Omar Faridi

Mara Holdings Reportedly Acquires $1B via Convertible Notes for Bitcoin Purchases, Debt Management

MARA Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MARA), a global firm focused on leveraging digital asset compute to support the energy transformation, announced the closing on November 20, 2024 of its offering of 0.00% convertible senior notes due 2030. Mara Holdings confirmed in the update that it has… Read More

Coin Center Shares Analysis of Crypto Policy Landscape Following the US Elections

Coin Center has provided a detailed analysis of the evolving crypto policy landscape following the US Elections. According to the update from Coin Center, crypto got a lot of attention in the recent election, and many are now “wondering how friendly the new administration and… Read More

UK’s Embedded Payments Fintech Modulr Announces Acquisition of Nook

Modulr, an embedded payments platform, announces its acquisition of Nook, an innovator in accounts payable (AP) automation. Both companies said they aim to address inefficiencies, remove manual steps and improve the overall security of making business payments. These are significant concerns, as highlighted by Modulr’s… Read More

10x Banking and Alloy to Provide Cloud-Native Risk Decisioning to Financial Services

10x Banking, the cloud-native core banking platform, has partnered with Alloy, an identity and fraud prevention platform, to deliver a frictionless customer onboarding, perpetual KYC and KYB monitoring, and credit decisioning platform for financial institutions globally. The partnership brings together 10x’s meta-core platform with Alloy’s… Read More

Fintech Lender Plenti Group Reports Profitable Growth

Plenti Group Limited has provided its results for the six-month period ended 30 September 2024 (1H25). The Plenti Group shared the following financial highlights: Closing loan portfolio of $2.3 billion, up 14% on pcp Loan originations of $627 million, up 0.4% on pcp Half-year revenue… Read More

Crypto Exchange CoinW Partners with Digital Assets Protection Provider CoinCover

CoinW, a global cryptocurrency exchange, announces a strategic partnership with CoinCover – a digital asset protection provider – to significantly improve the security of users’ digital assets. This partnership is said to underscore CoinW’s commitment to protecting funds against risks such as hacking, lost access,… Read More

Latin America’s Bitso Earnings Now Supports Ethereum (ETH) and Solana (SOL)

Bitso announced the addition of four new cryptos to its Earnings feature. Earnings with Ethereum (ETH) and Solana (SOL) are available to all users, and Cardano (ADA) and Polkadot (DOT) will reportedly be added in the first week of December 2024. These options complement the… Read More

Nubank Overtakes Banco do Brasil as Brazil’s Top Main Bank with Digital-First Innovation – Analysis

Digital banking platform Nubank‘s (NYSE: NU) rise to Brazil’s “number one” bank provider is highlighted in an update which noted that the challenger has now overtaken Banco do Brasil, the country’s oldest bank founded in 1808, signifying a “paradigm shift” in the banking industry. By… Read More

UK’s Web3 Money App Wirex Teams Up with Banking Circle

Wirex, a Web3 money app, is pleased to announce a global alliance with Banking Circle, a provider of innovative banking services. This collaboration is expected to significantly enhance Wirex’s financial operations across the globe, empowering users with seamless banking solutions. Under the partnership, Banking Circle… Read More

Spendesk and Adyen to Accelerate SMB Innovation with Embedded Payments

Adyen (ADYEN:AMS), the financial technology platform for businesses, has announced its long-term strategic partnership with Spendesk, the spend management platform for medium-sized businesses. The partnership will support innovation in embedded financial services, as Spendesk continues to accelerate bringing products to market in 2025, and Adyen… Read More

CFTC Recommends Expansion of Non-Cash Collateral via Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT)

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Global Markets Advisory Committee, sponsored by Commissioner Caroline D. Pham, advanced a recommendation to expand the use of non-cash collateral through the use of distributed ledger technology. The GMAC’s Digital Asset Markets Subcommittee presented on the progress of its… Read More

Finastra Security Breach May Have Serious Consequences with Sensitive Data Compromised

One of the world’s largest fintechs, Finastra, recently experienced a major data breach. Since Finastra’s solutions have been used across large banking service providers, it is likely that many financial services firms may experience challenges when it comes to user privacy and security. According to… Read More

Digital Payments Provider Checkout.com Teams Up with Papa Johns UK

Checkout.com, a global digital payments company, has helped Papa Johns UK improve its payments performance and expand its payment method offerings. The result is an improved digital payments experience for Papa Johns UK customers, ensuring smooth and secure online transactions “across its 400 locations nationwide.”… Read More

US Investors More Focused On Financial Independence, UK Investors on Retirement – eToro Report

Research uncovered as part of the eToro’s Retail Investor Beat, which was conducted by eToro with this edition supported through a partnership with Nasdaq, a source for financial, economic and alternative datasets, has revealed differences between US and UK retail investors when it comes “to… Read More

Digital Bank Revolut Reveals 2025 Vision After Reaching 50 Million Customer Milestone

Revolut has revealed its 2025 vision, with AI assistant, mortgages, and ATMs reportedly on the horizon. Revolut co-founders Nik Storonsky and Vlad Yatsenko took to the stage at the company’s The Revolutionaries event in London in order to mar 50 million Revolut customers and share… Read More

Crypto.com Announces Expansion of Traditional Finance Services with Acquisition of Charterprime

Crypto.com announced the acquisition of Charterprime Ltd., a global financial exchange and brokerage service that holds an Investment Dealer Licence and Global Business Licence issued by the Financial Services Commission of Mauritius. With this acquisition, the Crypto.com enterprise explained in a blog post that it… Read More

Web3 Workforce Insights: High Confidence Expressed By Blockchain Professionals in Direction of Web3 and Trust in Values Underpinning Ecosystem

Consensys, the blockchain and web3 software technology company, shares the findings of its “Web3 Workforce Survey,” one of the most comprehensive workforce surveys in the web3 space, conducted through YouGov, an international online research data and analytics technology group. The research reveals record-high confidence in… Read More

MFSA to Improve Financial Literacy in Malta via Participation in EU Initiative

The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) is participating in an EU Technical Support Instrument (TSI) project which will support Malta in the area of financial literacy, with the purpose of improving the financial literacy levels of the Maltese population, “including retail investors.” The project is… Read More

BitGo Singapore Launches to Offer Digital Asset Services to APAC Region

BitGo Singapore Pte. Ltd., a subsidiary of BitGo, Inc., announced its official launch to provide regulated digital asset custody, trading, settlement, and token management services to the APAC region. The launch comes after BitGo obtained its Major Payment Institution License from the Monetary Authority of… Read More

SOLOWIN Partners with Zodia Custody to Facilitate Hong Kong’s Digital Assets Ecosystem

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SOLOWIN HOLDINGS (Nasdaq: SWIN), a financial services firm providing high-net-worth and institutional investors with solutions across traditional and virtual assets, announced its partnership with Zodia Custody, a digital asset custodian backed by Standard Chartered, which has been selected by NASDAQ as a new core custodian… Read More

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