Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies

HIFI

HIFI lands $37m to rebuild the plumbing of tokenised money

HIFI, the New York-based provider of infrastructure for stablecoins and tokenised money, has secured $37m in Series A funding as it pushes beyond payments...
Banks face $230bn payments hit as stablecoins scale

Banks face $230bn payments hit as stablecoins scale

Capgemini has warned that banks could have up to $230bn in payments revenue at risk as stablecoins, tokenised deposits and central bank digital currencies...
Elysian takes aim at insurers' claims audit blind spots

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 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 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, 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 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

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

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 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...

News Stories

Databento hits $1.1bn valuation with $100m Series C

Databento hits $1.1bn valuation with $100m Series C

Databento, a platform supplying market data to the modern financial industry, has secured $100m in a Series C round that values the business at...
Optalitix brings agentic AI to insurance pricing

Optalitix brings agentic AI to insurance pricing

Optalitix, the InsurTech firm specialising in pricing and underwriting, has rolled out agentic AI functionality within its Optalitix Quote platform. The move allows carriers...
GreenieRE picks INTX Re to tighten reinsurance data control

GreenieRE picks INTX Re to tighten reinsurance data control

GreenieRE, a reinsurer focused on supporting clean energy, has chosen INTX Re, the assumed reinsurance platform from INTX Insurance Software, to improve how it...
Crown Agents Bank taps ALMIS to tame interest rate exposure

Crown Agents Bank taps ALMIS to tame interest rate exposure

Crown Agents Bank has sharply lowered its sensitivity to interest rate movements after launching a multi-currency swap hedging programme with treasury technology provider ALMIS...
Why AI speed could weaken AML compliance at UK firms

Why AI speed could weaken AML compliance at UK firms

Four years after ChatGPT arrived, AI has become a fixture of the working week, and financial services is no exception. A 2026 survey by the...

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