October 28, 2025 @ 8:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Despite Standard Chartered analysts incorrectly forecasting this past week a BTC price drop below $100,000 being “inevitable” over the weekend, Bitcoin surged to over $113,800 on October 24, 2025 following the announcement that the US and China have formally committed to a framework agreement made… Read More

October 28, 2025 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase  (NASDAQ:COIN) is announcing a collaboration with Citi (NYSE: C) that’s said to be focused on solving a pressing challenge: making it more seamless for Citi’s clients to leverage the potential of digital assets as well as stablecoins to facilitate the transmission of value. The… Read More

October 28, 2025 @ 8:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Gemini Exchange and Gemini Wallet customers are now able to deposit USDT and USDC on Avalanche. With the addition, Gemini customers are now able to make transfers for these stablecoins via multichain rails with Solana, Ethereum, Base, Optimism, Arbitrum along with the latest network addition…. Read More

October 28, 2025 @ 7:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Chargebacks911 and its sister firm, Fi911, announced recently the official launch of their Unified Dispute Management System (UDMS)—which is described as the first Disputes-as-a-Service (DaaS) platform of its kind that brings together dispute-related data and workflows, offering a configurable interface for merchants, acquirers, payfacs, fintechs,… Read More

October 28, 2025 @ 5:11 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, Infineon Technologies introduced two new secure prepaid tag solutions. Infineon’s secured EMV prepaid tag solution focuses on open-loop gift cards, while the secured prepaid tag solution is offered for closed-loop gift cards. The new additions address the challenges associated with traditional gift cards… Read More

October 28, 2025 @ 2:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

KPMG noted that the overall sentiment in German boardrooms continues to get worse: around 72 percent of CEOs in the leading European economy still expect growth for their firm in the next 3 years – which is a low compared to 77 percent reported in… Read More

October 28, 2025 @ 1:55 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Modern Treasury this week announced the acquisition of Beam, a stablecoin and fiat payment platform for customers like Sling Money. With the addition of Beam’s technology and team, Modern Treasury’s money movement platform now spans both traditional and stablecoin settlement rails. “Instant payments and stablecoins… Read More

October 28, 2025 @ 1:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Gotrade, an investment app in Malaysia, announced recently the roll-out of options trading for its users across Southeast Asia. This expansion is powered in partnership with Alpaca, a brokerage infrastructure API offering access to options, stocks, ETFs, fixed income, as well as crypto. Investors residing… Read More

October 28, 2025 @ 12:53 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

CipherOwl, founded by the team that built Coinbase’s on-chain data and compliance platform, this week announced $15 million in seed financing co-led by General Catalyst and Flourish Ventures, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Sancus Ventures, Enlight Capital, OKX Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, Road Capital and Predictive VC. The company is emerging from stealth with an AI-native… Read More

October 27, 2025 @ 11:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Japanese fintech JPYC Inc. recently revealed that it has introduced the nation’s legally recognized yen-denominated stablecoin, called JPYC (with trading starting this Monday). JPYC Inc. stated that it began offering the JPYC token this Monday along with introducing its issuance and redemption service, JPYC EX…. Read More

October 27, 2025 @ 10:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Securitize, a platform that is focused on tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), has introduced the Securitize MCP Server, an integration layer meant to make its asset data more accessible to larger enterprise systems and artificial intelligence tools. The server is reportedly developed on the Model Context… Read More

October 27, 2025 @ 9:54 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Cybrid, a platform for compliant stablecoins and fiat payment infrastructure, has raised a $10 million Series A funding round led by the Growth Venture Fund at BDC Capital with participation from Golden Ventures, Luge Capital, and Panache Ventures. The funding will accelerate Cybrid’s mission to drive stablecoins… Read More

October 27, 2025 @ 8:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) unveiled plans to allocate around $1.5T over the next decade as part of its so-called Security and Resiliency Initiative, including as much as $10B in direct equity investments, in order to support the US’s move towards improved national security. As global competition… Read More

October 27, 2025 @ 4:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

Gradient Labs, an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that targets conversational engagements for finance, is looking to expand its services into the US following “explosive” growth in Europe. Based in the UK, Gradient Labs was co-founded by Dimitri Masin, Neal Lathia, and Danai Antoniou. Each of… Read More

October 27, 2025 @ 3:47 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

PayNearMe has introduced its AI-powered Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA) as part of its strategy to advance and modernize customer engagement for non-commerce businesses. Fully integrated into the PayXM platform, Intelligent Virtual Agent extends PayNearMe’s vision of Payment Experience Management by enabling organizations to automate and personalize inbound and… Read More

October 27, 2025 @ 1:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether Holdings Ltd., the company behind the USDT stablecoin, anticipates generating nearly $15 billion in earnings for 2025. This projection underscores the company’s steady business growth, enabled largely by the adoption of its pegged digital currency, which underpins much of the global cryptocurrency trading volume… Read More

October 27, 2025 @ 12:47 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Atrium has launched an enterprise SaaS platform that enables bank and real estate investors and analysts to drill from a bank’s balance sheet to every building it finances—in one click. The company has raised $4 million in financing from Castle Island Ventures and EJF Ventures to… Read More

October 27, 2025 @ 12:44 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

DXC (NYSE: DXC), a Fortune 500 technology services provider, and Splitit, a provider of embedded card-linked installments, are partnering to enable banks to offer account holders installment plans at checkout and post-purchase, powered by Splitit’s proprietary AI engine that dynamically personalizes offers for each consumer. Leveraging DXC’s… Read More

October 27, 2025 @ 12:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Approximately $7 billion in Bitcoin has now been transferred out of long-term BTC holder reserve wallets since mid-October of this year. This, according to the latest data and insights shared by Glassnode. Because of this fairly recent development, the leading cryptocurrency’s illiquid supply could make… Read More

October 27, 2025 @ 10:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

This past week, Fireblocks announced its acquisition of Dynamic to deliver the end-to-end custody-to-consumer stack, letting businesses build and scale on-chain products faster and more securely. Dynamic reportedly powers over 50 million on-chain accounts for key players like Kraken, ZeroHash, and Magic Eden. The deal… Read More