrough for enabling seamless banking and financial transactions in the metaverse, India-based Signzy Technologies today announced that it has received a US patent for new customer signup and onboarding in metaverse, using Virtual and Augmented Reality.

/Metaverse

Sokin to set up the metaverse world for ecommerce

Sokin, the next generation payments provider, is set to enable full ecommerce payments for the first time in the metaverse, allowing brands and businesses to grow from its physical store into the virtual world.

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