Global

December 17, 2025 @ 7:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Thunes, the so-called “Smart Superhighway” to move money around the world, has joined the World Economic Forum (WEF) Unicorn Community, which is described as a curated network of tech-driven, “high-growth” companies shaping the “future of global industries.” The latest collab between Thunes and WEF is… Read More

December 17, 2025 @ 4:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

An affiliate of Circle Internet Group, Inc. (NYSE:CRCL), a global financial technology firm and the issuer of USDC through its regulated entities, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with LianLian Global, a licensed cross-border payments provider. The collab will explore opportunities in stablecoin-enabled payment infrastructure to… Read More

December 17, 2025 @ 2:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether, which claims to be one off the largest companies in the digital assets industry, announced that it has made a strategic investment in Speed, Inc., a payments infrastructure company building instant, global settlement rails using the Bitcoin Lightning Network and stablecoins. Tether has reportedly… Read More

December 17, 2025 @ 2:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TRM Labs, the blockchain intelligence platform, announced a partnership with Sphinx, a key player focused on AI agents for financial crime detection and compliance operations. Together, the two firms will now aim to bring next-generation automation and intelligence to compliance teams facing operational pressure. According… Read More

December 17, 2025 @ 2:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainalysis noted that with more than $2.17 billion reportedly stolen from crypto services in the first half of 2025, protecting decentralized finance or DeFi and web3 protocols from hackers, operational faults, governance attacks, and financial exploits has become more urgent. This requires investment in more… Read More

December 17, 2025 @ 2:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) announced the launch of USDC settlement in the United States, marking a key milestone in the company’s stablecoin settlement pilot program and strategy to “modernize its settlement layer underpinning commerce.” Now, U.S. issuer and acquirer partners can settle with Visa in… Read More

December 17, 2025 @ 9:59 am By JD Alois  |  

The Canton Network appears to be in the lead in institutional RWA tokenization, and today, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and Digital Asset announced a partnership to tokenize US Treasury Securities. The Canton Network was created by Digital Asset and managed by a foundation. According to a… Read More

December 17, 2025 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Schroders Capital’s Private Debt & Credit Alternatives (PDCA) team recently announced the close of a €77 million construction whole loan for the development of a mixed-use real estate scheme in Barkarbystaden, Järfälla municipality, Greater Stockholm. The loan will support the delivery of “377 homes, commercial… Read More

December 17, 2025 @ 8:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CAPZA announces steady fundraising of more than €1 billion for the Artemid Senior Loan IV fund (ASL IV) and its co-investment vehicles. This amount includes appr. €700 million commitments for ASL IV, €190 million through co-investments, and €120 million for “an evergreen fund dedicated to… Read More

December 17, 2025 @ 7:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), Cambridge Judge Business School, has shared insights from Wenbin Wu, Research Associate at the CCAF. Wu noted that the need to upgrade to a post-quantum environment is “more urgent for blockchains than for almost any other digital system.”… Read More

December 17, 2025 @ 5:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna (NYSE:KLAR), the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, announced the launch of its Agentic Product Protocol, which is described as being a new open standard that makes every product on the internet discoverable as well as more understandable by AI agents. As AI becomes… Read More

December 17, 2025 @ 5:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OakNorth, the digital bank for entrepreneurs, has provided a $60.7m note-on-note facility to returning customer and New York-based lending platform, S3 Capital. Established back in 2013 by Joshua Crane and Robert Schwartz after they claimed to have recognized a significant lack of institutional quality, middle… Read More

December 17, 2025 @ 1:19 am By JD Alois  |  

Griffin, a banking-as-a-service platform that focuses on Fintechs and platforms, says it had a banner year, experiencing 5X growth in revenue while processing over £3 billion in payments. Griffin is a regulated bank in the UK that offers a full-stack, API driven platform for embedded… Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 4:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CME Group, the world’s derivatives marketplace, launched Spot-Quoted XRP and SOL futures. According to the announcement, spot-quoted XRP and SOL futures will now aim to complement the existing Spot-Quoted Bitcoin and Ether futures, and are also available to trade “across the four major U.S. equity… Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 2:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM), the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth, and Revolve Group, Inc. (NYSE: RVLV), the fashion retailer for Millennial and Generation Z consumers, announced an expansion of their partnership that makes it easier for shoppers in Canada and the… Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 2:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Anchorage Digital, home to the federally chartered crypto bank, announced it has acquired the Securitize For Advisors (SFA) business unit from its parent company, Securitize. SFA is a crypto wealth management platform for registered investment advisors (RIAs). With this acquisition, Anchorage Digital will expand its… Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 2:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, and CME Group, the world’s derivatives marketplace, announced progress on their efforts to “extend their existing cross-margining arrangement to end-user clients.” Specifically, the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation… Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 10:34 am By JD Alois  |  

TrueLayer, a European payments network that offers Pay by Bank payments, is reporting that its Chief Operating Officer, Rob Kerrigan, will be joining the newly formed UK Payments Initiative (UKPI). TrueLayer joins 30 other firms in the payments sector, including all major UK retail banks…. Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 10:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MetaMask is pleased to announce that Bitcoin (BTC) is now being supported on the platform. According to the update, this means users are able to trade and manage BTC alongside other crypto-assets such as Ethereum, Solana, Monad, and Sei assets, all inside their MetaMask wallet…. Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 10:09 am By JD Alois  |  

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has posted an update on Open Banking. Unlike in the US, the UK has outlined prescribed requirements for financial services firms to allow customers to control their data, specifying who may access it, while providing streamlined processes for changing… Read More