December 5, 2025 @ 3:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Figure Technology Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: FIGR), the blockchain-native capital marketplace for the origination, funding, sale, and trading of onchain loan products and tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), announced the launch of the RWA Consortium, a coalition that will expand access to Figure’s onchain loan originations, starting… Read More

 Tagged defi, digital assets, figure, lending, rwas

December 5, 2025 @ 3:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Quality Automotive Services, a franchisee of Valvoline Instant Oil Change, is reporting continued employee retention improvement in its 3rd year of partnership with DailyPay, the enabler of On-Demand Pay and financial wellness solutions. The implementation of DailyPay has been described as a key tool in… Read More

 Tagged dailypay, ewa, on-demand pay, us, wage access

December 5, 2025 @ 3:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nubank (NYSE: NU), which claims to be one of the world’s largest digital financial services platforms, announces its intention to obtain a banking license in Brazil. The inclusion of a banking institution within the conglomerate complies with the provisions of Joint Resolution No. 17, which has… Read More

 Tagged brazil, digital banking, latam, nubank

December 5, 2025 @ 9:54 am By JD Alois  |  

Cloudflare has dropped the ball once again, impacting big sites and platforms with a surprise outage. Cloudflare posted on X: “A change made to how Cloudflare’s Web Application Firewall parses requests impacted the availability of Cloudflare’s network for several minutes today. This was not an… Read More

 Tagged cloudflare, outage, silverflow

December 5, 2025 @ 9:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Kraken is announcing that they are now expanding their trading and investing services in Colombia via the activation of local payment rails. Kraken explained in a blog post that the introduction of COP funding reflects their continued investment in building infrastructure enabling individuals to have… Read More

 Tagged colombia, Crypto Adoption, kraken, latam

December 5, 2025 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna (NYSE:KLAR), the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, launches the new feature Tap to Pay across 14 European markets, with the aim of bringing more flexible payments into physical retail at scale and “transforming the Klarna app into an everyday contactless wallet.” With… Read More

 Tagged ai, bnpl, klarna, payments

December 5, 2025 @ 8:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MoneyGram, a global payments network for consumers, businesses, and communities, has partnered with Fireblocks, an infrastructure platform securing digital asset transfers. The collab will aim to advance stablecoin-based settlement and multi-asset treasury operations across MoneyGram’s retail and digital footprint, enabling “lower-cost payments and real-time treasury… Read More

 Tagged digital assets, digital transactions, Fireblocks, moneygram

December 5, 2025 @ 8:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SIX announces its intention to integrate SIX x-clear and BME Clearing into one multi-asset CCP with global presence as well as interoperable links in the cash equity segment. Presently being subject to required regulatory approvals, SIX will aim to “create a single multi-asset clearing house.”… Read More

 Tagged bme clearing, etfs, europe, investing, six

December 5, 2025 @ 12:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The British Business Bank announced that in the two years since its launch the £70million Investment Fund for Northern Ireland has directly invested £30million into local firms. Additionally, these new investments into smaller businesses on differing stages of their growth journey have “crowded in co-investment… Read More

 Tagged british business bank, ireland, uk, united kingdom

December 4, 2025 @ 11:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Analysis of Bank of Ireland customer behavior during the third quarter (Q3) of 2025 shows that contactless payments rose again while ATM usage continues on a downward trend, compared to the same period in 2024. In Q3 2025, eCommerce contactless card transactions (digital wallets, Apple… Read More

 Tagged bank of ireland, contactless, insights, payments, research