Tagged: infrastructure

January 16, 2026 @ 5:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Financial Data and Technology Association (FDATA), a trade group supporting consumer-permissioned financial data access, has welcomed Prometeo as its latest member. This addition bolsters FDATA’s growing network of more than 30 fintech companies and data platforms operating across the United States and Canada. FDATA… Read More

January 15, 2026 @ 8:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Alpaca, a provider of brokerage infrastructure, has announced a successful Series D funding round, raising $150 million alongside a $40 million credit facility. This latest investment propels the company’s valuation to $1.15 billion, marking a key milestone in its journey to democratize access to financial… Read More

January 15, 2026 @ 12:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zodia Custody has announced its expansion into supporting AUDM, marking it as the first global custodian to offer secure storage for Australia’s inaugural licensed stablecoin. This move, revealed on January 8, 2026, in Sydney, underscores the growing integration of regulated stablecoins into mainstream finance. Zodia… Read More

January 12, 2026 @ 3:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe has announced a new integration with Microsoft Copilot, enabling seamless shopping experiences directly within chat conversations. Announced this month, this collaboration introduces Copilot Checkout, a feature that allows U.S. users to discover and purchase products from various digital commerce platforms and retailers like Etsy,… Read More

January 11, 2026 @ 3:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fireblocks, a provider of digital asset infrastructure, has this past week announced its acquisition of Tres Finance. This acquisition integrates crypto accounting capabilities into Fireblocks’ ecosystem, creating what the company describes as the first complete operating system for digital assets. The deal underscores the convergence… Read More

December 24, 2025 @ 9:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the market infrastructure for the financial services industry, and BNY (NYSE: BK), a global financial services company, announced that DTCC’s Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) subsidiary has launched its Collateral-in-Lieu (CIL) service under its Sponsored General Collateral (GC)… Read More

December 19, 2025 @ 3:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

21X, Europe’s regulated DLT Trading and Settlement System (DLT TSS), has announced the technical availability of its regulated trading venue for tokenized securities on the Stellar network. This milestone confirms Stellar as the second public blockchain available on 21X, cementing the company’s “position as a… Read More

December 19, 2025 @ 7:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BitGo has announced the integration of the Bitcoin Lightning Network directly from its qualified custody platform. As one of the solutions to enable Lightning access directly from qualified custody, this expansion builds on BitGo’s Lightning Network offering. The service delivers institutions a way to “leverage… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 8:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Conduit is pleased to announce a partnership with Tempo, incubated by Stripe and Paradigm. This partnership will now offer Tempo’s ecosystem with “performant” as well as “production-ready” RPC infrastructure to build the so-called next generation of finance. As Tempo continues its mission to “upgrade” the… Read More

December 13, 2025 @ 8:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blackstone Credit & Insurance (BXCI) announced a forward flow origination partnership with Harvest Commercial Capital, LLC, a leader in small business lending, to acquire business loans secured by first lien mortgages on owner-occupied commercial real estate. Under the terms of the partnership, BXCI purchased an… Read More

December 11, 2025 @ 12:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Copper has announced the next phase of its multi-exchange strategy in partnership with FalconX, expanding ClearLoop’s integration ​​within​​​​ ​​ FalconX’s Prime Connect solution via the addition of Deribit, one of the world’s crypto options exchanges. Via this integration, FalconX DMA clients are reportedly able to… Read More

December 4, 2025 @ 9:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Animoca Brands announced that it has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Rayls, a blockchain ecosystem to bridge traditional finance with decentralized finance, for a strategic partnership focused on the tokenization of real-world assets (RWAs). The partnership will leverage Animoca Brands’ network to… Read More

November 29, 2025 @ 4:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Paxos, the blockchain infrastructure platform, announced it has acquired Fordefi, which is described as an institutional-grade custody and wallet technology provider. Businesses have reportedly relied on Paxos for custodial infrastructure as they enter the on-chain financial economy. Digital asset market adoption continues and customers require… Read More

November 28, 2025 @ 5:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wirex has announced a partnership with Crossmint to expand on-chain stablecoin payments to non-EVM blockchains, starting with Stellar. This collaboration is a major step toward unlocking true multichain stablecoin payments. It brings Wirex’s on-chain, non-custodial payment architecture to ecosystems that have traditionally been “underserved by… Read More

November 23, 2025 @ 3:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Blockdaemon has expanded its support for the Canton Network with full Canton Coin integration in the Blockdaemon Institutional Vault, delivering so-called “institutional-grade” wallet capabilities to one of the networks for regulated finance. As noted in a blog post, Blockdaemon is pleased to provide complete support… Read More

November 20, 2025 @ 12:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

IG (LSEG:IGG), a global trading and investments platform, has selected investment infrastructure provider Upvest to power its stock and ETF trading offering in France, marking the first step in a broader European rollout. This partnership supports IG’s strategy to broaden its product offering through access… Read More

November 17, 2025 @ 9:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Banking Circle S.A. is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary BC Payments Pte. Ltd. has now reportedly been granted a Major Payment Institution (MPI) license by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). A key milestone in Banking Circle’s expansion strategy, BC Payments  Singapore… Read More

November 14, 2025 @ 7:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BNY (NYSE: BK), a financial services company, announced the launch of the BNY Dreyfus Stablecoin Reserves Fund (BSRXX), a money market fund intended to support institutional adoption of digital assets in the liquidity ecosystem. The fund is meant to enable U.S. stablecoin issuers and other… Read More

November 14, 2025 @ 1:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Talos, the provider of institutional digital asset technology and data for trading and portfolio management, has recently announced it is operating as a Super Validator on the Canton Network, focused on supporting its mission of connecting institutions to the digital asset ecosystem. After its acquisition… Read More

November 12, 2025 @ 11:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Crypto.com announced a partnership with IP Strategy (Nasdaq: IPST), the first company to hold $IP tokens as a primary reserve asset. IP Strategy provides public market investors with regulated equity “exposure to the $80 trillion programmable intellectual property economy.” As part of the collab, Crypto.com… Read More