Managers of Wealth Fintech

Crypto Asset Manager Kryptoin Re-Files for a Bitcoin ETF

Kryptoin Among Eight Other Firms to File for Bitcoin-based Exchange Traded Funds

Geneva fintech launches digital assets marketplace

TDX allows banks and sophisticated investors to trade and exchange any types of digital assets.

SocGen issues structured product as security token on public blockchain

Societe Generale has issued the first structured product as a security token directly registered on the Tezos public blockchain.

The challenges with data and AI in UK financial services

Discussion at the meeting centred on the issues and challenges surrounding data quality, data strategy and economics, data governance and ethics, and data standards and regulation.

VTB teams up with Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology on AI and big data

Another area of collaboration in the new facility will be research and projects in the field of determining the psycho-emotional state of the bank's staff using neural networks.

Sydney multi-boutique adds crypto fund

A Sydney multi-boutique has signed on a passive fund that tracks Bitcoin and will offer it to Australian investors.

Kofax AP Agility Digitally Transforms Accounts Payable Processes

“We see forward-leaning business leaders leverage automation to streamline time- and resource-intensive AP processes, and also as part of a broader enterprise focus on leveraging real-time data and intelligence to improve decision making,”

Introducing The Irish AML Regime For Crypto Providers

This update highlights the key requirements which will apply to VASPs and the new registration requirement.

Coinbase IPO: Bitcoin investors must expect more government scrutiny of crypto

“Should it hit its private market valuation of $100 billion, it would immediately become one of the 85 most valuable companies in the U.S."

BitPay joins Square-founded crypto patent effort

“We want to eliminate barriers to innovation, rather than letting patents become one, and welcome BitPay and their many contributions to the blockchain and payments space,” said Kirupa Pushparaj, COPA Board Chair.

Latham & Watkins Advises Financial Advisers in Coinbase Direct Listing

Latham represented the financial advisers to Coinbase in its direct listing with a capital markets team led by New York partners Marc Jaffe, Greg Rodgers, and Benjamin Cohen, with New York associates Brittany Ruiz, Jonathan Hernandez, and Darby Dietrich.

EU’s Investment Bank Poised to Deploy Blockchain for Bond Sale

EIB hires investment banks to explore a potential deal

HSBC Swims Against Crypto Tide

The company adopted a policy last year to primarily hold bitcoin instead of cash, and has been purchasing the cryptocurrency with its extra cash and paying its directors in BTC.

Front Page Story and Back Page Correction: IRS Clarifies Its Public Cryptocurrency Position in Internal Guidance

Hard forks could be treated as sales or exchanges, but it’s unlikely that the new blockchain would differ materially in kind and extent so as to be treated as a taxable sale or exchange.

HSBC Changes Crypto Policy, Now Bars Clients From Buying Stock of Companies That Hold Bitcoin

The bank now prohibits its customers from buying the stock of public companies that are holding bitcoin in its treasury.

French state investment firm CDC on tokenized digital assets: opportunities, challenges

During that time, the CDC has been involved in some of the highest profile blockchain projects in France, which have informed Filali’s views on the tokenization of financial assets.

Bitcoin Is Making a Splash. What to Know Before You Test the Crypto Waters.

That profile describes Bitcoin, of course, and it is having a moment.

DBS rolls out AI-powered investment advisory feature

DBS is also amalgamating the customer knowledge assessment and customer account review assessments a customer must take and pass before being permitted to invest in more sophisticated products.

Coinbase’s crypto party enters wild stage

The digital exchange is gearing up for the biggest float since Facebook. Believers and doubters agree it’s a landmark moment

AI giant to accelerate UK growth with $475m financing

Founder and CEO Ted Bailey told BusinessCloud that the money – which values Dataminr at more than $4 billion – will be used in part to “significantly broaden our international footprint”.

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