• New perpetual futures trading available on CrossTower’s Bermuda digital exchange
• Enhances service offering for qualified traders
• Facilitates the shaping of risk for enhanced portfolio construction

 Federal prosecutors have announced one of the largest cryptocurrency forfeitures in history. The $34 million in digital assets were traced back to activity on the dark web. According to the complaint, a Florida resident was caught after making 100,000 sales of illicit items, including hacked information such as account information for Netflix and Uber accounts, among others.

Tech-focussed investment bank ICON Corporate Finance has advised on the sale of printing and packaging specialists Edale to global leader, Canon Production printing. The deal highlights the continuing attractiveness of cross-border transactions and is the latest in a string of international deals advised on by ICON.

PaySprint is a star-up Fintech launched in December 2020 with the vision is to empower millions of Indians to Digital Banking. The recent guidelines of RBI on establishment of Digital banking Units is line with their vision of empowering the expansion of digital financial services across India. In a short period, PaySprint, has raised seed capital funding from Fino Payment Bank. Fino is acquiring 12.19% stake in PaySprint.

Tarek AbdelKader joins the business finance start-up bringing experience from The Co-Operative Bank and Think Money Group

Muse Finance - the business finance start-up - has hired Tarek AbdelKader as its Chief Technology Officer.

Competition for the provision of investment research decreases due to MiFID II:  bulge-bracket providers reassert dominance 

Pires Investments plc, the investment company focused on next generation technology, is pleased to note that one of its investments, Pluto Digital PLC ("Pluto"), has just finalised its audited accounts ("Accounts") and has recently held a webinar to provide an update to shareholders. 

 Bitfinex, a state-of-the-art digital token trading platform, in collaboration with fiat on-ramp services provider OpenPayd, is enabling real-time Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) payments for euro-denominated deposits and withdrawals.