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Federal Reserve System

FedNow Instant Payment System to Launch in July

The U.S. Federal Reserve has confirmed its long-awaited instant payments system FedNow, seen as an alternative to CBDCs and stablecoin payments, will launch in July

Finance & Economics

Adept Raises $350 Million

Adept, a startup that creates artificial intelligence, announced that it managed to attract investment funds for $ 350 million following the results of the Series B funding round.

Finance & Economics

Credit Suisse to Borrow Up to $54bn from Swiss Central Bank

Credit Suisse has announced plans to take out a loan of up to 50 billion francs ($54 billion) from the Swiss central bank to strengthen its finances.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Morgan Stanley and Stripe Tap Into OpenAI’s GPT-4

Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and payment giant Stripe have announced their intention to use a chatbot based on artificial intelligence GPT-4 from OpenAI.

Countries

NAB Completes Cross-Border Multicurrrency Stablecoin Pilot

The National Australian Bank (NAB) has completed an intrabank cross-border transaction using its minted stablecoin.

Finance & Economics

Crypto Platform Anchorage Cuts 20% of Workforce

Anchorage Digital Bank, a provider of digital asset storage services, announced the decision to reduce the workforce.

Finance & Economics

BNP Paribas Moves Into B2B BNPL

BNP Paribas is switching to the Buy Now, Pay Later B2B platform.

Finance & Economics

South Africa to Roll Out Payshap

In South Africa, the process of introducing Payshap, an inexpensive real-time interbank digital payment service, has started.

Fintech & Ecommerce

ChatGPT and Bing AI to Sit as Panellists at Fintech Conference

For the first time in history, chatbots based on artificial intelligence will participate in a conference on the development of the fintech industry.

Finance & Economics

Tabit and Lenovo Join Efforts to Offer B2B BNPL in Canada

Lenovo will offer its business customers a BNPL payment method through their Tabit B2B integration

Blockchain & Crypto

Binance.US Delists Tokens Helium

Binance.US, the American division of the cryptocurrency exchange of the same name, has decided to exclude the Helium (HNT) and JasmyCoin (JASMYY) tokens from its platform.

Finance & Economics

Moody’s Downgrades US Banking Sector

Moody’s Investors Service has revised the forecast for the activity of the American banking sector downwards.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Flat6Labs Launches $95 Million Seed Fund for Africa-Based Tech Startups

Flat6Labs has launched a new startup fund of $95 million.

Finance & Economics

Apollo Global Management Assembling Bid to Buy Silicon Valley Bank

Private investment company Apollo Global Management is asking to support its bid to buy a Silicon Valley bank.

Finance & Economics

OpenAI Launches Latest Version of ChatGPT With Waitlist

The new version of ChatGPT has become available via the waiting list.

Finance & Economics

Apple Cuts Spending on Bonuses, Hiring and Travel

The media reports that Apple has decided to actively reduce costs.