Tagged: europe

November 23, 2025 @ 4:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CaixaBank Wealth Management has reached the milestone of 10,000 clients in its Advisory Desk (10,856 as of the end of August 2025), its specialized service that offers tailored solutions for direct investments in stocks, bonds, and ETFs. The figure increased by 25% during the past… Read More

November 23, 2025 @ 12:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Deutsche Börse Group, Societe Generale Group and Societe Generale – FORGE (SG-FORGE) signed an agreement to enable the integration of token-based cash solutions with traditional financial market infrastructure. Deutsche Börse Group is now said to be further driving the adoption of stablecoins for digital European… Read More

November 23, 2025 @ 8:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Checkout.com, a global digital payments provider, announced a partnership with Pingo Doce, the Portuguese multinational food retail group, to support its online store. The partnership marks a key milestone in Pingo Doce’s digital transformation, allowing the group to provide a so-called high performing online shopping… Read More

November 23, 2025 @ 8:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FNZ, the global wealth-management platform, has recently announced that it secured $650 million in as part of equity funding from its institutional shareholders. This reportedly provides more financial strength in order to support its long-term business plan and its “commitment to delivering enhanced outcomes for… Read More

November 22, 2025 @ 4:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Getnet, a payment solutions provider in Latin America and Iberia belonging to the Santander Group, and UnionPay International (UPI), have signed a strategic agreement to expand the acceptance of UnionPay cards in Spain and Portugal. This reinforces both firms’ commitment to delivering a more inclusive… Read More

November 22, 2025 @ 12:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Schroders Capital’s Private Debt & Credit Alternatives (PDCA) team announces the close of a £23.3 million senior construction loan for the development of 133 townhouses in Denmark’s Triangle Region. The properties will reportedly be delivered by an experienced local developer with a track record in… Read More

November 21, 2025 @ 2:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) says the UK must lead in the development of distributed ledger technology (DLT) capital markets. Otherwise known as blockchain, in a recent statement, AFME noted that “without a clear national vision and urgent coordinated action, the UK… Read More

November 20, 2025 @ 8:44 am By JD Alois  |  

Investment crowdfunding has gone through various iterations since its inception. Too frequently confused with rewards offerings, which are really ecommerce with a delay, securities issued in an online offering are a financial ecosystem that will continue to persist and thrive over time. At the same… Read More

November 20, 2025 @ 8:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nuvei announced that its eCommerce merchants have started processing transactions via Wero, the digital wallet of the European Payments Initiative (EPI). Wero is designed to deliver instant, secure account-to-account payments across Europe. Earlier, Nuvei were among the payment processors to complete a Wero transaction in… Read More

November 20, 2025 @ 12:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

IG (LSEG:IGG), a global trading and investments platform, has selected investment infrastructure provider Upvest to power its stock and ETF trading offering in France, marking the first step in a broader European rollout. This partnership supports IG’s strategy to broaden its product offering through access… Read More

November 18, 2025 @ 11:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut, the global fintech currently claiming more than 65 million global customers and various business customers, has announced a global payments partnership with one of the world’s online travel platforms, Booking.com. Expanding Revolut’s travel offering for customers, Booking.com customers can now pay via Revolut Pay,… Read More

November 18, 2025 @ 10:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The international custody business of SIX has now reportedly surpassed CHF 1 trillion in international assets under custody for the “first time” as the business claims that it is experiencing a solid year. Steady demand for SIX’s custody services was underpinned by the recent international… Read More

November 18, 2025 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL) and KKR, a global investment firm, announced the signing of a new agreement for an up to €6 billion replenishing loan commitment under which credit funds and accounts managed by KKR will purchase “up to €65 billion of buy now,… Read More

November 18, 2025 @ 1:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Commercial Bank Money Token (CBMT) Working Group announced the launch of the CBMT Sandbox, a test environment for banks and enterprises to pilot CBMT in institutional and corporate use cases. A launch session will be held on November 19 in Frankfurt. As part of… Read More

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

European digital bank N26 announced the appointment of Dr. Andreas Dombret, Byron Haynes and Dr. Daniel Terberger as new members of its Supervisory Board. They were elected at an Extraordinary General Meeting by shareholders, and will join N26’s Supervisory Board with “immediate effect.” Andreas Dombret… Read More

November 15, 2025 @ 11:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CaixaBank and imagin are offering customers two investment vehicles designed to replicate the performance of Bitcoin (BTC), the flagship cryptocurrency. The bank is said to be supporting crypto-assets investment via two ETPs (Exchange Traded Products) – financial instruments that allow participation in the so-called “evolution”… Read More

November 14, 2025 @ 7:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE), the derivatives and securities exchange network, announced that Cboe Clear Europe, its pan-European clearing house, has reached a key step in the development of its Securities Financing Transactions (SFT) clearing service, with BNY (NYSE: BK), a financial services company,… Read More

November 14, 2025 @ 1:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Aave Labs is reporting that it will soon roll out regulated on and off-ramping for its native stablecoin GHO and other stablecoins integrated into Aave Labs products across the European Economic Area via its service, called Push. This service is made possible by Push Virtual… Read More

November 13, 2025 @ 8:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fourthline, Europe’s identity services provider, has been selected by Tiime, the French specialist in accounting software, as their Identity Verification Partner. The partnership aims to ensure Tiime’s compliance with French regulatory requirements while improving the security as well as overall efficiency of its customer onboarding… Read More

November 13, 2025 @ 3:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SIFMA, BNY, Broadridge and The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), in collaboration with The ValueExchange, today released findings from their “U.S. Treasury Central Clearing Pulse Survey”, which draws upon insights from global market participants. The survey, conducted by The ValueExchange, was meant to provide… Read More