October 10, 2025 @ 9:14 am By JD Alois  |  

Private investment firm Hargreaves Lansdown has issued a statement on crypto and Bitcoin specifically, describing the world’s most popular crypto as “not an asset class.” To quote the firm:  “…we do not think cryptocurrency has characteristics that mean it should be included in portfolios for… Read More

October 10, 2025 @ 8:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bit Digital, one of the Ethereum treasuries with over $532.5 Million in ETH as of September 30, 2025, has selected Figment, as its primary staking provider to bolster its Ethereum strategy. Bit Digital has adopted staking in its strategy and “has staked over 86% of… Read More

October 10, 2025 @ 8:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Luxembourg sovereign wealth fund has reportedly invested 1% of its portfolio into Bitcoin ETFs, which is said to make it the first sovereign wealth fund in the Eurozone area to officially gain exposure to Bitcoin. With the update, Luxembourg appears to be asserting its… Read More

October 10, 2025 @ 8:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The way that AI is being used by the investment management sector is shifting from a focus on operational efficiency to allowing for more sophisticated investment-centric applications. According to a Citi report, this is being driven by AI’s ability to handle very large amounts of… Read More

October 10, 2025 @ 8:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zilch, the consumer payments platform powering commerce, unveiled product developments marking the next phase of its growth. Recently, the company has introduced Zilch Intelligent Commerce – an AI powered data intelligence platform for retailers and brands to potentially increase their return on ad spend when… Read More

October 10, 2025 @ 1:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) demonstrated during Q3 2025 its commitment to upholding the integrity of the financial sector through a series of regulatory and enforcement measures. From July to September, MAS says that it has addressed critical issues ranging from licensing non-compliance and… Read More

October 10, 2025 @ 1:47 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Agio Ratings, a source of risk insights in digital assets, has closed a $6 million funding round led by AlbionVC, bringing the total raised to north of $11 million. The round, which also saw participation from Portage Ventures, MS&AD and Gaingels, enables Agio Ratings to expand… Read More

October 10, 2025 @ 12:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CyberCube, a cyber risk modeling and analytics business, today announced an investment of $180 million+ by Spectrum Equity, which is said to be subject to customary regulatory approvals. With this investment, Spectrum Equity is joining existing investors ForgePoint Capital, Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd, and… Read More

October 10, 2025 @ 12:16 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Deepgram, a real-time Voice AI platform, has launched Flux, a conversational speech recognition (CSR) model designed specifically for real-time voice agents. Unlike traditional automatic speech recognition (ASR), which was built for transcription use cases like captions or meeting notes, Flux is trained to understand the… Read More

October 9, 2025 @ 10:54 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Gulf Bank said it signed a partnership with the Institute of Banking Studies to deliver specialised training as the lender prepares to convert into a Sharia-compliant institution, after preliminary approval from the Central Bank of Kuwait in August. The agreement was signed by Bader Al-Ali,… Read More

October 9, 2025 @ 10:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), in collaboration with the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP), announced the launch of the IADS Developer Hackathon and held the Kick-off Ceremony, marking the beginning of a journey to foster tech breakthroughs and advancements for the… Read More

October 9, 2025 @ 10:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Research from global small business platform Xero reveals a significant problem facing small business owners: many acknowledge the potential of targeted promotional strategies, but are being held back from taking part in these initiatives primarily due to lack of adequate financial resources. A Xero research… Read More

October 9, 2025 @ 10:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

zerohash, the crypto and stablecoin as-a-service platform, announced that it has been selected as the crypto trading provider for Public, the platform focused on enabling “long-term” investing. By partnering with zerohash, Public is able to roll out various updates to its crypto offering. These reportedly… Read More

October 9, 2025 @ 10:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Japan is one of the world’s largest digital economies, and the demand for integrations between traditional finance and digital assets continues to grow at a steady. To unlock this potential, Binance Japan and PayPay have entered into a capital and business alliance that will aim… Read More

October 9, 2025 @ 10:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

India’s regulatory ecosystem for digital currencies remains a study in contrasts. While the country claims the world’s highest grassroots cryptocurrency adoption rate, as highlighted in Chainalysis‘ 2025 Global Crypto Adoption Index, policymakers continue to favor Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) like the digital rupee (e₹)… Read More

October 9, 2025 @ 5:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fiserv, Inc. (NYSE: FI), a global provider of payments and financial services technology, in partnership with the Bank of North Dakota, announced the Roughrider coin, North Dakota’s stablecoin. Backed by U.S. dollars, the Roughrider coin will reportedly become the first U.S. state stablecoin to launch… Read More

October 9, 2025 @ 4:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The payments industry has been combatting fraud for many years. But according to Chargebacks911, a global firm focused on dispute resolution and chargeback prevention, data reveals that merchants are losing more money and goodwill to false declines than to fraudulent activities. This appears to be… Read More

October 9, 2025 @ 4:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Polygon has taken a step forward as the global payments chain in web3 with the Rio upgrade, which is being described as a product-focused network rehaul, now live on mainnet. As explained in the update, Rio now aims to make Polygon a lighter, more reliable,… Read More

October 9, 2025 @ 4:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A recent report highlights fintech startup Ramp‘s seemingly aggressive push to disrupt American Express‘ current dominance in the $2 trillion U.S. corporate and small-business credit card sector. Founded in 2019 by Eric Glyman and Karim Atiyeh, Fintech firm Ramp has scaled to $1 billion in… Read More

October 9, 2025 @ 3:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Milo, the crypto lender behind the crypto backed mortgage, announced that its clients have increased their wealth by more than $100 million via its crypto mortgage offering. Using Bitcoin and Ethereum as collateral, Milo’s clients have acquired $80 million+ in property without liquidating their holdings…. Read More