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我是 Jonathan，在美國 University of Rochester 取得光學工程與金融經濟雙學位後，就職於日本三大投資銀行之一的 SMBC Nikko。之後在創投 SBI 負責海外投資，主要專注於區塊鏈，金融科技，人工智能等領域的成長期新創。2020 年加入基石創投。
英文版
- TOP NEWS
- G20, World Bank, and IMF are to establish an official standard for regulating and issuing CBDC (Details)
- The Financial Conduct of Authority of UK banned the sale of crypto derivatives and ETNs to retail investors. (Details)
- The pioneered P2P lending company, LendingClub, announced the shutting down of their P2P platform to align with their plan to offer banking products. (Details)
- FUNDING / IPO
- Root, the insurtech company, filed for an IPO with targeting valuation of $6B. (Details)
- Lufax, the Chinese online finance marketplace, filed for an IPO in NYSE to raise $100M.(Details)
- The Indian payment start-up, Razorpay has become a unicorn after its $100M Series D funding led by Sequoia India and GIC . (Details)
- Uni, the Indian fintech startup founded by ex-CEO of PayU & Ola, has closed its $18.5M seed round led by notable VC Lightspeed Partners and Accel, without a product. (Details)
- The trader technology solutions provider, Liquidnet , is acquired for $700M by financial intermediary, TP ICAP, which will create a UK-based global financial markets infrastructure provider. (Details)
- SBI announced the acquisition of Japanese Crypto Exchange TaoTao, after it failed to come through its 9-month negotiation with Binance. (Details)
- BLOCKCHAIN & CRYPTO BUSINESS APPLICATION
- MetaMask, the popular access product to Ethereum, is releasing its own token swap feature on web browser and mobile application. (Details)
- The Japan messaging app giant, Line, launched the crypto lending service through its own crypto exchange, BITMAX. (Details)
- Ripple, the crypto remittance firm, is launching the On-Demand Liquidity service, which is its first service in lending space to facilitate low-cost financing for cross-border payment. (Details)
- The Japanese financial group SBI Holdings announced its plan of its first Security Token Offering (STO) with a first sale of tokenized stock in late October. (Details)
- GOVERNMENT & REGULATION & CBDC
- South Korea’s Central Bank and Japan’s Central Bank announced the plan of running trial of Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) in 2021 . (Details Korea) (Details Japan)
- China’s Central Bank and Shenzhen city are handing out a total of 10M digital yuan of envelope to randomly selected citizens as a regular testing of Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP). (Details)
- Crypto asset service provider AMDAX BV was authorized by Dutch Central Bank after 4 months of application, becoming the first registered crypto company in Holland. (Details)
- US Department of Justice published the cryptocurrency enforcement framework, including cryptocurrency overview, regulation, future strategy, and enforcement to foreigners. (Details)
- The Travel Rule Protocol (TRP), the Crypto AML group backed by global financial institutions such as ING, Fidelity and Standard Chartered, has released its first crypto AML product to assist firms aligning the AML regulators and FATF. (Details) 1
- OTHERS
- Digital payment company founded by Jack Dorsey, Square, invest $50M (1% of the firm’s asset) in Bitcoin. (Details)
- Grayscale ‘s Ethereum Trust is granted to become a SEC reporting company. (Details)
- The notable crypto investment firm, Pantera’s second fund was unveiled to be underperformed compared with other traditional funds. (Details) ———————————————————————-
中文版
- TOP NEWS
- 募資 / IPO
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- 美國保險科技新創 Root 以 60 億美金目標估值申請 IPO (Details)
- 中國線上財富管理巨頭陸金所（Lufax) 申請於紐交所 IPO，目標籌集1億美金 (Details)
- 印度數位支付新創 Razorpay 在獲得紅杉印度和 GIC 領投的 1 億美元 D 輪融資後，晉升獨角獸行列 (Details)
- 由 PayU & Ola 前 CEO 創立的印度金融科技新創 Uni，在沒有任何產品的狀態下完成由著名VC Lightspeed Partners 和 Accel 领投之 1850 萬美元的種子輪融資 (Details)
- 金融交易解決方案公司 Liquidnet 宣布被國際金融中介機構 TP ICAP 以 $700M 收購，將結合成為總部位於英國的全球金融市場基礎設施供應商 (Details)
- 日本金融集團 SBI 宣布收購日本虛擬貨幣交易所 Tao Tao。此前此交易所與 Binance 進行長達 9 個月的談判但最終破局 (Details)
- 區塊鏈與加密貨幣商業應用
- 政府監管與 CBDC
- 韓國央行和日本央行宣布計劃於 2021 年試運行 CBDC (Details Korea) (Details Japan)
- 中國央行和深圳市正在向被隨機選中的市民派發總值 1000 萬數字人民幣紅包，作為 DCEP 的常規測試 (Details)
- 經過 4 個月的申請期，虛擬貨幣服務商 AMDAX BV 通過荷蘭央行審核，成為荷蘭第一家註冊加密公司 (Details)
- 美國司法部公佈了虛擬貨幣執法框架，內容包括虛擬密貨幣概覽、監管法規、未來戰略、以及對外國人之執法(Details)
- 由 25 個全球金融機構 (如 ING, Fidelity, Standard Chartered) 支持的加密貨幣反洗錢組織 The Travel Rule Protocal (TRP) 發布了首款虛擬反洗錢產品，以協助企業遵循反洗錢監管機構之監管 (Details)
- 其他
The Future Is Unwritten.
