Category: Fin Tech
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Robinhood’s Q2 crypto revenue skyrocketed by 161% to $81 million, more than double its earnings from equities.
Robinhood’s Q2 crypto revenue skyrocketed by 161% to $81 million, more than double its earnings from equities. Despite a dip in user activity and a 27% drop in total trades, Robinhood’s crypto assets under custody rose by 57%. The firm is also set to acquire crypto exchange Bitstamp and expand its AI capabilities with the…
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Top 10: Sustainable Banks
Fintech and panafrican.email takes a look at the top 10 most sustainable banks globally, highlighting their sustainable banking practices and initiatives Banks have the potential to play a pivotal role in promoting sustainability through their lending, investment, and governance practices. By prioritising environmentally and socially responsible projects, banks can drive significant positive change in various…
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Plunder Capitalism: A Threat to Africa’s Financial Sovereignty and the Pan-African Dream
The recent discussion on “Pan African Email” regarding the privatization of the U.S. government raises a critical point: the insidious nature of plunder capitalism. This exploitative economic model, where corporations and a wealthy elite extract wealth from nations and their resources, has a long and devastating history in Africa. Here’s how plunder capitalism operates and…
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Feds Colluded With Big Banks to Spy on Americans’ Financial Transactions
The federal government conducted “broad,” “unjustified” surveillance of the private financial transactions of millions of Americans in the wake of events that took place on Jan. 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol, according to a report issued Wednesday by the U.S. House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. The report…
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AlJazeera: The New World Economic Order?
Economic integration and globalisation, the free flow of trade, with the United States at the helm: that is the economic order the world has known for decades. Today, the disintegration of the rules-based old world order is evident. Countries are becoming more inward-looking, regulatory fences have been erected, the World Trade Organization is in limbo,…
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Trump sponsored Kamala Harris’ bid for political office?
Donald Trump’s check for $5,000 in support of the re-election of California Attorney General Kamala Harris in 2011 has gone viral on social media. According to Newsweek, Trump has donated twice to Harris’ campaigns: he donated $5,000 to Harris’s campaign on September 26, 2011, and $1,000 on February 20, 2013, when she was running for…
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Interpol arrests 300 people in a global crackdown on West African crime groups
In a global operation targeting West African organized crime groups across five continents, police arrested 300 people, seized $3 million and blocked 720 bank accounts, Interpol said Tuesday. Operation Jackal III, which ran from 10 April to 3 July in 21 countries, aimed to fight online financial fraud and the West African syndicates behind it,…
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More than 40% of the world’s countries support de-dollarization
Almost half of the world’s countries have already declared a boycott of the dollar to a greater or lesser extent. Since the beginning of this year, according to Sputnik’s analysis, six more countries have set foot on the path of de-dollarization. All the countries can be roughly divided into three groups: The first and largest…
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Nigeria takes aim at digital sovereignty with the development of a homegrown blockchain system dubbed “Nigerium”
The initiative, spearheaded by the country’s National Information and Technology Development Agency (NITDA), aims to address data security concerns and enhance transaction efficiency. While a timeline for development and implementation is yet to be established, Nigerium is envisioned as a platform for secure and transparent transactions across various sectors. “Developing an indigenous blockchain like Nigerium…
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Russia defied sanctions to join high-income rank
The World Bank’s recognition of Russia as a high-income country is “not surprising, but a reality”, Dr. Georgy Ostapkovich, Director of the Center for Market Research at the Higher School of Economics, told Sputnik. Russia is seeing income growth of around 4-5%, with earnings growing in double digits, Ostapkovich said, stressing that the driving force…
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