Top News In Fintech And Beyond For March 22, 2022

• CoinRoutes closes $16M Series B.
• Goldman doing OTC crypto trades. GS
• Alinea added crypto trade function.
• State Street, Copper hone custody. STT
• MaiCoin wants to secure Series C.
• FTX eyeing expansion into the UK.
• Gemini won an Irish money license.

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• A chat with Stuart Sopp of Current.
• DealMaker adds an analytics offer.
• Ramp increases valuation to $8.1B.
• Tomo lands $40M in funding round.
• Euroclear invests in fintech Fnality. 
• Block moves into Japanese fintech. SQ
• Gramercy is lending to OmniLatam.
• Avarda taps into Aiia open banking.
• Glia secures $150M funding round.
• ClearBank raises for global growth.
• Lucky adds $25M in funding round.
• Kiavi expands products in Midwest.
• NatWest pilots carbon tracking app.
• ClearBank adds $229M to expand.
• Fiserv, MX eye finance innovations.
• Mastercard, HSBC teamed on B2B. MA HSBC
• A curated list of fintech jobs to join.
• SEBA Bank lists digital asset ETPs.

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👉 Interesting Reads

• Apple is crypto’s biggest wild card. AAPL
• FTX’s SBF analyses MMT policies.
• Musk scaling Tesla to extreme size. TSLA
• UFC has best year in 28-yr history.
• SEC proposes climate-related rule.
• The $10B bitcoin bet on stablecoin.
• BTC’s place as portfolio insurance. BTC/USD
• J. Pow, QT, and the big steepening.

🔦 Spotlight: The IEA recently launched a roadmap to show how renewables could help Moldova reduce its reliance on electricity imports.

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