October 2, 2025 @ 8:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Crowdcube has teamed up with the London Stock Exchange. According to the company, Crowdcube investors will soon be able to gain access to late-stage, high-growth private firms listed on LSEG’s new Private Securities Market (PISCES). The London Stock Exchange is the first, and currently only,… Read More

October 2, 2025 @ 4:06 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), a post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, this week announced the appointment of Thomas Sullivan as managing director of DTCC Digital Assets. Sullivan will report to Nadine Chakar, managing director and global head of DTCC… Read More

October 2, 2025 @ 2:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TXSE Group, based in Dallas, Texas, has announced that the Securities and Exchange Commission has formally approved the Texas Stock Exchange’s (TXSE) Form 1 registration to operate as a national securities exchange.  TXSE claims to be the most well-capitalized equities exchange to ever be approved… Read More

October 2, 2025 @ 2:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Funding Circle (LSE: FCH), an SME finance platform, has removed foreign transaction fees across its business card portfolio, including the FlexiPay card and its Cashback Business Credit Card. This is expected to challenge the current UK market status quo, where SMEs have been forced to… Read More

October 2, 2025 @ 1:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blackhawk Network (BHN), a global branded payment solutions provider, announced it will partner with Google Play to launch a gift card mall in the Play Store. By combining BHN’s digital gifting portfolio and digital technology with the reach of Google Play, a digital content store,… Read More

October 1, 2025 @ 6:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FalconX, the institutional digital asset prime broker, announces a strategic partnership with Marex, the diversified financial services platform, to provide each firms’ clients with access to digital asset derivatives on both the CME and digital asset-native exchanges. This new partnership aims to provide select “non-US… Read More

October 1, 2025 @ 5:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PayOS, an agentic payments and value added services platform company,  announced the completion of an agentic payment transaction using a Mastercard Agentic Token. This historic transaction was executed “leveraging Mastercard Agent Pay, which builds upon tokenization capabilities that power global commerce solutions like mobile contactless… Read More

October 1, 2025 @ 5:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As a key moment for the global financial system and blockchain industry alike, Swift announced it is launching a new blockchain-based ledger. Chainlink acknowledges the wok of their partner Swift and the broader Swift community on “adopting blockchains and oracle networks as a key next… Read More

October 1, 2025 @ 2:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Investment Management issued a no-action letter regarding the provision of custody for cryptocurrencies. A no-action letter is not a hard ruling but provides guidance for firms engaged in the business addressed in the statement. The letter was… Read More

October 1, 2025 @ 2:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

Investment crowdfunding is not just defined by enabling private firms to raise growth capital but by how these offerings perform for investors. Over time, if investors learn that investing in private securities is a bad decision, this sector of Fintech will stumble. CI has always… Read More

October 1, 2025 @ 1:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

tZERO Group, Inc., a firm focused on the blockchain sector and tokenization for capital markets, announced that its subsidiary, tZERO Digital Asset Securities, LLC, reached a new milestone in its role as a Special Purpose Broker-Dealer (SPBD) permitted to custody tokenized securities. A year after… Read More

October 1, 2025 @ 12:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital bank Revolut has reportedly recorded the highest number of fraud and scam complaints that had been referred to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS). Data reviewed by Which? found that fraudulent activity complaints from clients of the digital banking service provider had outnumbered all other… Read More

October 1, 2025 @ 11:19 am By JD Alois  |  

Tokenized securities, also known as digital securities, will soon become increasingly ubiquitous. However, before the widespread adoption of these digital assets occurs, regulators and operators need to address several issues, as digital securities can incorporate more features and functionality than their analog counterparts. And certain… Read More

October 1, 2025 @ 11:05 am By JD Alois  |  

Brian Quintenz, a former CFTC Commissioner, has had his nomination pulled from consideration for the Chairman role at the Commission. The White  House acknowledged the decision last night, according to multiple reports. Nominated in February, Quintenz was a staunch supporter of the emerging digital asset… Read More

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