Global

July 18, 2025 @ 1:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin Suisse has been focused on its global expansion plans and various partnerships in the web3 and crypto space. Recent updates from the Zug-based crypto-financial service provider highlight its advancements in 2024 and plans for this year. At its Annual General Meeting in late June… Read More

July 18, 2025 @ 1:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Debitum Investments, a Latvia-based peer-to-business (P2B) lending platform, has commented on its goal of becoming a key player in Europe’s alternative finance sector. Debitum Investments has earned an A-level taxpayer rating from the Latvian State Revenue Service (VID) in 2024, a testament to its commitment… Read More

July 17, 2025 @ 5:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pacaso, the technology-enabled real estate marketplace for co-owned luxury vacation homes, continues to focus on second-home ownership with its recent expansion into Mexico, steady financial results, and an investment opportunity for individual investors. Founded in 2020 by former Zillow executives Austin Allison and Spencer Rascoff,… Read More

July 17, 2025 @ 10:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In the evolving ecosystem of online investing, Bondora Group continues to make significant strides, as highlighted by their June 2025 performance statistics and their transparent approach to managing loan recoveries. In June 2025, Bondora Group reported loan originations of €28,747,468, representing a 17.0% increase from May’s figures…. Read More

July 17, 2025 @ 10:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lloyds Banking Group, Aberdeen Investments, and Archax announce a partnership to advance the use of blockchain technology, utilizing tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) as collateral for their trading businesses. In a UK-first initiative, tokenised “units of Aberdeen Investment’s money market fund (tMMF) and tokenised UK gilts… Read More

July 17, 2025 @ 9:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The latest NatWest Regional Growth Tracker showed improved performances across most parts of the UK in June, with business activity rising in eight out of the 12 nations and regions monitored. The Tracker – which did a survey of businesses operating in the manufacturing and… Read More

July 17, 2025 @ 8:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Canton Network announces the addition of B2C2, Cumberland DRW, FalconX, and GSR, four digital asset liquidity providers, to its on-chain collateral initiative. This marks an expansion of the project, which began in January of this year. The new additions join Flowdesk and QCP as… Read More

July 17, 2025 @ 8:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Funding Circle (LSE: FCH), a UK-based SME finance platform, has received a £200 million forward flow agreement with Deutsche Bank. Deutsche Bank, a funder on the Funding Circle platform for more than 10 years now, is said to strengthen its commitment to enabling UK-based SMEs… Read More

July 16, 2025 @ 11:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Two Prime, an SEC-registered investment advisor and institutional lender with total assets under management of ~$1.75 billion, announced a $20 million equity investment led by MARA Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MARA), deepening the companies’ existing relationship. The investment round, which includes additional participation from Susquehanna Crypto,… Read More

July 16, 2025 @ 10:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Xero, a global small business platform, has announced a partnership with Plaid, which seeks to eventually triple the number of high-quality bank feeds available to customers in the United States. For many small businesses, access to community-focused finance providers is crucial, given the vast number of… Read More

July 16, 2025 @ 5:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ICBA Payments, a subsidiary of the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), announced the renewal of its four-decade relationship with Visa. Together, the organizations are deepening their efforts “to equip local financial institutions with the modern payment tools and support they need to grow and… Read More

July 16, 2025 @ 3:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital bank OakNorth has provided $79 million of new funding to New York-based lending platform S3 Capital. Founded in 2013 by Joshua Crane and Robert Schwartz after they recognized a significant “lack of institutional quality, middle market construction lenders in NYC, the firm has since… Read More

July 16, 2025 @ 2:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

More than half of U.S. companies (57%) reported declining gross margins as a direct result of tariffs, according to the new KPMG Tariff Pulse Survey. As tariffs continue to reshape the global trade landscape, American businesses are already feeling “negative impacts, while anticipating that they… Read More

July 16, 2025 @ 2:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OKX is reporting that it has integrated PayPal as a payment method on its platform, making cryptocurrency access and payments more accessible to customers across Europe. Customers across the European Economic Area (EEA) can now purchase crypto on OKX directly “using any available funding source supported by PayPal,… Read More

July 16, 2025 @ 11:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

IsraJets, a boutique private aviation company operating in the United States, Israel and Cyprus, has partnered with Airwallex, a global payments and financial platform for growing businesses. Through the partnership, IsraJets has adopted Airwallex’s financial infrastructure to “improve the speed and efficiency of its global… Read More

July 16, 2025 @ 10:14 am By JD Alois  |  

NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) solidly hurdled the $4 trillion in market cap hurdle this past week as news emerged that the AI chip firm will resume shipments to China. NVIDIA is the first and only publicly traded firm to achieve this valuation. It was not that long… Read More

July 16, 2025 @ 9:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Smart Pension, one of the UK’s workplace pension providers, has appointed Raj Mody as a Trustee Director of the Smart Pension Master Trust Board, taking on the role of Chairman from 1 September 2025. Raj brings  a wealth of experience in “the pensions industry, spanning… Read More

July 16, 2025 @ 9:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In an evolving financial services ecosystem, payment modernization has emerged as a critical focus for banks across the EMEA region. According to the latest Volante Technologies research report, The Big Survey 2025: Modernising Payments, an overwhelming 99% of EMEA banks plan to implement new payment… Read More

July 16, 2025 @ 9:31 am By JD Alois  |  

The UK Office for National Statistics reported today that the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rose by 3.6% in the 12 months to June 2025, up from 3.4% in the 12 months to May.  Expectations had been for the rate to remain unchanged. Core CPI (CPI… Read More

July 16, 2025 @ 8:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OakNorth, a digital bank for entrepreneurs, has provided a $53m loan to DAC Developments and Melrose Ascension Capital. Founded in 2016, DAC Developments is a Chicago-based real estate development company “with a focus on multifamily residential and mixed-use ground up developments.” With 85 projects completed… Read More