Karsten Wenzlaff, Advisor
August 26th, 2025
April 10, 2026 | NCFA Fintech Whisperer Weekly Intelligence | Digital Assets Blockchain And Tokenization, Regulation And Policy, Payments And Market Infrastructure, Artificial Intelligence And Data

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This live weekly NCFA intelligence page tracks financial technology developments that significantly affect how fintechs build, sell, raise capital, and operate under scrutiny. Coverage prioritizes Canada and includes global events that directly influence competitive conditions, market access, and execution realities across fintech sectors. This page will be updated throughout the week with market movers in a live format and then each week we'll close the prior week's contents in prep for the upcoming week, and continue on a rolling basis. (Missed prior week's Fintech Whisperer? (December 6-12, 2025, December 13-19, 2025, January 1-9, 2026, January 10-16, 2026, January 17-23, 2026, January 24-30, 2026, January 31-February 6, 2026, February 7-13, 2026, February 14-20, 2026, February 21-27, 2026, February 28-March 6, 2026, March 7-13, 2026, March 14-20, 2026, March 21-27, 2026, March 28-April 3, 2026).
Cross border bank resolution just got more executable. Legal friction around emergency bail in mechanics drops, especially where US investors hold affected securities. That gives global banks, broker dealers, and market infrastructure firms a clearer playbook for how securities conversions and investor treatment can run under stress. It also signals where the SEC may formalize exemptions, which matters for anyone structuring cross border capital, custody, or resolution workflows.
CIRO is setting the next year’s pressure points now. Dealers and vendors in compliance, cyber, complaints, registration, and market surveillance can see where regulatory work and operating expectations are headed.
Treasury is putting a government account program into market through a named bank agent, a brokerage trustee, and an app structure it still controls. That creates a new federal operating model for account access, custody, and distribution.
This gives banks, payment firms, and digital asset operators a live regulatory perimeter for fiat backed stablecoins in one of Asia’s key financial centres. It also raises the pressure on other jurisdictions to show whether they want sandbox activity, bank led issuance, or a full licensing track.
That raises the compliance bar for exchanges, issuers, and market operators, and it gives tokenized products a clearer path into a more tightly supervised investment framework.
A regulated bank is bringing stablecoin access into clearing infrastructure under MiCAR. That gives bank-led digital asset services a clearer route into the European market and narrows the gap between fiat clearing and tokenized money.
Swiss banks are testing whether domestic currency stablecoins belong inside regulated payments and settlement infrastructure. That puts local currency control, settlement design, and bank relevance into the same build decision.
The FDIC is starting to put bank level rules around stablecoin issuance, custody, reserve treatment, and tokenized deposits. Banks, vendors, and stablecoin infrastructure firms now have a clearer target for operating inside the insured deposit perimeter.
Banks are now treating frontier AI as a cyber and resilience issue, not just a productivity tool. That puts model access, vendor controls, and critical system defence closer to the core of financial risk management.
Anthropic isn't closing the door on developers, but it's separating heavy third party agent usage from consumer subscription pricing. That raises the operating cost for external Claude tools and gives Anthropic tighter control over how third party workflows consume compute.
Circle is packaging stablecoin settlement, compliance, and conversion into one managed payments layer. That lowers the barrier for institutions that want faster cross border settlement without taking on direct digital asset operations.
Visa is moving AI agent shopping from demos into payment rails. That gives merchants, issuers, and partners a clearer path to support agent led transactions inside mainstream checkout and acceptance infrastructure.
Crypto rails are moving behind mainstream checkout flows with conversion and settlement packaged into one payments stack. That lowers integration friction for operators and gives stablecoins another live payments entry point inside a regulated consumer flow.
LISE is running a live capital raise under the EU DLT Pilot Regime which had a slow start, with real pricing, subscriptions, and settlement on new rails. If this holds up through allocation and trading, it strengthens the case that SMEs and smaller issuers could reach public capital through a simpler stack with fewer legacy layers.
A tokenization platform has crossed into full FCA authorisation with real operating scale. That places tokenized asset infrastructure inside the regulated investment perimeter rather than alongside it. As more firms follow, tokenization shifts from service layer into core market infrastructure.
Trading connectivity, hosting, and market data are consolidating into fewer managed platforms. That matters for firms trying to cut complexity, lower operational drag, and keep trading infrastructure closer to production grade service levels.
