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Applications open for CDL’s blockchain, quantum machine learning incubator streams
(BETAKIT)
Startups will also be exposed to participating venture capitalists, who track their progress over the course of the program.
Venmo launches a ‘limited edition’ rainbow debit card for its payment app users (TECHCRUNCH)
The new rainbow card will be offered until supplies last, says Venmo. And existing card holders can request the rainbow card as a replacement for their current card, if they choose.
How can Canada prevent another QuadrigaCX?(BETAKIT)
“This is a gap in the regulatory landscape, it’s arisen as a result of technology outstripping the ability to legislate faster.”
More People Are Taking Out Personal Loans as the Fintech Industry Grows (FORTUNE)
“The rapid growth in consumer loans sits squarely on the shoulders of FinTech.”
GoCardless raises $75M Series E for its recurring payments network and heads to America (TECHCRUCH)
Leading the round are new investors Adams Street Partners, Google Ventures and Salesforce Ventures.
Busting Myths About Cryptocurrency Custody(FORTUNE)
Misconception #1: you can’t trade crypto using funds in cold storage.
Here is Why Consumer Finance is Attracting FinTech Startups(ENTREPRENEUR)
Banks and other financial services companies have mostly ignored retail customers in a bid to lure business clients, both SMEs and corporates. Hence, we have to initiatives like banking the financial inclusion and last mile delivery to support the underbanked and unbanked population of the country.
Coinsquare acquires decentralized crypto platform StellarX(BETAKIT)
This acquisition comes after BetaKit recently broke the news that Toronto-based Coinsquare had to lay off 27 percent of its staff at the end of January.
China wants its rural villages to go cashless by 2020
(TECHCRUCH)
The hope is that by digitizing the lives of the farming communities, from getting loans to buying fertilizers to leasing lands to city developers, China could bolster the economy in smaller cities and countryside hamlets.