Global

October 31, 2025 @ 8:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK small business revenue and jobs are still said to be growing somewhat steadily but losing momentum after a fairly reasonable start to 2025, according to the Xero Small Business Insights (XSBI) data from Xero, the global small business platform. The research report noted that… Read More

October 31, 2025 @ 8:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tink and digital assets exchange Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) have announced a partnership in order to enable crypto purchases through Pay by Bank in Germany. As covered, Pay by Bank is an open banking-enabled payment option that allows consumers to transfer funds directly from one bank account… Read More

October 31, 2025 @ 8:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon finally admits he was actually wrong about Bitcoin and crypto, acknowledging that it is a real innovation and these digital assets will be used by all of us. Dimon’s comments came as JPMorgan announced plans to accept Bitcoin and Ethereum as collateral for… Read More

October 31, 2025 @ 8:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK business confidence rose during October, increasing 8 points to 50%, according to the Lloyds Business Barometer. The significant increase comes after a drop in September, with the recent uplift said to be marked by increased confidence across several regions as well as sectors. Overall… Read More

October 31, 2025 @ 8:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

KPMG bas noted recently that around 15% of UK consumers said that they intend to use AI chatbots (such as Chat GPT and Gemini) in order to search for various deals this Black Friday period, increasing to one in three among younger age groups –… Read More

October 31, 2025 @ 1:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Dublin-based Regtech Fenergo, a global enabler of AI-powered client lifecycle management (CLM) and financial crime compliance solutions, announced the appointment of key senior executives to strengthen its product development efforts further and support ongoing AI advancements. Sharon Bodkin joins as Vice President, Banking Product; Neil… Read More

October 30, 2025 @ 11:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether Gold (XAU₮), the world’s tokenized gold product, reportedly continues to demonstrate strength amid a rush toward real-world asset (RWA) tokenization and surging gold prices. At the end of the third quarter this year, XAU₮’s market cap topped 1.44 Billion, increasing in the past week… Read More

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