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Octopus Energy customers are now able to get their account credit back faster because of a new tie-up with fintech company GoCardless. Octopus has completed one of the Direct Debit migrations in the UK, “moving 5.5 million accounts and £12 billion of payments to GoCardless… Read More
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European digital bank bunq announced the launch of Term Deposits, a new savings option with some of the market’s highest returns, as well as ways to track and invest in crypto. With Term Deposits, bunq users can lock in their money for a fixed period… Read More
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Jack McDonald, SVP Stablecoins at Ripple, has said that they are pleased to mark the 1-year since the launch of $RLUSD. They have gone from 0 to trying to become a top 5 USD stablecoin in a short period of time. According to McDonald, here… Read More
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iProov, the world’s provider of “science-based” biometric identity verification solutions, announced a partnership with HYPR, which is the enabler of identity assurance. This delivers a layered defense against one of the most critical organizational security problems: the infiltration of “enterprise systems by fraudulent workers, sophisticated… Read More
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Crypto.com and international investment company Galapagos Capital announced a partnership that will see Galapagos Capital leverage Crypto.com Exchange services and capabilities to establish a new digital asset offering for its clients. Galapagos Capital will now reportedly aim to leverage Crypto.com Exchange for its trading infrastructure… Read More
Read more in: Blockchain & Digital Assets, Global, Investment Platforms and Marketplaces | Tagged crypto trading, crypto.com, digital assets, galapagos capital, investing
RedotPay, a global stablecoin-based payment fintech, announced the successful completion of its $107 million Series B round, bringing the total capital raised in 2025 to US$194 million. This round is said to be a signal of investor confidence in RedotPay’s growth momentum and its market… Read More
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The Asia-Pacific deal ecosystem has reportedly experienced a slowdown in activity during January-November 2025, reflecting a “broader trend of cautious deal-making.” The total number of deals (comprising mergers & acquisitions (M&A), private equity and venture financing deals) announced in the APAC region “decreased by 5%… Read More
Read more in: Asia, Global | Tagged apac, data, deal activity, insights, research
Mesh, the crypto payments network, today announced a partnership with Paxos, the blockchain infrastructure and tokenization platform. This integration will now reportedly allow Paxos to deploy Mesh’s technology “across its customer base, in order to enable seamless crypto deposits from verified sources.” By leveraging Mesh,… Read More
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Olea Global Pte Ltd, a platform enabling global trade, announced the completion of its $30 million Series A round. The funding round was led by BBVA (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A), with participation from XDC Network, theDOCK, others, as well as existing shareholder SC Ventures,… Read More
Read more in: Asia, Blockchain & Digital Assets, Fintech, Global | Tagged funding round, olea, singapore, trade finance
In a joint 2025 end-of-year report with FactSet, Talos has analyzed a year that marked a “structural” shift for digital assets. Drawing on Coin Metrics On-Chain and Market Data alongside FactSet’s capital markets intelligence, the report examines how regulation, institutional access, and “real economic usage… Read More
Read more in: Blockchain & Digital Assets, Global | Tagged Crypto Adoption, digital assets, factset, Research Report, stablecoins, talos
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
Read more in: Fintech, Global | Tagged digital payments, money movement, thunes, wef, world economic forum
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
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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
Read more in: Blockchain & Digital Assets, Global, Strategy | Tagged digital assets, investments, stablecoins, tether, Web3
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
Read more in: Blockchain & Digital Assets, Global, Regtech & Legaltech | Tagged blockchain intelligence, security, sphinx, TRM Labs, Web3
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
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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
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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
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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
Read more in: Global, Real Estate | Tagged debt, europe, real estate, schroders capital, sweden
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
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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
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