Global

November 8, 2025 @ 3:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Major banking institutions are now reportedly calling for the European Union to rethink the Digital Euro. According to media reports, there are now at least 14 large banks asking the EU reexamine its digital euro roll-out strategy. The European Payments Initiative (EPI Company) has now… Read More

November 8, 2025 @ 3:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

KPMG UK has recently shared commentary on the latest Bank of England rate decision. As widely reported and anticipated, The Bank of England has decided it will keep rates on hold as it awaits the Budget, noted Yael Selfin, Chief Economist at KPMG UK. Yael Selfin of… Read More

November 7, 2025 @ 5:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cowbell, a provider of adaptive cyber and specialty insurance solutions for global small and mid-market organizations, recently announced the launch of its updated brand identity. The initiative seemingly reflects Cowbell’s ongoing evolution, from enabling Adaptive Cyber Insurance to becoming a digital protection partner in commercial… Read More

November 7, 2025 @ 3:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Deloitte Tax LLP announced an expanded alliance with Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud firm, in order to transform tax data management solutions. This collab will leverage the strengths of the organizations in an effort to combat cloud modernization obstacles and enable cloud data solutions and… Read More

November 7, 2025 @ 2:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) and Ernst & Young LLP announced that EY US has selected CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM as the foundational platform enabling its cybersecurity managed services. With Falcon Next-Gen SIEM and EY US managed services experience, enterprises worldwide can accelerate the move futher “beyond legacy security… Read More

November 7, 2025 @ 1:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin.com and Concordium have joined forces to bring age-verification, and identity-anchored payments to users globally. Concordium’s identity-first blockchain – as well as its token, CCD, and suite of stablecoins – will become accessible to Bitcoin.com’s ecosystem, which includes networks like Ethereum, Polygon, and BNB Smart Chain…. Read More

November 7, 2025 @ 11:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SHELT announced a partnership with Regtech firm Sumsub, a global verification and fraud prevention platform. This latest collab brings together expertise and digital technology in order to safeguard the future of digital trust. By combining SHELT’s fraud prevention infrastructure with Sumsub’s single‑platform approach to identity… Read More

November 7, 2025 @ 9:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nubank (NYSE: NU), which claims to be one of the largest digital financial services platforms in the world, announces that it will implement a hybrid work model starting in July of next year. This latest decision from the digital banking platform follows the last 5… Read More

November 7, 2025 @ 8:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Central Bank of Ireland fined Coinbase Europe Limited , part of Coinbase Global (NASDAQ:COIN), €21,464,734 for allegedly breaching its anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing transaction monitoring obligations between 2021 and 2025. Specifically, the Central Bank said it has fined Coinbase Europe for violating applicable… Read More

November 7, 2025 @ 7:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

AI adoption within UK accountancy and bookkeeping practices is now said to be signficantly enhancing sector profitability, driving a considerable boost to the wider economy and fundamentally transforming hiring across the industry. This is according to a recent research study released by Xero, the small… Read More

November 7, 2025 @ 7:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Hadron by Tether, the asset tokenization platform of Tether, KraneShares, the global asset management group, and Bitfinex Securities, the regulated tokenized securities platform, entered into an agreement to accelerate the ongoing development and adoption of tokenized securities across major markets. As tokenization reshapes the manner… Read More

November 7, 2025 @ 7:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Digital Asset Treasury (DAT) model has matured from a somewhat niche corporate strategy into a growing market, with public firms holding more than $130 billion in digital assets. This particular DAT model, which defines a class of public firms accumulating digital assets as a… Read More

November 7, 2025 @ 7:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple has announced a collaboration with Mastercard (NYSE:MA) , WebBank, and Gemini (NASDAQ:GEMI). Together they’ll explore the use of Ripple USD (RLUSD) on the XRPL, a public blockchain built for efficient payments, in order support stablecoin settlement of fiat card transactions. The initiative is supposed… Read More

November 6, 2025 @ 4:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

IREN Limited (NASDAQ: IREN) announced it has signed a multi-year GPU cloud services contract with Microsoft. IREN will provide Microsoft with access to NVIDIA GB300 GPUs over a 5-year term, with a total contract value of approximately “$9.7 billion, including a 20% prepayment.” IREN has… Read More

November 6, 2025 @ 4:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Thunes, the Fintech moving money around the world, announces an alliance with WeChat Pay HK, the Hong Kong dollar denominated e-wallet, to enable its expansion in international money transfers. Thanks to the collaboration, WeChat Pay HK users based in Hong Kong are now able to… Read More

November 6, 2025 @ 1:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Marqeta, Inc. (NASDAQ: MQ), the modern card issuing platform, announced it is working with Klarna (NYSE:KLAR), the digital bank and flexible payments provider, to expand the Klarna Card into 15 new European markets. This launch extends Marqeta’s partnership with Klarna and leverages Visa’s Flexible Credential… Read More

November 6, 2025 @ 10:42 am By JD Alois  |  

Crypto exchange Safello has announced its expansion into Finland, its first new market. Safello Group AB, has been listed on Nasdaq First North Growth Market since 2021. The company said that it would commence services in Finland before the end of the year. Safello is… Read More

November 6, 2025 @ 10:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) aims to serve as the all-in-one orchestration layer tapping into institutional-grade smart contracts for onchain finance. Before the launch of the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), smart contract development was said to be quite complex due to the fairly limited programmability of… Read More

November 6, 2025 @ 9:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin Suisse has announced its role as a founding validator operator for the Liechtenstein Trust Integrity Network (LTIN), which is described as a state-backed blockchain infrastructure initiative aiming to offer regulatory-compliant services to European enterprises and institutions. As a launch partner, Bitcoin Suisse will intend… Read More

November 6, 2025 @ 8:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SIX has recently announced that it supports Worldline’s transformation plans and will back various proposals at the planned extraordinary general meeting. Worldline remains a key partner of SIX in the payments sector. Reflecting its capital allocation and strategic business growth priorities, SIX stated that it… Read More