Amex, Visa, Citi, Paypal Invest in Crypto Transaction Monitoring and Forensic...
American Express’ Amex Ventures, Visa, Citi Ventures, DRW Venture Capital, Jump Capital, Marshall Wace, Block (formerly Square Inc.), and Paypal Ventures are among investors in the latest funding round of crypto transaction monitoring and forensics platform TRM. Amex, Visa, Citi, Paypal Invest in TRM Platform Crypto transaction monitoring and forensics platform TRM announced Tuesday investments from major financial institutions in its Series B funding round. The company has raised $60 billion from leading financial institutions, including American....
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