Ostium Labs has raised $24 million, which includes $20 million Series A led by Catalyst and Jump Crypto, plus a previously unannounced $4 million strategic round. The total raised to date is set at $27.8 million. Existing investors include Balaji Srinivasan, Localglobe, Susquehanna International Group… Read More
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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As AI agents make inroads into payments, they’re raising many questions that the industry is rushing to answer. In some cases, the industry isn’t moving fast enough. Sift’s senior trust and safety architect, Brittany Allen, said AI agents are a popular session topic at conferences…. Read More
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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
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From Black Friday through Cyber Monday, businesses on Stripe reportedly processed over 578 million transactions with a total payment volume of over $40 billion. It was said to be the largest 4-day period in Stripe’s history, capped by a solid Cyber Monday that saw more… Read More
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Thunes announced that it has received In-Principle Approval (IPA) for a variation of its Major Payment Institution licence (MPI) from the Monetary Authority of Singapore. This In-Principal Approval marks a key milestone in Thunes’ growth journey and demonstrates the Fintech firm’s ongoing commitment to being… Read More
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Crypto.com announced that Crypto.com Exchange has integrated with Cede Hub, a platform for digital currency trading competitions designed for active crypto traders. Via this collab, Crypto.com Exchange users can connect their accounts to participate in “structured trading and holding competitions powered by Cede Hub.” As… Read More
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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
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Strategy Inc (Nasdaq: MSTR) announced the establishment of a US dollar reserve of $1.44 billion and updates to its assumptions underlying its previously issued forward guidance and bitcoin key performance indicator (KPI) targets for the FY ending Dec 31, 2025, which were released on Oct… Read More
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Sei has integrated with the prediction market Kalshi. Sei is a blockchain that claims to be the highest Level 1 blockchain that claims to transact at 400ms – faster than any other Layer 1 EVM blockchain. The Sei Giga network upgrade is expected to improve… Read More
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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
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