Global

December 4, 2025 @ 8:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The crypto ETF ecosystem has grown considerably in size and scope during this past year. VanEck has also added to this activity this last month when it launched the VanEck Solana ETF (VSOL), which is now reportedly the third SOL ETF in the United States… Read More

December 4, 2025 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lloyds Banking Group has recently extended its fraud prevention scheme, reinforcing a commitment to protecting unsuspecting consumers from the perils / harms of fraud. The latest update revealed by Lloyds Bank in the UK initiative, launched back in 2021, will have seen £15 million of… Read More

December 4, 2025 @ 8:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MRI Software, a global enabler of real estate solutions and services, has partnered with bank payment company GoCardless in order to launch MRI Payment Connector in the UK residential property market. The integration will enable property professionals and finance teams “to offer flexible payment options… Read More

December 3, 2025 @ 4:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) released survey data, revealing AI’s influence and overall impact in commerce / shopping and spending, a generational shift in consumer spending behavior, and emerging payments trends this festive season. Bruce Cundiff, vice president, Consumer Insights at Visa said: “The data tells… Read More

December 3, 2025 @ 12:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Feedzai, the AI-native RiskOps platform for financial crime prevention, released “The AI Advantage: Fraud Fighters’ New Career Guide,” a new research report showing that financial services employees who embrace AI are outperforming their peers “across every measure of career success — from compensation to promotions… Read More

December 3, 2025 @ 12:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Since their founding back in 2013, Circle says that it has been focused on their mission of raising global economic prosperity through the frictionless exchange of value. And, for over 1o years in parallel, they’ve deployed their people and technology to expand access to financial… Read More

December 3, 2025 @ 10:46 am By JD Alois  |  

Reflecting on a survey released today by Santander that addresses the UK payments market as well as fraud concerns. A BioCatch executive says the results indicate a need to change payment regulations in the UK. BioCatch is a cyber firm that tackles the vulnerabilities in… Read More

December 3, 2025 @ 10:35 am By JD Alois  |  

Santander has published a report on the future of payments in the UK that also highlights concerns about fraud. The survey used data garnered from 3,022 adults (February 2025), 501 SME finance decision-makers, 14 in-depth interviews, and a “London citizens’ jury on crypto and the digital… Read More

December 3, 2025 @ 10:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bullish (NYSE: BLSH), an institutionally focused global digital asset platform that provides market infrastructure and information services, announced its integration with Immersive Finance, a provider of risk and portfolio analytics. The integration now enables institutional and professional customers to connect their trading activity on Bullish… Read More

December 3, 2025 @ 8:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and OpenAI announced a collaboration to help enterprise clients unlock new levels of innovation and growth by bringing agentic AI systems into the core of business. As part of the deal, Accenture will equip professionals with ChatGPT Enterprise, leveraging it in its… Read More

December 3, 2025 @ 8:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether Data announced the launch of QVAC Fabric LLM, a new LLM inference runtime and fine-tuning framework that makes it possible to execute, train and personalize large language models on hardware, including consumer GPUs, laptops, and smartphones. What had once reportedly required more high-end cloud… Read More

December 3, 2025 @ 7:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Wealth manager Foster Denovo has extended its partnership with Third Financial, part of the Nucleus group, signing a deal for a bespoke Adviser-as-a-Platform (AaaP) solution. AaaP is when the proposition to clients, along with parts of the service provided by the platform, are branded and… Read More

December 3, 2025 @ 7:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Earlier, it was revealed that nine large European banks – Banca Sella, CaixaBank, Danske Bank, DekaBank, ING, KBC, Raiffeisen Bank International, SEB, and UniCredit – announced on 25 Sept this year that they had teamed up to launch a MiCAR–compliant stablecoin issuer under the supervision… Read More

December 3, 2025 @ 7:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

LIQID, one of Germany’s digital wealth managers, is reportedly further expanding its tech platform and partners with Upvest, Europe’s provider of investment infrastructure, for its ELTIF offering. With Private Equity NXT, launched in 2024, LIQID has established one of Europe’s ELTIF funds for private investors… Read More

December 2, 2025 @ 11:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The European Council and the European Parliament reached a provisional political agreement to bolster the EU’s legislation on payment services. Morten Bødskov, Danish Minister for Business, Industry and Financial Affairs said that this latest agreement marks a key step in the fight against payment fraud… Read More

December 2, 2025 @ 3:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Argentinians visit Brazil each year for various reasons such as work, tourism, and family travel. Now, paying in Brazil reportedly became more accessible, because of a new Binance Pay integration that enables Argentinians to use Pix with crypto. As covered, Pix is Brazil’s national instant-payment… Read More

December 2, 2025 @ 2:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The ECB noted that financial stability vulnerabilities still remain fairly elevated given uncertainty over current geo-economic trends and the anticipated tariffs impact. Moreover, the central bank said that the currently stretched valuations in increasingly concentrated asset markets raise risk of sharp price adjustments. The ECB… Read More

December 2, 2025 @ 2:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Juniper Research has released a whitepaper, entitled, Beyond Chargebacks: The True Cost of Fraud for Digital Commerce, which examines the current state of the eCommerce fraud prevention market; considering “the impact of evolving digital fraud strategies, including trends like identity theft, account takeovers, chargebacks, policy… Read More

December 2, 2025 @ 9:51 am By JD Alois  |  

While lauding various aspects of the European Union’s efforts to promote capitalism and the single market, Eurocrowd has called out the Capital Markets Union (CMU) initiative for failing to deliver on its most ambitious promises. The European Union is a vast market that surpasses the US… Read More

December 2, 2025 @ 8:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Central Bank of Ireland has released consumer research and analysis of retail investment in Ireland. Comparing data on the financial assets of Irish households against various other European Union countries, Ireland has among the “lowest levels of direct participation” in capital markets via listed… Read More