This is a technical update, but it feeds directly into dealer risk models and operating controls. Trading, credit, and operations teams treat these lists as live reference data, not background guidance.
Control points are tightening. Stablecoin rules align closer with bank standards. AI commerce runs through existing payment rails. Trading and data infrastructure consolidate. LISE adds a live IPO under the EU DLT Pilot Regime. Tokenization now shows up in collateral, governance, and issuance. NCFA covered how tokenization is scaling in collateral and cash and how governance is moving onchain. This week adds primary issuance.
NCFA offers various curated resources to help founders and investors stay current on developments that impact fintech markets, subscribe to NCFA weekly newsletter updates, view a rundown of current fintech news and insights, or dive into the latest fintech industry research.
The National Crowdfunding & Fintech Association (NCFA Canada) is a financial innovation ecosystem that provides education, market intelligence, industry stewardship, networking and funding opportunities and services to thousands of community members and works closely with industry, government, partners and affiliates to create a vibrant and innovative fintech and funding industry in Canada. Decentralized and distributed, NCFA is engaged with global stakeholders and helps incubate projects and investment in fintech, alternative finance, crowdfunding, peer-to-peer finance, payments, digital assets and tokens, artificial intelligence, blockchain, cryptocurrency, regtech, and insurtech sectors. Join Canada's Fintech & Funding Community today FREE! Or become a contributing member and get perks. For more information, please visit: www.ncfacanada.org
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Apr 10, 2026 | NCFA Fintech Insight | Capital Markets And Market Infrastructure

On April 9, 2026, subscriptions opened for the ST GROUP IPO on LISE (Lightning Stock Exchange), a regulated European exchange that brings trading and settlement together for tokenized securities under the EU DLT Pilot Regime. The fixed price is €18.25 per share and the company is raising about €2.6 million, with room to increase the offer to about €3.0 million. The offer runs through April 20, with a possible extension. That gives the EU DLT Pilot Regime something it has needed for a while: a live primary equity raise with real terms, a real issuer, and a real funding target.
The EU DLT Pilot Regime has been in force since March 2023. It gives firms a legal framework to run trading and settlement for tokenized financial instruments through new market structures, including a DLT multilateral trading facility and combined settlement system. In other words, Europe didn't create this regime to generate headlines about blockchain. It created it to test whether capital markets infrastructure could be rebuilt with fewer layers, faster settlement, and lower operating friction.
LISE says it operates both an organized multilateral trading facility and a distributed ledger settlement system under Regulation (EU) 2022/858. Traditional public listings split trading, post trade processing, and settlement across separate institutions. LISE is testing whether more of that stack can sit inside one regulated environment. If that model works, it will change listing economics, in addition to settlement mechanics.
Tokenized infrastructure is already running at scale in other parts of the market. Tokenization is gaining traction in collateral and cash markets, where platforms like Broadridge’s distributed ledger repo system are processing more than $300 billion in average daily volume and trillions in monthly activity. Governance is moving in the same direction, with on-chain voting and corporate actions now being applied to tokenized equities. Now, LISE is testing and bringing primary issuance into that stack.
That is where the small to medium enterprise (SME) angle becomes important. Smaller companies often stay out of public markets because the structure is too heavy for the amount of capital they need. The friction and costs are simply too great for the legal work, process coordination, time to market, listing support, and the number of institutions involved. A simpler stack doesn't remove disclosure, governance, or investor protection requirements, but it can help remove costs and delays. That is why this offer deserves attention. It is one of the clearest live tests so far of whether tokenized infrastructure can make public capital markets more usable for smaller issuers rather than just more efficient for large enterprise players.
ST GROUP also makes the test more credible. It's not a crypto-native issuer trying to force a blockchain story into the market. It's an operating company in aerospace and defense. A real issuer with fixed pricing and a defined subscription window, so in a way it's much more than just a pilot announcement.
The strategic implications are significant. If integrated issuance, trading, and settlement work in production as planned, pressure will begin to build across legacy chain and support around smaller listings. Exchanges, depositories, advisers, and other support layers still add value, but they also add cost. When a regulated venue starts collapsing parts of that chain into software and workflow, the market gets to see which service layers are essential and which are inherited from older infrastructure.
