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Diversity and inclusion on Wall Street will only change if there are “very clear incentives and penalties”, Anne Clarke Wolff, the founder and CEO of women-owned investment bank Independence Point Advisors said.

Women are fast-emerging as the face of so-called Metaverse

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The depository says that recent experiments conducted with the Banque de France on the settlement of Government bonds using a central-bank backed digital currency demonstrated that blockchain technology is suitable to manage post-trade market operations in CBDC.Fnality last month moved one step closer to launch after two major European banks successfully conducted a proof of concept showcasing the benefits of distributed ledger technology (DLT) in offering near-instant settlement in capital markets and payments.Rhomaios Ram, CEO Fnality International says: “As we progress from testing to real-world implementation, welcoming Euroclear Group as an investor into the Fnality International consortium will significantly enhance the diversification of Fnality’s network and expand our industry footprint, especially around Financial Market Infrastructure.

It hasn’t been the best of years for Ethereum [ETH], the world’s most popular altcoin. While its price action has often been found wanting, many in the community remain optimistic thanks to the hopes attached to the upcoming Merge.

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By leveraging the metaverse, the institution’s aim is to broaden its technological capabilities – benefitting customers and internal operations, alike.

Day traders looking to capitalise on commodity price volatility catalysed a chain reaction that ended with movie theatre giant AMC Entertainment’s unusual deal to take a stake in a gold-mining venture.

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As one of just eight female CEOs in the FTSE 100, and head of a financial services firm that can boast having hit gender diversity targets for its senior ranks, Amanda Blanc is blazing a trail for women in business who have ambitions to make it to the top.

Operating in stealth mode over the past few months, Luno Expeditions has already invested in over 20 crypto and fintech companies, including a crypto compliance solution in Israel, an NFT marketplace in the United States, a bank dedicated to women in Pakistan and a remittance outfit in Tanzania.Marcus Swanepoel, Luno co-founder and CEO comments: “We know how hard it is to build a company, especially in the fintech space, and with our deep experience building, scaling and operating fintech businesses in some of the hardest markets in the world, we’re looking to support a new generation of entrepreneurs from all over the world do the same.”

Day traders looking to capitalise on commodity price volatility catalysed a chain reaction that ended with movie theatre giant AMC Entertainment’s unusual deal to take a stake in a gold-mining venture.

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Meta will add the Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) function to its video and photo social app Instagram in the coming months so that users might display their NFTs on the platform.

Hong Kong-based Hex Trust raised $88 million in Series B funding led by Animoca Brands and Liberty City Ventures, following which it saw its valuation rise to $300 million.

ConsenSys has been at the centre of the Web3 revolution, setting itself the task of unlocking the "collaborative power of communities by making DAOs, NFTs, and DeFi universally easy to use, access, and build on".Its main way of doing this is its MetaMask self-custodial wallet, which lets 30 million monthly active users hold and manage digital tokens, and connect with 3700 Web3 applications - including NFT marketplaces, play-to-earn games, decentralised autonomous organisations, DeFi applications, and metaverse worlds.The $450 million raise will all be converted to ether to further build ConsenSys’ 'ultra sound money' position.The funds will be used to hire 600 more employees, support a major MetaMask redesign later in the year, and grow the ConsenSys NFT business.Joseph Lubin, CEO, ConsenSys, says: "I think of ConsenSys as a broad and deep capabilities machine for the decentralized protocols ecosystem, able to rapidly capitalize at scale on fundamental new constructs that emerge, such as developer tooling, wallets, security audits, DeFi, NFTs, Layer-2 scaling, DAOs, and more."

As one of just eight female CEOs in the FTSE 100, and head of a financial services firm that can boast having hit gender diversity targets for its senior ranks, Amanda Blanc is blazing a trail for women in business who have ambitions to make it to the top.

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Phillip Toews is the CEO of Toews Asset Management.

German prosecutors said they had charged Wirecard’s former chief executive, Markus Braun, and two other former senior executives with suspected market manipulation and false representation of the company’s financial accounts.