February, 2025

February, 2025

FTC Highlights Actions to Protect Consumers from Impersonation Scams that Resulted in Losses Totaling $2.95B in 2024
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) highlighted actions taken to protect consumers from impersonations scams since the Government and Business Impersonation Rule took effect in April 2024. Scams impers...

Virgo, Vaulta Launch Cross-Border Remittance Network VirgoPay
Vaulta, a scalable operating system for Web3 banking, this week announced a strategic partnership with Virgo, a digital asset service provider, to launch VirgoPay, a dedicated cross-border remittance ...

Coller Capital Acquires Senior Direct Lending Portfolio from American National
Coller Capital, the world’s private market secondaries manager, has acquired a $1.6bn senior direct lending portfolio from American National, a multiline US insurer. The investment reportedly marks ...

US DOJ Greenlights Capital One and Discover Merger, Signaling Shift in Antitrust Approach
In a significant development for the US financial services sector, the Department of Justice (DoJ) has given the green light to a $35 billion merger between Capital One Finance Group and Discover Fina...

BNPL Fintech Klarna’s IPO Plans Stalled Amid Market Turmoil
Swedish buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) giant Klarna has hit a roadblock in its highly anticipated journey to go public. Last month, the fintech powerhouse formally applied with the Securities and Exchange C...

Entrust, DocuSign Report Shows Higher Fraud Costs, Security/CX Tradeoff
This week, Entrust, a provider of identity-centric security solutions, and DocuSign (Nasdaq: DOCU) released the results of a joint global study examining the escalating costs of identity fraud and the...

Bitfarms Enters Agreement for Private Debt Facility with a Division of Macquarie Group to Fund Initial HPC Project Development
Bitfarms Ltd. (Nasdaq: BITF), a global energy and compute infrastructure company, announced that the company has entered into an initial agreement for a private debt facility for up to “$300 million...

DOGE plans now reportedly include an IRS ‘hackathon’
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is planning to hold a “hackathon” next week in order to...

VanEck Analyst Says Retaliatory Steps From China and EU Could Boost Narrative for Crypto – Here’s Why
An analyst at a prominent global investment firm says that economic retribution from China and the European Union (EU) against new US tariffs could end up supporting digital assets. In a new thread on...

Hackers Hammer Android and iPhone Users As Bank Account Attacks Surge 258% in One Year: Kaspersky
The number of Android and iPhone users hit by bank malware is skyrocketing as criminals increasingly shift to mobile devices. In a new report, the cybersecurity firm Kaspersky says the number of smart...

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