Avanti Prepares for Crypto Bank Launch With $37M Funding Round
- With the completion of the Series A funding round, Avanti has now raised around $44 million in preparation for its digital asset bank launch.
- Participating in the round were big names such as Coinbase Ventures, Binance.US, Morgan Creek Digital, Madison Paige Ventures, AP Capital and others.
Shutterstock
The Avanti Financial Group was able to raise $37 million in a Series A funding round, ahead of the company’s digital asset bank launch, the firm said in a press release on 25 March.
According to the announcement, the funding round was joined by a global mix of institutional investors, such as Coinbase Ventures, Binance.US, Morgan Creek Digital, Madison Paige Ventures, AP Capital and others. With the completion of the Series A round, Avanti has already raised around $44 million for the launch of its digital asset bank. The founder and CEO of Avanti, Caitlin Long, said in a statement:
“We thank our investors for helping Avanti build a new breed of bank that services Bitcoin and also offers meaningful API capabilities for U.S. dollar transactions to tech-savvy customers.”
The newly acquired funds will not only help the bank meet the required regulatory capital needed for launch, but also help Avanti invest in its engineering team and fund “other operating expenses”.
Founded in 2020, Avanti aims to serve as a regulatory compliant bank that bridges the U.S. payments system and digital assets. It plans to offer its customers services such as API-based U.S. dollar payment services for ACH and SWIFT wires, issuance of a tokenized U.S. dollar called Avit, as well as custody and on/off ramp services for Bitcoin and other digital assets.
Avanti already acquired a bank charter status from the state of Wyoming in October, making it the second crypto company to gain a bank status after Kraken Financial, which was granted the status a month before Avanti. While the official date of the bank’s launch is still unknown, Long claimed the firm has already received more than 2,500 inbound customer inquiries since October.
- Social trading platforms are an excellent option for those new to the financial markets as they allow users to directly interact with professional and experienced traders.
- These platforms allow users to follow the trades of others, allowing them to leverage the community’s collective wisdom to make informed investment decisions.
Shutterstock
- The investment team behind Temasek’s $275 million investment into FTX prior to its collapse “took collective accountability” and had their compensation cut.
- While the company was the second largest outside investor in FTX, it was one of the first to write off its entire investment only days after the collapse of the exchange.
- NYDFS took possession of Signature in order to protect the economy and strengthen the confidence in the banking system, and assured customers that all deposits will be returned.
- The price of USDC also started to recover after its issuer, Circle, revealed that all stablecoin reserves held at Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) were safe, and that the company had new banking partners.