October 8, 2025 @ 8:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

VisualVest, a wholly owned subsidiary of Union Investment, is reportedly expanding its product offering: with SelectETF end users are now able to trade ETFs independently. The technological foundation is being provided by Berlin-headquartered Upvest, which provides its investment infrastructure via its Investment API. As explained… Read More

October 8, 2025 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Talos, the provider of institutional technology and data for digital asset trading and portfolio management, announced the integration of its order and execution management system (OEMS) with Aladdin, which is BlackRock’s tech platform that unifies the investment management process. Together, Talos and BlackRock’s Aladdin will… Read More

October 8, 2025 @ 1:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nine new ransomware groups have been identified in a key update shared by TRM Labs. And all of them are said to be a part of one evolving ecosystem. In their latest blog post, the team at TRM Labs examines the operations behind these emerging… Read More

October 8, 2025 @ 1:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

vobapay, the technology partner for payment solutions with a cooperative background, and Mastercard (NYSE: MA)  are entering into a strategic partnership. As part of their latest cooperation, vobapay will aim to integrate Mastercard’s Open Banking tech into its platform. This will reportedly allows companies that… Read More

October 8, 2025 @ 12:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Galaxy Digital Inc. (NASDAQ: GLXY) launched GalaxyOne, a financial technology platform offering U.S.-based individual investors access to so-called high yields on fiat cash, alongside crypto and equities trading in “a single digital experience.” Accredited investors are now able to access 8.00% APY via Galaxy Premium… Read More

October 7, 2025 @ 11:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Meanwhile announced it raised $82 million in additional capital to meet demand from individuals seeking to protect their families and financial institutions seeking to offer bitcoin-linked savings, retirement, and life insurance products to clients. This is still a somewhat experimental area of digital assets and… Read More

October 7, 2025 @ 5:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) has proposed a policy to harmonize the self-certified investor prospectus exemption across all Canadian provinces. In Canada, securities regulation happens only at the provincial level. Obviously, this creates more friction for issuers and investors, but the political will to enable… Read More

October 7, 2025 @ 1:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

This post on X caught the attention of many people. An Austin-based company called Gauntlet AI is promising software engineers a $200,000 per year salary if they complete their 12-week program. The deal is said to include housing, food, and travel. The program is intense… Read More

October 7, 2025 @ 1:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

CruTrade, a new online investment platform that offers wine investors a place to buy and sell fine wine, announced its launch today, promising a marketplace where enthusiasts can trade wine powered by Avalanche. CrutTrade touts its ability to allow traders to instantly invest in bottles… Read More

October 7, 2025 @ 1:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Aman Behzad, Managing Partner at Royal Park Partners, has highlighted this week’s Fintech deals, with the United States leading the activity for this period, securing 6 of their top 10 deals. Meanwhile, their ‘Capital Markets & Wealth Management’ vertical stood out with “4 of the… Read More

October 7, 2025 @ 10:09 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Akemona, a digital infrastructure provider, this week released Tokenization Cloud, an infrastructure platform that enables financial institutions and businesses to adopt digital assets at scale. The launch comes at a pivotal moment in U.S. financial regulation. The SEC’s recently announced Project Crypto aims to modernize custody rules and integrate decentralized finance (DeFi)… Read More

October 7, 2025 @ 10:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

October 7, 2025 marks the first year since the UK’s Payment System Regulator or PSR introduced mandatory APP fraud reimbursement rules. Although 88% (£112m) of losses under the policy have reportedly been returned to victims, the total value of claims increased from Q1 to Q2… Read More

October 7, 2025 @ 9:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum (ETH), the world’s largest smart contract platform and the second-largest cryptocurrency in terms of market cap and overall adoption, has come back into the spotlight, closing the third quarter of 2025 with a 66.55% gain, marking its strongest Q3 performance since 2016. According to… Read More

October 7, 2025 @ 9:28 am By JD Alois  |  

French artificial intelligence firm Ewake has raised €2 million in pre-seed funding, according to a note from the firm. The funding round was led by Connect Ventures. Others participating in the funding include 2100 Ventures, Notion Capital, Insiders, 50partners, and angel investors, including Amirhossein Malekzadeh…. Read More

October 7, 2025 @ 9:03 am By JD Alois  |  

Prediction marketplace Polymarket will partner with ICE (NYSE: ICE), the operator of the New York Stock Exchange. At the same time, ICE will invest $2 billion (in cash) at a post-money valuation of $9 billion. The partnership involves ICE becoming a distributor of Polymarket data, enabling… Read More

October 7, 2025 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The 2025 Triennial Central Bank Survey of foreign exchange and over-the-counter interest rate derivatives markets activity reveals that trading in FX markets reached $9.6 trillion per day in April of this year, which is up a significant 28% from 2022. BIS also mentioned in the… Read More

October 7, 2025 @ 8:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Kourosh Khanloo, director of corporate strategy at Jefferies-owned Tradu, has shared his perspective with CI on the UK lifting the ban on crypto ETNs for retail investors on October 8, 2025. Kourosh says that he welcomes the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) decision to lift… Read More

October 7, 2025 @ 3:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bite Investments, a provider of technology solutions for the alternative investments sector, announced that they secured $25 million in growth capital from NewSpring Growth, NewSpring Capital’s growth equity strategy investing in various technology companies. The funding represents a significant milestone in Bite Investments’ goal to… Read More

October 7, 2025 @ 2:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ant International, a global digital payment, digitisation, and financial technology provider, today officially launched AI SHIELD to protect AI systems from threats and vulnerabilities, a toolkit to “help AI-powered financial services stay secure and compliant as AI transforms global finance.” Ensuring security is at the… Read More

October 7, 2025 @ 1:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

With each subsequent Bitcoin halving cycle, the supply of new BTC entering circulation drops by half, leading to increased scarcity over an extended period of time. CoinGecko notes in research report that since the first halving in 2012, block rewards have declined by 87.5%, from… Read More