December 5, 2025 @ 3:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cowbell, a provider of adaptive cyber and specialty insurance solutions for global small and mid-market organizations, announced the launch of self-service capabilities for Cowbell Resiliency Services. This feature allows policyholders to browse, request, and activate risk-management services from their policy dashboard and “expands Cowbell’s commitment… Read More

December 5, 2025 @ 3:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Figure Technology Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: FIGR), the blockchain-native capital marketplace for the origination, funding, sale, and trading of onchain loan products and tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), announced the launch of the RWA Consortium, a coalition that will expand access to Figure’s onchain loan originations, starting… Read More

December 5, 2025 @ 3:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Quality Automotive Services, a franchisee of Valvoline Instant Oil Change, is reporting continued employee retention improvement in its 3rd year of partnership with DailyPay, the enabler of On-Demand Pay and financial wellness solutions. The implementation of DailyPay has been described as a key tool in… Read More

December 5, 2025 @ 3:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

WisdomTree’s fully staked ETH ETP is reportedly live. The WisdomTree Physical Lido Staked Ether ETP (LIST) is said to be among the first European ETPs to hold only stETH minted through the Lido protocol, providing a structure that avoids the unstaked buffers traditional products tend… Read More

December 5, 2025 @ 3:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nubank (NYSE: NU), which claims to be one of the world’s largest digital financial services platforms, announces its intention to obtain a banking license in Brazil. The inclusion of a banking institution within the conglomerate complies with the provisions of Joint Resolution No. 17, which has… Read More

December 5, 2025 @ 12:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Increasing Investor Opportunities Act of 2025 (or Invest Act) is moving forward as the House Rules Committee has updated the legislation this week. HR 3383 aims to improve access to capital while boosting opportunity for investors, including by addressing the current discriminatory nature of… Read More

December 5, 2025 @ 10:39 am By JD Alois  |  

Scott Bauguess, Vice President of Global Regulatory Policy at Coinbase  (NASDAQ:COIN), sees tokenization, or the digitization of securities, as benefiting Reg A and Reg C, bringing new life to these securities exemptions. Bauguess understands these markets well, as he was previously at the Securities and Exchange… Read More

December 5, 2025 @ 10:17 am By JD Alois  |  

The UK Parliament’s Crypto and Digital Assets All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) has welcomed the passage of a new digital asset property law. The Property (Digital Assets etc) Act received Royal Assent on 2nd December 2025. In brief, the Act means “A thing (including a… Read More

December 5, 2025 @ 9:54 am By JD Alois  |  

Cloudflare has dropped the ball once again, impacting big sites and platforms with a surprise outage. Cloudflare posted on X: “A change made to how Cloudflare’s Web Application Firewall parses requests impacted the availability of Cloudflare’s network for several minutes today. This was not an… Read More

December 5, 2025 @ 9:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Kraken is announcing that they are now expanding their trading and investing services in Colombia via the activation of local payment rails. Kraken explained in a blog post that the introduction of COP funding reflects their continued investment in building infrastructure enabling individuals to have… Read More

December 5, 2025 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna (NYSE:KLAR), the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, launches the new feature Tap to Pay across 14 European markets, with the aim of bringing more flexible payments into physical retail at scale and “transforming the Klarna app into an everyday contactless wallet.” With… Read More

December 5, 2025 @ 8:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MoneyGram, a global payments network for consumers, businesses, and communities, has partnered with Fireblocks, an infrastructure platform securing digital asset transfers. The collab will aim to advance stablecoin-based settlement and multi-asset treasury operations across MoneyGram’s retail and digital footprint, enabling “lower-cost payments and real-time treasury… Read More

December 5, 2025 @ 8:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The UK economy is set to slow to around 1.0% in the coming year, down a bit from 1.4% in 2025, as a combination of a “softening labour market and subdued consumer confidence” constrain household spending, according to KPMG UK’s Economic Outlook. As noted in… Read More

December 5, 2025 @ 8:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SIX announces its intention to integrate SIX x-clear and BME Clearing into one multi-asset CCP with global presence as well as interoperable links in the cash equity segment. Presently being subject to required regulatory approvals, SIX will aim to “create a single multi-asset clearing house.”… Read More

December 5, 2025 @ 12:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The British Business Bank announced that in the two years since its launch the £70million Investment Fund for Northern Ireland has directly invested £30million into local firms. Additionally, these new investments into smaller businesses on differing stages of their growth journey have “crowded in co-investment… Read More

December 4, 2025 @ 11:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Analysis of Bank of Ireland customer behavior during the third quarter (Q3) of 2025 shows that contactless payments rose again while ATM usage continues on a downward trend, compared to the same period in 2024. In Q3 2025, eCommerce contactless card transactions (digital wallets, Apple… Read More

December 4, 2025 @ 10:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ransomware is now said to be growing beyond more traditional hotspots and in emerging economies, including Latin America, the Middle East, Asia, other regions, according to CyberCube’s research. The report, titled “Applying Analytics and Threat Intelligence to Grow in a Soft Market”, states these trends… Read More

December 4, 2025 @ 9:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Experian released its latest Data Breach Industry Forecast, offering a look at the cyber threat ecosystem. The predictions address how the coming year could bring another new wave of more sophisticated attacks driven by artificial intelligence along with various other threats as well as significant… Read More

December 4, 2025 @ 9:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fenergo, the provider of AI-powered solutions for-know your customer-(KYC),-anti-money laundering-(AML), and-client lifecycle management-(CLM), announced asset management service provider Waystone has implemented its technology to enhance client service. By deploying Fenergo’s AI-powered CLM and KYC solutions, Waystone has transformed “the way its clients engage with its… Read More

December 4, 2025 @ 9:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Basel Committee recently released its assessment reports that are focused on the implementation of its global standards in the United Kingdom. According to an update shared by BIS, assessments find the UK regulations largely compliant with the Basel Committee’s Net Stable Funding Ratio standard… Read More