Bitget Wallet, the everyday finance app, closed 2025 with higher onchain activity across trading, payments, and earnings, reflecting a shift in wallet usage as adoption expanded beyond early, trading-focused users. Data from the year suggests that self-custodial wallets are increasingly functioning as everyday financial apps, supporting not only trading but also spending and asset management.

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, and BNY (NYSE: BK), a global financial services company, today announced that DTCC’s Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) subsidiary has officially launched its Collateral-in-Lieu (CIL) service under its Sponsored General Collateral (GC) offering via BNY’s Global Collateral Platform, with BNY Securities Finance and Federated Hermes, Inc. (NYSE: FHI) successfully executing the first repo trade on the new solution.

If you're a PSP running on white-label infrastructure, the words 'gateway migration' usually trigger dread and a strong desire to postpone it until next quarter.

While migration sounds like a high-stakes project where something will break, most of the time, that's not what happens. With the proper structure, switching from one payment orchestration platform to another can be smooth, predictable, and disruption-free.

dLocal Limited, a leading financial technology company powering payments across emerging markets, today announced it has completed the transition to a nine-person, majority independent Board of Directors, now comprising five independent members. 

Visa, a global leader in digital payments, today released its annual Retail Spend Monitor from Visa Consulting & Analytics (VCA), offering a comprehensive view of UK holiday retail activity. Preliminary data shows that overall holiday retail spending increased 3.6% year over year across all payment types, including cash. These figures are not adjusted for inflation.

KAST, the global financial platform built on stablecoin rails, has announced a partnership with The Movement Network adding additional crypto rewards to existing KAST benefits. 500,000 users worldwide will now be able to earn $MOVE token rewards on every purchase and then hold, move and trade the token.

AlHuda Centre of Islamic Banking and Economics (AlHuda CIBE) has officially awarded a Shariah Compliance Certificate to AL BARAKAH Multi-purpose Co-operative Society Limited, Mauritius, following a comprehensive Shariah review of its operations, products, and governance framework. The certification reflects AL BARAKAH’s adherence to Shariah principles across its cooperative and financial activities and marks a significant milestone in strengthening Islamic finance practices in Mauritius.

ABN AMRO is accelerating its digital innovation approach with two major milestones. The German subsidiary of the bank, Hauck Aufhäuser Digital Custody, has secured a MiCAR licence, enabling crypto custody services for institutional clients under the new EU regulatory framework. At the same time, ABN AMRO has completed its first international Smart Derivative Contract (SDC) transaction in collaboration with DZ BANK, using blockchain technology to reduce contract risks and improve efficiency.