Industry Briefs

Revolut, the fast growing fintech with more than 15 million customers, has announced today that they have integrated with Elliptic, the global leader in cryptoasset risk management and blockchain analytics.

Former PayPal CEO and serial fintech entrepreneur Bill Harris has moved to Miami to launch Nirvana Technology (Nirvana), a global digital bank. Based in Wynwood, the fresh company is now hiring high-tech talent across engineering, product, marketing, and operations.

Better HoldCo, Inc.(“Better” or the “Company”), one of the fastest-growing digital homeownership platforms in the U.S., and Aurora Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: AURC) (“Aurora”), a special purpose acquisition company, which closed its initial public offering on March 8, 2021, today announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement that will transform Better into a publicly-listed company.

Legendary boxing icon, Floyd Mayweather Jr., in conjunction with IronBend, a provider of turnkey digital NFT solutions for prominent personalities, has teamed up with Reality Gaming Group, a publisher of mobile games and blockchain-based digital entertainment, and Zytara Labs, the NFT production company and studio, to release exclusive NFT collector's items ahead of his highly anticipated exhibition bout with YouTuber-turned-boxer Logan Paul.

Orion Advisor Solutions, the premier provider of the tech-enabled fiduciary framework that empowers financial advisors to Prospect, Plan, Invest, and Achieve within a single, connected experience, has partnered with FeeX to clear a path for advisors to efficiently manage and trade held-away accounts.

iComply Investor Services (“iComply”), a global compliance software provider, is announcing that the company has partnered with Thomson Reuters to distribute its iComplyKYC platform through the Thomson Reuters Marketplace.

Joel Bruckenstein, president of Technology Tools for Today (T3), has launched registration for the T3 Advisor and T3 Enterprise conferences. Formerly run as two separate events at different venues at different times of the year, the post-pandemic plan for 2021 is to run the two events back-to-back beginning Monday September 27 and concluding on Friday, October 1, 2021, in Denton, Texas.

CogniCor, the leading provider of artificial intelligence-powered digital assistants for the wealth management industry, today announced the launch of three new digital assistant modules to help wealth management firms support their employees and advisors with scalable solutions to their most labor-intensive and time-consuming operational issues and raise the efficiency and productivity of firms’ internal support functions.

vigtec.io, (vigtec) a new consumer-focused investing discovery platform, emerged from Beta today, offering among the fastest real-time market data flows available, and determined to deliver affordable investing resources for all.

Global investment bank and advisory Entoro Capital LLC (“Entoro”), which aims to optimize the traditional banking process with the efficiency of modern technology, is now working as a node operator and helping to secure the Polymesh blockchain, currently in testnet phase.