Tagged: digital tools

September 9, 2023 @ 3:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Concordium, the Layer 1 science-backed blockchain creating a safer digital world, has announced an integration with Aqualibre, a carbon offset project that offers high-quality carbon offsets for business and enterprise. Aqualibre will adopt Concordium’s Agora Impact Marketplace tooling, “an infrastructure for scaling safe and transparent… Read More

September 8, 2023 @ 11:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Uppsala Security, which claims to be a pioneer in providing top-tier security tools and services for Crypto Anti-Money Laundering/Counter-Terrorist Financing (AML/CTF), Transaction Risk Management, Regulatory Compliance, and Transaction Tracking, is pleased to announce the signing of an industry-academia joint MOU with Hoseo University’s Department of… Read More

August 30, 2023 @ 8:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tabby, the MENA’s leading shopping and financial services app, has announced the arrival of Tabby Shop, its new all-encompassing shopping tool, “marking the most significant change on the Tabby app since its launch.” The new app is a one-stop-shop “showcasing over 500,000 products from thousands… Read More

August 30, 2023 @ 7:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The grant will establish a PayPal Retail Academy to support Atlanta-area entrepreneurs. The Russell Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs (RICE) announced a $1 million grant from PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:PYPL) in order to launch the PayPal Retail Academy, which will provide a robust curriculum of innovative… Read More

August 28, 2023 @ 8:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Research from Xero, the global small business platform, has revealed that 80% of small business owners are concerned AI development and adoption is “outpacing regulation, as generative AI tools permeate various industries and the workforce.” Xero’s Future Focus AI research “surveyed over 3,000 small business… Read More

August 27, 2023 @ 9:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Anytype – the peer-to-peer web builder designed to “restore our digital freedoms and put the power of our digital lives back in our hands” – is announcing it has raised a $13.4 million round led by Balderton Capital. Inflection and Square One also “participated, as… Read More

August 20, 2023 @ 10:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Vertalo, the digital transfer agent that connects and enables digital asset ecosystems, is excited to announce its most recent partnership with Climatize Earth Securities, a mobile app that allows users “to invest in renewable energy projects.” As of today, Climatize has integrated with the Vertalo… Read More

August 20, 2023 @ 4:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Lasha Atandze, CEO of Rarify Labs, a service provider for Rarimo, the interoperability protocol making digital identities and the decentralized social layer multi-chain. During our conversation, Lasha sheds some light on the importance of multi-chain access for social identities in today’s… Read More

August 14, 2023 @ 8:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Worldcoin is described as “an open-source digital identification platform that aims to provide a solution for everyone to verify their human identity and differentiate themselves from AI in the digital space.” As noted in a blog post by Matrixport, the Worldcoin ecosystem reportedly “comprises three… Read More

August 13, 2023 @ 6:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

deepset.ai – the enterprise platform for building applications with LLMs – has raised $30 million in funding led by Balderton Capital. The investment round also included participation from existing investors GV (Google Ventures), and Harpoon Ventures. deepset claims that it “solves one of the biggest… Read More

August 8, 2023 @ 4:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Acuity Trading, a global provider of AI data-driven trading tools, unveils a brand new product creating unique, actionable insights for brokers and traders. The latest innovation from news technology company Acuity Trading is here: ‘NewsIQ,’ a unique tool designed “to turn media coverage analysis into… Read More

August 8, 2023 @ 8:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Celo Foundation announced that Google Cloud is running a validator on the Celo network, which is helping to strengthen the overall security of the network. This initiative builds on Google Cloud and the Celo Foundation’s April announcement to support sustainability-focused startups “in the Celo ecosystem… Read More

August 8, 2023 @ 8:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Uppsala Security, a provider of security tools and services for Crypto AML/CTF, Transaction Risk Management, Regulatory Compliance, Transaction Tracking, and Cyber Security announced a significant collaboration with CryptoTax, a virtual asset tax service platform headquartered in South Korea. This strategic partnership is geared “towards fostering… Read More

August 3, 2023 @ 4:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Interactive Brokers (Nasdaq: IBKR), an automated global electronic broker, announced the launch of fractional shares trading for Canadian stocks and ETFs. Clients of Interactive Brokers can now buy and sell fractional shares of “all stocks and ETFs listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and on… Read More

August 3, 2023 @ 7:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Stavvy, the Fintech company reshaping digital and remote collaboration for lending and real estate, announced its strategic acquisition of Brace, a servicing technology company addressing the long-standing inefficiencies and lack of transparency stemming from outdated technologies in mortgage servicing. Through this strategic acquisition, the collective… Read More

August 2, 2023 @ 4:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tide, the digital business financial platform, has launched its improved Tide Accounting tool, powered by Sage, in order “to help more small businesses meet their accounting needs directly from one place – their bank account.” At present SMEs have “to connect multiple solutions to their… Read More

August 1, 2023 @ 11:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

One in ten (11%) retail investors are using artificial intelligence (AI) tools “such as ChatGPT to help pick and alter investments in their portfolio,” according to data from the latest Retail Investor Beat from trading and investment platform eToro. The study of 10,000 retail investors… Read More

July 12, 2023 @ 12:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Checkout.com, the global payments solution provider, launches Identity Verification, its first product focused on improving the customer onboarding and identity verification process and expanding Checkout.com’s impact on customers’ digital experience. Identity Verification “utilizes proprietary artificial intelligence and is trained on billions of identity and facial… Read More

July 10, 2023 @ 10:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Global Screening Services (GSS), the RegTech innovator focused on financial transactions screening, has announced its partnership with software company Appian, in order “to integrate the company’s leading low-code development and AI-powered process automation tools into the GSS screening platform.” GSS has reportedly “leveraged Appian’s flexible,… Read More

July 2, 2023 @ 2:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Betterment, the independent digital financial advisor, today announced that Betterment for Advisors, its RIA custody division, has launched an integrated suite of tools that will provide financial advisors “with granular control over how client assets are managed, transferred, and sold.” The new features will “give… Read More