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May, 2025

Conduit Announces $36M Series A to Leverage Stablecoins for Cross-Border Payments
Conduit, a cross-border payments platform powered by stablecoins, announced it closed a $36 million Series A funding round. The funding round was co-led by Dragonfly and Altos Ventures, “with partic...
Block to Introduce Bitcoin (BTC) Payments on Square
Block, Inc. announced it will launch bitcoin payments on Square, marking a significant milestone in making bitcoin more “accessible and usable.” Bitcoin payments on Square will be showcased at Bit...
SEC Crypto Task Force Panelists on DeFi Revealed
The SEC’s next Crypto Task Force Roundtable is preparing to tackle DeFi or decentralized finance. Entitled “DeFi and the American Spirit,” SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce says DeFi “exemplifies...
Financial Technology Association Tells Senate Not to Tax Remittances
The Financial Technology Association (FTA) has told Senate members not to tax remittances nor include citizenship verification as part of the anticipated reconciliation bill. The FTA said that it was ...
SEC Provides Analysis of Reg CF Crowdfunding Activity
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA) has provided an analysis of Reg CF and Reg A as enabled under the JOBS Act of 2012. The SEC has previously p...
Regtech Jumio Research Finds Declining Consumer Trust in Digital Life Amid Surge in AI-Powered Fraud, Deepfakes
Jumio, the firm focused on AI-powered identity intelligence anchored in biometric authentication, automation and data-driven insights, released the 2025 Jumio Online Identity Study. This year’s resu...
Merge Gains EMI License, VASP Approval Granted by France
UK-based Fintech Merge has received approval to operate under an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) licence and Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) granted by the AMF and ACPR in France. Merge state...
A Kaiser Permanente systems outage had pharmacies relying on pen and paper
Healthcare company Kaiser Permanente dealt with a system outage on Wednesday that forced its hospitals and pharmacies to fill out prescriptions with pen and paper and slowed down services at other...
Tile trackers are being fully integrated into Life360
Tile trackers are getting more deeply integrated with the Life360 app. In a blog post published this week, Life360 announced that you’ll now be able to set up and manage the handy Bluetooth loca...
Google says Instagram fixed a battery drain issue on Android
If you’ve been having unusual battery drain issues on your Pixel phone lately, Instagram might be to blame. In a new support post, Google says that Instagram has updated its app to address the i...
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