Alveo, the leader in cloud-based market data integration, analytics and Data-as-a-Service (“DaaS”) solutions for financial services, announced today that it has expanded its global data coverage and feed integrations by adding new content from SIX including Sentiment indicators, Tax, and Regulatory Risk data.

BVNK, the next-generation payments platform for global businesses, today announces it has acquired UK fintech, System Pay Services Limited (SPS Ltd), to accelerate expansion. SPS Ltd is registered as an EMI (Electronic Money Institution) in the UK and offers a one-stop payment solution for businesses — providing e-money services, e-wallets, and multi-currency accounts for merchants to make, receive, and process payments.

Paris Blockchain Week, the leading international conference dedicated to professionals in the blockchain and Web3 space, is excited to announce a host of keynotes from industry leaders and visionaries, including Marieke Flament, CEO, NEAR Foundation, Brad Garlinghouse, CEO of Ripple, Steve Huffman, CEO, Reddit, and Ryan Selkis, Founder & CEO, Messari, who will hit the stage from 20^th to 24^th March in 2023.

Today, Kiln announced the close of a €17 million financing round to expand their market-leading staking infrastructure product range.

Facctum, a risktech company specialising in cloud-delivered anti-financial crime technology, today launches an open access search version of its flagship FacctView™ platform. This enterprise-grade risk detection technology for sanctions and financial crime risk management will allow users to search business relationships and determine, in real-time, areas of potential sanctions compliance risk.

Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited (“KMBL”/“Kotak”) today announced that it will be providing finance to dealers onboarded on actyv.ai, an AI-powered enterprise SaaS platform. KMBL will provide short-term finance under the ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ category for the working capital needs of dealers.

Eddid Financial (“Eddid” or the “Group”) announces its cooperation and investment in Q9 Capital (“Q9”, the “Firm”), a transformational crypto investment platform delivering cutting-edge solutions and capabilities to crypto and TradFi firms. Q9’s revolutionary investment engine and white-labelled solutions enable asset and wealth managers to seamlessly create, execute, manage, and report digital asset investment strategies through a single UI or API.

Bybit, the world’s third most visited crypto exchange, has announced the launch of a $100 million support fund to shore up institutional market makers during this challenging period in the crypto industry.

The fund will offer a helping hand to Bybit’s dedicated institutional clients with a maximum of up to $10 million per client available and is intended to support the industry as the fallout from recent events continues.

Mollie, one of the fastest-growing financial services providers in Europe, has revealed insights into online payment trends for small and medium-sized retailers on Black Friday and Cyber Week 2022. Sales performance was much stronger than expected, Buy Now, Pay Later and local payment methods are on the rise and average transaction values have increased.

Sales performance: Black Friday is now a week-long event

Industry players are on a mission to differentiate themselves, while merchants and consumers are demanding innovative ways to pay for what they buy.  A seamless payment experience is becoming more and more important to consumers and therefore merchants as e-commerce continues to be as competitive as ever.