Global

May 26, 2025 @ 7:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Banking Circle S.A., the technology-led payments bank, announced a strategic partnership with Visa, a global leader in digital payments. The partnership provides Visa Direct with access “to Banking Circle’s extensive local clearing rails across the world, further strengthening the business’s global payment reach for its… Read More

May 26, 2025 @ 1:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Curve, a digital wallet provider, announced the launch of Curve Pay on iOS, marking a watershed moment in mobile payments. Curve Pay becomes the first payment solution to leverage the accessible iPhone NFC interface after Apple’s “acceptance of the European Commission’s ruling on competition concerns,… Read More

May 25, 2025 @ 11:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

LoanTube, the UK’s digital credit marketplace for underserved consumers and small businesses, has partnered with Gain Credit, the non-prime lending specialist behind Drafty and Lending Stream, to expand its platform offering. The collaboration introduces Gain Credit’s products to LoanTube’s platform, delivering “greater choice and flexibility… Read More

May 25, 2025 @ 5:12 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

This past week, SukuPay, a cryptocurrency-cross-border payments company, has been fully embedded as the remittance engine inside Zigi, the mobile app of Banco Industrial, Guatemala’s largest bank. SukuPay claims this is the first time a crypto-native protocol has gone live at this depth inside a… Read More

May 25, 2025 @ 3:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Arena Investors, LP , a global institutional asset manager, announced the final close of Arena Special Opportunities Partners Fund III and associated vehicles, inclusive of co-investments and programmatic capital, with $1.091 billion of commitments. Arena’s flagship reportedly strategy has a “track record of generating alpha… Read More

May 24, 2025 @ 2:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

KAYAK, the world’s travel search engine, and Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM), the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth, today announced the expansion of their exclusive partnership into Canada. This builds on the companies’ collaboration in the U.S., which has empowered consumers “to… Read More

May 24, 2025 @ 2:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OP Financial Group, the largest banking group of Finland, and Accenture (NYSE: ACN) have expanded their existing partnership to modernize OP’s non-life insurance business division, Pohjola Insurance. The collaboration builds on the firms’ work together in the banking sector and will “transform OP’s insurance business… Read More

May 24, 2025 @ 1:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kraken, a technology platform built on crypto that unlocks access and reduces inefficiencies to drive financial freedom, today announced a strategic partnership with Backed, the issuer of tokenized stocks, and the Solana Foundation to bring tokenized U.S. equities to investors worldwide. Announced at Solana Accelerate,… Read More

May 24, 2025 @ 12:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alpaca has launched 24/5 trading for Broker API, helping deliver global access to US markets. Bridging the existing gap for international partners and retail investors capital markets are said to be “evolving—and fast.” Global retail investors have more “access to US markets than ever before.”… Read More

May 24, 2025 @ 12:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM) announced the launch of natively tokenised Money Market fund shares, testing cross-border transactions based on Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), in collaboration with Allfunds Blockchain as tech provider and BNP Paribas’ Securities Services business as transfer agent and fund dealing… Read More

May 24, 2025 @ 12:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Schroders Capital’s Private Debt & Credit Alternatives business announces that it has raised €2bn in total commitments from third party investors for its sub-investment grade (IG) infrastructure debt strategy. This follows the final “close of Schroders Capital’s Junior Infrastructure Debt Europe III fund (JULIE III)… Read More

May 24, 2025 @ 12:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

R3 and Solana Foundation announce a collaboration to bring regulated financial institutions and their real-world assets onto Solana. It will deliver enterprise-grade, “permissioned consensus service offered to the public on a Layer 1 network.” This brings the institutional TradFi and DeFi worlds “into convergence, marrying… Read More

May 24, 2025 @ 10:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nu Colombia, part of Nubank (NYSE: NU), presents “Cajitas para mi gente” an initiative aimed at empowering Colombians to turn dreams into savings goals and achieve their financial objectives. New Nu customers will get a boost that “allows them to open a Money Box (Cajita)… Read More

May 24, 2025 @ 10:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Riot Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: RIOT), an industry service provider focused on vertically integrated Bitcoin mining, is pleased to announce that it has successfully upsized its existing $100 million credit facility to a total commitment of up to $200 million with Coinbase Credit, Inc., a subsidiary… Read More

May 23, 2025 @ 11:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

LSEG announces that Euroclear Bank’s Treasury division has joined LCH RepoClear SA as a member. Euroclear Bank’s Treasury division is now able to benefit from “access to a liquidity pool, and the netting and risk management efficiencies available through the service, expanding its long-standing partnership… Read More

May 23, 2025 @ 9:17 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Carrot, a digital lending startup expanding access to credit for African businesses and individuals backed by their digital financial assets, announced its $4.2 million seed funding round, led by MaC Venture Capital, with participation from Partech Africa and Authentic Ventures. The funds will be used… Read More

May 23, 2025 @ 8:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SME Capital Ventures is a platform that manages a series of discretionary real estate credit funds providing senior secured real estate loans collateralized by high quality real estate properties located in premier micro markets. As of 2025, SME Capital Ventures has “structured, funded, participated and… Read More

May 23, 2025 @ 4:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Infosys Finacle, part of EdgeVerve Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Infosys, and Bank of Sydney (BoS), announced the bank’s decision to select the Infosys Finacle Digital Banking Suite to power its transformation. Through this strategic collaboration, Bank of Sydney aims to “deliver a best-in-class staff and… Read More

May 23, 2025 @ 7:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Quant, a global firm focused on fintech solution and innovation, announces the rollout of Quant Flow, a programmable money and banking infrastructure now available via a white-label solution “to banks, institutions and corporates across Europe, the Middle East, and APAC.” Quant Flow was developed in… Read More

May 23, 2025 @ 7:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

GenTwo, a Swiss Fintech specializing in the securitization of bankable and non-bankable assets, and Sygnum, a global digital asset banking group, have announced a joint offering that creates a streamlined pathway for financial institutions to bring crypto investment products to market. The joint solution combines… Read More