June 5, 2025 @ 11:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The blockchain ecosystem continues to face significant security challenges, as highlighted by SlowMist’s May 2025 Security Report and their analysis of unrestricted large language models (LLMs) posing new risks to cryptocurrency security. According to the SlowMist Hacked Archive, May 2025 saw Web3 security incidents resulting… Read More

June 5, 2025 @ 11:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In a rapidly evolving global economic landscape, understanding U.S. trade policy and its implications is critical for investors, businesses, and policymakers. The Citi Institute’s recent update, part of its Invest USA series, offers a deep dive into the current U.S. tariff regime, ongoing trade negotiations,… Read More

June 5, 2025 @ 10:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The UK economic outlook could brighten over the next two years as the economy stands to benefit from easing trade tensions and lower uncertainty arising from potential trade agreements with some of its key trading partners according to KPMG’s European Economic Outlook. A temporary pick… Read More

June 5, 2025 @ 7:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In the face of persistent macroeconomic pressures, Australia and New Zealand’s private capital markets have demonstrated resilience, with venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) sectors navigating a complex landscape of normalizing valuations and shifting investment dynamics. According to the 2025 Australia & New Zealand… Read More

June 5, 2025 @ 7:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

In general, celebrities and influencers are typically most beneficial when others are telling them what to do and how to act. Otherwise, they really should be ignored. This is even more important when it comes to policy and financial advice. Well, the UK Financial Conduct… Read More

June 5, 2025 @ 5:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

As the GOP devolves into finger-pointing and name-calling, the prediction markets are benefiting from the entire melodrama. As the whole world knows now, Elon Musk and President Trump are no longer best buddies. The epicenter of the breakup is the Big Beautiful Bill, the tax… Read More

June 5, 2025 @ 2:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Yieldstreet, a private markets investment platform, today announced the successful close of an initial $45 million equity investment as part of its planned $60 million Series D funding round, led by “existing investors Tarsadia Investments, Mayfair Equity Partners, and Edison Partners.” The capital will be… Read More

June 5, 2025 @ 2:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) announced expanded support for high-potential AI startups with a new engagement initiative, established through Accenture Ventures with support from NVIDIA Inception. This collab is reportedly designed “to accelerate startup growth and innovation by closing a gap early-stage companies face—moving from breakthrough ideas… Read More

June 5, 2025 @ 10:40 am By JD Alois  |  

Venture capital is investing in data centers as part of an infrastructure play targeting the Artificial Intelligence (AI) sector. While private markets ebb and flow with one sector hot today, and cold tomorrow, AI has a pretty huge runway, and private investors are taking advantage… Read More

June 5, 2025 @ 10:27 am By JD Alois  |  

As recently reported, Crowd Street is shifting its focus away from its real estate investment platform roots to further leverage its tech stack and provide access to a broader range of alternative private investments. Crowd Street seeks to become the premier self-directed private market investment platform on the… Read More

June 5, 2025 @ 10:14 am By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission is poised to revise its treatment of foreign private issuers. While recognizing that they do not want to deter foreign issuers from US markets, there seems to be an agreement that the playing field needs to be leveled, as disparities… Read More

June 5, 2025 @ 9:01 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Over his 30-plus years in business and venture capital, Tal Elyashiv has learned how to spot important trends, and he believes we’re in the early stages of a Quantum Revolution that will change the world. Elyashiv explains why in Investing in Revolutions, which is interesting… Read More

June 5, 2025 @ 8:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The rise of stablecoins, digital currencies pegged to assets like the U.S. dollar, is significantly increasing demand for U.S. Treasury bills while solidifying the dollar’s position as the world’s leading reserve currency, according to a recent report by Citigroup. The report highlights how stablecoins, such… Read More

June 5, 2025 @ 8:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

AI is making workers more valuable, productive, and able to command higher wage premiums, with job numbers rising even in roles considered most automatable, according to PwC’s 2025 Global AI Jobs Barometer, released today. The report is based on analysis of “close to a billion… Read More

June 5, 2025 @ 8:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has invested, through Accenture Ventures, in Reserv, an insurance claims processing company that complements deep claims expertise with innovative AI-driven solutions. The investment will also enable the two companies to collaborate on solutions that increase “accuracy and efficiency throughout the claims ecosystem,… Read More

June 5, 2025 @ 8:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Akur8, the insurance pricing and reserving solution, is pleased to announce that Frank Winston Crum Insurance has selected Akur8’s core platform solution to provide them with model development, explainable insights, and accurate financial impact forecasting for pricing and reserving processes. For over 20 years, Frank… Read More

June 5, 2025 @ 8:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Thunes, the Smart Superhighway to move money around the world, today announced the further expansion of its Direct Global Network with the launch of direct Pay-to-Bank services in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. This broadens Thunes’ reach into the Nordic region, “empowering Members of the Thunes… Read More

June 5, 2025 @ 8:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bolt, the global shared mobility platform, today announced a strategic partnership with global payments and financial platform, Airwallex, to build a new payments system for its drivers. The new product will initially focus on digital wallets, before “scaling out additional financial services in the future.”… Read More

June 5, 2025 @ 6:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), an innovator in global payments technology, announced that CIMB Bank, one of ASEAN’s banking groups and Malaysia’s second largest financial services provider, has “chosen ACI’s payment solution to converge all account-to-account transactions—real-time, ACH, RTGS and cross-border—onto a single future-proof payments platform.”… Read More

June 4, 2025 @ 11:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Since 2015, Scalable Capital has provided retail investors with access to simple and cost-effective investment options. Today, clients in Europe can invest “in ETFs, stocks, funds, bonds, cryptocurrencies, derivatives, and Private Equity.” Broker clients receive attractive interest rates “on their cash from our partner banks… Read More