October 1, 2025 @ 10:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Stacey Bowers will be exiting her role at the SEC as the Director of the Office of the Advocate for Small Business Capital Formation, as of October 17th. Bowers stepped into the position in January 2024 during the Biden Administration. The Office of the Advocate… Read More

October 1, 2025 @ 10:06 am By JD Alois  |  

Re7 Capital will soon launch a Bitcoin yield fund, thus entering a hot sector of crypto. The fund is expected to be available to investors beginning this month on Starknet. Starknet is a Layer 2 blockchain that claims to validate off-chain transactions using advanced mathematics… Read More

October 1, 2025 @ 9:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CoinShares International Limited (OTCQX: CNSRF), the European asset manager specializing in digital assets with ~US$10 billion in AuM, announced the acquisition of Bastion Asset Management Limited, a London-based, FCA-regulated crypto-focused alternative investment manager. The acquisition is subject to regulatory “approval from the UK Financial Conduct… Read More

October 1, 2025 @ 9:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainlink announced a technical solution enabling financial institutions worldwide to manage digital asset workflows from their systems “using Swift messaging and the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE).” With Swift messages and CRE, banks and institutions can “access blockchains through the same Swift infrastructure they have relied… Read More

October 1, 2025 @ 9:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

N26 has announced the launch of its PEA (Share Savings Account), with no brokerage fees, to allow French people to “save and invest for the future while benefiting from tax treatment.” With its PEA offering, N26 allows French people “to invest in the largest European… Read More

October 1, 2025 @ 8:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Consensys shared that it is supporting Swift with early-stage prototyping as the global financial infrastructure adds a blockchain-based digital ledger to its technology stack. Swift’s move is a pivotal one for global finance, “beginning with instant, always-on cross-border payments at unprecedented scale.” For more than a… Read More

October 1, 2025 @ 8:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Deutsche Börse Group and Circle Internet Group, Inc. (NYSE: CRCL)  signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on the use of Circle’s EURC and USDC stablecoins “within Deutsche Börse’s financial market infrastructure.” This agreement in Europe aims to deliver new solutions for market participants… Read More

October 1, 2025 @ 1:23 am By JD Alois  |  

LSEG Risk Intelligence has announced World-Check On Demand, a platform that is said to provide actionable intelligence to mitigate risk and adhere to compliance demands. The service is said to be real-time, allowing clients to better manage risk. The company states that 98% of financial… Read More

September 30, 2025 @ 3:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mambu, the SaaS cloud banking platform, announced today its successful collaboration with ABN AMRO to support BUUT, a bank designed to help younger consumers better manage their money/finances. The neobank was brought to market in 12 months. BUUT is a full-service bank that offers a… Read More

September 30, 2025 @ 3:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Citi (NYSE: C) announced its plans for an industry-first integration of Citi Token Services, a blockchain-based platform, with its 24/7 USD Clearing solution to create “a 24/7, multibank cross-border instant payments capability for Citi’s institutional clients in the UK and US.” This move expands Citi’s… Read More

September 30, 2025 @ 3:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets firm OKX noted that the so-called “next generation” of stablecoin payments begins with the launch of OKX Pay in Singapore. OKX Pay is Singapore’s stablecoin-powered scan-to-pay service, “enabling customers to pay with USDT or USDC stablecoins at GrabPay merchant-partners by scanning their GrabPay… Read More

September 30, 2025 @ 1:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Crypto.com and Sharps Technology, Inc. announced that STSS has expanded its digital asset treasury strategy with Crypto.com services for its holdings. STSS is an emerging player in digital asset treasury management, with a vision to “align traditional finance with the Solana ecosystem.” The company has… Read More

September 30, 2025 @ 1:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

Stablecoins can be viewed as a new form of payments. Transfers can be instantaneous, secure, and at a very low cost. As firms that offer stablecoins must hold reserves in safe assets, such as US Treasuries, these funds are generating interest. Yet, stablecoin issuers are… Read More

September 30, 2025 @ 12:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

The founder of Fintech Frank, Charlie Javice, a platform that sought to streamline the process for students to tap into available funds for college, has been sentenced to seven years in prison for fraud. According to reports, Javice is also reportedly required to return $22.4… Read More

September 30, 2025 @ 9:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Earlier this month, the SEC’s Division of Trading and Markets and the CFTC’s Division of Market Oversight and Division of Clearing and Risk announced a project to coordinate efforts on spot crypto trading. The goal is to provide “regulatory clarity that best keeps blockchain-based innovation… Read More

September 30, 2025 @ 8:45 am By JD Alois  |  

Instant payments, which are the transfer of value without any delay, are predicted to surpass $110 trillion by 2029, almost doubling the $60 trillion that is already occurring today. In a report published by Juniper, instantaneous payments are being driven by regulation, including FedNow in… Read More

September 30, 2025 @ 8:29 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Signicat, an identity services provider, has introduced ReuseID, a digital identity solution that enables organizations to create, manage, and reuse verified identities across their entire ecosystem. This launch coincides with Europe’s advancement of the European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI Wallet), the enactment of eIDAS 2.0, and an intensifying demand for… Read More

September 30, 2025 @ 8:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Worldpay has launched the Embedded Finance Engine, a suite of financial service products that its software platform partners can integrate to drive higher retention and revenue growth while “streamlining their tech stacks and ecosystems.” Worldpay’s Embedded Finance Engine is available to partners integrated with Worldpay… Read More

September 30, 2025 @ 8:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Checkout.com, a global digital payments provider, announced steady progress on its growth plan for 2025, “reaffirming its commitment to achieve full-year profitability.” In the first half of the year, the company has “made significant progress, and is on track to exceed its target of 30%… Read More

September 30, 2025 @ 8:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe has announced that it is helping OpenAI launch a commerce experience called Instant Checkout in ChatGPT. ChatGPT users in the US can buy goods from US-based Etsy businesses—and, coming soon, “over a million Shopify merchants, like Glossier, Vuori, Spanx, and SKIMS—directly in the chat.”… Read More