Global

August 14, 2025 @ 10:06 am By JD Alois  |  

Crypto exchange Bitget is describing July as a landmark month for the firm. Bitget notes that it is ranked by Coingecko Spot ranking as  the 3rd largest crypto exchange [CoinMarketCap has Bitget at 5th place]. The company proclaims that July was another month of strong… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 8:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SIX announced iShares as the 20th issuer of Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) with crypto-assets as underlyings. iShares lists its inaugural product on Bitcoin. With this launch, iShares lifts the total number of “listed crypto products at SIX to 487.” The iShares Bitcoin ETP further expands… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 8:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

On August 12, 2025, eToro (NASDAQ: ETOR), a global trading and investing platform, announced an expansion of its crypto-assets offerings for U.S. users, now providing access to over 100 cryptocurrencies alongside equities, options, and ETFs. This milestone, coupled with the company’s second-quarter financial results for 2025,… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 8:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Checkout.com, a global digital payments company, unveils data showing that consumers in Asia and the MENA region, are embracing digital identity wallets and biometric verification, “closely followed by Brazil and New Zealand.” Meanwhile, adoption remains sluggish “across Europe, including the UK, and North America.” The… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 7:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

iwoca, one of Europe’s SME lenders, announces a partnership with Teya, the “all-in-one” financial services platform built for small businesses. This partnership will bring iwoca’s Flexi-Loan to “more business owners,  integrated into Teya’s digital platforms.” Teya customers can now apply “for iwoca’s Flexi-Loan directly within… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 6:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TPG Twin Brook Capital Partners, the middle-market direct lending platform of TPG Inc. (NASDAQ: TPG), and Coller Capital, the private market secondaries manager, announced the closing of a $3 billion credit-focused continuation vehicle, marking a significant transaction in the private credit secondaries market. The continuation… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 5:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

H.I.G. WhiteHorse, the direct lending credit affiliate of H.I.G. Capital, a global alternative asset management firm with $70 billion of capital under management, today announced the final closing of H.I.G. WhiteHorse Middle Market Lending Fund IV. Fund IV closed with “$5.9 billion of assets and… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 5:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In a financial ecosystem where every dollar counts, a new analysis from TransUnion (NYSE: TRU) offers a bit of hope for American auto loan borrowers. According to the study, approximately 18 million of the nearly 80 million open auto loans in the U.S. are “in-the-money”… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 3:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Business activity rose in just over half of the UK’s nations and regions in July, the latest NatWest Regional Growth Tracker showed, with the survey indicating increased confidence towards future growth prospects in most areas. The Tracker – which surveyed businesses operating in the manufacturing… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 2:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Airwallex, a global financial platform for modern businesses, today announced it has received its Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) licence from the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) and will soon launch Airwallex Yield to enable European businesses to generate returns on idle… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 1:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Australia may not be creating the environment to foster the next generation of global companies, with research from small business platform, Xero, revealing only “17% of small business owners aspire to grow internationally.” Xero’s latest report, which surveyed “500 Australian small business owners, found that… Read More

August 13, 2025 @ 10:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alpaca, a self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure, announced that it has been approved as a clearing member by The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC), the world’s equity derivatives clearing organization, and the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC), which provides central clearing “for U.S. government Treasuries and… Read More

August 13, 2025 @ 9:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM), the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth, announced that it is expanding its collaboration with Google Pay and making its flexible payment options available “via autofill on Chrome.” This announcement builds on Affirm’s launch “on Google Pay in… Read More

August 13, 2025 @ 3:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The T3 Financial Crime Unit (T3 FCU)—a joint initiative by TRON, Tether, and TRM Labs—announced the launch of “T3+,” a global collaborator program made up of some of the key players in the crypto ecosystem. It is designed to expand public-private collaboration to “combat illicit… Read More

August 13, 2025 @ 11:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Transak, a global enabler of fiat-to-crypto infrastructure, has raised $16 million in strategic funding to expand its stablecoin payments stack and scale operations across new markets. The round was led by Tether and IDG Capital, “with participation from Primal Capital, 1kx, Protein Capital, CEiC, KX… Read More

August 13, 2025 @ 9:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nuvei announced an expansion of its money movement capabilities, enabling faster and more cost-effective payouts to bank accounts worldwide, including in emerging markets where traditional infrastructure causes delays and inefficiencies. By leveraging stablecoin rails to “facilitate the backend movement of value, Nuvei offers businesses a… Read More

August 13, 2025 @ 9:04 am By JD Alois  |  

Global bank Santander shared its vision yesterday of becoming an AI-native bank, partnering with OpenAI to achieve this goal. In a blog post, Santander Chief Data & AI Officer Ricardo Martín Manjón explained that they seek to reshape banking by modernizing operations, providing a personalized, agile, and efficient banking… Read More

August 13, 2025 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Kraken is now live in all 30 countries of the European Economic Area (EEA) under our Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) license – a significant milestone that “expands their secure, compliant crypto offering to millions of people across Europe.” All EEA clients are now directly… Read More

August 13, 2025 @ 8:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech firm Wise (LON:WISE) will be joining Google’s new remittance experience as one of the key providers. Consumers in the U.S. will soon be able to “access Wise’s services, powered by Wise Platform,” Wise’s global infrastructure for banks and enterprises, “on Google Wallet online or… Read More

August 13, 2025 @ 1:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In a stride toward refining our understanding of the global economy, the United Nations Statistical Commission unanimously approved the sixth iteration of the System of National Accounts (SNA) this year. This update, the first major revision since 2008, aims to modernize economic metrics to better… Read More