US wealthtech platform Tifin has acquired SharingAlpha, a fund rating platform consisting of a community of more than 15,000 professional fund investors and analysts across the world.

Co-founded six years ago by two Israeli brothers, Oren and Yuval Kaplan, SharingAlpha offers professionals the opportunity to build their own track record for fund selection and asset allocation capabilities.

Payments company Stripe has slashed its valuation by 28%, becoming the latest privately-funded fintech to suffer from the repercussions of a sustained sell-off of tech shares.

TrustQuay, the leading technology provider to the corporate services, trust and fund administration markets, has today announced it has signed a technology agreement with Equity Trustees, Australia’s leading specialist independent trustee company.

Major cryptocurrency exchange MEXC Global has listed $MYST token by Mysterium Network, the Swiss-based Web 3.0 company challenging the $30 billion VPN industry with its next-generation anonymity network.

Trading of the MYST-USDT pairs opens at 12:00 p.m. UTC on Thursday, July 14, 2022.

Understanding of the importance of operational resilience has been on the rise in the last few years – particularly following the implementation of the FCA’s new operational resilience laws. But according to leading software provider ITRS Group, if firms employ effective operational risk measures, then the need for operational resilience will be largely diminished.

Data is used daily in business in all its forms and is a vital asset for financial institutions, whether it be used for security purposes, customer records, or financial information. Over the coming years, it will become even more crucial.

Measuring, analysing and acting on this data is especially important to your marketing team. Not least because if they can’t prove how particular channels are delivering ROI they might stand to lose their budget(s).

Nikhil Rathi, Chief Executive of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), outlined technology and data as key to tackling financial fraud in the UK in a speech delivered at the Peterson Institute of International Economics this week.

Rathi proclaimed that the FCA has “invested heavily in data and technology” to help scan for fraud, with over 100,000 websites scanned for fraud each day.

5ire, a fifth-generation level 1 blockchain network and the world’s first and only sustainable blockchain, today announced that it has raised $100 million in Series A funding from UK-based conglomerate SRAM & MRAM.

Blockpass, the Safe Network for Crypto, is announcing a partnership with BlockOn, the worldwide blockchain venture builder & firm. As part of this move, Blockpass will provide information, updates and coverage of BlockOn's events, and BlockOn has invited Blockpass to speak at its India Blockchain Week event, which covers a whole host of themes from NFTs to Governments to Start-Ups over its 7 days.

Mastercard today announced an expansion of its Engage partner network to include its open banking services, offering customers easy access to several technology partners that can quickly build and deploy open banking solutions for payments and lending decisioning at scale.