Canada faces a similar financing problem. Many growth companies find public markets too burdensome while private capital remains opaque/uneven, and bank lending has limits. If Europe can show that regulated digital market infrastructure lowers the cost of reaching investors without cutting corners on market structure, it will create a live benchmark for how smaller issuers could access capital differently in a world of tokenized equity issuance.
It now comes down to execution. Subscriptions need to convert. Settlement needs to clear without friction. Trading needs to open with enough depth to support price discovery. If those pieces hold, LISE shows that regulated tokenized infrastructure can support real capital formation. The EU DLT Pilot Regime is now being tested in a live market with real issuers, real investors, and real money on the line.
The National Crowdfunding & Fintech Association (NCFA Canada) is a financial innovation ecosystem that provides education, market intelligence, industry stewardship, networking and funding opportunities and services to thousands of community members and works closely with industry, government, partners and affiliates to create a vibrant and innovative fintech and funding industry in Canada. Decentralized and distributed, NCFA is engaged with global stakeholders and helps incubate projects and investment in fintech, alternative finance, crowdfunding, peer-to-peer finance, payments, digital assets and tokens, artificial intelligence, blockchain, cryptocurrency, regtech, and insurtech sectors. Join Canada's Fintech & Funding Community today FREE! Or become a contributing member and get perks. For more information, please visit: www.ncfacanada.org
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Apr 9, 2026 | NCFA Insight | Regulation And Policy, Payments And Money Movement

On April 9, 2026, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent urges Congress to pass the Clarity Act, arguing the US keeps losing digital asset activity to markets with clearer rules. That verbal push is intended to dislodge the bill which remains stuck on one of the hardest questions in digital finance: whether stablecoin rewards should compete with bank deposits, or not.
The policy fight is no longer just about jurisdiction between regulators or basic market structure. It is now about who gets to hold customer cash, who gets to earn on it, and who controls the interface between payments, savings, and programmable money. Banks want tighter limits because stablecoin rewards create a new form of deposit competition. Crypto firms want room to compete on product design and customer economics.
The White House added fresh evidence shared on April 8. In new research on stablecoin yield prohibition and bank lending, banning stablecoin rewards would increase bank lending by about $2.1 billion, or 0.02%, while costing about $800 million overall. Most of the benefit would go to large banks, which would capture about 76% of the added lending, with community banks taking the rest. The gains are small. The cost is real. That weakens the case that restricting rewards meaningfully supports the broader economy.
Reuters reports banks have pushed hard to close what they view as a loophole that lets intermediaries offer rewards on stablecoins, and they argue that could pull deposits out of the insured banking system. This is why the Clarity Act keeps slowing down. The fight is about whether stablecoins stay as payment instruments or evolve into a stronger cash alternative.
The pressure is building from all sides. Treasury wants a bill. The crypto industry wants rules that allow product competition. Banks want guardrails that protect deposit funding. The White House research now suggests the cost of blocking stablecoin rewards may be higher than the lending benefit banks gain from it.
Canada is already taking a different path. The current stablecoin framework restricts stablecoin rewards, limiting direct competition with bank deposits at the outset. The US is still deciding how far that competition should go. If stablecoins extend beyond payments into customer incentives, they begin to pull on deposits, stored value, and parts of the transaction account stack.
The issue already surfaced as a regulatory fault line around stablecoin interest and rewards. Now the intensity is heating up. Treasury is pushing in public. Banks are still resisting. The White House has started publishing economic arguments into the debate. That usually means the policy window is narrowing and the commercial stakes are getting harder to ignore.
The National Crowdfunding & Fintech Association (NCFA Canada) is a financial innovation ecosystem that provides education, market intelligence, industry stewardship, networking and funding opportunities and services to thousands of community members and works closely with industry, government, partners and affiliates to create a vibrant and innovative fintech and funding industry in Canada. Decentralized and distributed, NCFA is engaged with global stakeholders and helps incubate projects and investment in fintech, alternative finance, crowdfunding, peer-to-peer finance, payments, digital assets and tokens, artificial intelligence, blockchain, cryptocurrency, regtech, and insurtech sectors. Join Canada's Fintech & Funding Community today FREE! Or become a contributing member and get perks. For more information, please visit: www.ncfacanada.org
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Apr 7, 2026 | NCFA Fintech Market Activity | Capital Markets And Market Infrastructure, Digital Assets And Tokenization

On April 6, 2026, Broadridge launched on-chain governance to tokenized equities. The platform now supports proxy voting, corporate actions, and disclosures across traditional and tokenized holdings inside the same workflows institutions already use.
