Leaf Round, a leading marketplace for exclusive, high-yield, fixed-income opportunities, has announced the appointment of Ramalingam Subramanian as its Chief Marketing Officer to help the company as it scales up its operations. Prior to joining Leaf Round, Ramalingam had played a pivotal role for three years as Head of Marketing in developing the brand CoinDCX as it went on to become India’s first Crypto Unicorn. 

Volante Technologies, the leading global provider of cloud payments and financial messaging solutions, today announced a strategic alliance with

Deutsche WertpapierService Bank AG (dwpbank), Germany's leading provider of securities services, has successfully launched the “wpNex” platform for digital assets and conducted pilot transactions with crypto assets for retail customers.  The platform was developed with valantic FSA providing the underlying automation and integration technology.

BPC and strategy consultancy Fincog today announced the launch of a new report highlighting the current state of the digital banking market in Europe, providing insights into key trends shaping the market and business models and strategies that banks are adopting to succeed in a rapidly changing landscape. 

Money20/20, the world’s leading fintech show, unveils its agenda for the upcoming Europe show in Amsterdam, June 6-8th. Over 300 speakers are expected to join Money20/20 Europe this year.

The Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) has launched its Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Implementation Strategy in collaboration with R3, G42 Cloud and Clifford Chance. For Phase 1, R3 and G42 Cloud have been selected as the technology and infrastructure providers of the initiative respectively, while Clifford Chance will provide critical legal oversight for the strategy.

JCB International Co., Ltd., the international operations subsidiary of JCB Co. Ltd., today announced that merchants in multiple European markets will be able to accept JCB Cards, both at the physical point of sale and for e-commerce transactions. Over 150 Million international JCB Cardmembers will be welcomed by participating merchant clients of Fiserv, Inc., a leading global provider of payments and financial services technology solutions that enable card acceptance for tens of thousands of merchants in the region. 

ClearBank Ltd., enabler of bank accounts, real-time clearing, and Embedded Banking for financial institutions, today presents the results from its 2022 Annual Report revealing the bank nearly tripled income to £58m in 2022 (+173% YoY) after reaching monthly UK profitability.

Analysis of Google search data reveals that searches for Dogecoin have surged 1,992 per cent worldwide over the last seven days after Elon Musk changed Twitter’s bird logo to Dogecoin’s shiba inu on Monday, 3rd April.

The analysis, by online casino guide 6Takarakuji, reveals that searches for ‘Dogecoin’ exploded by 1,992 per cent above the average volume in the last seven days after the Twitter logo changed to a shiba inu on many users’ devices. 

This is Lightyear's first expansion outside the Eurozone — a move led by demand from hundreds of local waitlisters. Hungarian investors are hugely underserved, left to invest through expensive legacy solutions like banks, or with neobrokers that don’t offer users a localised solution. Lightyear fixes both ends of this problem