Top News In Fintech And Beyond For May 3, 2022

👉 Top Things To Know In TradeFi:

• Crypto.com hiring Visa alum as VP CRO/USD
• TradeStation supports new futures
• How long will SBF’s FTX shine last FTT/USD
• Coinbase secures Snap India head COIN
• Meet VALR, the Coinbase of Africa
• Blockchain.com prepping for listing
• Charlie Munger blasted Robinhood HOOD (NYSE: BRK-A)(NYSE: BRK-B)

👉 Top Things To Know In Fintech:

• Arrived Homes adds rental offering
• Fed onboards FedNow participants
• Solana restarts after 7-hour outage SOL/USD
• Google-backed fintech Open raises GOOGL GOOG
• Amadis, Softpay.io hone tap-to-pay
• Airwallex eyes $150M new funding
• Xepelin doubles down on payments
• Tiger Bank launches an NFT project
• Ondo bags $20M in Series A round
• Making credit card rewards w/ Kard
• CoreChain finalizing $4.2M in seed
• Veem unveils expanded payments
• Fincen needs funding for AML fixes
• AltsAxis platform has launched live
• Senators blast Zelle on rising fraud
• Sienna launches a lending platform
• MercadoLibre eyes democratization
• Bonifii sought Mastercard banktech MA
• Santander pushing blockchain bets SAN
• Fidelity eyes Metaverse experience
• OpenSea acquires NFT aggregator
• WhatApp added cash-back in India FB
• Q2 modernizes commercial banking QTWO
• Taxfix added $220M at $1B+ value
• Northern Trust builds a crypto store NTRS
• Accern secures $20M for fintech AI 
• VanEck launches an NFT collection
• NYCE could trade shares on BSTX
• BTC mining council rebutting Dems BTC/USD

👉 Interesting Reads:

• Removing personal info off Google
• New bill fines parents of unvaxxed
• Passive flow keeping indexes high
• Buffett: insurance and nuclear war
• The ZLB, and how low may you go
• Qantas to add new 20+ hour flights QUBSF
• Raoul Pal warns global liquidations
• TikTok exec launches a dating app