Broadridge is bringing real scale into this launch. The company says its tokenization capabilities already process $8 trillion in tokenized assets per month. It also says its technology platforms process and generate more than 7 billion communications annually and support the daily average trading of more than $15 trillion in tokenized and traditional securities globally.
This is significant because governance is one of the harder parts of tokenized equity infrastructure. Issuing a tokenized share is one step. Running the rights attached to that share is another. Broadridge now gives issuers a single view across registered, beneficial, and tokenized holdings, which makes governance easier to manage across the cap table.
Broadridge already confirmed a real public company use case with Galaxy planning to use the capability for its annual meeting and shareholder vote in May with native tokenized shares on Avalanche.
The company is also extending a tokenized market stack that already has live operating volume. In January 2026, Broadridge’s distributed ledger repo platform processed $365 billion in average daily volume, with total monthly volume of $7.3 trillion, up 508% from January 2025. Broadridge isn't entering tokenization from the sidelines, but rather extending existing market infrastructure into tokenized ownership.
Institutions don't only need tokenized shares. They need voting rights, disclosures, and corporate action controls that work inside familiar systems. That also builds on tokenized money market fund infrastructure from Goldman Sachs and BNY, where the market has already started solving issuance and settlement in a more usable way.
For issuers, custodians, and market operators, it makes tokenized equities easier to use and track inside real workflows. If governance is streamlined institutions have less friction and fewer reasons to hold back.
If tokenized equities can now handle voting and corporate actions inside existing workflows, which part of the traditional equity stack faces pressure next?
The National Crowdfunding & Fintech Association (NCFA Canada) is a financial innovation ecosystem that provides education, market intelligence, industry stewardship, networking and funding opportunities and services to thousands of community members and works closely with industry, government, partners and affiliates to create a vibrant and innovative fintech and funding industry in Canada. Decentralized and distributed, NCFA is engaged with global stakeholders and helps incubate projects and investment in fintech, alternative finance, crowdfunding, peer-to-peer finance, payments, digital assets and tokens, artificial intelligence, blockchain, cryptocurrency, regtech, and insurtech sectors. Join Canada's Fintech & Funding Community today FREE! Or become a contributing member and get perks. For more information, please visit: www.ncfacanada.org
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Apr 6, 2026 | NCFA Fintech Market Activity | Digital Assets And Tokenization, Regulation And Policy

On April 2, 2026, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency OCC granted conditional approval for Coinbase National Trust Company. The trust company would be a wholly owned Coinbase subsidiary in New York focused on digital asset custody for institutional clients.
The approval is still preliminary. Coinbase must meet pre-opening requirements before the trust company can open, and the OCC can modify, suspend, or rescind the approval before final authorization.
The scope is narrower than a normal bank charter. The trust company would engage in fiduciary and related trust activities, including digital asset custody and certain transactional services tied only to custodied assets. It would also hold fiat in for-benefit-of accounts at third party banks and provide access to affiliate services such as staking, prime trading, and prime financing for custody clients.
It's not a deposit taking bank. Greg Tusar Co-CEO, Coinbase Institutional put it directly when announcing the conditional OCC Trust approval: “We will not be taking retail deposits. We will not be engaging in fractional reserve banking.” The charter is built around safekeeping assets and supporting custody led infrastructure, not consumer banking.
For institutions, a single national trust framework is simpler than a patchwork of state supervision. Coinbase currently performs custody through a New York State chartered trust company, and the OCC decision states that business is expected to migrate to the national trust company during the first three years after launch.
An OCC federal charter has immediate commercial value because it can make custody mandates easier to win and related infrastructure easier to build. It's aligned with the wider US trust charter debate around crypto banks, where federal oversight can reduce dependence on fragmented state licensing and give institutions a more familiar legal perimeter for custody and payments.
The OCC noted that uninsured national trust banks under its supervision held $7.0T in assets under administration as of Dec. 31, 2025, including $1.7T in custody and safekeeping accounts. Coinbase is putting digital asset custody inside a federal trust structure that institutions already understand.
