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Hong Kong could double its fund industry through tokenization, BCG says
BCG, Aptos, and Hang Seng have completed the technical and commercial demonstration for token-based finance in Hong Kong....

Fintech Adyen and Fresha Surpass $5.5M in Capital Issued as Embedded Finance Expansion Scales
Global payments platform Adyen (AMS: ADYEN) has partnered with Fresha, a marketplace for salons, spas, and beauty professionals. The collaboration has resulted in the introduction of Fresha Capital, a...

Revolut Business Launches Merchant Acquiring Product in Australia
Revolut Business has launched a merchant acquiring product in Australia. The product integrates account-to-account, online and in-person payments within a core business account, enabling b...

A White House Tweet Exposed the Real Risk in the CLARITY Act
The CLARITY Act debate has largely revolved around the tug-of-war between banks and crypto firms over stablecoin yield. While that conflict dominates coverage of what is framed as a market-structure b...

Bessent Proposes Unlimited Insurance for Business Checking Accounts
The House Financial Services Committee convened Wednesday (Feb. 4) for a marathon session on financial sector stability lasting roughly five hours, characterized by sharp ideological divides and proce...

EnFi’s $15 Million Fundraise Pushes Agentic AI Into Bank Credit Decisions
EnFi has raised $15 million to expand the use of artificial intelligence (AI) agents that analyze and make credit decisions at banks, Reuters reported Wednesday (Feb. 4). The move comes as ...

Wall Street Is Eyeing a CME Coin, and It Could Matter More Than Stablecoins
Wall Street’s most powerful derivatives exchange is exploring its own crypto-style token, and the implications go far beyond another institutional experiment. According to reports, CME Group CEO ...

Mistral drops Voxtral Transcribe 2, an open-source speech model that runs on-device for pennies
Mistral AI, the Paris-based startup positioning itself as Europe's answer to OpenAI, released a pair of speech-to-text models on Wednesday that the company says can transcribe audio faster, more accur...

Bitcoin bear market ends when 3 signals flip, and one is already starting to twitch
Julio Moreno, head of research at CryptoQuant, recently declared that Bitcoin is in a bear market that could extend through the third quarter of 2026. He's not alone. Matt Hougan at Bitwise and a grow...

Y Combinator’s Stablecoin Funding Move Gives Blueprint for Enterprise Crypto Finance
Adding crypto into the finance stack has traditionally had the flair of a younger business. On Tuesday (Feb. 3), the startup incubator Y Combinator (YC) codified that impression, announcing...

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