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  • Friday, 1 July, 2022
    Klarna valuation crashes to $6.5bn from $46bn

    Swedish fintech’s decline highlights how investors are souring on ‘buy now, pay later’ sector

  • Friday, 1 July, 2022
    The best books of the week
    Cloudmoney — making the case for cash

    As cryptocurrencies garner attention and other forms of digital payment take hold, Brett Scott warns against the lure of the contactless society

  • Friday, 1 July, 2022
    Ian Taylor (CryptoUK Executive)
    Crypto loses its hedge role

    Investors should tread warily in a very volatile market

  • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
    D. E. Shaw and Company
    DE Shaw ordered to pay record $52mn to former star money manager

    Finra panel finds hedge fund defamed senior partner who parted ways with the firm in 2018

  • Wednesday, 29 June, 2022
    LexDigital currencies
    US banking sector: Stress test results compare favourably with crypto crash Premium content

    Newfangled lenders had effectively become banks

  • Wednesday, 29 June, 2022
    Non-fungible tokens
    French star Kylian Mbappé backs NFT fantasy football start-up Sorare

    Footballer to invest in SoftBank-backed company that allows consumers to buy digital football cards

  • Wednesday, 29 June, 2022
    Digital banking
    Australian lender Volt collapses in blow to ‘neobank’ experiment

    Lender has become the second in the country to fold after failing to raise capital

  • Tuesday, 28 June, 2022
    FintechFT
    Report suggests bright future for central bank digital currencies Premium content

    Plus, fintech’s easy money runs out and an interview with open banking fintech Yapily

  • Friday, 24 June, 2022
    News in-depth
    Fintechs face reckoning as easy money dries up

    Valuations have collapsed even faster than they climbed, making fresh funding hard to come by

  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    Gillian Tett
    Crypto enthusiasts are betting the house on creative destruction

    Despite the recent rout, private digital money seems more likely to mutate than die

  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    SumUp struggles to €8bn valuation as tech sell-off hits UK fintech

    London-based payment-services group had earlier hoped to raise funds at €20bn pricetag

  • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
    Hedge funds
    Quant hedge funds profit from cryptocurrency turmoil

    Computer-driven trading has allowed some managers to predict and bet on price falls

  • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
    Cryptocurrencies
    ‘Celsians’ offer an interesting new way to lose money

    Ideas from an “unofficial community-based social network.”

  • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
    Decentralised finance
    Crypto fallout delivers sharp kick to decentralised finance dreams

    Some networks have reneged on commitments to arms-length management

  • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
    Nubank
    Brazil’s Nubank plots consolidation in Latin America’s booming fintech sector

    Chief executive says digital lender is on the hunt for bargain acquisitions

  • Monday, 20 June, 2022
    Marina Niforos
    The promising future of NFTs remains in a state of flux

    Non-fungible tokens may be disrupting art and gaming but a real revolution requires proper legal and regulatory debate

  • Monday, 20 June, 2022
    Blockchain
    No, Russia won’t replace Swift with the blockchain

    Because don’t be daft, honestly.

  • Monday, 20 June, 2022
    Special ReportFTfm: ETFs and Asset Management
    ETF and active fund managers: what is stopping them from investing in crypto?

    Sharp price movements and high-profile blow-ups have underscored concerns that the crypto market is too volatile for major players to invest in

  • Saturday, 18 June, 2022
    On Wall StreetBrendan Greeley
    Banks are still not your friends

    Crypto aside, consumer finance needs fixing

  • Friday, 17 June, 2022
    Klarna AB
    Klarna tries to raise cash at less than half its peak $46bn valuation

    Buy now, pay later company’s struggle underscores challenges facing the sector

  • Wednesday, 15 June, 2022
    Blockchain
    Is this the first publicity stunt crash of crypto winter?

    Justin Sun’s Tron pulls off a meme stock-style coin squeeze

  • Wednesday, 15 June, 2022
    Pharmaceuticals sector
    Pharma bro David Shaw

    Hedgie turned medical researcher notches up a big win

  • Tuesday, 14 June, 2022
    Starling Bank
    Starling snaps up £500mn mortgage book in shift from Covid loans

    Digital challenger bank agrees to buy loans from specialist group Masthaven in effort to diversify lending

  • Monday, 13 June, 2022
    FintechFT
    A chaotic week for regulators Premium content

    Plus, proptech firm profiled and Apple plunges into BNPL

  • Monday, 13 June, 2022
    LexCelsius Network Ltd
    Celsius/cryptos: heat is on

    Blow-up shows risky investing and capital preservation are mutually exclusive

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