November 4, 2025 @ 6:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Aberdeen, the specialist asset manager, announces its Global Private Markets Fund (GPMF) has now been onboarded onto the Allfunds Alternative Solutions Platform. The Aberdeen Global Private Markets Fund will now aim to reach a network of 900 distributors at a time when platforms like Allfunds… Read More

November 4, 2025 @ 2:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

LSEG has recently announced an expanded partnership with BlackRock (NYSE:BLK), strengthening LSEG’s private markets intelligence offering. Through a new data integration, LSEG’s customers will gain insights in private markets and alternative assets by accessing Preqin data via LSEG’s Workspace platform and Data & Feeds products…. Read More

November 4, 2025 @ 2:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple, a financial technology company that offers crypto solutions for global businesses, has recently announced the launch of digital asset spot prime brokerage capabilities for the US market. Now, US-based institutional clients are reportedly able to execute OTC spot transactions across “dozens of digital assets… Read More

November 4, 2025 @ 1:59 pm By JD Alois  |  

Will prediction markets once again prove to be prescient for political predictions? Let’s hope not. Today, with polls open, the New York City Mayoral election is in full swing with upstart Marxist Zohran Mamdani, battling traditional Democrat Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Silwa to become… Read More

November 4, 2025 @ 1:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

JPMorgan  (NYSE:JPM) revealed this past week that it will be further extending its Kinexys blockchain beyond simple payments and repo trading into the back-office infrastructure supporting fast-growing private markets. The US banking institution stated this past Thursday that its asset and wealth management units, along… Read More

November 4, 2025 @ 1:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A legal representative for US Senator Elizabeth Warren is now defending a social media post in which the lawmaker alleged that “corruption” somehow led to the October 23, 2025 presidential pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao or “CZ”. A lawyer said to be representing Zhao… Read More

November 4, 2025 @ 12:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

With today’s Mayoral election in New York City, many observers are worried about the consequences of a potential socialist or communist taking office to manage the world’s most vibrant city and top global financial center. Neophyte politician Zohran Mamdani has seen his poll numbers tighten… Read More

November 4, 2025 @ 12:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

WisdomTree, Inc. (NYSE: WT), a global financial services firm, announced it has appointed The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (BNY) (NYSE: BK), a financial services provider, as its core banking-as-a-service infrastructure provider for WisdomTree Prime, the firm’s retail platform for tokenized assets and cryptocurrency…. Read More

November 4, 2025 @ 8:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Over 28 million UK adults are now said to be turning to artificial intelligence to help manage their money – making personal finance the country’s number one use of AI. Lloyds Banking Group’s Consumer Digital Index is the UK’s study of digital and financial capability…. Read More

November 4, 2025 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital bank OakNorth has reportedly provided an £87.6m property investment facility to Elysian Residences, the specialist retirement living developer and operator, to refinance its completed schemes – The Denton in Berkhamsted and The Beckett in Tunbridge Wells. These schemes are now said to be part… Read More

November 4, 2025 @ 8:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Arrow Global Group Limited, a pan-European alternative asset manager specialising in credit and real estate, announced the opening of its new office in the UAE, strengthening its commitment to one of the world’s financial hubs. Located in the center of the UAE’s financial district, the… Read More

November 4, 2025 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ:ACIW), an enabler of global payments technology, announced that it has acquired Payment Components, a provider of AI-powered financial messaging and Open Banking solutions. ACI will integrate Payment Components tech into ACI Connetic, accelerating the roadmap of the industry’s cloud-native unified payments platform… Read More

November 4, 2025 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Worldline [Euronext: WLN], a global enabler of payment services, and Fipto, a European fintech providing stablecoin payment infrastructure, announced a partnership to look into how stablecoins may enhance settlement and payment services across Europe. Through collaboration, Worldline and Fipto are helping build the payment infrastructure… Read More

November 3, 2025 @ 6:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Concordium is announcing a partnership with Transak, a global fiat-to-crypto payment gateway, expanding access to CCD, the native token of the Concordium blockchain. The integration is now live, enabling users to interact with CCD through Transak’s on-ramp infrastructure. According to the update, the impact of… Read More

November 3, 2025 @ 2:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple, a financial technology company that offers crypto solutions for businesses, announced that several of the world’s development and humanitarian nonprofit organizations – including World Central Kitchen, Water.org, GiveDirectly, and Mercy Corps – are leveraging Ripple Payments and the Ripple USD (RLUSD) stablecoin to help… Read More

November 3, 2025 @ 2:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) (previously doing business as MicroStrategy) has reportedly acquired an additional 397 bitcoins for around $45.6 million at an average quoted price of about $114,000 per BTC between October 27 and November 2, 2025. This, according to a recent 8-K filing… Read More

November 3, 2025 @ 11:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Eventus, a provider of trade surveillance as well as financial risk solutions announced recently its collaboration with Treliant, a global consulting and managed services firm recently acquired by Huron Consulting Group. As part of Huron, Treliant brings considerable financial services expertise, regulatory insight and tech-enabled… Read More

November 3, 2025 @ 10:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Alpaca, a global provider of brokerage infrastructure APIs providing access to crypto, stocks, ETFs, options, and fixed income, announced that it joined Global Dollar Network (GDN). This should offer clients access to USDG on Solana, one of the “most used” blockchains with reported benefits such… Read More

November 3, 2025 @ 9:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Galaxy Digital Inc. (NASDAQ/TSX: GLXY) announced its integration with Coinbase Prime (NASDAQ: COIN) – a full service platform that combines liquidity and institutional-grade custody supporting institutions by powering their staking solutions. Via this latest collaboration, Coinbase Prime clients can access Galaxy’s staking infrastructure – placing… Read More

November 3, 2025 @ 8:31 am By JD Alois  |  

Global Digital Finance (GDF) has reported the results of an initiative to test the viability of Tokenized Money Market Funds (TMMF). As part of the working group 30 firms participated in the GDF Industry Sandbox, powered by Ownera, the firm which operates the FinP2P routers… Read More