Tagged: mike cagney

May 8, 2026 @ 12:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mike Cagney, executive board chair of Figure Technology Solutions (Nasdaq: FIGR), has sparked insightful discussion among fintech industry professionals with an update on the company’s potential return to the SPAC arena. In a detailed social media post, Cagney carefully elaborated on an earlier brainstorming post,… Read More

March 24, 2026 @ 6:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

The banks are at it again. Instead of competing on a level playing field with digital asset firms, they want to put their hand on the regulatory scale to ensure they maintain a moat that helps them, but not consumers. Spewing FUD regarding deposit flight,… Read More

January 21, 2026 @ 4:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mike Cagney, Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Figure Technology Solutions (Nasdaq: FIGR), emphasizes the need to critically evaluate blockchain’s advantages over traditional systems. Rather than vague promises of cost savings or improved liquidity, Cagney highlights tangible benefits through Figure’s On-chain Public Equity Network (OPEN), a… Read More

January 14, 2026 @ 6:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Figure Technology Solutions (Nasdaq: FIGR) a blockchain-native capital marketplace, has reported steady loan origination volumes for the fourth quarter of 2025. The announcement, shared by Executive Board Chair Mike Cagney, highlights a turnaround in what is typically a slower period for the lending industry. Despite… Read More

January 6, 2026 @ 10:32 am By JD Alois  |  

The digital asset ecosystem is gearing up amid the Trump Administration’s embrace of blockchain technology and the recognition that digital is the future of all financial services, including securities. At least initially, back office services were in many respects the most obvious uses of distributed… Read More

December 17, 2025 @ 10:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In a recent exchange on X, Mike Cagney, co-founder and executive chairman of Figure Technologies (Nasdaq: FIGR), dismissed real estate as a “red herring” in the push to migrate assets onto blockchain. Responding to a query about tokenizing real-world assets (RWAs), Cagney argued thar real… Read More

November 11, 2025 @ 3:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mike Cagney, the executive board chairperson and the co-founder of Figure (NASDAQ:FIGR), has said that blockchain wallets are going to completely disrupt how existing financial services actually work. Cagney also mentioned that today, we have an account at a firm like SoFi. They offer clients… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 4:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sui is partnering with Figure Certificate Company (FCC), a subsidiary of Figure Technology Solutions (NASDAQ:FIGR), in order to deploy YLDS, the SEC-registered yield-bearing security, natively on Sui, thus expanding access to regulated financial products within the Sui ecosystem. This update comes after Figure’s recent Nasdaq IPO,… Read More

October 9, 2025 @ 8:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mike Cagney, Co-founder and current Executive Chairman of Figure (NASDAQ:FIGR), which aims to transform capital markets by leveraging blockchain technology, predicts that the era of megabank stablecoin is coming. Cagney noted that the GENIUS Act will usher in JP Coin, and it will “suck the liabilities (deposits) out… Read More

September 11, 2025 @ 10:09 am By JD Alois  |  

Figure Technology, a blockchain-based lending and infrastructure firm, will float its shares on Nasdaq today, raising over $780 million. The shares will trade under the ticker symbol FIGR and will become the most recent Fintech to successfully go public this year. Figure also bumped up… Read More

August 18, 2025 @ 1:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The passage of the GENIUS Act seemingly marks a turning point for stablecoins, potentially setting the stage for a transformation in how money moves and markets operate. Mike Cagney, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman at Figure Markets, outlines several milestones in the evolution of stablecoins that… Read More

June 4, 2025 @ 7:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In a key decision on May 22, 2025, the Delaware Court of Chancery delivered a significant blow to the board of directors of Ionic Digital Inc., ruling that they breached their fiduciary duties to shareholders. The ruling, which has been hailed as a victory for… Read More

April 28, 2025 @ 6:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mike Cagney, Co-founder and CEO of Figure Markets, who also founded SoFi, has outlined transformative changes on the horizon for financial markets driven by upcoming stablecoin legislation and blockchain innovations. These developments, expected to take shape by the August recess, could redefine the banking system,… Read More

August 21, 2024 @ 6:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In response to increasing market demand for tokenized real-world assets from fund issuers and investors, Provenance Blockchain Labs (ProvLabs), a blockchain development company building a modern financial services operating system with the dApps and expertise TradFi needs to digitize trillions of dollars of assets on… Read More

June 15, 2024 @ 11:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Figure Technology Solutions, the technology platform streamlining the private credit and housing markets, announced the launch of Figure Connect, a blockchain-based multi-seller, multi-buyer marketplace of private credit loans. Figure Connect brings Figure’s broad and deep capital markets buyer universe “directly to Figure’s loan origination partners.”… Read More

April 24, 2024 @ 11:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Figure Technology Solutions, provider of a scaled technology platform built to enhance efficiency and transparency in financial services, announced the appointment of Michael Tannenbaum as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors, effective immediately. In conjunction with the appointment, Mike Cagney,… Read More

March 20, 2024 @ 7:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Figure Technologies announces the launch of Figure Markets, the first step in a vision to create an “everything marketplace”– a single platform where investors can trade a range of blockchain-native assets from crypto to stocks to alternative investments. Figure Markets has secured over $60 million… Read More

November 9, 2023 @ 9:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Figure Technologies, along with former NYSE Executive Tom Farley and VC Proof Group, are planning to acquire what’s left of FTX, according to a report by WSJ.com. FTX was once valued at over $30 billion. Figure, founded by top Fintech entrepreneur Mike Cagney, operates one… Read More

October 17, 2023 @ 5:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

Figure has completed $16 billion in blockchain native lending transactions since 2018. The data point was shared by founder Mike Cagney, who was responding to a LinkedIn post that said the world is five years away from broad-based utilization of tokenization having any volume or… Read More

November 25, 2022 @ 7:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

While there has long been much discussion about the benefits of crypto and blockchain, too frequently, these comments ignore regulation and a need for a compliant environment that instills confidence from all sides of the equation. This has undermined the public perception of blockchain technology… Read More