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Science & Technology

Going shopping? Don’t drink coffee beforehand

Who would have thought giving up coffee may save you money while shopping?

Fintech & Ecommerce

Robinhood’s new index will track customers’ favourite stocks: how useful is that?

Robinhood Investor Index is designed to track the performance of the 100 investments most popular among its user base, but you can neither invest in the index nor bet against it

Blockchain & Crypto

Was Treasury Department right to blacklist crypto platform? The lawsuit will tell

A group of crypto investors sue the US Treasury Department over blacklisting Tornado Cash

Blockchain & Crypto

Stack releases crypto trading app for teens

Stack offers catchy crypto education content that may become a better alternative to TikTok’s “fin-fluencers”

Science & Technology

Google upgrades “Nearby Share” and boosts productivity of Android devices

Easier sharing, redesigned experiences for apps and more – Google update package unveiled

Reports

Canadian fintech investment sinks

Canadian fintech companies saw only US$810 million in total investment in the first half of 2022, compared to US$1.9 billion in the second half of 2021

Finance & Economics

ECB raises interest rates by historic 0.75 point as recession gets nearer

European Central Bank intensifies its efforts to combat inflation while Europe’s economic situation worsens

Science & Technology

Apple’s new iPhones will get satellite connectivity 

The tech giant presented the iPhone 14 lineup and the newest smartwatches – satellite connectivity is among the biggest technological changes

Fintech & Ecommerce

Ant launches blockchain platform for insurers

Ant Group’s insurance arm launches a digital operation platform for insurance companies in China

Science & Technology

British researchers developed technique for integrating NFC chips within flexible active smart tags

Active NFC tags could be applied to flexible electronics in an eco-friendly way 

Science & Technology

You can now travel on eco-friendly routes in Europe with Google Maps

Europeans can now optimise their fuel consumption and save money with the eco-friendly routing feature on Google Maps

Blockchain & Crypto

VCs contributed $14.2B to the crypto industry in H1 2022, but investment pace is slowing – KPMG

KPMG noted that crypto investment figures remained well-positioned in H1 2022, but the market keeps slowing

Fintech & Ecommerce

KPMG launches embedded finance hub in Singapore

KPMG hub will provide incubation support to financial and non-financial enterprises planning to enter the embedded finance arena

Finance & Economics

Bank branch sharing in the UK continues

Sharing bank branches is a nice way to suppress negative effects of widespread bank closures nationwide

Finance & Economics

UK includes crypto exchanges in sanctions breaches reporting

Crypto exchanges operating in the UK will be required to report on sanctions breaches in the wake of Russia’s war in Ukraine

Science & Technology

Instagram fined €405M over children’s privacy

EU privacy regulators came to a decision on a long-running complaint over Instagram’s handling of children’s sensitive data