Tagged: infrastructure

April 19, 2025 @ 10:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A key milestone for digital assets infrastructure is here: Treehouse Labs has  closed a new funding round, valuing the company at US $400 million. Led by the venture arm of one of the world’s largest life insurance and financial services firms – managing over $500… Read More

April 17, 2025 @ 8:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Auradine, Inc., a firm focused on breakthrough, energy-efficient solutions for blockchain and AI infrastructure, announced closing of an additional $153 million in connection with its Series C funding round. The oversubscribed round was led by StepStone Group and “included participation from Maverick Silicon, Premji Invest,… Read More

April 11, 2025 @ 2:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (BNY) (NYSE: BK) has piloted the “first” intraday repo trade settled through its triparty infrastructure. The USD-denominated pilot transaction, which “took place in February, saw UBS borrowing cash from Swiss Re while delivering collateral via BNY’s global collateral… Read More

April 10, 2025 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

With an FCA license in hand, a new London HQ, and three UK clients set to go live by year-end, Upvest says it is entering its next phase of growth in Europe’s “most dynamic” investment market: the UK. Leading the charge is Symmie Swil, a… 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 8, 2025 @ 11:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Twinstake has joined the IOTA Genesis Validator Set, which is described as an institutional-grade staking solution for a “secure future.” When the IOTA Foundation selected its Genesis Validators for IOTA Rebased, it wasn’t just seeking network participants—it was curating what it claims is the “bedrock”… Read More

April 7, 2025 @ 7:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

XXImo, the European mobility payments platform, has migrated its infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS) with the support of cloud services provider CloudNation. With this step, XXImo sets a standard as one of the “first” companies worldwide to move 100% of their card processing “to… Read More

April 6, 2025 @ 5:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitfarms Ltd. (Nasdaq: BITF), a global energy and compute infrastructure company, announced that the company has entered into an initial agreement for a private debt facility for up to “$300 million from Macquarie Equipment Capital, Inc., a division of Macquarie Group’s Commodities and Global Markets’… Read More

April 6, 2025 @ 5:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ImpactA Global announces it has mobilized over $200 million to drive sustainable infrastructure investment in emerging markets. This milestone underscores ImpactA’s approach to closing the infrastructure financing gap while delivering “measurable impact in climate transition and inequality reduction.” ImpactA Global, a private credit firm, focuses… Read More

April 6, 2025 @ 12:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Schroders Capital’s Infrastructure team in Asia announces the first close of a China renewable energy strategy following a $100 million anchor investment commitment from Apple. The actively-managed strategy targets renewable infrastructure investments in late-stage development and construction wind and solar assets “across China, aiming to… Read More

April 4, 2025 @ 8:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Aria, a provider of deferred payment infrastructure for B2B marketplaces and platforms, selected Mangopay’s flexible wallet-based payment solution to optimize and automate its embedded finance product. The collab builds on the partnership between the two companies, with the integration of Mangopay’s technology “powering Aria’s international… Read More

April 3, 2025 @ 2:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced a digital collateral management platform. Collateral is an essential risk mitigation tool “that helps support overall financial stability.” DTCC also noted that as the markets grow… Read More

April 2, 2025 @ 8:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SIX, the global financial data and market infrastructure provider, has launched its Digital Assets Regulatory & Tax Service – a data package providing financial institutions with “a single information source to help identify their exposure to digital assets and remain compliant with evolving regulations.” It… Read More

March 20, 2025 @ 5:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockdaemon, the “institutional-grade” blockchain infrastructure company, has entered into a binding agreement to acquire expand.network, an API provider that streamlines institutional and wallet provider access to DeFi and on-chain financial activities. expand.network will reportedly facilitate Blockdaemon’s ability to connect businesses to blockchains with one integration…. Read More

March 12, 2025 @ 1:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Dwolla, a US-based A2A payment solution, has recently announced the general availability of its expanded integration with Plaid, a data network powering the digital financial ecosystem. Dwolla‘s clients are now reportedly able to leverage Plaid’s instant account verification and real-time balance check alongside “pay-by-bank payments… Read More

February 23, 2025 @ 7:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Taurus SA, a global enabler of digital asset infrastructure, is announcing the publication of an open-source confidential token standard for debt and equity tokenization in collaboration with the Aztec Foundation. This initiative marks a step forward in enabling FIs to issue tokenized versions of financial… Read More

February 14, 2025 @ 2:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

abrdn announces the final closing of its third core/core+ infrastructure fund, ASCI III. Focused on direct investments in European small to mid-market core and core+ infrastructure opportunities, the Fund builds “on the success of Funds I and II, and related co-investment vehicles.” The Fund has… Read More

February 6, 2025 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Thai financial market solutions firm ThaiQuest has agreed a multi-year partnership with SIX, the financial data and market infrastructure provider, to access market data from SIX and enhance its financial information business. As explained in the announcement, ThaiQuest will gain access to the SIX financial… Read More

February 5, 2025 @ 7:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Paxos, the blockchain and tokenization infrastructure platform, announced it has completed its acquisition of Membrane Finance, an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) based and licensed in Finland. The acquisition received regulatory approval, “making Paxos a fully licensed EMI” in Finland and the EU. Paxos issues USD-backed… Read More

January 30, 2025 @ 5:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PitchBook noted in a new report that the infrastructure software as a service (SaaS) sector has experienced significant growth, driven by the increasing adoption of digital transformation, Big Data, and advanced technologies like large language models. The report from PitchBook explained that this sector encompasses… Read More