October 20, 2025 @ 12:33 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) has agreed to acquire With Intelligence, a leading source of private markets data, insights and analytics, for $1.8 billion. The deal was cut with a group led by majority investor Motive Partners, a private investment firm exclusively focused on financial technology. By… Read More

October 19, 2025 @ 11:09 pm By Michael Wong  |  

UAE-headquartered M2 Capital said it invested $21 million in AVAX One, a Nasdaq-listed digital asset treasury created to accumulate AVAX, the native token of the Avalanche blockchain. The move is part of a push to support the network’s growth and the Middle East’s adoption of… Read More

October 19, 2025 @ 11:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary recently expressed concerns about Ethereum’s ( ETH) network congestion and fee surge over the past weekend. In a social media post, O’Leary claimed that the Ethereum blockchain network had become really congested, resulting in even relatively small transactions costing upwards of… Read More

October 19, 2025 @ 10:14 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Flare, a provider of threat exposure management, has launched Identity Exposure Management (IEM), which is designed to prevent exposed identities from causing large-scale incidents. Every hour that exposed accounts go unaddressed intensifies the risk of a breach. Verizon’s DBIR 2025 report found that stolen credentials… Read More

October 19, 2025 @ 10:07 pm By Michael Wong  |  

HitPay, a Singapore-based payments platform, said it partnered with licensed crypto payments firm Triple-A to enable more than 20,000 merchants to accept stablecoin payments at online and in-store checkouts while receiving instant settlements in fiat currency. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)-regulated arrangement targets small… Read More

October 19, 2025 @ 10:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blue Owl Capital Inc. (NYSE: OWL), an alternative asset manager, has recently announced the appointment of Greg Porteous as Managing Director and Head of Defined Contribution Retirement Solutions. In this role, Porteous will be responsible for spearheading Blue Owl’s ongoing efforts to expand access to… Read More

October 19, 2025 @ 10:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Carta has introduced a new addition to its product suite, the Carta Loan Operations, purpose-built for private credit companies currently navigating the complexity of loan admin workflows. Carta Loan Operations comes as a result of their acquisition of Sirvatus, a loan administration platform for private… Read More

October 19, 2025 @ 10:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Barracuda Networks, Inc., a cybersecurity firm providing full protection against complex threats for all size business, and Capchase, the enabler of tech-powered vendor financing for B2B software and hardware companies, announced the launch of Barracuda Financial Services, enabled by Capchase. This financing program offers Barracuda… Read More

October 19, 2025 @ 9:59 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Abu Dhabi’s International Holding Company (IHC) said it has acquired a majority stake in state-owned First Women Bank Ltd (FWBL) after Pakistan completed a government-to-government privatisation under its Inter-Governmental Commercial Transactions Act of 2022. The announcement, at a ceremony attended by Sheikh Zayed bin Hamdan… Read More

October 19, 2025 @ 6:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech Plaid noted that the data that makes up a consumer’s complete financial picture is more complex than it has ever been before. According to a blog post from Plaid, income is now more variable, expenses tend to fluctuate, and financial activity is spread across… Read More

October 19, 2025 @ 4:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Since introducing stablecoin payments, financial infrastructure, and payments processing, Fintech Stripe said that they’ve seen these digital tokens enable the global expansion of some of the fastest-growing companies today. According to Stripe, the top 20 AI firms on Stripe—all but 1 based in the United States—draw the… Read More

October 19, 2025 @ 4:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Lumx has raised $3.4 million in a funding round that has been led by Indicator Capital and CMT Digital, along with contributions from Honey Island, Antler, Bitso, Nomad, CAF Ventures (CAFE) and angel investors Arnold Lee, Joshua Weiss, Chuk Okpalugo, Carlos Souza, and Allan Schmitt…. Read More

October 19, 2025 @ 4:14 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

UFS and BankOnIT, two providers of purpose-built technology for community banks, are merging. By joining forces, the two companies combine deep industry expertise and focus, complementary offerings, and a shared belief that when community banks are equipped with the right technology and service, they can… Read More

October 19, 2025 @ 4:13 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Canada has committed more than C$3 million ($2.1 million) over five years to an Industrial Research Chair in Tokenization at École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), backing work on advanced tokenization and decentralized federated learning led by Professor Kaiwen Zhang and industry partner T-RIZE Group. The… Read More

October 19, 2025 @ 4:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Paxos reported earlier this week that it mistakenly minted excess PYUSD as part of an internal transfer. Paxos confirmed that it immediately identified the error and burned the excess PYUSD. According to the company, this was simply an “internal technical error” and that there was… Read More

October 19, 2025 @ 4:10 pm By Michael Wong  |  

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) launched BLOOM, short for Borderless, Liquid, Open, Online, Multi-currency, a new industry initiative to extend settlement options for financial institutions using tokenised bank liabilities and well-regulated stablecoins while applying standardised risk controls. MAS said BLOOM will work with banks… Read More

October 19, 2025 @ 4:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CB Insights has released the latest Insurtech 50 list of the world’s most promising or high-potential insurtech startups. The companies that have been selected are said to have a success probability among the international top 3% of private firms, indicated by a median CB Insights’… Read More

October 19, 2025 @ 11:12 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Flywire (Nasdaq: FLYW), a global payments enablement and software company, recently expanded its partnership with Workday. It will integrate Flywire’s payments and software platform with Workday Student, a student information system (SIS) that automates and streamlines student operations, financials, academic planning, and registration. Now a Workday Certified… Read More

October 19, 2025 @ 10:10 am By Michael Wong  |  

KLIQ, a Saudi-built influencer marketing platform powered by proprietary AI, said it raised $2.25 million in seed funding led by Sanabil Venture Studio, a subsidiary of Sanabil Investments, in partnership with corporate venture builder Stryber. The company said the funding will help it address common… Read More

October 19, 2025 @ 6:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blackstone (NYSE: BX) has recently announced the launch of a dedicated business unit that will be focused on broadening access to private markets for retirement savers through defined contribution plans. The business division sits within Blackstone’s Private Wealth business. Heather von Zuben was named Global… Read More