October 17, 2025 @ 1:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As the economic outlook reportedly reaches its lowest point since 1997, consumers are looking for ways to more effectively manage their spending. This, according an update from Deloitte. The firm has noted that surveyed consumers now intend to spend an average of $1,595 this festive… Read More

October 17, 2025 @ 10:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Global HR and payroll platform Deel is reporting a Series E round, acquiring $300 million and achieving a $17.3 billion valuation. This capital injection, co-led by Ribbit Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and Coatue Management, highlights Deel’s steady financial performance and its potential for growth in the… Read More

October 17, 2025 @ 9:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

YZi Labs reports that it is leading a $50 million round in Better Payment Network (BPN), which is described as a programmable payment network built for the multi-stablecoin era. The investment reportedly aligns with YZi Labs’ thesis of backing global financial infrastructure – systems that place… Read More

October 17, 2025 @ 8:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mid-market firms remained the growth engine of the UK private sector economy during the past month. according to the NatWest UK Business Growth Tracker data. The Tracker – which has reportedly surveyed mid-market businesses operating in the manufacturing as well as services sectors – declined… Read More

October 17, 2025 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SIX, the financial data and market infrastructure provider, signed a seven-year strategic partnership with Barclays, the global banking group, in order to support the banking institution’s international growth and enabler greater cost efficiencies. Strengthening the relationship, the collaboration will reportedly see Barclays’ business – which… Read More

October 17, 2025 @ 8:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sygnum Bank Middle East announces the launch of Sygnum Validators, a new service launched from Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) which includes operating institutional-grade validator nodes for select blockchain net​​works that enable non-custodial staking. The first validator to launch supports the Solana network, enabling eligible… Read More

October 17, 2025 @ 8:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Anchorage Digital Bank, the federally chartered crypto bank in the U.S., supports global USD wire transfers. With this feature, Anchorage Digital Bank becomes a crypto-native institution to offer cash and crypto services via a unified, federally regulated platform. Clients are able to now hold, send,… Read More

October 17, 2025 @ 1:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Advance, the credit card from Lloyds, provides support to help build a good credit score in a responsible manner- suitable for consumers with big aspirations on the horizon that will require substantial borrowing to help turn them into a reality. When working toward life goals,… Read More

October 16, 2025 @ 8:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) announced Merchant Cloud, a payments platform that brings together various services from Mastercard and its partners, helping firms navigate the complexities of commerce, supporting their ongoing expansion efforts into new markets and delivering enhanced experiences for end-users. The platform provides “scheme-agnostic” solutions… Read More

October 16, 2025 @ 7:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Earlier this year, Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) identified a campaign by the ‘Mysterious Elephant’ APT. The group mainly targets government entities as well as foreign affairs organizations across the APAC area, with a particular focus on Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka… Read More

October 16, 2025 @ 3:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets and investing platform Kraken has announced it has acquired Small Exchange, which is described as a CFTC-licensed Designated Contract Market (DCM), from IG Group., for $100 million. According to Kraken, this latest update aims to establish the foundation for the crypto trading platform… Read More

October 16, 2025 @ 3:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alpaca, a self-clearing broker-dealer that offers stocks, ETFs, options, and fixed income, announced its acceptance as a Nasdaq Exchange Member. This update helps to further strengthen Alpaca’s operations in the US market and reflects its ongoing progression toward building resilient, in-house, full-stack brokerage infrastructure. Nasdaq… Read More

October 16, 2025 @ 12:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) has introduced Trusted Agent Protocol, forming a foundational framework for agentic commerce that allows for more secure communication between AI agents and merchants. Trusted Agent Protocol aims to address the challenges facing agent-driven commerce, ushering in an era where AI is… Read More

October 16, 2025 @ 9:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ascenda, the loyalty company that enables growth for the world’s financial institutions, has recently announced its partnership with bunq, Europe’s neobanking platform which now also focuses on enabling crypto adoption. The latest collaboration aims to enhance bunq’s loyalty program, unlocking rewards that enable its users’… Read More

October 16, 2025 @ 8:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital bank Revolut recently announced the acquisition of Swifty, an AI-powered travel agent startup incubated at Lufthansa Innovation Hub (LIH). This latest acquisition by Revolut brings Swifty’s AI tech and Co Founders Stanislav Bondarenko and Tomasz Przedmojski to Revolut, where they will focus on enhancing… Read More

October 16, 2025 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) has noted that Bitcoin (BTC), the flagship cryptocurrency, is increasingly being recognized as a global monetary alternative to the US dollar and gold, solidifying its role as a store of value and reserve asset. As more investors choose to denominate their savings in… Read More

October 16, 2025 @ 8:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CAIS, the alternative investment platform for financial advisors, announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with LODAS Markets to introduce a secondary marketplace for private funds. The alliance will integrate LODAS’ secondary trading tech into the CAIS platform, offering financial advisors with an avenue… Read More

October 16, 2025 @ 8:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Adyen (AMS: ADYEN), the global financial technology platform for businesses, and SAP, one of the world’s enterprise software providers, have announced the go-live of the SAP Commerce Cloud, Open Payment Framework (OPF). This payment solution is designed to remove the need for manual payment integrations and… Read More

October 16, 2025 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European challenger bank Lunar recently announced that it has been authorized as a Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) under the EU’s new Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation, making its crypto platform Lunar Block one of the “first” in Scandinavia to operate under this particular license. According… Read More

October 16, 2025 @ 12:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM), the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth, announced its support for Google’s Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), which is described as an open, payment-agnostic protocol developed with payments and tech firms to support agent-led payments across various platforms. The… Read More