Ryan Weeks

Makor Group, a brokerage and investment banking firm with a growing crypto business, has closed a Series A fundraise. The round values Makor at $200 million, according to a press release.

Hammond has warned that the nation’s financial services sector is at risk of falling behind global rivals if it does not do more to help firms embrace digital assets.  

OpenSea, the online marketplace for NFT trading, has suspended trading in a pixelated turtle project claiming it broke rules related to carrying out financial activities.

New York-based neobroker Public.com is launching crypto trading tools, becoming the latest in a growing number of fintech firms to have made the move.

Warsaw-based crypto startup Ramp has closed a $30 million Series A fundraise led by British venture capital firm Balderton Capital, according to three people close to the deal.  

Women at Revolut, the $33 billion British neobank, are paid 69p for every £1 earned by their male employees in the United Kingdom.

A body formed to steer the development of Metaplex, an open-source platform for building NFT storefronts, has named former Citadel and Google executive Adam Jeffries as CEO, according to a press release.

Art Blocks buyers are complaining that they failed to receive pieces they appeared to have purchased in the platform’s latest headline drop.

Shares in OakNorth have changed hands in a deal that values the British fintech bank at $5 billion — more than double its last reported valuation.