We’re pleased to announce that the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions has granted MoonPay a Money Transmitter License. 

Wisconsin residents can now enjoy full functionality to top up their MoonPay Balance, which lets users deposit funds to their account for zero MoonPay fee purchases.*

Curve, the digital wallet that saves you money, announced today it has secured a £37M investment led by Hanaco Ventures, with participation of existing shareholders such as Fuel Ventures, IDC, Outward VC and Lord Stanley Fink. The funding will support Curve's ambitious plans for 2025, including industry-first product launches and a series of customer-driven enhancements set to redefine how consumers manage their money in the future.

ZestyAI announced today that Lemonade, the digital insurance company powered by AI and social impact, has adopted the ZestyAI platform to further optimize underwriting for key catastrophe perils in the U.S., building on the company’s existing technology and underwriting operations.

Capco, the global management and technology consultancy, today announced a collaboration with OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT and frontier AI models such as GPT-4o, GPT-4.5, OpenAI o1 and o3 mini, to accelerate AI’s transformative impact at the world’s top financial institutions.

HTX Ventures recently released its latest research report, titled "DeepSeek Ignites AI's 'iPhone Moment' as Agent Tokens Integrate into Real-World Crypto." The report explores how DeepSeek's use of pure reinforcement learning (RL) is transforming AI's role in the crypto industry by boosting AI capabilities and cutting costs.

RedotPay, a leading crypto payment platform, today announced the successful close of a $40 million Series A funding round led by Lightspeed following their commitment in December 2024, with significant investments from HSG and Galaxy Ventures. The round also saw participation from DST Global Partners, Accel, Vertex Ventures (Temasek-backed VC), among other investors.

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced its plans to add a Markets in Financial Instruments Directive/Regulation (MiFID/R) ARM service to its Global Trade Repository (GTR) service in support of evolving transaction and trade reporting requirements. Subject to regulatory approval, the service is targeted to be launched in the UK by Q1 2026 and in the EU in line with the upcoming regulatory changes.

Atoa Payments Limited, a leading provider of open banking-enabled payments, has secured regulatory approval from the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to operate as an Authorised Payment Institution (API). This milestone marks a significant step in Atoa’s rapid expansion, allowing the company to extend its innovative payment services to larger businesses across the UK.

COCA, the next-generation crypto wallet designed with security and simplicity, has announced its strategic partnership with Ramp Network, a leading fiat-to-crypto on-ramp provider. This collaboration marks COCA's official entry into the U.S. market, enabling millions of Americans to purchase cryptocurrency at market-leading rates and securely store it using Multi-Party Computation (MPC) technology.

EquiLend, the global leader in technology, data and analytics solutions for the securities finance industry, today announced a minority investment from an affiliate of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation.