October 21, 2025 @ 9:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) had issued a warning this past week  about what it considers to be “significant gaps” in ongoing attempts to regulate the fast-evolving crypto markets. Nick Jones, Founder and CEO, Zumo, said that it’s worth noting the FSB has said financial… Read More

October 21, 2025 @ 9:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FutureBank, a banking and payments integration platform, announced an international partnership with Regtech company Sumsub, a global verification provider. The latest collaboration should help banking service providers with enhancing their digital transformation strategies and control all identity operations via a unified platform. The partnership brings… Read More

October 21, 2025 @ 9:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) has announced its acquisition of Echo, an onchain capital formation platform for approximately $375 million. Established by Cobie, a crypto investor and supporter of community-focused investing, Coinbase is now well positioned to challenge the established securities crowdfunding sector as digital assets go mainstream…. Read More

October 21, 2025 @ 9:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nearly half of financial services professionals (49%) are reporting a significant increase in Gen Z workers leaving their organisation during the last 12 months, according to KPMG’s UK Financial Services Sentiment Survey. Retention challenges are said to have been felt most “prominently” in the banking… Read More

October 21, 2025 @ 9:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Péter Szilágyi, an experienced web3 developer for Ethereum’s Geth client, recently voiced concerns regarding Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin’s considerable influence over the ETH protocol and called into question the Ethereum Foundation’s rather “centralized” decision-making process / structure in a public letter. According to Szilágyi’s observations,… Read More

October 21, 2025 @ 6:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) is asking the US Treasury Department to update the existing anti-money-laundering rules, claiming that ongoing innovation instead of stricter enforcement measures is the answer to dealing with the rise of illicit finance in the nasent web3 and digital assets space. Coinbase Chief Legal… Read More

October 21, 2025 @ 6:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Jon Medved, the founding CEO of OurCrowd and iconic trailblazer in the securities crowdfunding sector, has announced he will step down from his leadership role and migrate over to Chairman on the Israeli firm. Medved was recently diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gherig’s… Read More

October 21, 2025 @ 2:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A survey released by The BlackRock Foundation and Commonwealth reveals that over 54% of Americans living on low and moderate incomes (individuals from households living on low and moderate incomes ranging from $30,000 – $79,999 annually) are currently retail investors in the capital markets. Among… Read More

October 21, 2025 @ 1:22 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Payroc, a provider of payment processing solutions, now enables its U.S. merchants to accept in-person contactless payments with Tap to Pay on iPhone. With the Payroc Mobile iOS app, merchants can now accept contactless credit and debit cards, Apple Pay, and other digital wallets using… Read More

October 21, 2025 @ 12:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital bank Revolut and its backers are said to nearing the completion of a $3 billion fundraising round that reportedly values the UK-based fintech company at $75 billion. Revolut has now started informing investors about the allocation of shares they will be receiving as part… Read More

October 20, 2025 @ 11:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA), the regulatory body overseeing the nation’s financial sector, is reportedly exploring significant reforms that could permit banks to acquire and hold digital assets, including Bitcoin, for investment purposes. According to a recent report from Livedoor, these proposed changes mark a… Read More

October 20, 2025 @ 8:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The crypto market had earlier extended its rally for the third consecutive quarter in 2025 Q3, the team at CoinGecko noted while adding that the total market capitalization surged another +16.4%, adding about $563.6 billion to reach $4.0 trillion+. According the report from CoinGecko, the… Read More

October 20, 2025 @ 5:21 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

U.S. Bank (NYSE: USB) has created a new Digital Assets and Money Movement organization to accelerate development of and grow revenue from emerging digital products and services such as stablecoin issuance, cryptocurrency custody, asset tokenization and digital money movement. Jamie Walker, a veteran in the… Read More

October 20, 2025 @ 4:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

Regulation Crowdfunding, or Reg CF, has experienced 35 failures so far in 2025 and 19 exits year to date. This is according to a recent report generated by KingsCrowd. Reg CF is the smallest securities exemption that enables online capital formation. While it first allowed… Read More

October 20, 2025 @ 3:55 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

SecureLend this week announced the commercial launch of its AI-powered lending platform, designed to make loan origination up to 10 times faster and 60% more cost-efficient for community banks, factoring companies, and alternative lenders. The Delaware-based fintech said it is the first to introduce a large language model (LLM)-agnostic architecture, enabling institutions… Read More

October 20, 2025 @ 2:17 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a provider of global payments technology, has announced a strategic partnership with BitPay, a cryptocurrency payments processor, to further expand its digital assets solutions for merchants and payment service providers (PSPs) through ACI’s Payments Orchestration Platform. According to a recent study… Read More

October 20, 2025 @ 2:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nu Asset Management, Nubank’s (NYSE: NU) investment manager, is introducing the Nu CDI Tesouro Selic B3 (NCDI11), a new fixed income ETF. The solution enables investors to access Letras Financeiras do Tesouro (LFT) – Selic-linked government bonds – tracking the performance of these securities over… Read More

October 20, 2025 @ 11:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CoinShares (OTCQX: CNSRF) noted in an analysis this past week that Bitcoin prices have now returned to levels last seen in June of this year, after what they view as a somewhat puzzling correction. CoinShares also mentioned that from the recent peak, prices have dropped… Read More

October 20, 2025 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

AWS, the incredibly successful infrastructure venture by Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) experienced an outage earlier today that impacted thousands of website. AWS confirmed the outage explaining there was an issue with a Domain Name System (DNS) failure that mainly impacted the US East – 1 region. While… Read More

October 20, 2025 @ 8:28 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Function CEO Thomas Chen warns that Bitcoin poses a looming danger. The former head of sales at BitGo, Chen now spearheads the development of institutional-grade architecture for Bitcoin yield. Backed by partners like Galaxy Digital, Mantle, and Antalpha, Function has reached over $1.5 billion in… Read More