October 28, 2025 @ 10:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Venmo, the money movement app redefining social payments for the next generation, announced a partnership with Bilt, the nation’s housing and neighborhood commerce platform, to expand how people use Venmo for everyday payments. The collab brings rent payments, mortgage repayments, and neighborhood commerce into the… Read More

October 28, 2025 @ 5:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Checkout.com, a global digital payments provider, announced a new strategic partnership with Uber Technologies, Inc (NYSE: UBER), the world’s digital mobility platform. The collaboration will now reportedly see Checkout.com offer acquiring and gateway services to Uber’s ridesharing and on-demand delivery platforms across markets. Uber selected Checkout.com… Read More

October 28, 2025 @ 4:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Circle Internet Group, Inc. (CRCL:NYSE) has recently announced the launch of the public testnet for Arc, which is described as an open L1 blockchain network intended to meet the needs of developers and companies bringing more economic activity to an onchain ecosystem. The launch arrives… Read More

October 28, 2025 @ 4:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets firm Kraken has issued an alert about the increase in recruitment and job-related scams via networks like LinkedIn and social media platform X. Indeed, job scams are nothing new but they continue to take on new forms with an increasing level of sophistication…. Read More

October 28, 2025 @ 4:41 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

CSI, a provider of end-to-end financial software and technology, has completed its acquisition of Apiture, a provider of digital banking solutions to U.S. financial institutions. The Apiture Digital Banking Platform delivers tools that help institutions win and retain account holders. “Acquiring Apiture supercharges our mission to deliver… Read More

October 28, 2025 @ 10:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Trulioo, an identity platform with proven global coverage for person and business verification, announced steady growth in U.S. Know Your Business (KYB) transaction volume with a considerable year-over-year increase. The KYB growth is said to have helped fuel an increase in U.S. verification volume across… Read More

October 28, 2025 @ 9:32 am By JD Alois  |  

In recent days, Senator Elizabeth Warren took to X to criticize President Trump’s decision to pardon Changpeng “CZ” Zhou, Binance founder and former CEO. Senator Warren is a longtime critic of digital assets and financial services firms in general. She sits on the key Senate… Read More

October 28, 2025 @ 8:57 am By JD Alois  |  

Last night, Elon Musk revealed that his solution to Wikipedia, Grokipedia version 0.1, is now live. Musk has criticized the information on Wikipedia for years, calling it unbalanced. Musk said even this first version of Grokipedia was superior to Wikipedia. Wikipedia has been challenged for… Read More

October 28, 2025 @ 8:28 am By JD Alois  |  

Payroll firm ADP says it will now offer its Jobs Report weekly, starting today. The US data point is important as it can drive markets and set expectations for future policy actions. The report published today indicates a preliminary estimate of an average increase of… Read More

October 28, 2025 @ 8:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Jeel, the tech subsidiary of Riyad Bank, has teamed up with Mambu, the cloud-native core banking platform, to enhance the ecosystem powered by the recently launched Jeel Sandbox, Saudi Arabia’s fintech sandbox accelerator – developed by Jeel in collaboration with Fintech Saudi. The Jeel Sandbox… Read More

October 28, 2025 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

bunq, which claims to be one of Europe’s largest neobanks, has reportedly been approved by FINRA in order to operate as a US broker-dealer – a move that is said to have been driven by users who reside, work, and invest across Europe as well as… Read More

October 28, 2025 @ 8:15 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Natural, a fintech company building the infrastructure powering agentic payments, announced its emergence from stealth, driven by a $9.8 million seed round. Co-led by Abstract and Human Capital, the round was also supported by Forerunner Ventures, Terrain, Restive Ventures, Genius Ventures, and a coalition of… Read More

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