April, 2025

April, 2025

Brazil’s Pix to Start Enabling Installment Payments in September
Brazil’s instant payment system, Pix, will reportedly allow users to pay for transactions in installments, beginning in September. The new feature, Pix Parcelado, will be available to both consume...

CFOs Embrace Zero Trust Architectures as Back Offices Go Headless and Distributed
The concept of the organizational perimeter is a constantly evolving one. Today’s enterprise security perimeter is, and must be, everywhere, as back offices are more and more moving to the forefron...

PayPal and Venmo Add Chainlink and Solana to Cryptocurrency Offerings
PayPal and Venmo users can now buy, hold, sell and transfer two more cryptocurrencies — Chainlink (LINK) and Solana (SOL) — directly in their accounts. Parent company PayPal Holdings said in a Fri...

Stripe Applies for US Banking License to Expand Merchant Acquiring Capabilities
Stripe’s application for a Merchant Acquirer Limited Purpose Bank (MALPB) charter has been accepted by the state of Georgia’s Department of Banking and Finance, bringing the financial infrastructu...

Nvidia- and Google-Backed SandboxAQ Raises $450 Million for Quantitative AI Platforms
SandboxAQ raised over $450 million in a Series E round to support its development of large quantitative models (LQMs) that help enterprises leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to solve scientific a...

Klarna Puts Public Listing on Ice and Signals a Chill Ahead for FinTech IPOs
To get a sense of just how volatile the markets are — and how fragile things will be for FinTechs looking to go public, or for those already trading — Klarna has taken its IPO off the table, three...

Report: EU to Announce Digital Services Act Penalties Against X This Summer
The European Union is reportedly preparing penalties against X that include a fine and demands for changes to the platform. The penalties are expected to be announced this summer and would be the fi...

This Week in AI: Google Replaces Gemini Head, Intel to Develop Non-Core Units
Here are this week’s top news in AI: Google’s Head of Gemini Steps Down Google has replaced the executive in charge of Gemini, Sissie Hsiao, with Josh Woodward, the head of Google Labs who launche...

Tokenization: House Financial Services Committee to Discuss Digital Securities
The House Financial Services Committee, Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Fintech and AI, has scheduled a hearing for April 9, 2025, to discuss tokenization or digital securities. The hearing is entitle...

SEC Division of Corporate Finance Issues Statement on Stablecoins
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Division of Corporate Finance (CorpFin), has issued a statement on stablecoins. During the last administration, the SEC’s position was that pretty much ...

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