Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Mastercard and Kraken Team to Promote Crypto Payments in the EU and UK
Cryptocurrency platform Kraken launched a payments-focused partnership with Mastercard. The collaboration will allow Kraken customers in the United Kingdom and Europe to spend crypto assets at more th...

Ryft Raises $7.3 Million to Expand Embedded Payment Solution
Ryft has raised 5.7 million pounds (about $7.3 million) in a Series A funding round to continue expanding its embedded payments solution that helps marketplaces and platforms process, manage and monet...

Walmart Retracts Income Guidance Over Tariff Concerns
Walmart is pulling its first-quarter operating income outlook due in part to tariff-related concerns. “The range of outcomes for Q1 operating income growth has widened due to less favorable category...

Bank Bosses Reportedly Out of the Loop on Trump’s Tariffs
The heads of America’s biggest banks are reportedly disconnected from the White House’s tariff efforts. To illustrate this fact, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on Wednesday (April 9) shared the st...

Meta’s Llama 4 Models Are Bad for Rivals but Good for Enterprises, Experts Say
Meta’s latest open-source AI models are a shot across the bow to the more expensive closed models from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and others. But it’s good news for businesses because they could po...

ICAN Hammers FINRA for Unnecessary Delays: 15 Months of Regulatory Limbo for Entrex
The Investor Choice Advocates Network (ICAN) is criticizing FINRA for an unnecessary delay in dealing with an application filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. FINRA is a non-governmental...

Morgan Stanley Loan Deals Now on Versana
Versana is reporting that Morgan Stanley Agented Broadly Syndicated Loan Deals are now live on its platform. Versana says it is bringing real-time loan data to institutional clients, improving transpa...

Blockchain: France, Italy Partner to Submit Recommendations to European Commission Regarding Distributed Ledger Technology Usage
The French Autorité des Marché Financiers (AMF) and the Italian Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (CONSAB), have joined to submit recommendations to the Europea Commission pertaining ...

SEI Investments and Ctrl Alt to Participate in Bank of England’s Digital Securities Sandbox
SEI (NASDAQ:SEIC) announced that SEI Investments (Europe) Limited will partner with Ctrl Alt, a tokenization platform, and participate in the Bank of England’s Digital Securities Sandbox (DSS). The ...

Hedera Adopts Chainlink Standard for Cross-Chain Interoperability
Hedera has recently announced that the Chainlink standard for cross-chain interoperability is live on mainnet. Developers can leverage the Chainlink Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) to bui...

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