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How This New Fintech Billionaire Is Cashing In On Cross-Border Payments
It took Jack Zhang 10 startups to figure out what he truly wanted to do. His most recent one, Airwallex, turned him into a billionaire. Zhang launched the fintech payments company in 2015 in Melbourne, Australia, and found a niche helping global…
Uniswap and Spark aims to build the FX market for stablecoins as banks, fintechs enter
Uniswap (UNI) and Spark are betting that as the number of stablecoins grow, the market will need the equivalent of a foreign-exchange network to move liquidity between issuers. Spark, a decentralized-finance (DeFi) protocol focused on stablecoin…
US Fintech Charter Debate: Will new rules change the future of payments? | Dynamite News
Post Published By: Donika Singh Updated: 25 June 2026, 11:58 AM IST Washington: US lawmakers examined whether Congress should create a dedicated federal payments charter for financial technology companies, with industry leaders arguing that the…
WhatsApp's pick of Indian fintech founder signals scale of payment ambitions
MUMBAI, June 25: Kunal Shah, an Indian fintech founder with no engineering degree or Silicon Valley pedigree, has spent two decades building businesses around digital payments and consumer behaviour in India. He now takes charge of Meta's WhatsApp…
Industrials Up as Inflation Fears Subside -- Industrials Roundup
Shares of industrial and transportation companies rose as inflation fears subsided. Shares of Rheinmetall tumbled after Germany scrapped a $17.2 billion project to build its biggest warship since the end of World War II in the latest sign of the…
U.S. Futures Edge Up, European Stocks Mixed
U.S. futures for the S&P 500 were up 0.8% and futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 0.1%. Changes in futures do not necessarily predict movements after the opening bell. In Europe, the Stoxx Europe 600 gained 0.3% in morning trading.
Some states want to regulate prediction markets. Should the feds let them?
The federal government and a growing number of U.S. states are clashing over the regulation of prediction markets. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the federal agency that oversees prediction markets, on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against…
Energy Down With Oil Futures -- Energy Roundup
Shares of energy companies fell alongside oil futures. New York-traded futures slid 3.9% to $70.34 a barrel, the lowest since Feb. 27, the day before the commencement of war in Iran. EG Group, operator of gas stations under brands such as…
Australia's Job Market Strengthens Despite Interest-Rate Rises
SYDNEY--Australia's unemployment rate fell in May, as the economy added more jobs than expected despite the central bank's recent interest-rate rises to tame inflation. Unemployment fell to 4.4% in May from 4.5% in April, with total employment…
AI Can't Build Brand Trust, But It Can Destroy It
Rory Holland, a pioneer in fintech and financial services marketing, and Founder & CEO of CSTMR Fintech Marketing Agency. When business leaders discover a good thing, we tend to go a little overboard. Whether it's an idea like the Yellow Pages…
CoinDesk 20 performance update: AAVE gains 10.1% as index rises
C oinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 1646.0, up 2.7% (+42.96) since 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday. Eighteen of 20 assets…
What Kunal Shah's appointment says about WhatsApp's ambitions in its biggest market, India
5 min read New Delhi Make us preferred source on Google Meta's appointment of CRED founder Kunal Shah as WhatsApp global CEO and its $900-million (around Rs 8,500 crore) investment in the fintech app offer clues about its long-term ambitions in its…
Trading At 52-Week Lows, Q2 Holdings (QTWO) Stock Could Nearly Double According To Analysts
Q2 Holdings Inc. (NYSE: QTWO) is one of the 10 Best 52-Week Low Technology Stocks to Buy According to Analysts. On June 1, DA Davidson reiterated its Buy rating on Q2 Holdings Inc. (NYSE:QTWO) and set a target price of $82. The firm's target price…
Kraken sues crypto derivatives firm PowerTrade over missing funds
Payward, the parent company of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, has taken legal action against PowerTrade, a high-leverage derivatives platform based in the U.A.E., claiming the firm's founders misappropriated $7.2 million of Kraken's digital assets…
Forval RealStraight FY Net Y169.00M
Forval RealStraight Inc. (9423.TO) Japan Year Ended March 31 GROUP 2026 Revenue Y4.56 bln Operating Profit Y139.00 mln Pretax Profit Y141.00 mln Net Profit Y169.00 mln Per share Earnings Y6.98 Results are based on Japanese accounting standards.
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