Tagged: infrastructure

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

January 26, 2025 @ 6:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cross River Bank, a technology infrastructure provider that offers embedded financial solutions, announced the launch of its automated sweep feature using the IntraFi Cash Service. The capability will enable Cross River’s Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) clients to access millions in aggregate FDIC insurance coverage “across network banks… Read More

January 13, 2025 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OpenLedger, backed by Polychain Capital and Borderless Capital, is building a blockchain for (artificial intelligence) AI that provides a “decentralized” trust infrastructure for creating specialized language models. CoinList noted in a blog post that OpenLedger is offering up to “51% of its total token supply… Read More

January 9, 2025 @ 10:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Polyhedra, the zero-knowledge infrastructure company behind the zk-proof system, announced the Explore Expander Bootcamp, launching January 20th, 2025. This program reportedly provides developers an opportunity to harness Expander, Polyhedra’s zk-proof system, in order to drive innovation in blockchain / DLT and cryptography — including its… Read More

December 19, 2024 @ 7:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Parafin, which builds embedded finance infrastructure, announced the close of its $100 million Series C at a $750 million valuation. The financing has reportedly been led by Notable Capital with participation from Redpoint Ventures. Existing investors Ribbit Capital, Thrive Capital, and GIC also took part… Read More

December 13, 2024 @ 8:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Upvest, a European investment infrastructure provider, has raised a €100 million Series C funding round. The funding round was led by Hedosophia and joined by Sapphire Ventures. Existing investors also participated, including the following: Bessemer Venture Partners, BlackRock, Earlybird, HV Capital, Motive Ventures, and Notion Capital. The… Read More

November 20, 2024 @ 7:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Bank of England has launched a consultation on Fundamental Rules for Financial Market Infrastructures and shares its approach to FMI supervision. The Bank aims to introduce a set of Fundamental Rules for UK Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs), essential to the safe operation of the… Read More

October 29, 2024 @ 4:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nium, the global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments,  announced the launch of Nium Verify, a real-time bank account verification solution for businesses and individual accounts, available across 50 markets. Designed to empower businesses with instant verification of beneficiary bank account details, Nium Verify aims to… Read More

October 28, 2024 @ 2:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PrimeVault, a key player focused on institutional digital asset infrastructure backed by Y Combinator, Arrington XRP Capital, HashKey Capital, Cogitent Ventures, Alchemy, and G-20 Group, announced that it is adding support for the Radix Network within its platform. This integration enhances Radix’s accessibility to institutions,… Read More