November 7, 2025 @ 11:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tangerine Bank (Canada’s digital bank and wholly-owned subsidiary of Scotiabank, one of the “Big 5” banks in Canada with assets of approximately $1.4 trillion) and Engine by Starling (the Starling Group‘s banking Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business) announced an agreement to deliver a  banking platform for Tangerine… Read More

November 7, 2025 @ 11:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SHELT announced a partnership with Regtech firm Sumsub, a global verification and fraud prevention platform. This latest collab brings together expertise and digital technology in order to safeguard the future of digital trust. By combining SHELT’s fraud prevention infrastructure with Sumsub’s single‑platform approach to identity… Read More

November 7, 2025 @ 9:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nubank (NYSE: NU), which claims to be one of the largest digital financial services platforms in the world, announces that it will implement a hybrid work model starting in July of next year. This latest decision from the digital banking platform follows the last 5… Read More

November 7, 2025 @ 9:02 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

NEC X, the Silicon Valley venture studio backed by NEC Corporation’s (NEC; TSE: 6701) advanced technologies and global businesses, today announced a strategic investment in Indicio, a startup focusing on digital trust by enabling people, organizations, connected devices, and AI agents to control cryptographically verifiable… Read More

November 7, 2025 @ 8:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Central Bank of Ireland fined Coinbase Europe Limited , part of Coinbase Global (NASDAQ:COIN), €21,464,734 for allegedly breaching its anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing transaction monitoring obligations between 2021 and 2025. Specifically, the Central Bank said it has fined Coinbase Europe for violating applicable… Read More

November 7, 2025 @ 8:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) and Transcard announced the launch of an embedded finance platform, intended to support payments and working capital solutions in the freight and logistics sector. As a part of their effort, Visa and Transcard are working on agentic initiatives for the B2B segment…. Read More

November 7, 2025 @ 8:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Easterseals New Jersey, a disability services nonprofit, and Cross River Bank, a tech infrastructure provider offering embedded financial solutions, have partners in order to assist people who may currently be experiencing either partial or delayed Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits due primarily to the… Read More

November 7, 2025 @ 7:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

AI adoption within UK accountancy and bookkeeping practices is now said to be signficantly enhancing sector profitability, driving a considerable boost to the wider economy and fundamentally transforming hiring across the industry. This is according to a recent research study released by Xero, the small… Read More

November 7, 2025 @ 7:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Hadron by Tether, the asset tokenization platform of Tether, KraneShares, the global asset management group, and Bitfinex Securities, the regulated tokenized securities platform, entered into an agreement to accelerate the ongoing development and adoption of tokenized securities across major markets. As tokenization reshapes the manner… Read More

November 7, 2025 @ 7:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Digital Asset Treasury (DAT) model has matured from a somewhat niche corporate strategy into a growing market, with public firms holding more than $130 billion in digital assets. This particular DAT model, which defines a class of public firms accumulating digital assets as a… Read More

November 7, 2025 @ 7:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

On November 3, 2025, the decentralized automated market maker (AMM) protocol Balancer v2 experienced an attack. SlowMist noted that several different projects — including its forked versions — had been impacted across various blockchains, resulting in “total losses of approximately $120 million.” According to blockchain… Read More

November 7, 2025 @ 7:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple has announced a collaboration with Mastercard (NYSE:MA) , WebBank, and Gemini (NASDAQ:GEMI). Together they’ll explore the use of Ripple USD (RLUSD) on the XRPL, a public blockchain built for efficient payments, in order support stablecoin settlement of fiat card transactions. The initiative is supposed… Read More

November 6, 2025 @ 6:29 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

RedStone, an oracle network in DeFi, has launched HyperStone, an oracle powering HIP-3, Hyperliquid’s new standard for permissionless perpetual market creation. With HyperStone, anyone can now build and launch their own perpetual markets backed by fast, reliable, and secure on-chain data. HIP-3 allows builders to… Read More

November 6, 2025 @ 6:28 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Block Street, a unified liquidity layer for tokenized assets, has announced a strategic integration with StableStock, the on-chain stock-liquidity infrastructure powering the StockFi era — connecting regulated brokers and global DeFi liquidity. The partnership combines Block Street’s cross-chain liquidity protocol with StableStock’s stock tokenization engine… Read More

November 6, 2025 @ 4:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Shares of Robinhood Markets‘ (NASDAQ: HOOD) stock surged modestly after the brokerage firm released its Q3 2025 results. The company reported transaction-based revenues increasing 129% YoY to $730 million, mainly driven by cryptocurrencies-focused revenue, according to Robinhood’s latest earnings report. Crypto-related revenue surged more than… Read More

November 6, 2025 @ 4:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

IREN Limited (NASDAQ: IREN) announced it has signed a multi-year GPU cloud services contract with Microsoft. IREN will provide Microsoft with access to NVIDIA GB300 GPUs over a 5-year term, with a total contract value of approximately “$9.7 billion, including a 20% prepayment.” IREN has… Read More

November 6, 2025 @ 4:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The UK Treasury has asked the Financial Services Skills Commission (FSSC) to prepare a report on AI focused skills requirements, training as well as ongoing tech advancements in financial services. With AI talent in growing demand and increase in the technology’s overall adoption, the United… Read More

November 6, 2025 @ 4:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Franklin Templeton (NYSE:BEN) has recently introduced Hong Kong’s tokenized money-market fund. This latest launch comes as the HK government unveiled its 5-year fintech strategy intended to incorporate both artificial intelligence and blockchain across the city-state’s vibrant financial services ecosystem. The so-called Franklin OnChain U.S. Government… Read More

November 6, 2025 @ 4:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Thunes, the Fintech moving money around the world, announces an alliance with WeChat Pay HK, the Hong Kong dollar denominated e-wallet, to enable its expansion in international money transfers. Thanks to the collaboration, WeChat Pay HK users based in Hong Kong are now able to… Read More

November 6, 2025 @ 2:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

Charles Schwab (NYSE:SCHW), the eponymous brokerage, has acquired private markets platform Forge (NYSE:FRGE) for $660 million. Once again, bespoke Fintech investment bank FT Partners served as financial advisor on the deal for Forge. FT Partners has been a long time partner with Forge, assisting in… Read More