Citrea bets on private digital assets with Crest deal
Citrea, an application layer for digital assets backed by Founders Fund and Galaxy Ventures, has acquired Crest, a self-custodial privacy wallet, as it looks...
SoFi brings stablecoin settlement to Mastercard network
SoFi has moved its entire debit and credit card programme onto stablecoin settlement rails through Mastercard, bringing bank-issued digital currency into live production across...
Thredd and Velocity bring stablecoins to card issuers
Thredd, an AI-first issuer processing platform, has partnered with stablecoin treasury and settlement provider Velocity to add stablecoin-based money movement to its payments offering...
Coinbase, Stablecore expand digital assets to small banks
Coinbase, the US-based digital asset exchange and digital asset infrastructure provider, and Stablecore, a firm that builds white-labelled digital asset technology for community and...
Ant International hands payment control to AI agents
Ant International, the Shanghai and Singapore headquartered cross-border payments and financial services group, has unveiled an AI-native stack spanning payments, accounts, foreign exchange, treasury...
S&P Global buys OpenZeppelin to secure onchain finance
S&P Global has agreed to acquire OpenZeppelin, a security standards provider for onchain finance, in a deal aimed at strengthening its foothold in digital...
FCA sets out digital asset rulebook ahead of 2027 deadline
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued new guidance to help digtal asset firms interpret the legislation that will underpin the country's forthcoming digital...
ETFBOOK raises $13m to close ETF data’s global gap
ETFBOOK, the Zurich-headquartered ETF data and analytics platform, has raised $13m to expand beyond Europe into the US and Asia-Pacific, as it looks to...
Nasdaq deepens Payward tie-up with $100m investment
Payward, the parent company of Kraken, has widened its relationship with Nasdaq through a $100m investment from Nasdaq Ventures, continued work on a shared...
Citi becomes first US bank to process live Swift ledger transactions
Citi has become the first US bank to process live transactions on Swift’s blockchain-based ledger, as banks test whether shared infrastructure can support always-on,...