If crypto custody starts consolidating around federal trust structures, which firms gain the strongest edge with institutions?
The National Crowdfunding & Fintech Association (NCFA Canada) is a financial innovation ecosystem that provides education, market intelligence, industry stewardship, networking and funding opportunities and services to thousands of community members and works closely with industry, government, partners and affiliates to create a vibrant and innovative fintech and funding industry in Canada. Decentralized and distributed, NCFA is engaged with global stakeholders and helps incubate projects and investment in fintech, alternative finance, crowdfunding, peer-to-peer finance, payments, digital assets and tokens, artificial intelligence, blockchain, cryptocurrency, regtech, and insurtech sectors. Join Canada's Fintech & Funding Community today FREE! Or become a contributing member and get perks. For more information, please visit: www.ncfacanada.org
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Apr 3, 2026 | NCFA Insight | Digital Assets, Blockchain And Tokenization

On Mar 31, 2026, Google Quantum AI published new research on crypto security that says future quantum computers may break the elliptic curve cryptography used by cryptocurrencies with fewer qubits and gates than many people expected.
The research follows a recent hardware breakthrough of Google’s Willow quantum chip with a more practical claim about what future hardware could mean for today’s crypto security. Google’s research looks at the hard math that protects the public and private keys used by Bitcoin and Ethereum. It compiled two attack circuits, one using fewer than 1,200 logical qubits and 90 million Toffoli gates, and another using fewer than 1,450 logical qubits and 70 million Toffoli gates.
Based on the paper’s assumptions, Google estimates those circuits could run in a few minutes on a machine with fewer than 500,000 physical qubits, which is about 20 times less than earlier estimates. Google is saying the hardware threshold for breaking the cryptography behind today’s crypto keys may be much lower than the industry thought.
Bottom line is that the crypto industry may have less time than it thought to get ready for Quantum.
The paper doesn't treat every chain the same. Google says Bitcoin is more exposed to an attack during a transaction because public keys can become visible before settlement is final and the network approx. 10 minutes block gives an attacker more time to act. While Ethereum’s shorter block timing makes that specific early path less practical under the same assumptions.
The takeaway is that quantum pressure will hit networks differently, with exposure depending on key handling, wallet design, settlement timing, and how hard it is for a chain to coordinate an upgrade once the clock starts ticking.
Digital asset exchanges, custodians, wallet firms, and infrastructure providers can’t swap out cryptography overnight. They’ll need code changes, testing, governance, user education, and in some cases a messy transition across older systems that were never built for this kind of change.
Some firms have a much harder job than others. A Bitcoin holder reusing addresses and sitting on older wallet structures faces a different migration problem from a user operating through newer wallet tooling and faster transaction environments.
A custodian protecting large balances across older signing infrastructure has a bigger operational problem than a newer platform with cleaner architecture and fewer legacy constraints.
None of that is glamorous. However, it's the kind of work that determines who is will adapt clearly versus scrambling later on when the heat turns up at the risk of a user or investor base.
Google is already working towards a 2030 post quantum migration across its own systems. Google isn't getting their crystal ball out with a specific deadline for the crypto threat, but they do show it's no longer a distant research file for major infrastructure players. Teams that start early will have options. Teams that wait may end up trying to fix cryptography, user migration, and governance at the same time.
The National Crowdfunding & Fintech Association (NCFA Canada) is a financial innovation ecosystem that provides education, market intelligence, industry stewardship, networking and funding opportunities and services to thousands of community members and works closely with industry, government, partners and affiliates to create a vibrant and innovative fintech and funding industry in Canada. Decentralized and distributed, NCFA is engaged with global stakeholders and helps incubate projects and investment in fintech, alternative finance, crowdfunding, peer-to-peer finance, payments, digital assets and tokens, artificial intelligence, blockchain, cryptocurrency, regtech, and insurtech sectors. Join Canada's Fintech & Funding Community today FREE! Or become a contributing member and get perks. For more information, please visit: www.ncfacanada.org
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April 3, 2026 | NCFA Fintech Whisperer Weekly Intelligence | Capital Markets And Market Infrastructure, Payments And Market Infrastructure, Digital Assets Blockchain And Tokenization, Regulation And Policy

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This live weekly NCFA intelligence page tracks financial technology developments that significantly affect how fintechs build, sell, raise capital, and operate under scrutiny. Coverage prioritizes Canada and includes global events that directly influence competitive conditions, market access, and execution realities across fintech sectors. This page will be updated throughout the week with market movers in a live format and then each week we'll close the prior week's contents in prep for the upcoming week, and continue on a rolling basis. (Missed prior week's Fintech Whisperer? (December 6-12, 2025, December 13-19, 2025, January 1-9, 2026, January 10-16, 2026, January 17-23, 2026, January 24-30, 2026, January 31-February 6, 2026, February 7-13, 2026, February 14-20, 2026, February 21-27, 2026, February 28-March 6, 2026, March 7-13, 2026, March 14-20, 2026, March 21-27, 2026).
