By Philipp Sandner, Jonas Gross, Marcel Kaiser, Simon Seiter After 2019, where Bitcoin showed enormous volatility, where companies started to gain more interest in blockchain, where capital markets were envisioned to run on DLT systems, where the Ethereum-centered Decentralized Finance (DeFi) ecosystem grew, we wondered about trends for 2020. From the perspective of Germany, what […]
Securrency, Inc. has announced Series A funding of $17.65 million from a leading financial services company, and venture firms focused on financial market infrastructure technology. WisdomTree Investments, Inc. (Nasdaq: WETF) led the round as a strategic investor. Other participants in the round include the Abu Dhabi Investment Office through its Ventures Fund, Japanese financial services giant, Monex Group, Inc., and venture […]
By Jonas Gross and Philipp Sandner After Facebook’s Libra and the announcement of the Chinese central bank to issue a digital currency, the discussion about a digital Euro has gained momentum. Even if a central bank-issued digital Euro might not be introduced in the foreseeable future, the digital Euro does already exist in the form of […]