October 20, 2025 @ 2:17 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a provider of global payments technology, has announced a strategic partnership with BitPay, a cryptocurrency payments processor, to further expand its digital assets solutions for merchants and payment service providers (PSPs) through ACI’s Payments Orchestration Platform. According to a recent study… Read More

October 20, 2025 @ 8:28 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Function CEO Thomas Chen warns that Bitcoin poses a looming danger. The former head of sales at BitGo, Chen now spearheads the development of institutional-grade architecture for Bitcoin yield. Backed by partners like Galaxy Digital, Mantle, and Antalpha, Function has reached over $1.5 billion in… Read More

October 20, 2025 @ 6:25 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

AAF Management has closed a $55M early-stage hybrid fund. The Axis Fund invests in emerging managers (Funds I and II) and their most promising underlying portfolio companies at the pre-seed to pre-IPO stages. The Axis Fund is AAF’s fourth vintage and raises the firm’s assets-under-management… Read More

October 20, 2025 @ 4:32 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Basis Theory, an independent payments infrastructure company, this week announced a $33 million Series B round led by Costanoa, with participation from Stage 2 Capital, Moneta VC, and continued support from Bessemer Venture Partners, Kindred Ventures, Box Group, and Offline Ventures. The funding will accelerate… Read More

October 20, 2025 @ 1:14 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Instacart (NASDAQ: CART) recently announced that a new, full suite of business features is available across the company’s white-label e-commerce solutions: Storefront and Storefront Pro retailers are already leveraging these capabilities to better support business customers, such as restaurants, offices, healthcare facilities, and schools, directly through… Read More

October 20, 2025 @ 12:33 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) has agreed to acquire With Intelligence, a leading source of private markets data, insights and analytics, for $1.8 billion. The deal was cut with a group led by majority investor Motive Partners, a private investment firm exclusively focused on financial technology. By… Read More

October 19, 2025 @ 10:14 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Flare, a provider of threat exposure management, has launched Identity Exposure Management (IEM), which is designed to prevent exposed identities from causing large-scale incidents. Every hour that exposed accounts go unaddressed intensifies the risk of a breach. Verizon’s DBIR 2025 report found that stolen credentials… Read More

October 19, 2025 @ 4:14 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

UFS and BankOnIT, two providers of purpose-built technology for community banks, are merging. By joining forces, the two companies combine deep industry expertise and focus, complementary offerings, and a shared belief that when community banks are equipped with the right technology and service, they can… Read More

October 19, 2025 @ 11:12 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Flywire (Nasdaq: FLYW), a global payments enablement and software company, recently expanded its partnership with Workday. It will integrate Flywire’s payments and software platform with Workday Student, a student information system (SIS) that automates and streamlines student operations, financials, academic planning, and registration. Now a Workday Certified… Read More

October 18, 2025 @ 10:29 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

iCapital is bringing a private credit solution offered by BlackRock to market in Canada. This initiative introduces an evergreen investment vehicle designed for accredited investors, available through advisor channels with both CAD-hedged and USD-denominated options. This launch marks the first time Canadian wealth managers and… Read More

October 18, 2025 @ 10:28 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Sonatype, a provider of AI-centric DevSecOps, this week released the Open Source Malware Index, Q3 2025, which analyzed 34,319 open source malware packages discovered by Sonatype across major open source registries, including npm, PyPI, Hugging Face, and more. This quarter’s count brings the total number of… Read More

October 17, 2025 @ 5:57 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

OBOOK Holdings (NASDAQ: OWLS), a blockchain technology company operating as the OwlTing Group, direct listed direct-list on the Nasdaq Global Market under the ticker symbol “OWLS.” OBOOK’s Class A common shares opened at $68.00 but closed down on the day. OwlTing is based in Taiwan… Read More

October 17, 2025 @ 1:50 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Fintech Upgrade has raised $165 million in new equity investment. Upgrade’s Series G preferred round was led by Neuberger, with participation from LuminArx Capital Management. Existing shareholders, including DST Global, Ribbit Capital and several others, also increased their investment in the company. Peter Sterling, head… Read More

October 17, 2025 @ 1:46 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Currently launching its pilot program in New York City, the largest real estate market in the United States, Feesback said it is poised to save customers across the country money on their largest transactions while giving real estate agents a smarter, more sustainable way to grow their… Read More

October 17, 2025 @ 8:29 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Bitpanda, a provider of crypto investment infrastructure, has partnered with Onda Finance, an international digital payment and investment platform headquartered in Brazil, to provide the technology behind its new crypto offering for wealth and corporate clients. The partnership will allow Onda to offer digital asset… Read More

October 17, 2025 @ 12:57 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Lightning Stock Exchange (Lise) this week announced that it has secured a DLT TSS license from the ACPR, under the European Union’s DLT Pilot Regime. This authorization process was carried out in collaboration with the ACPR, Banque de France, ESMA, AMF, Eurosystem and ECB. This… Read More

October 16, 2025 @ 9:03 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Could zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs prevent data breaches? “Centralized servers that stockpile sensitive personal data will always remain prime targets for attackers – whether the breach comes through technical exploits or social engineering. Incidents like the Discord leak make it clear that this model is unsustainable…. Read More

October 16, 2025 @ 3:05 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Lumera Protocol, the AI-first Layer-1 blockchain evolved from Pastel Network, this week announced the rollout of the Lumera Hub, a dedicated user and developer interface that serves as the gateway to the Lumera ecosystem. The launch follows Lumera’s recent mainnet debut and introduces a streamlined,… Read More

October 16, 2025 @ 11:02 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Crypto investors got the scare of their lives last weekend. That, Bhutan’s move to the blockchain, and asset investment dominated Web3 minds this week. Crypto investors get early Halloween scare “The bloodbath we saw in markets over the weekend is a brutal reminder that, as… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 2:09 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Colombia has launched its first government-backed real-time payments rail. Bre-B debuted on Oct. 8. It is the national real-time payment system developed by Banco de la República, and integrates into institutional mobile wallets and platforms. Paytech dLocal wasted little time in integrating Bre-B payments for its customers. dLocal… Read More