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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Securitize is launching the compliant, onchain trading experience for natively tokenized public stocks in Q1 2026. As clarified in the update, this is not a synthetic price tracker or an IOU against a custodian. As explained by Securitize, these are real, regulated shares: issued onchain,… 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
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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
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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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Invesco Ltd. (NYSE: IVZ), a global provider of exchange-traded products (ETPs), in partnership with Galaxy Asset Management (Nasdaq: GLXY), a global enabler of digital assets and data center infrastructure, announced the launch of the Invesco Galaxy Solana ETP (QSOL). QSOL offers investors direct exposure to… 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
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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
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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
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Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) announced a host of new products and offerings today as the digital asset firm aims to lead the future of finance. In a video presentation, Coinbase executives revealed a series of product updates, including the ability for anyone to tokenize primary offerings. Coinbase… Read More
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Animoca Brands, a digital assets leader building blockchain and tokenized assets to advance the future of Web3, announced it entered into a term sheet with GROW Investment Group , China’s investment and asset management platform backed by Julius Baer. Under the term sheet, Animoca Brands… Read More
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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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Erebor Bank’s deposit insurance application has been approved by the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Erebor received approval for a bank charter in October, the first de novo national bank charter issued under the current administration. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, the bank… 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
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The growing prevalence of card-not-present transactions will drive a 24% increase in global chargeback volumes by 2028, Sift predicts in its Q4 2025 Digital Trust Index: The Rising Impact of Chargebacks and Consumer Disputes. Card-not-present payments represent 63% of transactions. This growth will drive losses projected to… Read More
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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
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