Coinbase, the leading publicly-listed firm for digital assets, and Chainlink, the industry-standard oracle platform, today announced the selection of Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) as the exclusive bridging solution for all Coinbase Wrapped Assets, enabling cross-chain transfers and expansion.

Coinbase Wrapped Assets, which include cbBTC, cbETH, cbDOGE, cbLTC, cbADA, and cbXRP, currently have an aggregate market cap of approximately $7B.

Standard Chartered and Coinbase announced today an expanded partnership on digital assets to explore the development of trading, prime services, custody, staking and lending solutions for institutional clients.

Finastra, a global leader in financial services software, today announced British Caribbean Bank (BCB), a Turks and Caicos-based financial institution focused on delivering innovative banking products to its customers, has successfully gone live with Finastra Essence, a next-generation core banking platform. This move signifies a major step in democratizing access to enterprise-grade technology for small banks, empowering BCB to compete and innovate at the same level as larger financial institutions.

Ripple, a financial technology company that offers crypto solutions for businesses, today announced a new partnership with AMINA Bank AG,  to support near real time cross-border payments for AMINA Bank’s clients using Ripple Payments.

Gatehouse Bank has today announced that it has expanded its community sports fund to support four additional local teams.

The new sports teams to receive the Bank’s support are the Matthiola Rangers U6s based in Cheshire, South London Schools FA based across Southwark, Lambeth and Wandsworth, the Bugbrooke Black U14s based in Northampton and Monk Fryston Football Club based in Leeds. All new teams will be supplied with Gatehouse Bank branded kits.

Visa , a global leader in digital payments, today announced that Najada Kumbuli has been appointed President of Visa Foundation, effective immediately. With guidance from the Board, Kumbuli will be responsible for managing Visa Foundation’s impact investing and grantmaking, and will also serve as Visa Inc.’s head of global philanthropy.

Global Payments Inc., a leading worldwide provider of payment technology and software solutions, today released its sixth-annual Commerce and Payment Trends Report.

Klarna, the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, has signed a research partnership with Privy, the leading wallet infrastructure platform and a Stripe company, to explore, research and co-design potential wallet solutions to power a new generation of crypto products for Klarna users.

Harness, the AI Software Delivery Platform company, today announced a $240 million Series E financing round. The financing round is comprised of a $200 million investment led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives and a planned $40 million tender offer with participation from IVP, Menlo Ventures, and Unusual Ventures. This investment values Harness at $5.5 billion and reflects the accelerating demand for a unified, AI-native platform for software delivery.