November 30, 2025 @ 5:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

erad, the Riyadh-headquartered alternative financing platform for SMEs, has partnered with Jefferies (NYSE: JEF) (with co-investment from Channel Capital) to secure $125M in a credit deal, in order to accelerate embedded finance solutions across the GCC region. After the transaction is completed, it will mark… Read More

November 30, 2025 @ 4:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coin Metrics has shared key insights on recent significant developments in the Bitcoin (BTC) and crypto space. The researchers from Coin Metrics have shared several important notes on major crypto events and what to anticipate as we close out this current year and head into… Read More

November 30, 2025 @ 4:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Liverpool FC is announcing PayPal  (NASDAQ: PYPL) as the club’s digital payments partner in a new global deal. This marks PayPal’s collaboration with a Premier League club, positioning the Fintech as one of the ways to pay for football enthusiasts. A global enabler of digital… Read More

November 30, 2025 @ 4:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Canada’s so-called high-value payment system, Lynx, has reportedly reached a key milestone, completely transitioning to the ISO 20022 financial message standard (MX messages), marking a step forward for payment advancements across the country. This update aligns with the international initiative to discontinue outdated legacy MT… Read More

November 30, 2025 @ 3:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The South Korean card payments market is now expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.7% over 2025-29 to reach KRW1,510.2 trillion ($1.1 trillion) by the year 2029, supported and enabled by high card penetration, steady payment infrastructure, and government backing… Read More

November 30, 2025 @ 1:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Regtech firm SlowMist noted that recently, the NPM ecosystem has experienced another large-scale package poisoning incident. For context, the so-called NPM ecosystem is the vast, interconnected system of the Node Package Manager (npm), which includes the “online registry of software packages and the command-line interface… Read More

November 30, 2025 @ 1:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PitchBook noted in its latest global private market fundraising report that dry powder on the rise despite a fairly tough fundraising environment. PitchBook also mentioned in the extensive research report that even though fundraising was a bit slow so far this year, private markets remain… Read More

November 30, 2025 @ 1:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Dr. Sean Dawson, head of research at onchain options platform, Derive.xyz (TVL $115.8M, $18.6B trade volume), has shared a Bitcoin and cryptocurrency market update. Dr. Sean Dawson of Derive.xyz noted that Bitcoin (BTC) volume dropped 25% as the market seemingly reversed its panic selling. They… Read More

November 30, 2025 @ 6:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Wizz Financial, the Abu Dhabi-based global fintech group specializing in cross-border payments and digital wallets, in partnership with Aditum Investment Management Limited, announced the launch of MENA and India’s first gold-backed private credit strategy, fully regulated under India’s RBI framework and available via UAE-based FIs…. Read More

November 29, 2025 @ 4:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Paxos, the blockchain infrastructure platform, announced it has acquired Fordefi, which is described as an institutional-grade custody and wallet technology provider. Businesses have reportedly relied on Paxos for custodial infrastructure as they enter the on-chain financial economy. Digital asset market adoption continues and customers require… Read More

November 29, 2025 @ 4:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD) is reportedly introducing a futures and derivatives exchange and clearinghouse, deepening our investment in Prediction Markets and better positioning us to deliver various products to our customers. JB Mackenzie, VP and General Manager of Futures and International at Robinhood said that they… Read More

November 29, 2025 @ 4:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

S&P Global may have somewhat surprised the stablecoin sector this past week after cutting Tether’s rating to “weak,” citing persistent disclosure gaps and structural opacity across its reserves. The downgrade appears have put fresh scrutiny on the world’s largest stablecoin, Tether (USDT), and analysts at… Read More

November 29, 2025 @ 2:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Anthony Apollo, Executive Director at the Wyoming Stable Token Commission, has shared what he claims is another first for a U.S. state which has been achieved by their organization (the Wyoming Stable Token Commission). At a recent gathering / sesssion, their CISO Keith Lawhorn unveiled… Read More

November 29, 2025 @ 2:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK business confidence softens but still reportedly remains above long-term average. This, according to the latest update from the Lloyds Banking Group. As mentioned in a report from UK‘s Lloyds Bank, the overall business confidence fell a number of points to just over 40% in… Read More

November 29, 2025 @ 2:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Amundi, Europe’s asset manager, announces the launch of its tokenized share of the AMUNDI FUNDS CASH EUR money market fund. The first transaction reportedly took place on Nov 4, and the fund is now said to be distributed in a hybrid manner: it now remains… Read More

November 29, 2025 @ 12:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Adyen (AMS: ADYEN), the global financial technology platform for businesses, announced a partnership with Lufthansa Group, Europe’s airline group, alongside Klarna, the digital bank and flexible payments provider. Starting in November, Lufthansa Group customers will be able to gain access to Klarna’s flexible payment solutions,… Read More

November 28, 2025 @ 5:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

By the end of H1 2025, very little around AI investment had been seen in public bond markets, with the sector’s “hyperscalers” said to be generating a considerable level of cash flow and leveraging private equity, private credit and other sources to “fund their capital… Read More

November 28, 2025 @ 5:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wirex has announced a partnership with Crossmint to expand on-chain stablecoin payments to non-EVM blockchains, starting with Stellar. This collaboration is a major step toward unlocking true multichain stablecoin payments. It brings Wirex’s on-chain, non-custodial payment architecture to ecosystems that have traditionally been “underserved by… Read More

November 28, 2025 @ 4:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

U.S. Bank, PwC, and the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) have recently unveiled a significant step forward in making programmable money bank-grade: U.S. Bank is testing custom stablecoin issuance on the Stellar network. This latest announcement was reportedly made on the recently U.S. Bank Money 20/20… Read More

November 28, 2025 @ 3:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BKN301 Group, a Fintech Architecture Provider, has recently announced milestones marking a new phase in its growth journey: it has secured credit facility from funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, and acquired Planky, a UK-based tech firm specialized in AI-driven financial analytics and open banking…. Read More