October 15, 2025 @ 3:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

BlackRock (NYSE:BLK), an asset management firm with over $13.46 trillion in assets, holds quite a bit of sway regarding global markets. So when its CEO, Larry Fink, talks up tokenization, it is important to listen to what he has to say. Yesterday, while visiting CNBC,… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 2:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In a move to enhance its role in private markets, Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) announced on October 13, 2025, an agreement to acquire Industry Ventures, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm. The deal, which expands Goldman’s alternatives platform amid surging demand for secondary transactions, underscores the… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 2:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

It was reported earlier that the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) was pursuing a consultation on the tokenization of funds. This is a precursor to the tokenization of  more investible assets and part of an initiative to keep the UK competitive as a global financial… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 2:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Taxbit explains that it streamlines compliance by automating seller data collection, handling high volumes of transactions, and producing jurisdiction-specific reports in the correct formats. Taxbit notes that its platform continuously updates to reflect regulatory updates, assisting digital platforms with remaining compliant while focusing on core… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 2:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital solution platform Bold Penguin announced it has acquired SquareRisk, a marketplace that discovers, quotes, and binds specialty MGA products across more than 45 carriers via a single interface. Bold Penguin users will have additional commercial insurance policy coverage options beyond the admitted space to… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 2:09 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Colombia has launched its first government-backed real-time payments rail. Bre-B debuted on Oct. 8. It is the national real-time payment system developed by Banco de la República, and integrates into institutional mobile wallets and platforms. Paytech dLocal wasted little time in integrating Bre-B payments for its customers. dLocal… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 12:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BCB Group, one of the providers of payment and trading services for the digital economy, announced a partnership with Copper, a provider of digital asset custody, prime services and collateral management. The partnership will see BCB Group facilitate on- and off-ramping for digital and fiat… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 10:53 am By JD Alois  |  

  Concerns that artificial intelligence (AI) hype will outpace reality have grown louder of late. While predictions of profound transformation across all industries abound, AI investment and valuations continue to grow.  Some are drawing parallels to the Dot Com Bomb of the early 2000s, when… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 10:41 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

RedotPay, a stablecoin payments firm, this week announced an expansion of its integration with Circle Payments Network. RedotPay introduces “Send Crypto, Receive MXN”, designed to provide a nearly instant and more cost-effective payment solution for Mexico, one of the world’s largest payment corridors. This new… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 10:35 am By JD Alois  |  

Two weeks into the shutdown of the federal government, and there is no end in sight as the Democrat minority digs its heels in, demanding an additional $1.5 trillion added to certain government programs. While the Republican majority wants to pass a continuing resolution (CR) to… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 10:06 am By JD Alois  |  

This week, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued a statement on tokenization or turning investible assets into digital assets. Digital securities have long been recognized as the future of markets. Today, with the advent of global regulatory changes supporting digital transformation, broader acceptance of… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 8:29 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

EXL [NASDAQ: EXLS] is unlocking the data foundation to make AI real for enterprises with its newly unveiled agentic AI suite of data solutions, EXLdata.ai. In partnership with Databricks, this suite of data solutions tackles a top barrier to AI adoption by making enterprise data usable for… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 8:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets platform Kraken, which now also allows users to trade stocks and various other traditional financial investing options, said that this October, customers’ futures trading experience is getting an upgrade. Notably, this latest  announcement comes after Kraken quietly raised a $500 million funding round… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 8:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Safe, the multisig based smart account platform securing $60 billion in digital assets, and Circle Internet Group, Inc. (NYSE: CRCL), a financial tech company and stablecoin market participant, announced a new strategic partnership to establish Safe as an institutional storage solution for USDC in self-custody… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 8:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s digital bank OakNorth recently announced that it provided a flexible revolving credit facility to OUTCO, a technology-powered provider of outdoor estate maintenance services, after the business’s strategic investment by Perwyn, a European private equity firm. With more than 20 years of experience, OUTCO claims… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 8:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK Finance has noted that AI adoption has risen in terms of compliance, but measurement continues to lag behind. According to the UK industry body,  it should actually be no secret that FIs are trying to adopt artificial intelligence across different areas of risk as… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 6:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

HashKey Group, the operator of one Hong Kong’s largest licensed digital assets exchanges, confidentially filed for an initial public offering in the Asian financial center. This, according to source familiar with the matter and cited by Bloomberg. HashKey might now plan to list as soon… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 1:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Driven by younger, tech-savvy investors interested in diversifying their investment portfolios, the UK population appears to be embracing crypto. Meanwhile, the nation’s crypto and web3 industry has had a solid year. Regulators have approved crypto exchange-traded notes (ETNs), and the government has introduced a seemingly… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 12:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Regtech firm Sumsub released the latest edition of its Global Fraud Index, developed in collaboration with Statista, CryptoUK, Digital Assets Association, Vixio Regulatory Intelligence and MENA Fintech Association. Timothy Owens, Tech and AI Industry Expert, and Senior Research Lead Technology and TeleCommunications at Statista shared… Read More

October 14, 2025 @ 11:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Authorities in South Korean have again commenced their ongoing review of Binance‘s planned acquisition of local digital currency exchange Gopax following a delay of more than two years. This, according to an update from Newsis. The move suggests that Binance, which remains the largest digital… Read More