December 17, 2025 @ 10:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In a recent exchange on X, Mike Cagney, co-founder and executive chairman of Figure Technologies (Nasdaq: FIGR), dismissed real estate as a “red herring” in the push to migrate assets onto blockchain. Responding to a query about tokenizing real-world assets (RWAs), Cagney argued thar real… Read More

December 17, 2025 @ 10:16 am By JD Alois  |  

The GENIUS Act, signed into law last July, legalized payment stablecoins as issued by regulated financial services firms. This includes traditional banks, with many poised to move into the new form of value transfer and payments. Yesterday, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) issued a… 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 @ 8:17 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

A new report from Tipalti on AI in finance finds that trust and transparency are two key concerns as more companies adopt the emerging technology. The State of AI in Finance: Exploring the AI Trust Gap surveyed 500 companies from Canada, the United Kingdom, and… 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 @ 8:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Custodia Bank, a Wyoming-chartered crypto-assets custody institution, has petitioned the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit for an en banc rehearing of a divided panel’s October 2025 ruling that affirmed the Federal Reserve‘s discretion to deny it a master account. A master… Read More

December 17, 2025 @ 7:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As institutions adopt on-chain credit, FalconX’s lending desk has integrated Kamino, a “decentralized” lending protocol on Solana, into its lending and structured product offerings. By utilizing Kamino’s non-custodial infrastructure and fixed-rate lending design, FalconX can access liquidity, maximize capital efficiency, and support the institutional demand… 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 @ 3:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Copper, a firm enabling digital assets custody, collateral management, and prime services, is pleased to announce that they are the “first” custodians to support native mint and redeem capabilities for Ethena digital assets in their platform. Through expanding their partnership with Ethena, “a decentralized finance… Read More

December 17, 2025 @ 2:04 am By Michael Wong  |  

Outstanding debt in Indonesia’s online lending industry climbed to 92.92 trillion rupiah ($5.6 billion) in October, the Financial Services Authority (OJK) said, as growth accelerated while credit quality held broadly steady. The regulator said online-loan balances rose 23.86% from a year earlier, picking up from… 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 @ 6:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Betterment at Work, a provider of modern, scalable 401(k) plans for growing businesses, today launched the fifth installment of its annual Retirement Readiness Report. The report reveals that nearly half (48%) of U.S. workers believe they’ll need “at least $1 million to retire comfortably—up from… 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 @ 4:17 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Ncontracts’ The Future of Compliance describes compliance’s transition from more of a mundane obligation into a strategic priority. However, that change, still ongoing, has been far from smooth. Compliance has become a strategic function, with 82% of respondents saying they are satisfied with board and… Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 2:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

The American Fintech Council (AFC) has issued a statement in support of the Bank-Fintech Partnership Enhancement Act (HR 6552). The legislation requires the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to study how… 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