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Gemini, a crypto exchange, filed for an initial public offering (IPO) last week. The S-1 registration statement still lacks certain important details but the document states that Gemini has generated over $285 billion in trading volume, 1.5 million “transacting users,” and more than $18 billion... Read More
On 27 June 2025, Fernwood Financial Limited – a high-cost lending firm – entered liquidation. Michael Howarth of Aurora Equity & Development Limited was appointed Liquidator. Fernwood Financial Limited was a high-cost lender based in the northwest of England. The firm is no longer lending... Read More
As Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) becomes more common and its use spreads to more sectors, it’s attracting more bad actors who are leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) while learning from one another. That makes stopping them more challenging. EverC is at the forefront of the BNPL fraud... Read More
Phoenix Group, one of the UK’s long term savings and retirement businesses, announces a £75 million private debt investment with Worley, a global professional services company of energy, chemicals and resources (ECR) experts. This deal reportedly marks Phoenix’s first private transaction with “an Australian counterparty,... Read More
The European venture capital market has shown resilience in the second quarter of 2025, with valuations and deal sizes rising across most series despite ongoing geopolitical turbulence and macroeconomic uncertainty. According to PitchBook’s Q2 2025 European VC Valuations Report, the region’s startup ecosystem is navigating... Read More
Digital assets platform Kraken has announced the acquisition of the assets and technology of Capitalise.ai, an Israel-based firm focused on no-code, natural-language trading automation. Founded in 2015, Capitalise.ai developed a “natural-language platform that transforms everyday text into executable trading strategies.” Its proprietary language model and... Read More
iCapital, a global Fintech focused on enhancing the investing process, is expanding its partnership with Apollo by making a series of evergreen private markets solutions available to eligible investors. As part of this collaboration, Apollo has listed “five Luxembourg-domiciled evergreen private markets products on iCapital... Read More
Bitcoin, once a somewhat niche digital asset, has seemingly cemented its place as a key part of modern finance, with Wall Street leading the charge in its institutional embrace. According to Nexo’s latest update, the appetite for Bitcoin among major financial players is not only... Read More
Schroders Capital research finds structural growth in so-called GP-led secondaries is set to fundamentally reshape the private equity buyout market, with lower mid-market investments offering attractive opportunities New analysis from Schroders Capital forecasts “that the global continuation investment market – also known as GP-led secondaries... Read More
Starling Group has entered into an agreement to acquire Ember, a UK based Fintech company. Ember’s tax and bookkeeping software will be “built into Starling Bank’s app and online bank, providing small business owners with an all-in-one solution to manage their finances, from bank transactions... Read More