August 14, 2025 @ 9:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mesh, the  crypto payments network, announced additional investments from PayPal Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Uphold, Mirana Ventures (venture partner for ByBit), SBI Investment, Overlook Ventures, Kingsway Capital, Moderne Ventures and CE-Ventures, bringing total capital funding to more than $130 million. This support positions the company to… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 7:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase has announced the relaunch of its Stablecoin Bootstrap Fund, aimed at enhancing liquidity for stablecoins like USDC and EURC across various DeFi protocols. Managed by Coinbase Asset Management (CBAM), this initiative marks a renewed commitment to fostering an improved onchain financial system, building on… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 3:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Early Warning Services, LLC (EWS), a company owned and controlled by a group of the largest banks in the United States that was tasked with developing and operating the electronic payment platform Zelle, for failing to protect its users… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 11:50 am By JD Alois  |  

Garantex Europe OU, a crypto exchange based in Russia (originally registered in Estonia), has been sanctioned by the US Department of the Treasury. The sanctions were applied due to claims that Garantex was aiding criminals and sanction evasion. The crypto exchange is said to have… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 11:25 am By JD Alois  |  

So far this year, there have been 216 initial public offerings (IPOs) in the US – a significant increase when compared to 2024. The success so far for these public offerings bodes well for the rest of the year. Among these offerings, a good number… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 10:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Global Fund Performance Report, released by PitchBook, provides a comprehensive analysis of private fund strategies’ performance, offering a data-driven lens into a volatile global market landscape. Incorporating preliminary data for Q1 2025, the report captures the private capital markets’ cautious optimism at the close… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 10:16 am By JD Alois  |  

KAIO, a firm that aims to tokenize real-world assets, says it has enlisted Hedera to bring institutional funds on the blockchain. KAIO says that it has now incorporated several separate funds: Laser Digital Carry Fund (LCF) – a market-neutral, low-correlation digital asset fund BlackRock ICS… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 10:06 am By JD Alois  |  

Crypto exchange Bitget is describing July as a landmark month for the firm. Bitget notes that it is ranked by Coingecko Spot ranking as  the 3rd largest crypto exchange [CoinMarketCap has Bitget at 5th place]. The company proclaims that July was another month of strong… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 9:15 am By JD Alois  |  

Open banking (or Open Finance) is a global concept that states financial data generated by users should be transferable if the customer or business approves. In other words, the user owns the data and not the bank. In the UK, this is mandated, making it… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 8:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SIX announced iShares as the 20th issuer of Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) with crypto-assets as underlyings. iShares lists its inaugural product on Bitcoin. With this launch, iShares lifts the total number of “listed crypto products at SIX to 487.” The iShares Bitcoin ETP further expands… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 8:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

On August 12, 2025, eToro (NASDAQ: ETOR), a global trading and investing platform, announced an expansion of its crypto-assets offerings for U.S. users, now providing access to over 100 cryptocurrencies alongside equities, options, and ETFs. This milestone, coupled with the company’s second-quarter financial results for 2025,… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 8:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Checkout.com, a global digital payments company, unveils data showing that consumers in Asia and the MENA region, are embracing digital identity wallets and biometric verification, “closely followed by Brazil and New Zealand.” Meanwhile, adoption remains sluggish “across Europe, including the UK, and North America.” The… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 7:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

iwoca, one of Europe’s SME lenders, announces a partnership with Teya, the “all-in-one” financial services platform built for small businesses. This partnership will bring iwoca’s Flexi-Loan to “more business owners,  integrated into Teya’s digital platforms.” Teya customers can now apply “for iwoca’s Flexi-Loan directly within… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 6:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TPG Twin Brook Capital Partners, the middle-market direct lending platform of TPG Inc. (NASDAQ: TPG), and Coller Capital, the private market secondaries manager, announced the closing of a $3 billion credit-focused continuation vehicle, marking a significant transaction in the private credit secondaries market. The continuation… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 5:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

H.I.G. WhiteHorse, the direct lending credit affiliate of H.I.G. Capital, a global alternative asset management firm with $70 billion of capital under management, today announced the final closing of H.I.G. WhiteHorse Middle Market Lending Fund IV. Fund IV closed with “$5.9 billion of assets and… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 5:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In a financial ecosystem where every dollar counts, a new analysis from TransUnion (NYSE: TRU) offers a bit of hope for American auto loan borrowers. According to the study, approximately 18 million of the nearly 80 million open auto loans in the U.S. are “in-the-money”… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 3:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Business activity rose in just over half of the UK’s nations and regions in July, the latest NatWest Regional Growth Tracker showed, with the survey indicating increased confidence towards future growth prospects in most areas. The Tracker – which surveyed businesses operating in the manufacturing… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 2:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Airwallex, a global financial platform for modern businesses, today announced it has received its Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) licence from the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) and will soon launch Airwallex Yield to enable European businesses to generate returns on idle… Read More

August 14, 2025 @ 1:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Australia may not be creating the environment to foster the next generation of global companies, with research from small business platform, Xero, revealing only “17% of small business owners aspire to grow internationally.” Xero’s latest report, which surveyed “500 Australian small business owners, found that… Read More

August 13, 2025 @ 10:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alpaca, a self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure, announced that it has been approved as a clearing member by The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC), the world’s equity derivatives clearing organization, and the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC), which provides central clearing “for U.S. government Treasuries and… Read More