Top News In Fintech And Beyond For May 18, 2022

👉 Top Things To Know In TradeFi:

• Goldman led Elwood Tech Series A GS
• Voyager bagged $60M in placement VYGVF
• BitMEX starts spot crypto exchange
• Robinhood eyes web3 crypto wallet HOOD
• RockFlow may be Asian Robinhood

👉 Top Things To Know In Fintech:

• Bifrost adds Rainbow Boost offering
• TRM Labs adds on team an ex-DOJ
• NEAR seek seamless Web3 release
• Paxos, STT team on settlement T+0 STT
• Mastercard has added ‘smile to pay’ MA
• Nomad raises $32M in new funding
• Greenlight launches new credit card
• Irish CB lays down new BNPL rules
• NatWest may launch a digital lender 
• Lumiant entered US w/ new platfrom
• Celsius Network looking to push IPO
• Zipmex announces pre-Series round
• ForwardAI, Fifo teamed up on loans
• Oasis Pro secures $27M for platform
• 4Trans taps Nordigen for credit offer
• CommBank starts a kids money app
• GoCardless wins first VRP customer
• UK seeking stablecoins for payment
• Nova Credit & Prodigy Finance team
• Nutanix sees multicloud adoption up
• Ethereum 2.0 upgrade nears launch ETH/USD
• Jifiti taps ex-Citi Retail Banking CEO C
• Parametrix, IMA eye cloud insurance
• VGS, Plaid teaming on data security
• Unit added a $100M Series C round

👉 Interesting Reads:

• What’s stopping the crypto skeptics
• McDonald’s wants to sell Russia biz MCD
• Cambridge: US leads in BTC mining
• Volatility and changing mkt structure
• China Eastern intentionally crashed
• Raoul Pal – should we be scared rn
• Macrodesiac: In a defense of profits
• Nestle flying baby formula to the US NSRGY
• FAA: 787 documents not completed BA