November 4, 2025 @ 12:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

With today’s Mayoral election in New York City, many observers are worried about the consequences of a potential socialist or communist taking office to manage the world’s most vibrant city and top global financial center. Neophyte politician Zohran Mamdani has seen his poll numbers tighten… Read More

November 3, 2025 @ 8:31 am By JD Alois  |  

Global Digital Finance (GDF) has reported the results of an initiative to test the viability of Tokenized Money Market Funds (TMMF). As part of the working group 30 firms participated in the GDF Industry Sandbox, powered by Ownera, the firm which operates the FinP2P routers… Read More

November 3, 2025 @ 8:05 am By JD Alois  |  

Falconedge plc says it anticipates listing a Bitcoin Treasury Strategy offering on London’s Aquis Exchange. The anticipates the listing will go into effect on November 5, 2025. Falconedge is a London-based financial-advisory and infrastructure platform focusing on Bitcoin-treasury management. Falconedge says that under a WRAP Retail… Read More

October 31, 2025 @ 9:45 am By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) is poised to move higher in early trading following its Q3 earnings release. At this moment, Coinbase are moving  higher. As several other market stalwarts posted solid results last night, momentum will be with the company. Last night, Coinbase reported Q3 revenue of… Read More

October 31, 2025 @ 9:15 am By JD Alois  |  

The Trump administration has set a policy to expand options for individuals’ 401(k) retirement accounts, as outlined in an Executive Order. This will mean that savers will be able to expand their investments into alternative assets such as private securities and crypto. Financial analysts see… Read More

October 30, 2025 @ 4:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

Republic and Republic Europe have listed another Mirror Token (Mirror Notes in the UK) offering. This time, it is for the parent company of TikTok, ByteDance. So far, Republic has listed Mirror Token offerings for SpaceX, Monzo (UK only), Databricks, Canva, Ramp, Perpexlity, Anthropic, and… Read More

October 30, 2025 @ 1:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) will reveal Q3 earnings today after market close. Coinbase started 2025 at around $250 a share. Today, Coinbase is trading at around $340 a share and may move higher, contingent upon results and forward-looking expectations. One analyst just issued a new price target,… Read More

October 30, 2025 @ 12:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowcube, the first securities crowdfunding platform in the United Kingdom, is reporting over 2 million investors. Crowdcube was incorporated in 2009 and launched in 2011 by co-founders Luke Lang and Darren Westlake. Since that time, Crowdcube has enabled over £1.5 billion (almost $2 billion) in… Read More

October 30, 2025 @ 11:44 am By JD Alois  |  

Bitwise has launched various crypto-based exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The advent of the first Bitcoin ETF foreshadowed a cascade of crypto funds, with many generating significant investor interest. The newest ETF launched just this week is the Bitwise Solana Staking ETF (BSOL), which pays a yield… Read More

October 30, 2025 @ 10:14 am By JD Alois  |  

Travis Hill has been given the nod to lead the Federal Deposit and Insurance Corporation (FDIC), a key financial regulator. He is currently the acting Chairman of the agency. The nomination was forwarded to the Senate at the end of last month. Hill took over… Read More

October 30, 2025 @ 10:03 am By JD Alois  |  

Recently listed Fintech Webull (NASDAQ: BULL) is expanding its crypto futures offering via a partnership with Coinbase Derivatives, a registered Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) platform. US-based users will now be able to trade futures contracts for Dogecoin (DOGE), Nano XRP, Nano Solana, Litecoin (LTC),… Read More

October 30, 2025 @ 9:41 am By JD Alois  |  

Pave Finance says it has integrated with broker Charles Schwab. Pave explains that the move enables registered investment advisors (RIAs) to link their Schwab client accounts directly to Pave for automated portfolio management and trading. Pave notes that the wealth management sector is expected to… Read More

October 29, 2025 @ 2:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

The US Federal Reserve has announced another 25 basis point (bps) rate cut, adjusting the target fed funds rate from 4% to 3.75%, as markets had expected. The Fed noted that while inflation has inched up since earlier this year, and remains elevated, other metrics… Read More

October 29, 2025 @ 11:27 am By JD Alois  |  

The world of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) continues to expand at a rapid pace. Today, investors can trade in a plethora of strategies, including active and passive offerings. With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) and the rapid rise of this sector, investors have rushed to… Read More

October 29, 2025 @ 10:47 am By JD Alois  |  

Taurus, a Switzerland-based digital asset infrastructure firm, says it has opened an office in New York to expand services in the US market. Taurus is regulated by FINMA, the Swiss financial market supervisory authority. The company currently provides services to well-known European firms like State… Read More

October 29, 2025 @ 9:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Secondary market platform EquityZen has been acquired by Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), the global investment bank and brokerage. Details of the transaction were not immediately available. The deal is expected to close in early 2026. Shares of Morgan Stanley were little changed on the news. EquityZen… Read More

October 29, 2025 @ 9:20 am By JD Alois  |  

Jennifer Bailey, the Vice President of Apple Pay at Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), participated in Money 20/20 USA this week, sharing some information regarding the tech firm’s Fintech venture. As reported by 9to5Mac, Bailey noted that Apple Pay reduces fraud by over 60%, better than most traditional payment methods. At… Read More

October 29, 2025 @ 8:23 am By JD Alois  |  

Fiserv (NYSE:FI) shares are getting slaughtered in pre-market trading following Q3 results that missed analyst expectations. At the moment, Fiserv shares are trading down by over 40%, a significant haircut from yesterday’s close. Fiserv is a publicly traded Fintech that provides payment and banking services…. Read More

October 28, 2025 @ 9:32 am By JD Alois  |  

In recent days, Senator Elizabeth Warren took to X to criticize President Trump’s decision to pardon Changpeng “CZ” Zhou, Binance founder and former CEO. Senator Warren is a longtime critic of digital assets and financial services firms in general. She sits on the key Senate… Read More

October 28, 2025 @ 8:57 am By JD Alois  |  

Last night, Elon Musk revealed that his solution to Wikipedia, Grokipedia version 0.1, is now live. Musk has criticized the information on Wikipedia for years, calling it unbalanced. Musk said even this first version of Grokipedia was superior to Wikipedia. Wikipedia has been challenged for… Read More