Fiinu Plc (AIM: BANK), the London-listed fintech behind the world’s first Plugin Overdraft® platform, has successfully completed the reverse takeover of Everfex, a European foreign exchange brokerage.

EquiLend today announced that EFG Hermes is going live on the firm’s Next Generation Trading (NGT) platform, becoming EquiLend’s first trading client based in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the first in the region to adopt full post-trade and trading automation via EquiLend.

Wahed announced the launch of its Private Real Estate investment product in the United States.

Caladan, a leading institutional trading firm with over $170B in annual volume, has selected Finery Markets as its infrastructure partner to rapidly expand institutional access to digital asset liquidity across 35 countries. This strategic move follows the 112.6% surge in global crypto OTC activity during H1 2025, positioning Caladan at the forefront of a fast-growing market segment.

Yellow Network, the web3 universal layer of infrastructure, announced the $YELLOW token sale on Republic closed after raising over $1 million from accredited investors. The over-subscribed sale is among the first Web3 infrastructure tokens sold under Regulation D, setting a standard for compliant, institution-quality tokenization in the US.

The Trading Cafe announced it has been granted regulatory authorisation by the FCA

Pleo has partnered with lemon.markets to launch ‘Pleo Investment Account’, an embedded treasury solution

The FCA has today approved the London Stock Exchange to operate a PISCES platform, a new type of private stock market.

Wells Fargo’s WIM division, in collaboration with InvestCloud, now offers alternative investments as an eligible investment in its Personalized UMA

Mitigram, a leading digital platform for trade finance execution, has today announced a partnership with Complidata, a specialist in AI-driven trade finance automation and financial crime compliance. The collaboration aims to enhance efficiency, compliance and risk management across the trade finance ecosystem.

Kruncher addresses a core private market challenge and its 30+ AI agents tracks thousands of companies

Interactive Brokers (Nasdaq: IBKR), an automated global electronic broker, today announced the launch of Connections, a powerful new tool that helps investors uncover trading ideas and evaluate investment opportunities by highlighting connected investment ideas across the global market. Built directly into the IBKR platform, Connections enables users to explore related stocks, ETFs, options, economic indicators and other products from one centralized location.

Polkadot Capital Group today launched as the capital markets-focused division of Polkadot, the powerful, secure infrastructure of Web3, providing a shared foundation that unites some of the world’s most transformative apps and blockchains. Established in response to rising institutional demand and increasing U.S. regulatory clarity, Polkadot Capital’s remit is to connect traditional finance (TradFi) with next-generation blockchain infrastructure, enabling institutions to understand and access opportunities across the rich Polkadot ecosystem.

BurjX, the UAE-born digital asset trading platform, licensed for both brokerage and custody services by the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of ADGM, the international financial centre of Abu Dhabi, the Capital of the UAE, has announced that it is leveraging Fireblocks, an enterprise platform providing digital asset infrastructure solutions to businesses building on blockchain, to secure its digital asset trading and custody operations.

eToro, the multi‑asset trading and investing platform, is announcing a gross annual return of up to 4.3 %* on uninvested cash balances in their trading account. This initiative reflects eToro’s commitment to providing investors with straightforward, transparent and flexible solutions for putting cash to work between investment decisions.