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Banking

The Innovators 2022: Global And Regional Honors

As pandemic response continues to reshape human behaviors and attitudes, banks are strengthening in-house innovation teams and tapping broader networks to stimulate fresh ideation in financial services.

News

Nomura Eyes Institutional Crypto

Nomura has had a history in the digital asset market, namely through its stake inKonimanu, a digital asset custody joint venture it created with digital asset security firm Ledger and digital asset investment house CoinShares in 2018.

News

Stablecoins Terra, Luna Brought Back To Earth

UST’s collapse will accelerate regulatory actions toward stablecoins demanded by Jeremy Allaire, co-founder, chairman and CEO of Circle, which pioneered USD Coin, and others in the cryptocurrency community.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Tasting The Metaverse: Q&A With Second Life Founder Philip Rosedale

Philip Rosedale was a digital pioneer in creating Second Life, one of the first virtual World's and still a leading social platform for adults. Linden Lab, Second Life’s parent company, now has two decades of experience in managing an online world, including developing a virtual currency traded globally. He talks to Global Finance about what they’ve learned and larger hopes for the metaverse.

Features

Building The Metaverse

Big Tech, banks, telecoms–and even Hollywood–are all scrambling to own a piece of the infrastructure of the future.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Working Capital: More Disruption And Risk

Fighting in Ukraine spurs factoring and digitalization adoption.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

JPMorgan Logs Onto Web 3.0

Banks like JPMorgan are mostly on Decentraland—a 3D virtual world run by the nonprofit—to learn.

News

UK Law Agents Seize NFTs

Britain's tax authority became the first law enforcement agency in the country to seizenonfungible tokens (NFTs).

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Metaverse: Walmart Readies For Web 3.0

Walmart is finalizing its push into the metaverse, according to trademark application filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office at the end of 2021.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Microsoft Acquires Activision Blizzard

The acquisition also lets Microsoft get its foot into the metaverse’s door.

News

Miami To Offer Bitcoin Yield To Residents

Miami has gotten exchanges including blockchain.com and eToro to relocate to the city as part of Suarez’s drive to create a crypto ecosystem and establish the city as a mining hub.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Bitcoin ETFs Stroke Wall Street

Analysts say the cryptocurrency’s spike in price has more to do with inflation fears than pent-up demand for nascent ETFs.