December 17, 2025 @ 8:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Custodia Bank, a Wyoming-chartered crypto-assets custody institution, has petitioned the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit for an en banc rehearing of a divided panel’s October 2025 ruling that affirmed the Federal Reserve‘s discretion to deny it a master account. A master… Read More

December 17, 2025 @ 7:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As institutions adopt on-chain credit, FalconX’s lending desk has integrated Kamino, a “decentralized” lending protocol on Solana, into its lending and structured product offerings. By utilizing Kamino’s non-custodial infrastructure and fixed-rate lending design, FalconX can access liquidity, maximize capital efficiency, and support the institutional demand… Read More

December 17, 2025 @ 7:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), Cambridge Judge Business School, has shared insights from Wenbin Wu, Research Associate at the CCAF. Wu noted that the need to upgrade to a post-quantum environment is “more urgent for blockchains than for almost any other digital system.”… Read More

December 17, 2025 @ 5:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna (NYSE:KLAR), the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, announced the launch of its Agentic Product Protocol, which is described as being a new open standard that makes every product on the internet discoverable as well as more understandable by AI agents. As AI becomes… Read More

December 17, 2025 @ 5:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OakNorth, the digital bank for entrepreneurs, has provided a $60.7m note-on-note facility to returning customer and New York-based lending platform, S3 Capital. Established back in 2013 by Joshua Crane and Robert Schwartz after they claimed to have recognized a significant lack of institutional quality, middle… Read More

December 17, 2025 @ 3:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Copper, a firm enabling digital assets custody, collateral management, and prime services, is pleased to announce that they are the “first” custodians to support native mint and redeem capabilities for Ethena digital assets in their platform. Through expanding their partnership with Ethena, “a decentralized finance… Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 6:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Betterment at Work, a provider of modern, scalable 401(k) plans for growing businesses, today launched the fifth installment of its annual Retirement Readiness Report. The report reveals that nearly half (48%) of U.S. workers believe they’ll need “at least $1 million to retire comfortably—up from… Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 4:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CME Group, the world’s derivatives marketplace, launched Spot-Quoted XRP and SOL futures. According to the announcement, spot-quoted XRP and SOL futures will now aim to complement the existing Spot-Quoted Bitcoin and Ether futures, and are also available to trade “across the four major U.S. equity… Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 2:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM), the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth, and Revolve Group, Inc. (NYSE: RVLV), the fashion retailer for Millennial and Generation Z consumers, announced an expansion of their partnership that makes it easier for shoppers in Canada and the… Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 2:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Anchorage Digital, home to the federally chartered crypto bank, announced it has acquired the Securitize For Advisors (SFA) business unit from its parent company, Securitize. SFA is a crypto wealth management platform for registered investment advisors (RIAs). With this acquisition, Anchorage Digital will expand its… Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 2:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, and CME Group, the world’s derivatives marketplace, announced progress on their efforts to “extend their existing cross-margining arrangement to end-user clients.” Specifically, the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation… Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 10:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MetaMask is pleased to announce that Bitcoin (BTC) is now being supported on the platform. According to the update, this means users are able to trade and manage BTC alongside other crypto-assets such as Ethereum, Solana, Monad, and Sei assets, all inside their MetaMask wallet…. Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 8:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Archax, the UK/EU regulated digital asset platform, and TradingStack.io, the capital markets connectivity provider, announced that they have partnered to offer FIX access to cryptocurrencies and tokenised real-world assets (RWAs) available on the Archax Primary and Secondary markets. By leveraging the Financial Information eXchange (FIX)… Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Airwallex, a financial platform for businesses, announced it will inject $590 million into its UK business across the next 5 years (2026 to 2030) to drive local and growth. The investment will be spent on a range of activities “including a hiring surge which will… Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 8:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sygnum, a global digital asset banking group, announces it has launched its collaboration with BNY (NYSE: BK), a global financial services company, as one of its USD settlement providers. The collab, which is reportedly one the first with a European digital asset bank in this… Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 8:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

LendInvest Mortgages (LSE: LINV), an alternative platform for property finance, announces the launch of a long-term development finance funding partnership with AB CarVal and HSBC, intended to scale the company’s development finance proposition and enable the delivery of new homes across the nation. The funding… Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The British Business Bank announced a £15 million investment into PolyAI, a key player in enterprise conversational AI, as part of an $86 million Series D round. The round has reportedly been co-led by Georgian, Hedosophia, Khosla Ventures, with additional investment from NVentures (NVIDIA’s VC… Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 8:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

tZERO Group, Inc., a blockchain-powered multi-asset infrastructure provider, announced a partnership with Polymath, the company behind Polymesh – an L1 blockchain built for real-world assets. The partnership brings together Polymath’s RWA blockchain tech and tZERO’s broker-dealer and tokenization capabilities to support issuers seeking to “tokenize… Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 8:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Proxymity, the digital investor communication platform, announces the expansion of its partnership with Deutsche Bank, one of the global financial institutions, with the rollout of Proxymity Vote Connect Access in Thailand. Deutsche Bank is said to be one of the first adopters of Proxymity’s digital… Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 8:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Phantom, a crypto wallet trusted by more than 20 million users, and Kalshi, the world’s prediction market, introduced a new way to trade what’s trending. With Phantom Prediction Markets, users can tap into the moments shaping politics, crypto, sports, and culture, discovering markets and watching… Read More