Top News In Fintech And Beyond For March 11, 2022

🔦 Spotlight: LimeWire — a now-defunct file-sharing service that was used widely for pirating music in the early 2000s — announced that it is coming back to life to relaunch as a music non-fungible token service.

Source: Benzinga

👉 Top Things To Know In TradeFi 

• Lunar raises $77M, builds platform.
• FTX, Stripe partnered on payments.
• Coinbase blocks 25K crypto wallets. COIN
• FTX launches new institutional unit.

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👉 Top Things To Know In Fintech 

• Revolut CRO quits for web3 vision. 
• Portage Ventures raising big funds.
• Soulection + Radio sell artist music.
• DataRails secures a Series B raise.
• AX raises for a crypto options fund.
• Brookings: the benefits of a CBDC.
• Cega raises $4.3M in a seed round.
• Lendable grows valuation to $4.6B.
• Stilt adds $14M, launches platform.
• Glen AI added $10.8M seed round.
• Atlantic Money aims for mkt share.
• Elrond Network acquiring Twispay.
• Milo added $17M in Series A round.
• Visa completes its Tink acquisition. V
• In3 adds $11.1M in Series A round.
• FTX, Alkemi Network, Centre team.
• Trulioo is launching new initiatives.
• AstroPay eyeing LatAm expansion.
• MSUFCU is implementing Boost.ai.

📚 Thought-Provoking Statement: The last 15 years we've gotten used to a big crash and big fast recovery, but current positioning (fast money out of the market, retail max long, and buying the dip) is how you get a 2+ year choppy bear grind

Source: @bennpeifert

👉 Interesting Reads 

• The best ways to expand your luck.
• NYT reporter – FBI at insurrection.
• North Korea got to test missile tech.
• Pomp: Inflation totally out of control.
• Putin: Russia will emerge stronger.
• Yellen: Inflation but no to recession.
• Oil has its biggest shock since 70s.
• GS and JPM cut Russian business. GS JPM
• Why Abramovich can’t sell Chelsea.
• How to take advantage of volatility.
• JPM’s Dimon worrying about a war.

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