April 28, 2025 @ 11:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget has announced plans to pursue legal action against eight accounts suspected of orchestrating a sophisticated market manipulation scheme involving the VOXEL token, resulting in illicit profits exceeding $20 million. The move comes in response to unusual trading activity detected on April 20,… Read More

April 28, 2025 @ 10:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In a recent incident impacting the web3 and decentralized finance (DeFi) space, Term Finance, an Ethereum-based platform offering fixed-rate lending, reportedly recovered $1 million of the $1.6 million lost due to a misconfigured oracle in its Treehouse (tETH) market. The error is said to have… Read More

April 28, 2025 @ 10:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ov Finance has announced an update to its financial technology platform, introducing a suite of intelligent investment tools and digital lending features designed to support users in “achieving smarter and more responsive financial decision-making.” This upgrade reflects the company’s overall strategy of making finance more… Read More

April 28, 2025 @ 6:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mike Cagney, Co-founder and CEO of Figure Markets, who also founded SoFi, has outlined transformative changes on the horizon for financial markets driven by upcoming stablecoin legislation and blockchain innovations. These developments, expected to take shape by the August recess, could redefine the banking system,… Read More

April 28, 2025 @ 6:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ: SOFI) has caught the attention of Wall Street analysts, with Citizens JMP recently sharing key insights. The firm has provided a generally positive outlook for SoFi’s stock performance, which has been attributed to the Fintech firm’s growth trajectory, improving profitability, and future… Read More

April 28, 2025 @ 6:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Just a few days prior to US President Donald Trump’s second inauguration, financial technology firm Ramp had released a detailed blog post titled “The Efficiency Formula,” outlining strategies to curb wasteful government spending. The 4,000-word blog post, authored by Ramp’s CEO and a key investor,… Read More

April 28, 2025 @ 6:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Thunes, the so-called “Smart Superhighway” to move money around the world, is proud to announce the raise of its $150 million Series D at a valuation increase over its last round. Thunes welcomes Apis Partners and Vitruvian Partners, two private equity firms, both globally recognized… Read More

April 28, 2025 @ 6:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kaspersky’s GReAT team has uncovered a new Lazarus campaign, combining a watering hole attack with the “exploitation of vulnerabilities in third-party software to target organizations in South Korea.” During the research, company experts have also “discovered a zero-day vulnerability in the widely used South Korean… Read More

April 28, 2025 @ 6:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Pepperdine University, Graziadio Business School, recently announced that it is currently accepting applicants for the list of the most fundable companies. The competition is open to all startups generating between zero (pre-revenue) to $10 million in revenue based in the US. Pepperdine reports that thousands… Read More

April 28, 2025 @ 12:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

Zelle is a peer-to-peer transfers and payments network that was founded by big banks who recognized they were falling behind in a world of Venmo. Today, Zelle is well-established at these founding banks, as well as other financial services. Today, Zelle is distributing a report on… Read More

April 28, 2025 @ 12:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Adyen (ADYEN:AMS), a multi-faceted payments provider, was hit by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack last week. In a blog post, Adyen said the attacker was targeting their European data centers, with certain services experiencing degraded service or outages. The attack was marked as “resolved”… Read More

April 28, 2025 @ 11:46 am By JD Alois  |  

DealMaker, a tech-infused securities crowdfunding enabler, has announced new headquarters in New York City. Ostensibly, DealMaker was founded and has been based in Toronto. Having already established additional offices in the US, the move to the world’s leading financial center makes a lot of sense…. Read More

April 28, 2025 @ 9:33 am By JD Alois  |  

Tokenization enabler Tokeny and blockchain entity HBAR Foundation have revealed a partnership pertaining to the digitization of Real World Assets (RWAs). The collaboration is said to deliver a “compliant, scalable, and green institutional tokenization on the Hedera Network. The agreement is described as a “major milestone”… Read More

April 28, 2025 @ 8:09 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

SurgePays (Nasdaq: SURG), a wireless and point-of-sale technology company, announced today the completion of its nationwide launch on the AT&T network, following full integration as a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). The milestone positions SurgePays to aggressively scale its direct-to-consumer wireless services and its infrastructure… Read More

April 28, 2025 @ 7:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Brightflag, the AI-powered enterprise legal management (ELM) platform, today announced a suite of new AI-powered spend management, matter management, and insights features “to further optimize legal work and spend for corporate legal teams.” Ian Nolan, co-founder and CEO of Brightflag said: “Brightflag has redefined enterprise… Read More

April 28, 2025 @ 7:24 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Trulioo, a personal and business verification platform, has announced its partnership with PingPong, a provider of cross-border embedded payment solutions. PingPong selected Trulioo Business Verification and Watchlist Screening to minimize manual onboarding and deliver compliant payment experiences worldwide. PingPong said it holds more than 60 financial licenses and adheres to strict regulatory standards… Read More

April 28, 2025 @ 7:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BitGo, the infrastructure provider of digital asset solutions, is pleased to announce that its Dubai subsidiary, BitGo Custody MENA FZE, has received a Virtual Assets Service Provider (VASP) operating license to provide Virtual Asset Custody Services and Staking, from Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA)…. Read More

April 28, 2025 @ 7:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nexo, the global digital assets wealth platform, has announced its return to the United States after recognizing a more favorable regulatory environment under the Trump Administration. The re-entry was unveiled at a business session featuring addresses from Donald Trump Jr., EVP of The Trump Organization;… Read More

April 28, 2025 @ 6:01 am By Michael Wong  |  

Visa and Maroc Telecom Group have entered into a strategic partnership to enhance mobile payment services in Morocco and explore wider digital financial inclusion efforts across Africa, the companies announced. The collaboration will initially focus on integrating Visa’s payment solutions into MT Cash, Maroc Telecom’s… Read More

April 28, 2025 @ 5:19 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

CapyFast, an embedded payments provider for digital commerce, and Bidwise, a performance marketing platform, have announced a new strategic partnership. This collaboration aims to improve the payments flow across the performance marketing spectrum by making it faster, cheaper, and more intelligent. The agreement, signed today… Read More