Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies

Employee-owned private equity house PIR Equities has taken just four months to hit a €275m hard cap close for its third flagship fund, after strong performance from its predecessor vehicles.

Blockchain and cryptocurrency technology developer Onerio has netted $3m in its seed investment round from COSIMO Ventures.

Pundi X, a blockchain startup that aims to make cryptocurrencies an enabler of ubiquitous cashless payment environments, has closed its pre-sale ICO with more-than $4m.

There a new blockchain consortium in town with the announcement of the Shanghai Industrial Development Blockchain Alliance.

The central banks of France and Luxembourg have finished an experimental CBDC project to settle a ?100m digital native bond, claims Finextra.

Alloy, a decentralised finance platform for institutional investors, has closed its pre-seed funding round on ?2.6m.

From crypto startups raising millions despite Elon Musk pulling out of the bitcoin frenzy to subscription-based firms capitalising on the Covid-19 crisis, this is what you can learn from the 40 FinTech funding rounds of last week.

Stripe's whooping $600m Series G expansion wasn't the only investment round completed by a FinTech company over the last week.

Cryptocurrency to dollar lending platform BlockFi has scored $52.5m in funding, just months after it raised $1.5m in a former equity round.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has put the brakes on an initial coin offering (ICO) that was seeking to raise up to $1bn to develop ‘‎the world’s first decentralized bank’.