Wall Street powerhouse Cantor Fitzgerald plans to launch a multibillion-dollar lending program using bitcoin as collateral, potentially reshaping crypto-backed financing and deepening ties with Tether Holdings. Cantor Fitzgerald’s Crypto Strategy: A Pivotal Moment for Bitcoin’s Future Howard Lutnick, chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, a leading global financial services firm, is reportedly working to bolster […]
Ledn, a crypto lending firm, has secured a $ 50 million Bitcoin-backed syndicated loan from Sygnum, a Swiss digital asset banking group. This loan will be used to expand Ledn’s retail lending operations, providing additional liquidity to the crypto sector and the $ 1.38 trillion syndicated loan market. The collaboration highlights the growing …
Decentralized finance (defi) has improved efficiency, inclusivity, and performance in consumer lending, but poor user experience remains a significant barrier to adoption, according to Thor Abbasi, co-founder of Zivoe. Abbasi argues that as long as wallet interfaces seem “unintuitive” or intimidating to non-crypto users, defi lending protocols won’t gain traction hence their benefits won’t be […]
New York Attorney General Letitia James has secured a $ 50 million settlement from cryptocurrency exchange Gemini for Earn program investors. This settlement ensures that all defrauded investors will fully recover the assets they invested but were unable to withdraw when the program collapsed. Additionally, Gemini is now banned from operating any crypto lending …
Hodl Hodl, a non-custodial Bitcoin exchange, has announced changes to its “Terms of Service” agreement affecting the availability of its lending services. The platform is now excluding residents of the U.S. as well as U.N. embargoed countries from its lending platform, citing “regulatory uncertainty” as the reason behind these changes. Hodl Hodl to Exclude US […]