Forex
Google Ventures has joined a $47.5 million Series A round for Alta, a firm building institutional-grade blockchain infrastructure for global finance.
Western Union has pulled the plug on its $500 million acquisition of rival Intermex after failing to secure an "acceptable approval" for the deal from regulators.
Banking
CEO and co-founder Jordan Wright said the fintech seeks to raise between $30 million and $50 million, although AI firms capturing investor attention has made the fundraising climate more challenging.
Commodities
Forex
With the majority of scams originating on social media and messaging apps, a new Biocatch survey of 100 fraud management, AML and compliance team leaders at banks in Indonesia has found that social engineering scams remain the biggest concern.
Moomoo will offer the New York Stock Exchange's (NYSE) all-or-nothing stock options to US retail clients from launch, the broker said today (Wednesday). Each contract pays a fixed $100 or nothing, depending on where a stock or exchange-traded fund closes at expiry.The announcement puts a retail dist
Banking
The financial services firm cut analyst data preparation time by 83% with the use of an onboarding agent, the companies said.
As momentum shifts between prediction market platforms and the realisation dawns that some of the summer's growth was event-driven rather than sustained, we look at how providers are navigating increasingly uneven growth through distribution and market mix.As prediction markets evolve, the key issue
Forex
Forex
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said yesterday (Tuesday) it filed 348 enforcement actions in fiscal 2026, down from 456 a year earlier. Its fiscal year ended on September 30.A case list attached to the release shows that 45 of its 235 standalone actions targeted entities the SEC says
A phone rings at 7:02 am.Ava (AI): Good morning, this is Ava from [Broker X]. Before we go any further, I should say that I am an AI.CLIENT: Great. So you know where gold is going?AVA: No. Nobody does, including the people on social media who say they do.CLIENT: Then what are you for?AVA: I can tell
The struggle to invest in anything other than AI
Webull has launched brokerage services in Italy, its fourth active EU market, more than nine months after securing passporting rights for the country. The company announced the Italian launch on 10 November. Its European service now covers the Netherlands, Germany, Spain and Italy. According to Webu
Banking
Wells Fargo’s AI Teammate has had hundreds of thousands of interactions, according to Andre Mansour, and “things that used to take hours now are down to minutes.”
How the art of the deal may yet prevail over the art of denial