Rujul Zaparde is the Co-Founder and CEO of Zip, the world’s leading Intake-to-Pay solution, adopted by leading enterprises and startups including Snowflake, Canva, Airtable, Webflow, and others. In 2023, Zip raised $100 million in a Series C round, valuing the company at $1.5 billion. Before foundi...

Archax, the FCA-regulated digital asset exchange, broker, and custodian, announced that it is expanding the range of fund shares it offers in tokenized form with the provision of the BlackRock ICS US Treasury money market fund1 (MMF). This builds on its launch of tokenized access... Read More

Sam Altman is the CEO @ OpenAI, the company on a mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. OpenAI is one of the fastest-scaling companies in history with a valuation of $90BN and $2BN+ in revenue. Prior to OpenAI, Sam was the President and CEO @ Y Combinato...

With summer fast approaching, Lloyds Bank is warning hopeful holidaymakers they could fall victim to a scam when booking a trip. These scams have reportedly “risen 7% over the past year, with people losing £765 on average, with those aged 35 to 44 – often... Read More

Sam Blond is the former CRO at Brex, where he led the company from near $0-$400M in ARR and a $12.5B valuation. Before Brex, Sam was VP of Sales at Zenefits, where he led the company from $0-$70M ARR in 2 years and a $4.5B valuation. Sam joined Founders Fund as a Partner in 2022 and recently left t...

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a report on consumer debt. The FCA states that 7.4 million people are struggling to pay bills and credit card debt (January 2024).  While this is lower than the 10.9 million in January 2023 who were encountering... Read More

A study by PensionBee reveals a strong belief among pension savers that shareholder resolutions can convey robust messages to management and address areas of concern, ahead of this year’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) season. The nationally representative study of 1,000 UK pension savers showed “a......

As the fintech landscape in Singapore continues to expand and evolve, the need for an updated, comprehensive registry has never been clearer, according to an update shared with CI. As stated in the announcement, the upcoming launch of the SFA FinTech Ecosystem Registry in June... Read More

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has launched COSMIC, the first centralized digital platform to facilitate sharing of customer information among financial institutions (FIs) to combat money laundering (ML), terrorism financing (TF) and proliferation financing (PF) globally. The Financial Se...

Billy Hult is Chief Executive Officer of Tradeweb Markets (Nasdaq: TW), as Billy puts it, they are the “electronic interface that connects Citadel and Goldman”. They are also one of the most under the radar but incredible businesses of the last 20 years. Through no glitz acquisitions or specific mo...

For most of the research that Chainalysis release in their annual Crypto Crime Report, the data tells “a clear story.” For instance, funds sent to ransomware operators, darknet markets, or sanctioned entities can be measured and trends “can be analyzed with Chainalysis labeling and data.”... Read Mo...

BIGG Digital Assets Inc. (CSE: BIGG), an innovator in the digital assets space and owner of Netcoins, and Blockchain Intelligence Group and TerraZero is pleased to report that Netcoins will be expanding its staking services in Canada “with the launch of Solana and ATOM on... Read More