Top News In Fintech And Beyond For May 17, 2022

👉 Top Things To Know In TradeFi:

• Goldman led Elwood Tech Series A GS
• Voyager’s CEO unpacks market fall VYGVF
• Bundle passed 700K users in Africa
• BP Wealth enters retail broking mkt
• SBF shoots down BTC for payment
• AI-focused Strikes preparing launch

👉 Top Things To Know In Fintech:

• NatWest bank brands fined for fees
• Ant aiming to hire for digital banking
• Nomura looking to add a crypto arm NMR
• Luna depleted $3B reserve for UST
• Osmosis starting a Grants Program
• Revolut still adds a lot of older users
• Axway, Cloudentity team on banking 
• Mindtree, Finastra eyeing payments
• Griffin applying for a banking license
• China scrutiny stymies JD.com IPO
• PayPal vets start a new fintech fund PYPL
• TrueLayer & Monoova partnering up
• Temenos taps a new American lead TMSNY
• Cuvva seeking a crowdfunding raise
• Experian to acquire a stake in Mova EXPGY
• Solidus Labs taps $45M in Series B

👉 Interesting Reads:

• MS’s Wilson seeing SPX falling apart MS
• Review: MSNBC's WSB documentary 
• China’s economic activity collapses
• Chris Steele saying Putin is really ill
• Nuveen starts new investing sector
• Spotify hosted NFT trial its platform SPOT