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Apex Fintech Is Reportedly Considering Bakkt Acquisition Amid Crypto Industry Shifts

Apex Fintech, a firm known for embedding stock trading into apps, is reportedly considering an acquisition of Bakkt (NYSE: BKKT), a cryptocurrency platform spun off from Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), according to recent report from Axios. This potential deal comes two years after Bakkt acquired Apex’s… Read More

Nasdaq Plans for 24-Hour Trading, a Response to Fintech Innovation and Global Investors Demand

Nasdaq Inc., the second-largest US stock exchange operator, has unveiled plans to introduce 24-hour trading on its flagship equities exchange, a transformative step set to launch in the second half of 2026, pending regulatory approval. Announced on March 7, 2025, by Nasdaq President Tal Cohen… Read More

CME Group BrokerTech Unit Sets ATH for Single-Day Volume of $1.05T in Avg Daily Notional Volume Traded

CME Group, the derivatives marketplace, announced that its BrokerTec business reached a new single-day volume record of $1.05 trillion in average daily notional volume (ADNV) traded on March 3. Surpassing the ADNV of $909B for February 2025, this latest all-time high was reportedly driven by… Read More

Digital Assets Firm Flowdesk Announces $102M Equity Financing Round

Flowdesk, a full-service digital asset trading and technology firm, announced the close of its $102m financing round, including equity support from existing shareholders and HV Capital as well as debt from funds and accounts managed by BlackRock. Since its launch in 2020, Flowdesk has emerged… Read More

eToro Adds Pyth, EigenLayer, Other Digital Assets to Investment Platform

eToro, the trading and investing platform, announced that it is adding five new crypto-assets to its platform. eToro revealed that the new crypto-assets are: LayerZero (ZRO): a cross-chain messaging protocol enabling seamless blockchain interoperability. ZKsync (ZK): a Layer-2 scaling solution that boosts Ethereum’s speed and… Read More

Rho Labs Reports New Funding to Enable Growth of Crypto native Rates Exchange

Rho Labs, the developer of Rho Protocol, the crypto-native rates exchange, announces that it has secured $4M in seed funding to “expand the capabilities of its platform.” Rho enables interest rates trading for a wide range of crypto-native and professional investors. With a total value… Read More

Investment Firm Y-Intercept Selects TS Imagine’s RiskSmart+ to Support Growth

TS Imagine, the cross-asset provider of trading, portfolio, and risk management solutions for financial institutions, is announcing that Y-Intercept has chosen RiskSmart +, an integrated solution for risk and portfolio management, to support the firm’s growth. Y-Intercept, a Hong Kong-based quantitative investment firm specializing in… Read More

CME Group Futures to Launch on Robinhood, Bringing Trading Opportunities to Retail Traders

CME Group, the derivatives marketplace, and Robinhood Derivatives, LLC, announced that some of CME Group’s most “popular” futures products have started rolling out on the Robinhood mobile app. Over the coming weeks, eligible Robinhood (NASDAQ:HOOD) customers in the U.S. will have access to futures products… Read More

Lunar Launches Digital Assets Platform in Norway, Offering Cryptocurrency Trading

Lunar launches crypto in Norway via Lunar Block, a Scandinavian crypto trading platform that allows users to buy and sell crypto -assets directly through the Lunar app. The launch offers Norwegians with a way to explore the world of crypto while “managing their traditional financial… Read More

Investing Platform eToro Partners with Stocktwits

Trading and investing platform eToro announces a partnership with Stocktwits, which claims to be one of the world’s largest social media platforms for traders & investors. The first phase of the collab reportedly includes Stocktwits adding a ‘trade’ button on their site for “all assets… Read More

European Digital Bank N26 Announces Free Stocks and ETF Trading for Clients

N26 announced free stocks and ETF trading for all customers from 27 January 2025 onwards, enhancing its investment proposition as the “only” financial service provider in Europe to offer trading “without charging fees or commissions.” With this decision, N26 aims to make investing even more… Read More

Cainam Ventures Launches Platform to Enable Autonomous Digital Assets Trading

Cainam Ventures, a financial technology startup, is launching a platform that aims to redefine autonomous digital asset trading. Guided by its mission to support the onramp to agentic financial portfolio construction for digital capital investors, Cainam says that it leverages artificial intelligence (AI), large language… Read More

Retail Investors Increase Allocations to Growth Sectors, Cash, Bonds – eToro Report

As interest rates begin to decline, US retail investors plan to strategically adjust their portfolios, prioritizing growth sector stocks such “as healthcare & technology (24%), cash assets (22%), high-yield bonds (18%), and dividend yielding stocks (18%),” according to data from the Retail Investor Beat (RIB)… Read More

Bitcoin Trading Activity Surges, Traders Now Positioning for Increased Volatility with Inauguration Days Away – Report

Dr. Sean Dawson, Head of Research at the “decentralized” on-chain options AI-powered platform, Derive.xyz (TVL $128M, $12.3B trade volume), has shared key insights focused on Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) markets. Dr. Sean Dawson, Head of Research at Derive.xyz noted that in the last 24… Read More

Trade Republic Reports 8 Million Users, Establishes Branches in France, Spain, Italy

Six years after its market launch, Trade Republic has reportedly doubled its customer base to 8 million. Collectively, these customers manage assets worth 100 billion euro, making Trade Republic the “largest broker” in Europe and strengthening its position as the savings platform. The introduction of… Read More

Trading and Investment Platform eToro Unveils Tools to Help Investors with Informed Decision-Making

Trading and investing platform eToro has unveiled a range of tools to give users a more in-depth view of their investment performance while helping them to make informed investment decisions. Designed to help users plan, identify opportunities and benchmark their portfolio against other assets, the… Read More

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) Reports Steady Progress in 2024

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) claims that it had a solid 2024, marked by new leadership, greater connectivity and engagement with international markets, the launch of multi-year infrastructure enhancement programs, and fresh trading records that “underscore the market’s vibrancy and resilience.” HKEX introduced… Read More

Alpaca Shares Key 2024 Milestones, Becomes Self-Clearing Broker-Dealer and Launches Options Trading

Alpaca says it had a landmark year in 2024 as they became a fully self-clearing broker-dealer and launched new features like options trading. Working with financial institutions, Alpaca said they learned the importance of fully integrating brokerage operations stack (such as execution, clearing, and custody… Read More

1inch Expands Institutional Access to DeFi Liquidity with Talos Integration

1inch, a DeFi project announced its integration with Talos, the provider of institutional portfolio and trading tech for digital assets. This collab enhances liquidity access for Talos clients by allowing them to leverage 1inch’s Swap API, which sources liquidity across decentralized exchanges to help “ensure… Read More

Digital Assets Trading Tech Provider Talos Partners with Crypto Risk Metrics

Talos, the provider of institutional trading and portfolio technology for digital assets, has partnered with Crypto Risk Metrics to provide Talos’s regulated clients with ESG data to meet their sustainability disclosure requirements under the EU’s MiCA (Markets in Crypto Assets) Regulation. With the entry into… Read More

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