
Brevan Howard, an investor in Ripple, has become a prime brokerage client of Ripple Prime. The relationship is circular, and the financing capacity behind it is the number to look for.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 9, 2026

Four infrastructure partners bought into OKX at the same $25 billion pre-money valuation set in March. Every new investor already supplies a layer of the exchange, so the capital doubles as a commercial bond.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 9, 2026

Payward, the company behind Kraken, has plugged into Singapore Gulf Bank's real-time clearing network so institutions in Asia and the Gulf can settle dollars at any hour, starting with a select group of clients.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 8, 2026

Vishal Garg has certified a 52.02% consent result and cut Better's board to five seats, while the company's special committee withdrew its challenge citing cost and uncertainty.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 8, 2026

Basware has closed its purchase of payment fraud specialist Trustpair, with price undisclosed and a promise that Trustpair stays independent and open to rival systems.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 8, 2026

Valley National Bancorp will pay about $340 million for Bluevine, a small-business banking platform holding $2.1 billion of deposits. The cheaper funding is real, but on its own it would take roughly two decades to repay the price.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 7, 2026

A budgeting app with over 1 million members buys a former neobank's technology team, and the founder of that team will run a new unit named Monarch Labs.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 6, 2026

Stripe has agreed to buy the embedded lender that already powers credit offers for DoorDash, Gusto, Jobber and Mindbody. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 6, 2026

Nu Holdings says it is not pursuing a Nubank Monzo deal after Sky News reported talks at a valuation of up to 10 billion pounds. What each side has said.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 5, 2026

Stakk has closed its US$63 million ParaScript deal, creating a group with more than 300 enterprise customers, many of them banks and government agencies, and over 110 billion digital interactions a year.
Charitarth Sindhu·September 28, 2026

Equal Parts acquired Texas broker ProSource Insurance Agency, disclosing a first-quarter deal in September in what looks like groundwork for a raise.
Marvin Evans·September 24, 2026

Binance owns a slice of the company whose stablecoin it has agreed to promote for five years. The equity matters less than the distribution, and the distribution is aimed squarely at Tether's home turf.
Marvin Evans·September 23, 2026