July 25, 2025 @ 9:39 am By JD Alois  |  

While Europe has enacted defined rules for the digital asset sector, the challenge with bogus sites seeking to fleece the unsuspecting persists. The  Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), the French securities regulator, highlights this issue with regular updates to the “black list.” Today, the AMF… Read More

July 25, 2025 @ 8:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BNPL Fintech Klarna has been making strides this year to solidify its position as a key player in the flexible payments while streamlining digital commerce. With over 100 million active users and 720,000 retail partners across 26 countries, Klarna continues to enable product development, forging… Read More

July 25, 2025 @ 8:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The UK economy is witnessing a surge in optimism, particularly among mid-market firms, which are proving to be a powerhouse for growth, according to the latest NatWest UK Business Growth Tracker. Additonally, NatWest Group is expanding its innovative reach through a strategic partnership with Saga… Read More

July 25, 2025 @ 8:42 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves is reportedly contemplating a sale of the country’s confiscated Bitcoin stash—some 61,000 BTC seized in a 2018 fraud bust—to alleviate an estimated £20 billion fiscal shortfall. But while offloading crypto could offer short-term relief, Nigel Green, the CEO of global financial advisory… Read More

July 25, 2025 @ 2:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A study commissioned by Airwallex in partnership with Statista has reportedly polled 1,000 cross-border eCommerce consumers residing in the business-focused city-state of Singapore. It revealed that global purchasing is now a more established mainstream habit / consumer behavior trend amongst Singapore residents. Consumers carry out… Read More

July 25, 2025 @ 1:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In the landscape of global finance, retail investors are demonstrating resilience and adaptability, strategically navigating market volatility and macroeconomic uncertainties. Recent insights from eToro’s Retail Investor Beat surveys highlight how American retail investors are capitalizing on market dips and reallocating portfolios toward safe-haven assets like… Read More

July 25, 2025 @ 12:45 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Socure, a digital identity verification platform, has launched its Workforce Verification solution to address the rapidly growing threat of employee fraud. Socure’s Workforce Verification adapts its enterprise-grade identity verification and fraud prevention specific to hiring workflows, detecting manipulated or fabricated identities before they enter organizations and addressing workforce risk at… Read More

July 25, 2025 @ 12:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethereum (ETH), the second-largest cryptocurrency and largest smart contract platform by market capitalization, is experiencing a pivotal moment in its market dynamics, driven by what Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan describes as a “demand shock” reminiscent of Bitcoin’s (BTC) past surges. Since mid-May 2025, institutional and… Read More

July 25, 2025 @ 12:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital bank OakNorth continues to focus on the UK and US markets through strategic financing initiatives. Recently, the digital bank has provided significant funding to two different enterprises: a $14.7 million loan to GoodHomes for a real estate project in Silver Spring, Maryland, and a… Read More

July 24, 2025 @ 11:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Payments Canada continues to make strides in modernizing Canada’s payment infrastructure, with progress on the Real-Time Rail (RTR) payment system and the appointment of new and returning members to its Member Advisory Council (MAC). These developments underscore Payments Canada’s commitment to fostering tech development, security,… Read More

July 24, 2025 @ 10:41 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

With the average 30-year mortgage rate in the United States continuing to hover near recent highs of 6.8%, homeowners might be expected to feel some tension with their mortgage company. However, high rates alone do not explain why customer satisfaction scores for mortgage servicers are significantly… Read More

July 24, 2025 @ 5:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

While San Francisco has earned a reputation as a dystopian left-wing policy disaster, it remains the hottest spot for tech funding in the US. This is according to a recent report from Tracxn, which claims that in California $94.8 billion was raised in the first… Read More

July 24, 2025 @ 4:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The cryptocurrency market in Q2 2025 was a period of understated but fairly steady progress, as outlined in Bitwise Investments’ Crypto Market Review. Despite a lack of dramatic price surges, the quarter was marked by significant milestones that signal a maturing and increasingly mainstream crypto… Read More

July 24, 2025 @ 4:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Talos, a provider of institutional-grade trading technology, is offering solutions that aim to streamline access to digital assets for financial institutions. Recent developments, including partnerships, platform enhancements, and thought leadership insights, highlight Talos’s role in reshaping the global trading infrastructure for digital assets. These advancements… Read More

July 24, 2025 @ 4:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alpaca, a U.S.-based self-clearing broker-dealer and API-first brokerage infrastructure platform, is focused on driving transformative change through strategic partnerships and digital technology. By collaborating with innovative fintech companies like Composer, ZAD, and Manzil, Alpaca is expanding access to trading tools and Shariah-compliant investment solutions. These… Read More

July 24, 2025 @ 4:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The venture capital landscape continues to evolve, with the direct secondaries market emerging as a critical mechanism for liquidity in an era of prolonged private company timelines. PitchBook’s Q3 2025 Analyst Note provides a comprehensive analysis of this rapidly growing segment, estimating its current size… Read More

July 24, 2025 @ 4:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

Legion M, a crowd-powered film studio, is reporting that it is nearing the close of its 10th online securities offering, having now raised over $25 million from 58,000 investors. This most recent funding round has raised almost $3 million from 5,840 investors, with nearly 70%… Read More

July 24, 2025 @ 3:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

JPMorgan Markets, has announced a transformation of its insitutional client-facing digital platform. Now, those products have been consolidated into a five-pillar architecture, spanning Research & Insights, Data & Analytics, Portfolio Solutions, Pricing & Execution and Post Trade. These pillars are designed to help clients move… Read More

July 24, 2025 @ 11:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Evolution Credit Partners Management, LLC, a provider of single buyer, non-cancellable Trade Credit Protection (TCP) for accounts receivable from high-yield buyers, announced it has delivered “more than $1 billion in protection since launching its TCP business in late 2020.” Evolution’s TCP program addresses a gap… Read More

July 24, 2025 @ 10:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The United Kingdom reportedly experienced its slowest quarter of venture capital investment in 5 years despite a rise in interest in the artificial intelligence ecosystem, KPMG’s report has unveiled. The KPMG Private Enterprise Venture Pulse report showed levels of investment fell to “£2.6 billion across… Read More