Global

November 19, 2025 @ 1:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A slowdown in cost increases across Western Europe, along with increasing prices in parts of Eastern Europe, is resulting in a more varied picture of affordability for expats as well as remote workers, according to European digital bank bunq’s research findings from the Working Abroad… Read More

November 19, 2025 @ 1:46 am By JD Alois  |  

The Autumn Budget will be presented next week on November 26th. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves has her work cut out for her as the UK is experiencing mediocre growth, sticky inflation, and high government debt. Expectations that some taxes may rise, but any… Read More

November 18, 2025 @ 11:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut, the global fintech currently claiming more than 65 million global customers and various business customers, has announced a global payments partnership with one of the world’s online travel platforms, Booking.com. Expanding Revolut’s travel offering for customers, Booking.com customers can now pay via Revolut Pay,… Read More

November 18, 2025 @ 3:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Artificial intelligence (AI) is now becoming a key driver in accounting and is also said to be noticeably changing processes. Over half of companies (53 percent) currently use AI in this area or are “in the process of implementing it.” This is shown by the… Read More

November 18, 2025 @ 11:23 am By JD Alois  |  

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has approved the second PISCES, or Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System, for JP Jenkins. The first platform approved was by the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) in September. PISCES is an initiative to improve the market for private securities… Read More

November 18, 2025 @ 10:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The international custody business of SIX has now reportedly surpassed CHF 1 trillion in international assets under custody for the “first time” as the business claims that it is experiencing a solid year. Steady demand for SIX’s custody services was underpinned by the recent international… Read More

November 18, 2025 @ 10:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

  Robert Cooke, CEO of 3forge, recently shared some interesting insights with CI. The team at 3forge pointed out that currently, global banks run on billions of lines of legacy code, some even written half a century ago, and nowhere is that inheritance more visible… Read More

November 18, 2025 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL) and KKR, a global investment firm, announced the signing of a new agreement for an up to €6 billion replenishing loan commitment under which credit funds and accounts managed by KKR will purchase “up to €65 billion of buy now,… Read More

November 18, 2025 @ 8:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Research released by Euroclear’s UK CSD, Euroclear UK & International in collaboration with Thinks Insights & Strategy indicates that around 4.7 million individuals in the United Kingdom are still holding paper share certificates. The research follows the September release of the Digitisation Taskforce’s final report,… Read More

November 18, 2025 @ 1:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Commercial Bank Money Token (CBMT) Working Group announced the launch of the CBMT Sandbox, a test environment for banks and enterprises to pilot CBMT in institutional and corporate use cases. A launch session will be held on November 19 in Frankfurt. As part of… Read More

November 18, 2025 @ 12:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Viola Credit, a global alternative credit asset manager with $4 billion in AuM to date, announced the launch of a Growth Lending fund dedicated to the European tech market. The fund, targeted at €300 million, has completed its first close with commitments from “a mix… Read More

November 17, 2025 @ 9:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard  (NYSE: MA) and Thunes, the money movement Fintech, have teamed up to accelerate global funds transfers for banks, payment service providers and end-users by expanding stablecoin wallet payout capabilities. Via this latest collab, announced at the Singapore Fintech Festival, Mastercard Move will facilitate near… Read More

November 17, 2025 @ 5:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Multichain Accounts for MetaMask are finally here. According to the web3 focused development team, this is a major change as to how accounts actually work in MetaMask, and it’s one that will now aim to simplify the crosschain (and blockchain interoperability) experience for end-users. MetaMask developers… Read More

November 17, 2025 @ 4:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

Blockchain.com has a new co-CEO. Lane Kasselman will now serve as the chief executive officer, sharing responsibilities with Peter Smith, who will remain in the London Global Headquarters acting as CEO and Executive Chairman. At the same time, the company will open a new HQ… Read More

November 17, 2025 @ 2:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Figure Technology Solutions (Nasdaq: FIGR) announced that its subsidiary, Figure Certificate Company (FCC), plans to start minting $YLDS, a registered public debt security, natively on Solana. $YLDS is described as being a security-version of stablecoin, intended to maintain a fixed dollar price and offer a “continuous… Read More

November 17, 2025 @ 11:53 am By JD Alois  |  

ByteDance, a Chinese firm that operates TikTok, CapCut, and Douyin, is the operator of some of the most popular social media verticals in the world. Republic is offering access to ByteDance’s growth via a Mirror Token, which aims to match the valuation of ByteDance’s equity…. Read More

November 17, 2025 @ 10:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Around 1 in 5 or 20% of financial services industry professionals have reported having crypto-assets as part of their firms’ main operation in a sentiment poll conducted across GlobalData’s FS media sites during the H1 of 2025. An additional 20% are expected to “follow suit,… Read More

November 17, 2025 @ 8:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

KPMG UK has recently noted that recruitment consultancies signaled a relative improvement in hiring conditions in October of 2025. This, according to the KPMG and REC, UK Report on Jobs survey, which is compiled by S&P Global. Temp billings have reportedly expanded for the first… Read More

November 17, 2025 @ 8:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Kaspersky has introduced its Security Bulletin, which aims to examine the key cybersecurity trends of the past year and offers a glimpse into the potential future of these developments. The update from Kaspersky is dedicated to cybersecurity issues in the financial services ecosystem, offering an… Read More

November 17, 2025 @ 8:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

KPMG noted that the vast majority or 86 per cent) of energy and technology business professionals in the UK now believe that without AI it would take longer for their organisation to achieve its net zero goals, according to KPMG’s report on AI and the… Read More