This week the news was dominated by the President's Executive Order on digital assets. The crypto industry breathed a collective sigh of relief as it was mainly positive news.
International money transfer firm TransferWise announced a $280mn series E raise; investors in the round include Old Mutual Global Investors, IVP, Sapphire Ventures, Mitsui & Co., Andreessen Horowitz, Baillie Gifford and Richard Branson; they plan to use the funds for expansion to the Asia Pacific region by having a full set of products available in India and opening offices in Tokyo and Sydney. Source.
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Businesses' move to cloud-based infrastructure has brought a heightened threat of ransomware attacks. Here's how you can protect yourself.
Companies face more pressure to detail the environmental footprints of their investments, thanks to regulations and the ESG trends.
The worst week in SoFi‘s history is coming to an end. The company announced today that Mike Cagney has stepped down as CEO effective immediately. This follows the news on Monday that Cagney would be stepping down as CEO by the end of the year. But the bad news this week kept escalating and the board decided it needed to take action now. Source.
In this episode we talk with Dan Doney, the CEO and Co-Founder of Securrency, discussing the tokenization of digital assets, why compliance has always been the missing piece and how they have solved it.
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Secretary of Treasury Janet Yellen spoke at American University about the government's role in creating cryptocurrencies or CBDCs.