April 10, 2025 @ 8:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The British Business Bank has agreed a new facility with BFS Marine Finance, designed to increase the flow of finance to smaller businesses within the commercial marine sector. The structured finance facility of up to £20m will “allow BFS Marine Finance to provide secured financing… Read More

April 10, 2025 @ 8:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainalysis partnered with the Spanish National Police in Operation Bonanza to dismantle an international Ponzi scheme that defrauded over 50,000 victims worldwide. This operation, which reportedly amassed more than $500 million in cryptocurrency, underscores the importance of technology and public-private collaboration in combating illicit financial… Read More

April 10, 2025 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) have solidified their positions as robust, decentralized networks with potential for growth and adoption across web3 and DeFi. Recent milestones—Ethereum’s evolving ownership landscape and Bitcoin’s record-breaking hashrate (basically the amount of computing power securing the BTC network)—underscore their resilience and… Read More

April 9, 2025 @ 9:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Republic has announced that it is now a validator on Injective, a “fast, interoperable” layer-one blockchain, seeking to advance the convergence of traditional finance (TradFi) and decentralized finance (DeFi). As explained in a blog post, Injective is a Layer 1 that’s “purpose-built for finance.” The protocol delivers sub-second… Read More

April 9, 2025 @ 9:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

Paul Atkins has been confirmed as the next Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Senate voted to approve his nomination along party lines, 52 for and 44 against, with 4 members not voting. Current Commissioners, Mark Uyeda, Hester Peirce, and Caroline Crenshaw, joined… Read More

April 9, 2025 @ 9:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bank payment company GoCardless announced a partnership with Optty, a payments API platform, to help businesses in Australia to simplify their payment processes, “operate more efficiently, and scale with ease.” This will allow customers to collect bank payments directly within the Optty platform, without the… Read More

April 9, 2025 @ 9:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hawk, the provider of AI-powered anti-money laundering (AML), screening and fraud prevention solutions, announced its $56 million Series C round of funding. Hawk is the chosen partner for more than “80 customers globally, ranging from large banks to mid-market financial institutions and fintechs.” Its technology… Read More

April 9, 2025 @ 9:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd. announced that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has declared effective the Registration Statement on Form S-4 relating to the company’s previously announced reorganization and domestication from the Cayman Islands to Delaware and proposed “listing on the Nasdaq Global Select… Read More

April 9, 2025 @ 9:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Worldcoin Foundation has introduced an enhancement to its community grants program that will aim to streamline the application process and provide more opportunities for innovation from community builders worldwide. Instead of its wave-based structure, the Worldcoin Foundation explains in a blog post that it… Read More

April 9, 2025 @ 4:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Financial Technology Association (FTA) welcomed the House’s decision to pass the Congressional Review Act resolution overturning the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) rule for digital consumer payments. As the Senate has already passed the resolution, SJ Res. 28 now heads to the President’s desk… Read More

April 9, 2025 @ 4:38 pm By JD Alois  |  

As was posited earlier today, President Trump had a choice of taking the path of cutting deals with countries interested in negotiating trade agreements or making tariffs an ongoing policy and cratering the economy. Fortunately, the White House decided to pause tariffs for 90 days… Read More

April 9, 2025 @ 3:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Yieldstreet, a private markets investment platform, has recently announced the upcoming launch of Yieldstreet 360 Managed Portfolios — what it believes to be the “first” automated private markets investing solution. This investing solution is designed to remove traditional barriers to private markets, offering “diversified exposure… Read More

April 9, 2025 @ 12:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Investor Choice Advocates Network (ICAN) is criticizing FINRA for an unnecessary delay in dealing with an application filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. FINRA is a non-governmental regulator which has broad oversight over the securities industry. ICAN states that client Entrex Carbon Market,… Read More

April 9, 2025 @ 12:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

Versana is reporting that Morgan Stanley Agented Broadly Syndicated Loan Deals are now live on its platform. Versana says it is bringing real-time loan data to institutional clients, improving transparency, efficiency, and data accuracy across the syndicated loan industry. Versana is an industry-backed centralized platform… Read More

April 9, 2025 @ 10:59 am By JD Alois  |  

The French Autorité des Marché Financiers (AMF) and the Italian Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (CONSAB), have joined to submit recommendations to the Europea Commission pertaining to the usage of blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT). The AMF shares that the European… Read More

April 9, 2025 @ 10:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SEI (NASDAQ:SEIC) announced that SEI Investments (Europe) Limited will partner with Ctrl Alt, a tokenization platform, and participate in the Bank of England’s Digital Securities Sandbox (DSS). The DSS aims to facilitate innovation in market infrastructure and protect financial stability and market integrity by “evaluating… Read More

April 9, 2025 @ 10:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Hedera has recently announced that the Chainlink standard for cross-chain interoperability is live on mainnet. Developers can leverage the Chainlink Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) to build apps that can transfer tokens, “send messages, and initiate actions across the multi-chain economy.” Chainlink CCIP supports 46+ other… Read More

April 9, 2025 @ 10:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Global investment company Aberdeen announces that £3bn of pension scheme policies have transferred from Phoenix Life Limited to abrdn Life and Pensions Limited. The transfer relates to a specific book of business “where the policyholders are typically pension scheme trustees.” It highlights the strength and ambition of… Read More

April 9, 2025 @ 10:29 am By JD Alois  |  

Tokenized funds have risen by almost 400% during the past year, according to Moody’s. Tokenization typically refers to digital securities. The tokenization of an asset brings improved efficiencies and characteristics to the asset. The report states that the market capitalization of tokenized funds stands at… Read More

April 9, 2025 @ 10:09 am By JD Alois  |  

Global markets have been in upheaval since President Trump’s Liberation Day, which slapped tariffs on just about all trading partners. Volatility has been spurred by market rumors as the message from the White House has been mixed. At times, it appears that the Trump White… Read More