Gemini Predictions, which is part of Gemini Spacestation (NASDAQ:GEMI), has recently announced that it listed several new contracts featuring various key events in the Sports and Politics categories, expanding the number of offerings on their prediction markets platform after they had just launched last week.... Read More
Architect Financial Technologies Inc. announced the completion of a $35 million strategic Series A investment round. The funding will now aim to accelerate the growth of AX, the financial industry’s centralized exchange for perpetual futures on traditional asset classes, “launched by the company last month.”... Read More
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
iProov, the provider of “science-based” biometric identity verification solutions, announced that an attack scenario demonstrated by the iProov in-house Red Team has been released by MITRE ATLAS, the global knowledge base advancing AI security, threat mitigation and privacy. The case study confirms a critical, high-risk... Read More
Coinbax has reportedly raised $4.2 million in seed funding to accelerate development of its programmable trust layer for stablecoin payments. The round was led by BankTech Ventures, with participation from Connecticut Innovations, Paxos, SpringTime Ventures, and other banking and payments industry participants. According to the... Read More
Ares Management Corporation (NYSE: ARES), an international alternative investment manager, announced significant data center transactions in the U.S. by Ares Real Assets funds, underscoring an expansion of Ares’ data center exposure and the advantages via collaboration across its digital infrastructure and real estate investment capabilities.... Read More
North Korea-linked hackers stole more than half of the over $2.7 billion taken in cryptocurrency hacks in 2025, as the country’s cyber operators increasingly targeted the operational infrastructure of major exchanges and outsourced the “cash-out” stage to a web of Chinese underground brokers, blockchain... Read More
Australians really splashed out during this past Black Friday, with consumer spending reportedly reaching $23.8 billion – which is 19.5 per cent higher than a typical fortnight. The latest figures come from CommBank iQ, which combines data from one of Australia’s largest banks with over... Read More
CertiK has noted that privacy coins are cryptocurrencies engineered to significantly improve user anonymity by effectively obscuring transaction data (such as sender identities, transaction amounts, transaction history, etc.). CertiK explained that, unlike pseudonymous virtual currencies such as Bitcoin (BTC), privacy coins tend to employ more... Read More
The US Federal Reserve Board has proposed a new “payment account” that certain financial institutions could use solely for clearing and settling payments. This may appeal to Fintechs in the payments sector. This would differ from a “master account,” which is what many regulated financial... Read More