The SEC is putting options infrastructure, customer outcomes, and market growth on the table in one public process. That gives exchanges, brokers, market makers, and vendors a clear read on where scrutiny may build next.
The UK is opening a formal industry track to reduce duplication across major wholesale market reporting regimes. That puts reporting design, data standards, and regtech architecture back into play for firms that want lower operational drag in post trade infrastructure.
Lower listing friction can help venture issuers reduce cost and timing pressure, but it does not remove the need for disclosure readiness, investor demand, exchange review, governance, and financing fit. Founders, issuers, dealers, advisors, and investors should track whether public venture market access becomes more usable or whether market conditions remain the bigger constraint.
Europe is locking in how this market runs. Central bank money anchors it. Private players still have room, but they’ll need to fit inside tighter rules and real interoperability. If you’re building for enterprise payments or settlement, this isn’t abstract anymore. You’ll need to design for it now.
Japan is raising the AML/CFT baseline from policy and procedure into board level execution. Banks, brokers, payment firms, and regtech vendors now have a clearer supervisory benchmark for how risk assessment, controls, data, and technology need to work together.
Australia has moved AML reform into implementation with fixed dates and operating deadlines. Banks, remitters, VASPs, and regtech vendors now have a live timetable for travel rule compliance, customer due diligence changes, and system updates.
Canada now has a regulator run tokenization track with dates, intake, and a possible path to live testing. Builders have a direct way to shape how tokenized securities and market infrastructure are handled before rules harden.
Canada is putting financial services back into the trade relationship with China through a formal working channel. That creates a live policy lane for banks, financial institutions, and cross border market access discussions at a time when trade diversification is becoming more urgent.
The fight over prediction markets is now moving through both courts and rulemaking. That gives exchanges, brokers, and market operators a clearer read on where federal authority is likely to be enforced next.
A defined approvals launch date plus explicit capital calibration examples give new entrants and regulated partners a clearer timeline for federal licensing planning and balance sheet capacity conversations.
Claims-driven customer acquisition now faces coordinated scrutiny across conduct, privacy, and marketing rules at the same time. Firms that depend on lead generation, claims funnels, or partner-driven acquisition will need tighter controls across the full chain, not just cleaner front-end marketing.
The competitive edge is moving away from pure speed and toward execution inside the rules. This week’s signals show regulators and market operators getting more specific about how reporting works, how tokenized products may enter the market, how approvals work, and how customer facing conduct gets judged. That creates real openings for fintechs that can align product design with compliance, data architecture, and institutional grade operations earlier. It also raises the cost for firms still treating regulation as something to solve after launch.
NCFA offers various curated resources to help founders and investors stay current on developments that impact fintech markets, subscribe to NCFA weekly newsletter updates, view a rundown of current fintech news and insights, or dive into the latest fintech industry research.
The National Crowdfunding & Fintech Association (NCFA Canada) is a financial innovation ecosystem that provides education, market intelligence, industry stewardship, networking and funding opportunities and services to thousands of community members and works closely with industry, government, partners and affiliates to create a vibrant and innovative fintech and funding industry in Canada. Decentralized and distributed, NCFA is engaged with global stakeholders and helps incubate projects and investment in fintech, alternative finance, crowdfunding, peer-to-peer finance, payments, digital assets and tokens, artificial intelligence, blockchain, cryptocurrency, regtech, and insurtech sectors. Join Canada's Fintech & Funding Community today FREE! Or become a contributing member and get perks. For more information, please visit: www.ncfacanada.org
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