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October 30, 2025 @ 11:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BlackRock (NYSE:BLK) CEO Larry Fink has predicted that every currency, exchange-traded fund (ETF), and asset class will eventually be converted into digital tokens, interconnected via a unified global platform for instant settlements. Fink emphasized that this transformation is understated in public discourse, warning that the… Read More

October 30, 2025 @ 4:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A research study by global tech strategists Juniper Research anticipates a  85% surge in fraud detection and prevention investment by 2030; increasing significantly from $21 billion in 2025 to $39 billion in 2030. This reflects the urgent need to combat various fraud techniques, like real-time… 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 @ 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 @ 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 @ 9:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Aberdeen Group plc is announcing it finalized an agreement to increase its interest in Tritax Management LLP, one of the United Kingdom’s logistics managers, reinforcing its commitment to growth in the UK logistics real estate sector. After the first acquisition of a 60% interest in… Read More

October 30, 2025 @ 8:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Regtech Sumsub has announced the launch of their Risk Scoring solution—a risk assessment engine that transforms how businesses detect, measure, and mitigate financial crime risk across the customer lifecycle. The solution enables compliance and risk teams to make faster, more informed decisions while reducing manual… Read More

October 30, 2025 @ 6:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) has recently announced Mastercard Threat Intelligence, the threat intelligence offering applied to payments at scale. The solution brings together Mastercard’s fraud insights and network visibility with curated cyber threat intelligence from Recorded Future‘s platform to help payment fraud and merchant compliance teams… Read More

October 30, 2025 @ 1:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase Asset Management (CBAM), the investment manager and wholly owned subsidiary of Coinbase Global, Inc. (NASDAQ:COIN) , is launching a partnership with Apollo (NYSE: APO), an alternative asset manager, to bring Coinbase stablecoin credit strategies to market. This initiative acts as a bridge for the stablecoin,… Read More

October 29, 2025 @ 10:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OpenAI announced ChatGPT Go in Brazil, a subscription plan intended to give consumers improved access to ChatGPT’s more advanced capabilities with a better package when compared to ChatGPT Plus. The version is said to be a lower-cost alternative between the standard and Plus versions and… Read More

October 29, 2025 @ 9:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Juniper Square, the fund operations partner to private markets GPs, announced a collaboration with BlackRock Aladdin to integrate Preqin data into its AI CRM for Investor Relations. This should allow GPs to pull key Preqin data, a source of private markets data, into Juniper Square’s… Read More

October 29, 2025 @ 8:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Westpac recently noted that it is now predicting “record-breaking” consumer spending with online retailers this upcoming Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales season, potentially topping the $17.7 billion spent in the past year, after consistent month-on-month transaction increases and consistent with historical seasonal spikes. Research… Read More

October 29, 2025 @ 8:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alpaca is pleased to announce that options trading is integrated with TradingView via their Alpaca Trading API account. This builds on the existing API connection for stocks, ETFs, and crypto, providing users with the flexibility to visualize, analyze, and execute strategies within a common interface…. 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 @ 8:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Trulioo, an identity platform with global coverage for person and business verification, announced product enhancements meant to build trust at every stage of the digital lifecycle, from verification and payment processing to compliance monitoring as well as risk assessment. The latest update, delivered across the… Read More

October 29, 2025 @ 7:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

AI and stablecoins have kept the enterprise Fintech sector on track in Q3 2025, according to an update from PitchBook. The research report noted that Fintech is enabling AI to literally pay for itself. Led by payments firms, enterprise fintech companies raised $6 billion across… Read More

October 29, 2025 @ 7:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Securitize, Inc., the platform for tokenizing real-world assets, and Cantor Equity Partners II, Inc. (Nasdaq: CEPT), a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by an affiliate of Cantor Fitzgerald, announced that they have entered into a definitive business combination agreement through which Securitize will become a… Read More

October 29, 2025 @ 7:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Barclays PLC announces its wholly-owned US consumer banking subsidiary, Barclays Bank Delaware, has agreed to acquire Best Egg, Inc. for $800 million. Completion of the transaction is currently said to be subject to required regulatory approvals as well as other customary conditions. Best Egg is a US D2C personal loan… Read More

October 29, 2025 @ 5:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The recent large-scale Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage represents a moderate incident for cyber (re)insurers, according to CyberCube, the cyber risk analytics provider. The scale, duration, as well as geographic concentration of the disruption, “centered in the US-East-1 (N. Virginia) region, underscore the systemic risk… Read More

October 29, 2025 @ 12:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zcash (ZEC) has emerged as a standout digital currency recently in the Bitcoin and crypto markets, posting considerable gains and outperforming many leading virtual currencies in recent weeks. As a privacy-focused digital asset, Zcash has seemingly captured the attention of investors and enthusiasts alike, driven… Read More