Tagged: Bridge+

May 6, 2025 @ 7:36 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Last week, Visa used its Global Product Drop to highlight how it is using AI to improve the consumer shopping experience. “As new ways to pay emerge, they need to run on a network that is always on – that is safe, secure, scalable and… Read More

May 1, 2025 @ 7:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Payments processing Fintech Stripe has recently announced two significant updates that underscore its objective to advancing financial technology and enhancing user experience. The company has partnered with Visa through its newly acquired stablecoin platform, Bridge, to launch a card-issuing product, and has expanded its AI-powered… Read More

April 27, 2025 @ 11:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Financial infrastructure Fintech Stripe, the $70 billion online payment processing firm, has announced a new stablecoin product powered by Bridge, a startup it acquired for $1.1 billion in October 2024. The initiative, shared by Stripe CEO Patrick Collison on X, marks the company’s expansion into… Read More

March 2, 2025 @ 5:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wirex, a Web3 money app, has announced the expansion of its stablecoin payment platform, Wirex Pay, to the U.S. This milestone marks a key step in making stablecoin payments more accessible, offering U.S. residents a self-custodial way “to transact with stablecoins.” The expansion is powered… Read More

February 10, 2025 @ 3:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure Fintech for businesses, recently announced that it has finalized its acquisition of Bridge. Zach Abrams, cofounder of Bridge, said via social media: “We closed our acquisition with Stripe. Together we’re scaling digital dollars to businesses everywhere. Stablecoins aren’t the future—they’re already… Read More

October 28, 2024 @ 1:03 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

EtherMail founder and CEO Shant Kevonian said Stripe’s $1.1 billion acquisition of Bridge, a stablecoin API provider, is a pivotal moment in bridging the Web2/Web3 divide. Kevonian said the move is the latest step in the ongoing convergence of the crypto and fintech markets –… Read More

October 21, 2024 @ 7:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech Stripe has reportedly acquired stablecoin platform Bridge for $1.1 billion, according to an update shared via social media by tech industry entrepreneur Michael Arrington. As mentioned in the announcement, this deal notably makes it Stripe’s largest acquisition to date, and also one of the… Read More

September 14, 2023 @ 11:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Citi (NYSE: C) announced the acquisition of its Bridge built by Citi® platform (“Bridge”) by Foro Holdings, Inc. (Foro), a Charlotte-based commercial lending services provider. As part of the transaction, Citi contributed Bridge to Foro and “joined Foro’s investors, including TTV Capital (TTV), US Bank… Read More

December 22, 2021 @ 2:12 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Psychedelic, a decentralized Web 3 development studio building products for the Internet Computer, today launched Terabethia — a cross-network bridge designed to enable cross-chain contract communication, and asset mirroring and transfer across different chains, starting with the Internet Computer and Ethereum. Terabethia represents the first… Read More

December 8, 2021 @ 4:50 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Digital Finance Group, a global blockchain and cryptocurrency investment firm, recently announced it has invested $1.5 million in a private funding round as the head investor for Rivet, an Ethereum infrastructure service built on open-source technology. The funding will be used to grow the Rivet… Read More

September 13, 2019 @ 1:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The ASEAN Financial Innovation Network (AFIN) committed to two memorandums of understanding (MOUs) on September 11, 2019, with Bridge+ and “Big Four” auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC) Singapore branch. Managing director of AFIN Manish Diwaan noted: “AFIN is delighted that industry leaders are coming together to… Read More