Founder and CEO Nik Storonsky outlined his vision for Revolut to become a global bank with virtually zero risk, presenting it as the most valuable startup in Europe.
Hana Bank tapped Euroclear’s blockchain platform to launch a $100 million five‑year digital bond, achieving same‑day settlement and demonstrating the potential of blockchain for faster bond issuance in Europe.
The SEC’s decision to allow tokenized share trading has spurred a rally among crypto‑linked listed companies, with the Spanish‑origin firm Securitize leading the surge on Wall Street.
Input Output Group (IOG) issued a warning to its community to stay away from its own YouTube channel after a livestream, likely generated by AI, showed Charles Hoskinson promising users that their wealth would be doubled – a classic giveaway scam. The warning aims to protect users from fraud.
The article highlights that St James’s Place appears ready to capitalize on the upcoming AI boom in wealth management, shifting its focus toward growth and leaving behind previous issues.
WisdomTree’s tokenized money market fund, valued at $1.2 billion, will be used by UK‑based fintech MoonPay as a reserve for its stablecoin offering, helping the company broaden access to US investors.
According to a CoinShares researcher, Germany is seeing growing crypto adoption driven by family offices and wealth managers, while the UK lags behind with a still‑developing retail crypto market.
Allianz and Waymo plan to cooperate on building a robotaxi service across Europe, combining Allianz’s insurance expertise with Waymo’s autonomous driving technology.
A new BIS paper highlights measurement challenges in the crypto space, showing that common on‑chain metrics for Bitcoin, Ethereum and stablecoins often underestimate actual transfer activity, creating a major gap in economic analysis of digital assets.
Standard Chartered sees the tokenisation trend, highlighted by Robinhood Chain, as a driver that could boost Arbitrum’s economics and push its native token ARB to significantly outperform Bitcoin and Ether by 2030.