Top News In Fintech And Beyond For March 10, 2022

👉 Top Things To Know In TradeFi 

• Likvidi launches new trade platform.
• Otis joins Public to power NFT offer.
• Acorns adding $300M private round.
• FTX floats institutional offer, recruits.
• iVest+ added crypto data to platform.
• dYdx launches limited beta iOS app.

👉 Top Things To Know In Fintech 

• NEXT Insurance added new leaders.
• Lendai secures $35M for AI platform.
• Atlantic Money moving out of stealth.
• Rize and YieldX partner over savings.
• FINTECH.TV, NYSE launch a series. ICE
• Paysend expanded in Brazil with Pix.
• Cake DeFi intros $100M venture arm.
• Cahpater One launching web3 fund.
• Yep! raises $1.5M in pre-seed for app.
• Biden has signed a new crypto order.
• Adobe taps Polygon over NFT offers. ADBE
• Sequoia Capital joined EthSign raise.
• ZetaChain announces a seed round.
• Branch raises $75M Series C round.
• State Street inks crypto custody deal. STT
• The SWIFT ban extended to Belarus.
• Lloyds Bank has invested in Satago.
• Marqeta, Citi announce a partnership. MQ C
• Propital has partnered with Nordigen.
• Money View raises a $75M Series D.
• WalletConnect taps an $11M funding.
• White House honing crypto priorities.
• Voya Financial announcing new offer.

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👉 Interesting Reads 

• The best ways to expand your luck.
• TikTok adds music distribution offer.
• Substack launching a new iOS app.
• Twitter looks to bypass Russia ban. TWTR
• Apple paying $100M+ for live sport. AAPL
• Only talking w/Putin to stop the war.

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🔦 Spotlight: For over a year, risk assets have de-rated as participants priced in the implications of contractionary monetary policies and waning stimulus.

Moreover, despite slower growth, some authorities claim the expansion in risk premiums has played its course. For that reason, there may be heightened opportunities in some hard-hit baskets, as well as the more stable and fast-growing private markets.

Benzinga caught up with Jeff Parks, the CEO and director of Toronto-based Stack Capital Group Inc STCK, to learn more about pockets of opportunity across markets and how investors can get exposure to cocktail hour names like SpaceX, Varo, Hopper and more.

Source: Benzinga