Chris King

Barcelona based sales incentive and commission platform raised €2.1m in Seed funding led by Swanlaab.

New York based healthcare claims analytics platform raised $17m in Series A funding led by Sound Ventures.

Austin based bitcoin custody and financial services platform raised $12.5m in new funding led by Early Riders.

Riyadh based developer of enterprise banking software for customer onboarding, transaction monitoring, and financial product management raised $25m in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz.

San Francisco based automated accrual-basis bookkeeping platform raised $10m in Seed funding led by Khosla Ventures.

Disputed bets are a growing headache for prediction markets, including Polymarket, as they contend with a surge of new traders and dizzying growth in trading volume. The platforms aim to write clear yes-or-no questions for traders to wager on. But the messiness of real-world events means it isn't always obvious which side was right. Most prediction-market firms, such as Kalshi, sort out disputes and ambiguities themselves. But Polymarket outsources the task to a third-party service called UMA, which conducts votes when rival factions of traders disagree over who deserves a payout.

Commodity trading house Trafigura Group Pte Ltd. is in talks with Tether Inc. about a pilot project to use its stablecoin at fuel stations. The pilot would focus on facilitating payments in petrol stations operated by Trafigura's fuel distribution arm Puma Energy in El Salvador, according to people familiar with the matter, who said the discussions are at an early stage and subject to regulatory approvals.

Chris King looks at the magic that gets created when Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns battle on a grand stage in WWE!

Revisit WWE SummerSlam 1999 in Minnesota, including Edge and Christian's breakout performance and Mankind's WWE Championship victory.

Chris King ranks the ten best WWE SummerSlam main events of the past decade, featuring Roman Reigns, Brock Lesnar, Cody Rhodes and more.