October 16, 2025 @ 12:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Germany’s private markets have hit pause in Q3 2025 as venture capital investment cooled following several quarters of “renewed optimism.” This, according to an update from PitchBook which also noted that the slowdown marked somewhat of a reset for the European nation’s startup ecosystem, though… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 10:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna (NYSE:KLAR), the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, and Google Cloud announced a strategic, AI-focused partnership to accelerate tech advancements, creativity, and customer-centric solutions to BNPL Fintech firm Klarna’s  consumers worldwide. Klarna will leverage Google Cloud’s AI stack, from infrastructure, to platform, to models,… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 10:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PaceUPInvest is raising funds through its crowdfunding campaign carried out through Crowdcube. The company explains that it is committed to enhancing the accessibility of wealth management services. By harnessing the power of artificial intelligence algorithms and valuable human insight, their platform aims to assist users… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 4:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Gemini Exchange and Gemini Wallet clients are now able to deposit stablecoins USDT and USDC on the Solana network. With this latest update, digital assets firm Gemini (NASDAQ:GEMI) explained that its customers are able to complete transfers for these stablecoins via multichain rails with Solana,… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 4:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sui is partnering with Figure Certificate Company (FCC), a subsidiary of Figure Technology Solutions (NASDAQ:FIGR), in order to deploy YLDS, the SEC-registered yield-bearing security, natively on Sui, thus expanding access to regulated financial products within the Sui ecosystem. This update comes after Figure’s recent Nasdaq IPO,… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 2:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In a move to enhance its role in private markets, Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) announced on October 13, 2025, an agreement to acquire Industry Ventures, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm. The deal, which expands Goldman’s alternatives platform amid surging demand for secondary transactions, underscores the… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 2:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Taxbit explains that it streamlines compliance by automating seller data collection, handling high volumes of transactions, and producing jurisdiction-specific reports in the correct formats. Taxbit notes that its platform continuously updates to reflect regulatory updates, assisting digital platforms with remaining compliant while focusing on core… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 2:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital solution platform Bold Penguin announced it has acquired SquareRisk, a marketplace that discovers, quotes, and binds specialty MGA products across more than 45 carriers via a single interface. Bold Penguin users will have additional commercial insurance policy coverage options beyond the admitted space to… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 12:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BCB Group, one of the providers of payment and trading services for the digital economy, announced a partnership with Copper, a provider of digital asset custody, prime services and collateral management. The partnership will see BCB Group facilitate on- and off-ramping for digital and fiat… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 8:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets platform Kraken, which now also allows users to trade stocks and various other traditional financial investing options, said that this October, customers’ futures trading experience is getting an upgrade. Notably, this latest  announcement comes after Kraken quietly raised a $500 million funding round… Read More

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

Safe, the multisig based smart account platform securing $60 billion in digital assets, and Circle Internet Group, Inc. (NYSE: CRCL), a financial tech company and stablecoin market participant, announced a new strategic partnership to establish Safe as an institutional storage solution for USDC in self-custody… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 8:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s digital bank OakNorth recently announced that it provided a flexible revolving credit facility to OUTCO, a technology-powered provider of outdoor estate maintenance services, after the business’s strategic investment by Perwyn, a European private equity firm. With more than 20 years of experience, OUTCO claims… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 8:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK Finance has noted that AI adoption has risen in terms of compliance, but measurement continues to lag behind. According to the UK industry body,  it should actually be no secret that FIs are trying to adopt artificial intelligence across different areas of risk as… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 6:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

HashKey Group, the operator of one Hong Kong’s largest licensed digital assets exchanges, confidentially filed for an initial public offering in the Asian financial center. This, according to source familiar with the matter and cited by Bloomberg. HashKey might now plan to list as soon… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 1:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Driven by younger, tech-savvy investors interested in diversifying their investment portfolios, the UK population appears to be embracing crypto. Meanwhile, the nation’s crypto and web3 industry has had a solid year. Regulators have approved crypto exchange-traded notes (ETNs), and the government has introduced a seemingly… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 12:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Regtech firm Sumsub released the latest edition of its Global Fraud Index, developed in collaboration with Statista, CryptoUK, Digital Assets Association, Vixio Regulatory Intelligence and MENA Fintech Association. Timothy Owens, Tech and AI Industry Expert, and Senior Research Lead Technology and TeleCommunications at Statista shared… Read More

October 14, 2025 @ 11:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Authorities in South Korean have again commenced their ongoing review of Binance‘s planned acquisition of local digital currency exchange Gopax following a delay of more than two years. This, according to an update from Newsis. The move suggests that Binance, which remains the largest digital… Read More

October 14, 2025 @ 10:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pyth Network, a provider of institutional market data, announced its partnership with Kalshi, the U.S. federally regulated event-exchange platform, to deliver its prediction market information across 100+ blockchains. This reportedly marks the first time regulated event data will be streamed onchain at scale, allowing web3… Read More

October 14, 2025 @ 10:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) has introduced a new service, the Payment Optimization Platform (POP), which is designed to enhance approval rates for merchants that are using data to make more “intelligent” decisions about transactions. Early pilot results indicate a 9% to 15% increase in conversions. Mastercard… Read More

October 14, 2025 @ 10:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Deloitte released the findings of its GenAI in M&A Survey, asking 1,000 corporate and private equity professionals across various industries in the United States about their expectations for Generative AI use in dealmaking as well as what trends could be emerging within investment and deployment… Read More