August 15, 2025 @ 1:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has agreed to acquire CyberCX, a privately-owned cybersecurity services provider serving private and public sector organizations across Australia, New Zealand and internationally. The move represents Accenture’s largest cybersecurity “acquisition to date and will bolster Accenture’s cybersecurity services in Asia Pacific.” It will… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 9:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets firm Gemini announced key updates that enhance its offerings for both crypto traders and NFT enthusiasts. The platform now supports Ethereum (ETH) and stablecoin USDC across multiple blockchain networks, streamlining cross-chain transactions, and has partnered with Nifty Gateway Studio and Other World to… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 9:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Copper announced a partnership with FalconX to integrate ClearLoop into FalconX’s Direct Market Access (DMA) product offering FalconX assets and those of underlying institutional clients. The integration offers the protections of ClearLoop across ByBit, with Copper’s infrastructure serving “as custodian and collateral manager for FalconX’s… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 9:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PennantPark Floating Rate Capital Ltd. (NYSE: PFLT) announced that it has formed PennantPark Senior Secured Loan Fund II, LLC, a joint venture with Hamilton Lane Senior Credit Opportunities Fund which is an affiliate of a fund managed by Hamilton Lane (Nasdaq: HLNE). PSSL II is… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 9:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mesh, the  crypto payments network, announced additional investments from PayPal Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Uphold, Mirana Ventures (venture partner for ByBit), SBI Investment, Overlook Ventures, Kingsway Capital, Moderne Ventures and CE-Ventures, bringing total capital funding to more than $130 million. This support positions the company to… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 7:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase has announced the relaunch of its Stablecoin Bootstrap Fund, aimed at enhancing liquidity for stablecoins like USDC and EURC across various DeFi protocols. Managed by Coinbase Asset Management (CBAM), this initiative marks a renewed commitment to fostering an improved onchain financial system, building on… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 3:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Early Warning Services, LLC (EWS), a company owned and controlled by a group of the largest banks in the United States that was tasked with developing and operating the electronic payment platform Zelle, for failing to protect its users… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 10:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Global Fund Performance Report, released by PitchBook, provides a comprehensive analysis of private fund strategies’ performance, offering a data-driven lens into a volatile global market landscape. Incorporating preliminary data for Q1 2025, the report captures the private capital markets’ cautious optimism at the close… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 8:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SIX announced iShares as the 20th issuer of Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) with crypto-assets as underlyings. iShares lists its inaugural product on Bitcoin. With this launch, iShares lifts the total number of “listed crypto products at SIX to 487.” The iShares Bitcoin ETP further expands… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 8:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

On August 12, 2025, eToro (NASDAQ: ETOR), a global trading and investing platform, announced an expansion of its crypto-assets offerings for U.S. users, now providing access to over 100 cryptocurrencies alongside equities, options, and ETFs. This milestone, coupled with the company’s second-quarter financial results for 2025,… Read More

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

Checkout.com, a global digital payments company, unveils data showing that consumers in Asia and the MENA region, are embracing digital identity wallets and biometric verification, “closely followed by Brazil and New Zealand.” Meanwhile, adoption remains sluggish “across Europe, including the UK, and North America.” The… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 7:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

iwoca, one of Europe’s SME lenders, announces a partnership with Teya, the “all-in-one” financial services platform built for small businesses. This partnership will bring iwoca’s Flexi-Loan to “more business owners,  integrated into Teya’s digital platforms.” Teya customers can now apply “for iwoca’s Flexi-Loan directly within… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 6:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TPG Twin Brook Capital Partners, the middle-market direct lending platform of TPG Inc. (NASDAQ: TPG), and Coller Capital, the private market secondaries manager, announced the closing of a $3 billion credit-focused continuation vehicle, marking a significant transaction in the private credit secondaries market. The continuation… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 5:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

H.I.G. WhiteHorse, the direct lending credit affiliate of H.I.G. Capital, a global alternative asset management firm with $70 billion of capital under management, today announced the final closing of H.I.G. WhiteHorse Middle Market Lending Fund IV. Fund IV closed with “$5.9 billion of assets and… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 5:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In a financial ecosystem where every dollar counts, a new analysis from TransUnion (NYSE: TRU) offers a bit of hope for American auto loan borrowers. According to the study, approximately 18 million of the nearly 80 million open auto loans in the U.S. are “in-the-money”… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 3:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Business activity rose in just over half of the UK’s nations and regions in July, the latest NatWest Regional Growth Tracker showed, with the survey indicating increased confidence towards future growth prospects in most areas. The Tracker – which surveyed businesses operating in the manufacturing… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 2:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Airwallex, a global financial platform for modern businesses, today announced it has received its Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) licence from the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) and will soon launch Airwallex Yield to enable European businesses to generate returns on idle… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 1:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Australia may not be creating the environment to foster the next generation of global companies, with research from small business platform, Xero, revealing only “17% of small business owners aspire to grow internationally.” Xero’s latest report, which surveyed “500 Australian small business owners, found that… Read More

August 13, 2025 @ 10:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alpaca, a self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure, announced that it has been approved as a clearing member by The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC), the world’s equity derivatives clearing organization, and the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC), which provides central clearing “for U.S. government Treasuries and… Read More

August 13, 2025 @ 9:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM), the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth, announced that it is expanding its collaboration with Google Pay and making its flexible payment options available “via autofill on Chrome.” This announcement builds on Affirm’s launch “on Google Pay in… Read More