September 19, 2026 @ 6:37 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Hong Kong has unveiled a five-year economic plan aimed at strengthening its role as an international financial, maritime, and trade centre while expanding its position as an innovation and technology hub and a centre for high-calibre talent. Chief Executive John Lee announced the First Five-Year… Read More

September 19, 2026 @ 6:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OpenEden has expanded its tokenized credit product HYBOND onto BNB Chain, pairing the deployment with RedStone’s pricing and planned settlement tools. The move marks the fund’s first network expansion after its original launch on Ethereum and brings a BNY-managed high-yield bond strategy into a larger… Read More

September 19, 2026 @ 6:32 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Xora, a Temasek-backed investment fund, has led an additional $53 million seed round in enterprise AI services company Hang Ten Systems, bringing the startup’s total funding to $85 million. Mayfield, which led Hang Ten’s first seed round, and Aramco Ventures also participated in the latest… Read More

September 19, 2026 @ 10:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut has stated that it has not received any direct ransom request from people claiming responsibility for a recent customer-data incident. The digital bank said it has had no contact from the group that later posted a public ultimatum online. The company first disclosed the… Read More

September 19, 2026 @ 10:32 am By Michael Wong  |  

Singapore and China are expanding cooperation on sustainable finance, including transition activities, climate adaptation, and resilience, as regulators seek to develop financing mechanisms for projects exposed to climate risks. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the People’s Bank of China (PBC) held their fourth… Read More

September 19, 2026 @ 2:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nearly a thousand US retailers and trade groups have asked a federal judge to reject a proposed deal that would resolve a two-decade antitrust fight over Visa (NYSE:V) and Mastercard (NYSE:MA) swipe fees. The Merchant Payments Coalition said 978 businesses and associations filed objections with… Read More

September 19, 2026 @ 1:33 am By Michael Wong  |  

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is proposing a senior unsecured loan of up to $40 million to Azerbaijan’s Unibank Commercial Bank OJSC, aimed at expanding financing for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), according to project disclosure seen by CrowdFund Insider. The proposed financing comprises… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 3:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Portage, the fintech-focused investment platform within Sagard, has completed fundraising for its fourth venture vehicle, Portage Ventures IV, at roughly $600 million. The close, announced on September 16, 2026, arrives as the firm marks a decade of backing companies that are changing how financial services… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 3:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

S&P Global has agreed to buy OpenZeppelin, a move that pairs one of the best-known names in credit ratings and market data with a firm that has spent a decade building security standards for blockchain-based finance. The companies announced the deal on September 17, 2026…. Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 3:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BMLL Technologies has struck a partnership with Kalshi that brings the prediction-market venue’s historical order-book records onto BMLL’s institutional data platform. Announced on 17 September 2026 from London and New York, the deal folds Kalshi’s CFTC-regulated event-contract history into the same high-fidelity, multi-asset coverage that… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 3:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Saffron Building Society has chosen FintechOS to modernise how it originates mortgages, starting with residential lending and building toward a full end-to-end process. The Essex mutual, founded in 1849 and now serving more than 118,000 members with assets above £1.5 billion, wants the new system… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 12:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

While some see crypto and digital asset services as a negative for traditional finance, more specifically, smaller firms, the reality is quite different. All forms of finance will enter the digital age including digital assets like tokenized securities, stablecoins and other assets. This week, Coinbase… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 10:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European payments group Nexi and Agentic Commerce Optimization specialist ReFiBuy have joined forces to help merchants stay visible as shoppers lean more heavily on AI assistants. Announced on 17 September 2026 from Milan and Raleigh, the collaboration aims to keep product catalogues ready for evaluation,… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 7:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

US officials have added an Iranian digital asset platform to the sanctions list, saying it helped move large bitcoin payments tied to Tehran’s security apparatus. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced the designations on September 17, 2026, as part of Operation Economic… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 6:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Singapore-based stablecoin payments company dtcpay has completed its Series A financing at US$25 million after bringing Japan’s SBI Group in as a strategic investor. The round was first led earlier in 2026 by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India. SBI Group is participating through SBI… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 5:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

WisdomTree (NYSE: WT) and MoonPay have unveiled a partnership aimed at widening how eligible American investors can reach tokenized investment products, with the first focus on a digital Treasury money-market fund. The firms said they will use MoonPay’s payments and blockchain rails to create a… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 3:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Payward, the company behind Kraken, has outlined plans to give eligible U.S. customers access to perpetual futures that settle and match on a public blockchain rather than a conventional centralized venue. The first destination would be Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 framework, which lets a third party create,… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 12:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

North Korea has expanded a covert campaign to place information-technology staff inside American firms by recruiting people in third countries to help hide the true origin of job applicants, according to US officials and cybersecurity researchers. The effort previously relied heavily on stolen US identities… Read More