NexBloc today announced that it has partnered with Arcade Network, the world's first decentralized platform providing cross-metaverse asset interoperability, to build out a blockchain domain naming system for in-game assets and user authentication. NexBloc will accelerate its development on Polygon to provide value across Arcade Network's ecosystem of development partners.

48,000+ new account holders of the staking token BLD join Agoric’s crypto economy built to bring millions of developers to the DeFi frontier 

• Workplace savings fintech, Cushon, closes latest £35m fundraising round, bringing total raised over past two years to £61m.
• The new capital is being used to fund its latest acquisition, scale operational capability, and invest in technology and product development.
• Cushon is acquiring the Creative auto-enrolment scheme which is Cushon’s third acquisition in two years and will result in the fintech looking after £1.7bn of assets for 400,000 customers.

• Mastercard Track Instant Pay uses machine learning and straight-through processing to analyze and automatically initiate instant payment of supplier invoices

Today, Bitfrost, the fintech ecosystem, announces the appointment of Alfred W. Moeckli as the new Chairman of the Board. Moeckli joins from his previous position as Chairman of Coinify. 

“I am excited to take on the role of Chairman for this ambitious organisation. I believe Bitfrost is in a position to provide significant changes to the financial industry due to an effective and scalable business model and talented management team. I plan to see that potential realized,” says Moeckli. 

TISA, the cross-industry financial services membership body, has today announced that CEO David Dalton-Brown will be stepping down from his role at the end of January. He leaves for family reasons after five years at the helm of the organisation and 13 years at TISA in total.

Collaboration between Rural Finance, Sopra Banking Software and BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions UK delivers game-changing efficiencies to proposal process.

Providing ‘finance auto-acceptances while you work’ was the simple, specific efficiency gain that has been delivered successfully by Sopra Banking Software, leading partner of over 1,500 financial institutions across the world, for well-established broker partner, Rural Finance, in conjunction with BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions UK. 

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Akamai Technologies Joins Critical Providers Program as Founding Member

"METACO Harmonize provides orchestration layer for managing bank’s digital asset operations"