Latest DeFi News: Finextra Research

Archax and Assetera partner to offer tokenised real-world assets

Digital securities distribution platform Assetera and digital securities exchange Archax have joined forces to offer investors access to tokenised real-world assets - including money-market funds from abrdn - in Europe.

08 October 2024

News/startups

Irish fintech spending falls by 90% in H1

The first half of 2024 has seen a dramatic decline in spending within Ireland's fintech industry, reflecting cautious investor sentiment.

03 October 2024

Company update/crypto

DeFi payments network Huma raises $38 million

Huma, the first Payment Financing (PayFi) network, announced today that it has raised $38 million in funding. Distributed Global led the equity round, with significant participation from Hashkey Capital, Folius Ventures, the Stellar Development Foundation, and TIBAS Ventures, CVC arm of İşbank, the largest private bank in Turkiye.

16 September 2024

Company update/payments

Mansa launches trade finance and cross-border payments for emerging markets

Mansa, the pioneering decentralised finance (DeFi) fintech providing liquidity to multinational exports and cross-border payments for companies in emerging markets, today announced the launch of its first pool on Base.

02 August 2024

Company update/markets

Deutsche Bank and Northern Trust publish study on 'The road to Institutional DeFi'

Deutsche Bank and Northern Trust have collaborated to produce an industry whitepaper “The road to institutional DeFi”.

24 June 2024

News/payments

Kima bids to build a 'DeFi credit card’

Israeli startup Kima is running a project with Mastercard's FinSec Innovation Lab to connect decentralised finance (DeFi) applications with fiat systems.

14 May 2024

Company update/payments

Paystand buys Teampay

Paystand, the global leader in blockchain-enabled B2B payments, today announced the acquisition of Teampay, an industry-leading spend management software.

26 April 2024

News/crypto

EBAday 2024: The future of CBDCs, tokenised deposits and stablecoin adoption

Tokenised money is on the horizon in numerous countries. This week, the Bank of England’s Sarah Breeden announced that a discussion paper will be released in summer 2024 to draw on input from the private sector to complement the work being conducted on stablecoin regulation and retail central bank digital currency (CBDC).

22 April 2024

Company update/security

Reltime launches blockchain R&D centre in India

Reltime, a leader in Web3-based financial and digital services technology, is proud to announce the opening of a new research and development facility, ‘Reltime Research Lab Private Limited’, in Chennai, India.

15 April 2024

News/payments

David Birch confirmed as EBAday 2024 challenge speaker

Exploring digital money, digital assets, digital identity and the future of banking, David G. W. Birch has been confirmed as the keynote speaker for one of the most compelling sessions at EBAday every year.

05 April 2024

Company update/payments

Paymentology and Rain collaborate on Web3 payment service

Paymentology, a leading global issuer-processor, today announces its partnership with Rain, a leading corporate spend management platform that specialises in catering to international companies and companies in the digital asset and Web3 space.

04 April 2024

News/payments

French fintech ditches remittances in favour of DeFi

Tempo France claims it is the the first fintech in the money transfers market to suspend classical remittances in order to focus exclusively on decentralised finance (DeFi).

27 March 2024

News/startups

EBAday 2024: Calling early-stage startups to showcase products

The 19th edition of EBAday, the largest annual European event for payments and transaction banking, will return on 18th – 19th June 2024 at CCL in Lisbon, Portugal.

15 March 2024

News/startups

Singularity raises $2.2m to help institutions access DeFi

Singularity, a startup developing a protocol to provide institutions with compliant and confidential access to DeFi, has raised $2.2 million.

23 February 2024

Company update/crypto

Luno includes more DeFi coins

Luno, South Africa’s largest crypto investment app, has added three new cryptocurrencies to invest in that are prominent in decentralised finance (DeFi).

09 February 2024

News/regulation

CFTC takes aim at ID discovery in DeFi

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is urging policymakers to address identity issues in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) operations.

09 January 2024

News/regulation

Iosco issues DeFi policy recommendations

International securities regulator Iosco has set out nine policy recommendations designed to address market integrity and investor protection concerns connected to decentralised finance (DeFi).

20 December 2023

News/crypto

COP28: Ethereum pre-Merge carbon emissions estimated to be 27.5m metric tonnes

Research from the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) and the Ethereum Climate Platform (ECP) reveals that the Merge – the upgrade that switched the ETH consensus mechanism from a proof-of-work protocol to a proof-of-stake system – ensured that Ethereum now has a much lighter greenhouse gas footprint than other high carbon-emitting blockchains.

01 December 2023