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SC Ventures, the innovation and fintech investment arm of Standard Chartered, has launched Libeara, a tokenization platform to make investment opportunities more accessible, transparent, and secure for a broader audience. Libeara, in a strategic ...

Despite cross-border payments expected to reach $40 trillion globally by 2024 per Juniper Research, these transactions can still be unpredictable as latency, fees, and policies add friction across countries, currencies, and payment categories.

Rivian Automotive, Inc. (NASDAQ:RIVN) recently received approval for starting construction at its Georgia plant. The company said in a filing with the SEC that it would raise $15 billion in debt to aid the same. What Happened: Rivian entered into ...

Donald Trump will likely win back four swing states he ceded to his successor Joe Biden in the 2020 elections, according to the results of a new poll. Swings Toward Trump: Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, which Trump won in 2016 before ...

Ride-hailing company Uber Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:UBER) has seen its stock more than double this year and a fund manager suggests the company can rightfully claim its place in the S&P 500 Index. What Happened: Uber has an “excellent chance” of being ...

XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) holders were left momentarily spellbound as a reported “BlackRock iShares XRP Trust” filing sent the cryptocurrency’s price soaring.  What Happened: This euphoria was short-lived as it turned out that the filing in Delaware, which ...

The cryptocurrency Grok, whose name appears to be inspired by Elon Musk’s AI venture, saw its value plummet by a staggering 70% following accusations from blockchain investigator ZachXBT. What Happened: The crypto sleuth revealed on Nov. 13 via a post ...

The cryptocurrency market saw a sharp decline on Monday, with major cryptocurrencies experiencing a notable downturn in the late afternoon hours. The market’s volatility was exacerbated following the discovery that the corporate registration ...

Based on the latest weekly report from CoinShares, crypto fund inflows at asset managers such as itself, 21Shares, Bitwise, Grayscale and ProShares added $293 million to a seven-week run of inflows thereby pushing it above the $1 billion mark for ...

Golani Brigade soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) shared a photo on Monday displaying the Israeli flag inside the Hamas parliament building in Gaza. This act symbolizes Hamas’s loss of control in the enclave, as reported by the Jerusalem ...

Blockchain security firm SlowMist announced a new phishing attack involving a fake Skype app that stole crypto funds from an unsuspecting victim. Industry titans BlackRock, DTCC, OCC, State Street, Société Générale, Hedera, Citi, BMO, Northern ...

As the global economy grapples with fluctuating markets and tightening lending standards, Bitcoin's (CRYPTO: BTC) trajectory offers a unique perspective on the future of finance. The Bitfinex Alpha report, closely tied to discussions at the upcoming ...

The House Financial Services Committee (FSC) is set to conduct an in-depth examination of unlawful activities within the cryptocurrency sector.  The hearing, scheduled for Nov. 15, is titled "Crypto crime in context: breaking down the illicit activity ...

Tesla, Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) was charging almost over 4% higher Monday after reports surfaced indicating India is considering implementing tax cuts on EV imports. The Asian country, which has the highest population of any nation on earth, aims to ...

The U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation is set to drop from an annual 3.7% rate in September to a 3.3% rate in October, marking the first drop since June 2023, according to the median economist consensus. The eagerly awaited U.S. CPI report for ...

Crypto lender Genesis announced its agreement to pay $33 million to Three Arrows Capital (3AC) to settle the hedge fund's $1 billion in claims. This news comes on the heels of Benzinga’s Future Of Digital Assets Event in New York scheduled on Nov.14. ...

"Shark Tank" investor Kevin O'Leary likes watches so much that he wore two of them at the Benzinga Fintech Deal Day & Awards. "The watch market has actually beat the S&P now for the eighth year in a row," O'Leary said Monday at Benzinga's Fintech ...

Crypto once again doesn’t fit into the regulatory round hole. The proposed 6045 digital asset broker regulations – currently in a comment period – are filled with problematic requirements. A few of them make taxpayer compliance impossible.This post is part of Co

Can Sun, former general counsel of FTX, is spearheading the creation of a new exchange, Backpack, along with other ex-FTX executives. This development is especially noteworthy in the context of the upcoming Benzinga's Future of Digital Assets ...

At the forefront of pioneering the next wave in the cryptocurrency world, Andrew Winn, CFO of Unicoin, took the stage Monday to introduce what he terms a "second generation crypto" at the Benzinga Fintech Deal Day & Awards. The session, moderated by ...