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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
- FUNDING / IPO
- Ant Group, the Chinese fintech giant, is facing delay of its IPO due to probe in conflict of interest by Chinese regulator. (Details) But it got approved later on this week. (Details)
- The US State Department is proposing to add Ant Group to the trade blacklist to discourage US investors from participating in its upcoming dual IPO in Shanghai and Hong Kong. (Details)
- After delay of 3 years, decentralized file storage and content distribution network, Filecoin, officially launched its mainnet. Its $257M ICO was the largest ICO in history at its time. (Details)
- Stripe, the notable payment processing unicorn, acquired the Nigerian payment integration start-up Paystack for more than $200M, marking the first major exit for African Fintech . (Details)
- The roboadvisor+neobanking+lending fintech, M1 Finance , disclosed its Series C financing round of $45M led by Left Lane Capital, with its AUM surpassing $2B. (Details)
- Fivestars, the payment processing and marketing platform, announced its $52.5M Series D funding from Salt Partners and Lightspeed Ventures. (Details)
- Alpaca, the Japanese API-powered trading service provider, announced its $10M Series A funding led by notable fintech VC Portage3 (Details)
- Australian insurtech startup, Cover Genius, completed its $11M new financing round after its partnership with SEA ecommerce giant, Shopee Thailand. (Details)
- BLOCKCHAIN & CRYPTO BUSINESS APPLICATION
- The Canadian railway company, Canadian Pacific, currently joined TradeLens, the blockchain-based platform by IBM and Maersk, to deploy the blockchain system within the transcontinental railway’s documentation process. (Details)
- Centre, the consortium that manages USDC, is announcing that Stellar, the open network for digital currency, will be the third blockchain that supports USDC. (Details)
- Breitling, the luxury watch brand, is launching the digital certificates for watches on the Ethereum with the digital identity consortium, Arianee. (Details)
- GOVERNMENT & REGULATION
- Italian Banking Association announced that around 100 Italian banks are officially operating on Italy’s banking blockchain network, Spunta (built on R3’s Corda), which has accumulated 204M transactions. (Details)
- Australia’s Central Bank stated that there’s no strong public policy case for introducing CBDC as the cash is still widely adopted and the current payment system is efficient. (Details)
- Indonesia’s Central Bank revealed that a large electronic money burglary involving an undisclosed ewallet operator. (Details)
- OTHERS
- Hashrate of Bitcoin reached the new record high of 144.29 EH/s, which is 40% increase this year, indicating confidence among miners . (Details)
- Tim Draper’s cryptocurrency investment firm, Draper Goren Holm, raised $25M for its first venture capital fund. (Details)
- 2020 Blockchain Application Law Peak Forum was held successfully at Taipei Taiwan. (Details)
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中文版
- TOP NEWS
- 募資 / IPO
- 中國金融科技巨頭螞蟻集團因面臨中國監管機構調查利益衝突而推遲 IPO。(Details) 但之後獲得上市批准。(Details)
- 美國國務院擬將螞蟻集團納入貿易黑名單，以阻止美國投資者參與其即將在上海和香港的雙重 IPO。(Details)
- 在 3 年的推遲之後，去中心化的文件存儲和內容分發網絡 Filecoin 終於正式上線其 mainnet。它 $257M 的 ICO 是那時為止史上最大金額的 ICO 。( Details)
- 著名的數位支付獨角獸 Stripe 以超過 2 億美元的價格收購了奈及利亞的支付產品新創 Paystack。這是第一個非洲金融科技新創的大型退場。(Details)
- 開發機器人投資等產品的金融科技新創 M1 Finance 達到超過 200 億美元的 AUM，並發表了由 Left Lane Capital 領投的 4500 萬美元 C 輪融資。(Details)
- 針對小企業之數位支付和行銷平台 Fivestars 宣布獲得 5250 萬美元 D 輪融資，投資方為 Salt Partners 和 Lightspeed Ventures。(Details)
- 由 API 驅動的金融交易服務商日本新創 Alpaca 宣布獲得 1000 萬美元 A 輪融資，由專投金融科技之知名 VC Portage3 領投。(Details)
- 澳洲保險科技新創 Cover Genius 與東南亞電商巨頭 Shopee Thailand 合作後，完成了 1100 萬美元的新一輪融資。(Details)
- 區塊鏈與虛擬貨幣商業應用
- 政府與監管
- 其他
The Future Is Unwritten.
