Top News In Fintech And Beyond For March 7, 2022

👉 Top Things To Know In TradeFi 

• Nested secures $7.5M in new round.
• Revolut Australia adds trade feature.
• Airwallex, Plum to offer stock trading.

👉 Top Things To Know In Fintech 

• Finch is planning a launch in the US.
• Chari acquiring Axa Credit for $22M.
• TransUnion eyes $515M acquisition. TRU
• LeveL ATS, Luminex finish a merger. 
• CredAvenue is latest fintech unicorn.
• Atomic lands $40M in funding round.
• Private markets fintech Delio raising.
• Meet FTX’s luxury partnership head.
• Zip to acquire US BNPL firm Sezzle.
• Lunar launches payments solutions.
• Mastercard, Visa cut Russia service. MA V
• TripActions acquires Swedish Resia.

🔦 Spotlight: Worth noting that “High Yield“ (aka junk bond) credit spreads haven’t even gotten that spready yet. Again, there is 2 ways we can look at this: a. there is another shoe to drop yet; or b. things aren’t actually that bad if credit spreads are still largely shrugging off the volatility. (albeit they could both be right, but in sequence…)

Source: @topdowncharts

👉 Interesting Reads 

• NATO may send fighters to Ukraine.
• Lex Fridman, Mark Zuckerberg talk.
• Mysterious blasts detected in space.
• World War: Global Recession nears.
• Marc Rubinstein on finance warfare.
• Competition fierce for fintech talents.
• ‘In The Know With Catherine Wood’.
• Market structure as weapons of war.

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📚 Thought-Provoking Statement: The “digital gold” argument for Bitcoin is looking much tighter than it was at the start of the year!

Source: Genevieve Roch-Decter