Новости за 26.04.2021

Chinese companies are listing on U.S. exchanges at a record pace, Bloomberg News reports. The move to U.S. equity markets come even as U.S. market regulators promulgate rules that could make life difficult for Chinese companies. U.S. initial public offerings this year have generated $6.6 billion for companies from Mainland China and Hong Kong — […]

Nedbank, based in South Africa, unveiled a service called Money Message that lets customers send money through the ultra-popular WhatsApp messaging app. The Money Message website, which contains minimal references to Nedbank, lists four main uses for the new functionality. They are: create bills and send them to customers in WhatsApp; link bank accounts to […]

Restaurants, which spent much of the last year trying to get customers to come back, are now trying to get employees to come back, a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report says. Everyone from nationwide chains down to independent eateries has reported troubles trying to hire enough workers to fully staff their kitchens and dining rooms. […]

Major cryptocurrencies including bitcoin and Ethereum's coin have lost significant value compared to the U.S. dollar since the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden indicated on Thursday that capital gains taxes could be increasing. A single bitcoin was worth $52,121.62 as of 10:20 p.m. Sunday, according to cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase.com — a decline from […]

Clubhouse will work with the National Football League (NFL) to put out an exclusive lineup of programming for the week of the 2021 NFL draft, a press release says. This makes the NFL the first major sports league to partner with Clubhouse for official programming. The partnership will "bring the global community of football fans, […]

After almost a year of a steady drumbeat of disastrous results out of the industry as a whole, airlines are starting to show up with increasing bookings figures and a sunnier outlook on the future. Last week both Southwest and American Airlines joined the growing chorus on industry players reporting leisure bookings on the rise […]

Darktrace, a cybersecurity company, will be slashing the value of its forthcoming London flotation, looking instead for a cautious approach to avoid the kind of disaster that befell Deliveroo's attempt, a Sky News report says. The report says Darktrace and its advisors are now looking at a valuation more between £2.4 billion and £2.7 billion […]

Paxos has initial approval to establish its own “de novo” or new national trust bank after being approved by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), according to a company blog post. Paxos will be the first cryptocurrency-native company to attain that status. Other digital asset companies have received the green light to […]

Four people linked to Turkish crypto exchange Vebitcoin have been arrested and accused of fraud, according to a report from BBC. Officials launched an investigation and blocked the accounts of the platform. The company had only hours earlier announced its intent to cease operations, citing financial strains, the report stated. More people are starting to […]

Super Group, the parent of online betting company Betway, is preparing to go public in a deal that would value Super Group at roughly $5.1 billion, Reuters reported. Super Group intends to execute the public offering by merging with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) called Sports Entertainment Acquisition Corp., Reuters reported, citing unnamed sources. […]

Global embedded business finance provider Liberis has announced that from now on, it only plans to fund small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) through partnerships with eCommerce and payments companies, according to a press release. Up till now, Liberis has been offering SMBs revenue-based finance directly, as well as through partners, the release stated. Liberis CEO […]

Battery Ventures has invested $150 million in what it described in a press release as “two complementary, cloud-software platforms that manage billing and automate related financial functions including payments, revenue recognition and analytics for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies.” SaaSOptics, based in Atlanta, provides a platform B2B companies use to manage subscriptions they sell, according to the […]

Allica Bank has rolled out an offering for small-to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that is a direct-to-SMB banking solution, according to a press release. The offering will “bring back the local relationship manager” for established SMBs. The bank has also appointed three relationship managers and one new business executive to support the launch, the release stated. […]

Mastercard and BoB Financial Solutions have entered into an agreement to let BoB Financial provide small- and medium-sized business (SMB) customers with credit cards they can use to receive money as well as spend it, the companies announced in a press release. The card is called ConQR, and it is a Mastercard QR on Card […]