April 30, 2025 @ 8:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SoFi Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFI) is reportedly set to reintroduce cryptocurrency investing by the end of 2025, marking its return to the digital asset space after a forced exit in 2023. The update, made by CEO Anthony Noto in an interview with CNBC, reflects a… Read More

April 30, 2025 @ 8:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Q1 2025 Global M&A Report from PitchBook provides a comprehensive analysis of the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market, highlighting key trends, challenges, and opportunities shaping the global landscape. Despite ongoing macroeconomic uncertainties, the report from PitchBook reveals a market demonstrating resilience, with strategic dealmaking… Read More

April 29, 2025 @ 11:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A research study on trust in Artificial Intelligence (AI) released has found half (50%) of Australians use AI regularly, but only “36% are willing to trust it, with 78% concerned about negative outcomes.” The Trust, attitudes and use of Artificial Intelligence: A global study 2025… Read More

April 29, 2025 @ 9:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In a transformative step toward bridging traditional finance and the digital economy, Mastercard (NYSE: MA) has unveiled an initiative to incorporate stablecoins into its global payments network. This move aims to make stablecoin transactions as intuitive and secure as conventional payments, enabling consumers to spend… Read More

April 29, 2025 @ 9:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MoonPay, a global cryptocurrency payment platform, has announced the opening of a new U.S. headquarters in New York City’s vibrant SoHo district. The company has secured a facility exceeding 5,000 square feet, marking a significant expansion of its operations in the United States. This move… Read More

April 29, 2025 @ 9:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Arizona’s legislature has passed legislation that could position the state as a pioneer in Bitcoin and cryptocurrency adoption within the United States. The bill, which authorizes the state treasurer and retirement system to allocate up to 10% of their available funds to Bitcoin and other… Read More

April 29, 2025 @ 9:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The British Business Bank announces the accreditation of Creative Growth Finance as a delivery partner under the Growth Guarantee Scheme. Creative Growth Finance (CGF) is Creative UK’s specialist £35m debt fund, which provides growth capital “to high-potential smaller businesses in the UK’s creative sector.” The… Read More

April 29, 2025 @ 9:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Yieldstreet, a private markets investing platform, and Upgrade Inc., a fintech offering “responsible” credit products to mainstream consumers, announced the completion of an agreement to “purchase assets through Flex Pay, Upgrade’s BNPL financing solution.” This partnership enables individual investors to “target passive income from exposure… Read More

April 29, 2025 @ 6:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Dror Futter, a legal counsel to leadership teams, highlighted a subtle but significant shift in the venture capital landscape, as revealed by Carta’s 2024 Pre-Seed Funding Review. The review noted a surprising/unexpected trend in Q4: a decreasing percentage of Simple Agreements for Future Equity (SAFEs)… Read More

April 29, 2025 @ 1:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Circle Internet Group, Inc., a global financial technology company and stablecoin market participant, announced it has received In-Principle Approval (IPA) from the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of ADGM to operate as a money services provider. This IPA marks a significant step towards Circle securing… Read More

April 29, 2025 @ 10:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As financial advisors increasingly adopt defined-outcome strategies to capture market opportunities, manage risk, and meet client goals, CAIS, the  alternative investment platform for independent financial advisors, announced an expansion of its “defined-outcome capabilities” through CAIS Capital Markets, a new division. CAIS Capital Markets will centralize… Read More

April 29, 2025 @ 10:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sygnum, a global digital asset banking group, reveals an accelerating push towards Crypto-TradFi treasury management by its DLT foundation and corporate clients. The demand for advanced tools to manage multi-asset treasuries – on the same banking platform – has led “to a doubling of clients… Read More

April 29, 2025 @ 9:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SIX, operator of the Swiss Stock Exchange, has launched SIX Fixed Income Data. The data offering reportedly delivers coverage of “pricing, reference data, corporate actions, and underlying source documents for the global fixed income markets.” The solution provides reliable global fixed income data “to banks,… Read More

April 29, 2025 @ 8:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

LSEG announced it has extended its multi-year collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), naming AWS as the preferred cloud provider for its Markets, Risk Intelligence and FTSE Russell divisions. This agreement reportedly builds on the existing relationship “between the two companies.” By migrating internal systems… Read More

April 29, 2025 @ 8:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN), Fabric Ventures, Animoca Brands and Founders Factory have launched a multi-million pound accelerator in the UK, set to transform the UK’s blockchain and AI ecosystem. This initiative reportedly aims to unlock product market fit and growth for the so-called “next generation” of… Read More

April 29, 2025 @ 7:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The UK’s SME lending market needs a full reboot, according to new research by the UK fintech Allica Bank. With the UK having the lowest business investment rate in the G7, the report highlights how small businesses invest at only “a third of the level… Read More

April 29, 2025 @ 7:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CyberCube, a provider of cyber risk analytics for the insurance industry, has revealed a partnership with Galahad Risk Solutions, a specialist brokerage founded by industry veteran Ben Beeson. This collaboration marks a significant step in “helping small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and middle market (MM)… Read More

April 28, 2025 @ 11:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Regtech SlowMist, a blockchain security firm, continues to solidify its role in the evolving Web3 ecosystem through innovative incident response, and collaborative defense strategies. Recent updates from Regtech SlowMist highlight their pivotal role in recovering stolen funds, advancing on-chain communication techniques, and fostering global cybersecurity… Read More

April 28, 2025 @ 11:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget has announced plans to pursue legal action against eight accounts suspected of orchestrating a sophisticated market manipulation scheme involving the VOXEL token, resulting in illicit profits exceeding $20 million. The move comes in response to unusual trading activity detected on April 20,… Read More

April 28, 2025 @ 10:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In a recent incident impacting the web3 and decentralized finance (DeFi) space, Term Finance, an Ethereum-based platform offering fixed-rate lending, reportedly recovered $1 million of the $1.6 million lost due to a misconfigured oracle in its Treehouse (tETH) market. The error is said to have… Read More