Global

December 16, 2025 @ 8:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Archax, the UK/EU regulated digital asset platform, and TradingStack.io, the capital markets connectivity provider, announced that they have partnered to offer FIX access to cryptocurrencies and tokenised real-world assets (RWAs) available on the Archax Primary and Secondary markets. By leveraging the Financial Information eXchange (FIX)… Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Airwallex, a financial platform for businesses, announced it will inject $590 million into its UK business across the next 5 years (2026 to 2030) to drive local and growth. The investment will be spent on a range of activities “including a hiring surge which will… Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 8:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sygnum, a global digital asset banking group, announces it has launched its collaboration with BNY (NYSE: BK), a global financial services company, as one of its USD settlement providers. The collab, which is reportedly one the first with a European digital asset bank in this… Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 8:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

LendInvest Mortgages (LSE: LINV), an alternative platform for property finance, announces the launch of a long-term development finance funding partnership with AB CarVal and HSBC, intended to scale the company’s development finance proposition and enable the delivery of new homes across the nation. The funding… Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The British Business Bank announced a £15 million investment into PolyAI, a key player in enterprise conversational AI, as part of an $86 million Series D round. The round has reportedly been co-led by Georgian, Hedosophia, Khosla Ventures, with additional investment from NVentures (NVIDIA’s VC… Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 8:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

tZERO Group, Inc., a blockchain-powered multi-asset infrastructure provider, announced a partnership with Polymath, the company behind Polymesh – an L1 blockchain built for real-world assets. The partnership brings together Polymath’s RWA blockchain tech and tZERO’s broker-dealer and tokenization capabilities to support issuers seeking to “tokenize… Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 8:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Phantom, a crypto wallet trusted by more than 20 million users, and Kalshi, the world’s prediction market, introduced a new way to trade what’s trending. With Phantom Prediction Markets, users can tap into the moments shaping politics, crypto, sports, and culture, discovering markets and watching… Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 1:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Fintech Pulse report has provided a data-driven look at Latvia’s financial technology sector. The research report offers insights from Riga Technical University’s Riga Business School Fintech Observatory, covering sector — wide turnover, taxes, profit, as well as overall employment trends. According to the research… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 9:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

State Street Investment Management and Galaxy Asset Management, an affiliate of Galaxy Digital Inc. (NASDAQ: GLXY) announced the forthcoming launch of the State Street Galaxy Onchain Liquidity Sweep Fund (SWEEP), which is described as a tokenized private liquidity fund that will aim to unlock the… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 8:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Australian fintech ecosystem has remained broadly stable during this year, according to an extensive update from KPMG, which also noted that with 801 independent Australian owned fintech companies, “marking a slight 2% decline year-on-year change from 2024.” The research report from KPMG also mentioned… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 8:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Conduit is pleased to announce a partnership with Tempo, incubated by Stripe and Paradigm. This partnership will now offer Tempo’s ecosystem with “performant” as well as “production-ready” RPC infrastructure to build the so-called next generation of finance. As Tempo continues its mission to “upgrade” the… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 8:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Brainworks Ventures, AI-native venture capital fund led by DARPA alumnus Dr. Phillip Alvelda and a global team of veteran investors and innovators, announced the launch of its $50 million fund designed for what Managing Partner Dr. Alvelda calls “the new mathematics of AI-native companies.” The… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 4:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) and Chainlink, the self-described industry-standard oracle platform, announced the selection of Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) as the bridging solution for all Coinbase Wrapped Assets, “enabling cross-chain transfers and expansion.” Coinbase Wrapped Assets, which include crypto tokens cbBTC, cbETH, cbDOGE, cbLTC, cbADA, and cbXRP,… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 4:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nu Quantum, the distributed quantum computing provider, has reportedly closed its $60 million Series A round led by National Grid Partners, including participation from Gresham House Ventures and Morpheus Ventures, and support from existing investors Amadeus Capital Partners, IQ Capital, Ahren Capital, Cambridge Enterprise Ventures,… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 12:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Germany’s regulatory authority BaFin has reportedly imposed stricter oversight on digital bank N26, which now includes certain limits on new business based in the Netherlands along with the appointment of a special monitor. As widely reported, this is not the first time that N26 has… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 11:43 am By JD Alois  |  

The world’s most loved big tech firm, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), is under scrutiny by the Secretariat of the Swiss Competition Commission (COMCO) for possible transgressions of Swiss competition laws. The Secretariat launched a preliminary investigation on December 10, 2025, to determine whether other mobile payment app providers can effectively… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 7:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In October of this year, Grayscale reportedly became the first U.S. issuer to begin staking the ETH and SOL underlying its spot crypto ETFs. According to an update from Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN), this made Grayscale one of the first asset managers in the U.S. to provide… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 7:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Aberdeen Investments has reached agreement with MFS to acquire the management of closed end fund (CEF) assets totalling £1.5bn, further cementing Aberdeen’s position as the “fifth largest” asset manager of CEFs internationally. Via a series of mergers and reorganisations, nine MFS funds, in addition to… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 7:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna (NYSE:KLAR), the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, has signed a research partnership with Privy, the wallet infrastructure platform and a Stripe company, to explore, research and co-design potential wallet solutions to power a new generation of crypto products for Klarna users. The… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 7:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple, a financial technology company that offers crypto solutions for businesses, announced a partnership with AMINA Bank AG, to “support near real time” cross-border payments for AMINA Bank’s clients using Ripple Payments. AMINA Bank, a Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA-regulated crypto bank with global… Read More