July 17, 2025 @ 11:00 am By JD Alois  |  

According to a report in WSJ.com, 401(k)s will soon be able to hold private securities. As defined benefit plans have declined in the US, 401(k)s have emerged as the top retirement vehicle for workers. Investors are limited in how much they can dedicate to a… Read More

July 17, 2025 @ 10:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In the evolving ecosystem of online investing, Bondora Group continues to make significant strides, as highlighted by their June 2025 performance statistics and their transparent approach to managing loan recoveries. In June 2025, Bondora Group reported loan originations of €28,747,468, representing a 17.0% increase from May’s figures…. Read More

July 17, 2025 @ 10:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lloyds Banking Group, Aberdeen Investments, and Archax announce a partnership to advance the use of blockchain technology, utilizing tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) as collateral for their trading businesses. In a UK-first initiative, tokenised “units of Aberdeen Investment’s money market fund (tMMF) and tokenised UK gilts… Read More

July 17, 2025 @ 9:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The latest NatWest Regional Growth Tracker showed improved performances across most parts of the UK in June, with business activity rising in eight out of the 12 nations and regions monitored. The Tracker – which did a survey of businesses operating in the manufacturing and… Read More

July 17, 2025 @ 9:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Netcapital Inc. (Nasdaq: NCPL), a platform providing online capital formation, announced a significant step in strengthening its financial position through a registered direct offering of up to $5.9 million, priced at the market under Nasdaq rules. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, Netcapital operates a technology platform… Read More

July 17, 2025 @ 9:04 am By JD Alois  |  

During a late-night session of the House of Representatives, HR 580 was approved by a majority of its members, thus allowing key crypto legislation to advance towards a floor vote. HR 580 is a procedural resolution that multiple Republicans were blocking. A vote earlier in… Read More

July 17, 2025 @ 8:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CyberCube, a cyber risk modeling and analytics business, has released the latest version of Portfolio Manager, its catastrophe model that empowers portfolio-level insights. CyberCube’s advanced analytics are said to be used by 75% of the top 40 US and European cyber insurance carriers. For this… Read More

July 17, 2025 @ 8:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Canton Network announces the addition of B2C2, Cumberland DRW, FalconX, and GSR, four digital asset liquidity providers, to its on-chain collateral initiative. This marks an expansion of the project, which began in January of this year. The new additions join Flowdesk and QCP as… Read More

July 17, 2025 @ 8:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Funding Circle (LSE: FCH), a UK-based SME finance platform, has received a £200 million forward flow agreement with Deutsche Bank. Deutsche Bank, a funder on the Funding Circle platform for more than 10 years now, is said to strengthen its commitment to enabling UK-based SMEs… Read More

July 17, 2025 @ 1:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

NiCE (NASDAQ: NICE) says that Aberdeen Group, a UK-based global investment management firm headquartered in Edinburgh, has selected NiCE Actimize’s X-Sight Suspicious Activity Monitoring (SAM) and Watch List Screening solutions as part of its financial crime operations. These are part of NiCE Actimize’s advanced “portfolio of… Read More

July 16, 2025 @ 11:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Two Prime, an SEC-registered investment advisor and institutional lender with total assets under management of ~$1.75 billion, announced a $20 million equity investment led by MARA Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MARA), deepening the companies’ existing relationship. The investment round, which includes additional participation from Susquehanna Crypto,… Read More

July 16, 2025 @ 10:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple, a firm that provides digital asset infrastructure for financial institutions, has today announced a partnership with Ctrl Alt, a tokenization infrastructure platform. The partnership sees Ctrl Alt using Ripple’s institutional-grade digital asset custody technology to “support the Dubai Land Department’s (DLD) Real Estate Tokenization… Read More

July 16, 2025 @ 10:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Xero, a global small business platform, has announced a partnership with Plaid, which seeks to eventually triple the number of high-quality bank feeds available to customers in the United States. For many small businesses, access to community-focused finance providers is crucial, given the vast number of… Read More

July 16, 2025 @ 5:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ICBA Payments, a subsidiary of the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), announced the renewal of its four-decade relationship with Visa. Together, the organizations are deepening their efforts “to equip local financial institutions with the modern payment tools and support they need to grow and… Read More

July 16, 2025 @ 4:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

Welp, it seems like the votes weren’t there again. Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted on a procedural measure to advance crypto legislation. Embarrassingly, the vote failed. President Trump corralled the Representatives who voted against the measure and last night claimed on Truth Social –… Read More

July 16, 2025 @ 3:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital bank OakNorth has provided $79 million of new funding to New York-based lending platform S3 Capital. Founded in 2013 by Joshua Crane and Robert Schwartz after they recognized a significant “lack of institutional quality, middle market construction lenders in NYC, the firm has since… Read More

July 16, 2025 @ 3:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

How times have changed. It was reported earlier today that Vanguard has emerged as the largest investor in Microstrategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) [now called Strategy], the company that pretty much wrote the book on becoming a Bitcoin treasury play. The Street shares that according to new data… Read More

July 16, 2025 @ 2:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

More than half of U.S. companies (57%) reported declining gross margins as a direct result of tariffs, according to the new KPMG Tariff Pulse Survey. As tariffs continue to reshape the global trade landscape, American businesses are already feeling “negative impacts, while anticipating that they… Read More

July 16, 2025 @ 2:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OKX is reporting that it has integrated PayPal as a payment method on its platform, making cryptocurrency access and payments more accessible to customers across Europe. Customers across the European Economic Area (EEA) can now purchase crypto on OKX directly “using any available funding source supported by PayPal,… Read More

July 16, 2025 @ 11:27 am By JD Alois  |  

The One Big Beautiful Bill, signed into law on July 4th, made the Trump tax cuts from 2017 permanent. While opposition leaders have made claims that these tax cuts benefited the wealthy, they really supported the middle segment of society and, most importantly, smaller firms…. Read More