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The Reg CF securities exemption has had a choppy 2026 so far. The smallest exemption for issuers raising funds online, the numbers are off versus their peak but activity continues to generate funds for smaller, private firms in need of growth capital. Crowdfund Capital Advisors… Read More
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Saudi Arabia’s Al Qadsiah Club has signed a memorandum of understanding with cybersecurity provider LogRhythm | Exabeam to explore the use of cloud-based security and AI tools to protect the sports club’s growing digital operations. The agreement, signed on the sidelines of technology conference LEAP… Read More
Read more in: Artificial Intelligence, Asia | Tagged Al Qadsiah Club, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, LogRhythm | Exabeam, saudi arabia
The operator behind the so-called Wave 3 cluster of Coldcard hardware-wallet thefts has begun systematically cashing out stolen bitcoin after weeks of inactivity, according to a Monday update from Galaxy Research. Galaxy’s on-chain team says the actor created 293 separate 2-of-2 multisignature vaults, one for… Read More
Read more in: Blockchain & Digital Assets | Tagged coldcard, galaxy research, hack, hardware wallets, thorchain
US listed spot XRP exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have now drawn about $1.68 billion in cumulative net subscriptions since they began trading last November, according to the latest industry tallies. The figure underscores a durable, if uneven, institutional bid for regulated exposure to the token even as… Read More
Read more in: Blockchain & Digital Assets, Offerings | Tagged bitwise, Canary Capital, etfs, franklin templeton, xrp
FTV leads TabaPay’s $155M round This financing includes both primary capital for the company and a secondary transaction. Alongside the transaction, TabaPay also announced its intent to acquire Transact Bank, N.A., an OCC-chartered and FDIC-insured bank based in Denver, Colorado. Through a single API, TabaPay… Read More
Read more in: Fintech, Global | Tagged Autonomy, Cari, Fina Partner, Pluggy, tabapay
Singapore-based Ant International has received a payment institution licence from Brazil’s central bank, expanding its regulated presence as the financial technology company strengthens its local and cross-border payment capabilities in Latin America’s largest economy. The licence from Banco Central do Brasil builds on services Ant… Read More
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The Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved an initial public offering (IPO) by Mynt Inc., operator of the GCash mobile wallet, that could raise up to 92.32 billion pesos ($1.6 billion), potentially making it one of the country’s largest-ever listings. The regulator approved… Read More
Read more in: Asia, Fintech | Tagged gcash, globe, mynt, Philippines
A fight over Robinhood Chain’s fee design has moved past a two-person argument and now includes voices from Solana, Arbitrum, and BNB Chain. The issue is no longer only how much a single transfer costs. It is who should earn money from network activity, and… Read More
Read more in: Blockchain & Digital Assets | Tagged Arbitrum, bnb chain, robinhood chain, solana
Swedish private equity firm EQT has agreed to acquire a majority stake in specialty insurance and reinsurance broker McGill and Partners from Warburg Pincus for $2 billion, the companies said. The transaction will see Warburg Pincus sell its equity stake in full, while McGill and… Read More
Read more in: Insurtech | Tagged eqt, McGill and Partners, private equity, reinsurance, sweden
A long-quiet Bitcoin address that first received coins in mid-2016 moved more than a thousand coins in a single transaction, while holders of early physical Bitcoin collectibles also began unlocking a cluster of coins after years of inactivity. The sending wallet used the older P2PKH… Read More
Read more in: Blockchain & Digital Assets, Global | Tagged bitcoin, btc, Crypto Transactions, digital wallets
SoFi, Payward team up on multiple fronts Payward will leverage SoFi’s Big Business Banking capabilities, join the SoFi Exchange Network (SEN) and list SoFiUSD on its multi-asset trading platform. SoFi will also use Kraken Prime, Payward’s full-service prime brokerage solution, as an additional source of… Read More
Read more in: Fintech, Blockchain & Digital Assets, Global | Tagged aeropay, embedded banking, fis, payward, socure, sofi
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has warned the public to stay alert to phishing scams involving the unauthorised binding of payment cards, including ATM cards, to contactless mobile payment services. The HKMA said it recently received reports from banks of scams in which fraudsters… Read More
Read more in: Asia, Fintech | Tagged hkma, hong kong, hong kong monetary authority, payments, phising
The European Central Bank (ECB) is examining a possible connection between its TARGET Instant Payment Settlement platform, known as TIPS, and Brazil’s Pix system. If the work advances, the link would be the first major cross-border expansion of Pix and one of several corridors the… Read More
Read more in: Fintech, Global | Tagged brazil, ecb, european central bank, pix, tips
The first public look at institutional ownership of US Hyperliquid exchange-traded funds arrived with the latest round of 13F filings. Bloomberg Intelligence ETF analyst James Seyffart compiled the reports and found that 30 firms disclosed combined holdings of about $74.9 million as of June 30…. Read More
Read more in: Blockchain & Digital Assets, Offerings | Tagged etfs, hype tokens, hyperliquid, jane street, ubs
Wallets tied to North Korea’s sanctioned Lazarus Group have been routing tens of millions of dollars through Hyperliquid, according to on-chain work first published by Arkham analyst Emmett Gallic. The finding lands just as the Trump administration is trying to pull the same derivatives venue… Read More
Read more in: Blockchain & Digital Assets, Global, Politics, Legal & Regulation | Tagged hyperliquid, lazarus group, north korea, trump, us
US listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) absorbed a substantial wave of new money last week, drawing approximately $987 million in net creations and extending a rebound in regulated demand for the leading digital asset. The figure, compiled from issuer flow data, marked the third week… Read More
Read more in: Blockchain & Digital Assets, Global, Offerings | Tagged bitcoin, blackrock, btc, etfs, ethereum
Standard Chartered (LON: STAN) has expanded its digital-asset services in the United Arab Emirates, introducing institutional spot trading in Bitcoin and Ethereum through its Dubai International Financial Centre unit. The bank said the offering makes it the first global systemically important bank to provide this… Read More
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Russian investors behind a buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) platform have started international arbitration against Uzbekistan, arguing that a commercial joint venture with a state-owned bank collapsed into coercion, expropriation and the detention of a local executive. Counsel for Solfy RUS LLC and its shareholder Maksim Poletaev say… Read More
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DeFi Development Corp. (NASDAQ: DFDV), the firm that has built its balance sheet around accumulating Solana, has outlined plans for a new preferred-stock raise aimed at expanding that treasury. The company said it intends to offer up to $20 million of Variable Rate Series C… Read More
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