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The following is a guest post and opinion from Danyel Arenas, Co-Founder and CEO at KiiChain.Visa’s launch of its Stablecoin Platform is a sign that stablecoins are moving into mainstream financial infrastructure. The platform gives banks, fintechs and payment providers a way to access, hold, move and redeem stablecoins within a Visa-managed environment.As that access improves, however, foreign exchange becomes a bigger part of the equation. Stablecoins can simplify the movement of value across borders, but each payment still needs to connect with the currency required at its destination.For that reason, local-currency liquidity and FX settlement are becoming increasingly important…

At first glance, running your own server room looks like a one-time investment. In reality, the bills keep coming. Electricity, cooling, maintenance, inspections, replacement parts, and valuable IT time all add up. In this article, we’ll show you where the hidden costs lie and explain why server colocation lets you keep full control of your hardware. Most companies know exactly how much they paid for their servers. What they often don’t know is how much it costs to keep them running. Electricity, cooling, maintenance, and IT time all add up. Those ongoing costs—not the purchase price—are what determine whether your…

At first glance, running your own server room looks like a one-time investment. In reality, the bills keep coming. Electricity, cooling, maintenance, inspections, replacement parts, and valuable IT time all add up. In this article, we’ll show you where the hidden costs lie and explain why server colocation lets you keep full control of your hardware. Most companies know exactly how much they paid for their servers. What they often don’t know is how much it costs to keep them running. Electricity, cooling, maintenance, and IT time all add up. Those ongoing costs—not the purchase price—are what determine whether your…

Free NewsletterGet the hottest Fintech Singapore News once a month in your InboxThe Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) will bring more banks onto COSMIC and widen the platform’s scope beyond its three initial financial crime risks.MAS launched the Collaborative Sharing of ML/TF Information & Cases, or COSMIC, on 1 April 2024 to help banks share risk information and detect and disrupt illicit fund flows.The platform initially involved six major commercial banks in Singapore and focused on misuse of legal persons, misuse of trade finance for illicit purposes and proliferation financing.Since its launch, information shared through COSMIC has led participating banks…

The TSX entered the final stretch of July near a record high. That sounds like a strange invitation to buy stocks, yet an expensive market can still contain individual companies trading well below their highs. The index may be partying. Not every guest received the memo. August investors shouldn’t attempt to predict what the entire market will do next. A calendar month isn’t an investment thesis, and stocks don’t become more cooperative simply because someone packed sunscreen. The Bank of Canada recently held its policy rate at 2.25%, noting that Canadian growth is improving while inflation should gradually ease. Trade…

New Era Visionary Group, the official telecom operator and partner of FC Barcelona, announces technology infrastructure partnerships with Wirex, Crossmint, and the Stellar Development Foundation for Barça Mobile.These collaborations will support the development of the digital wallet, an integrated feature of the Barça Mobile app, designed to complement its core mobile services with payments, rewards, and future digital utility for Barça Mobile subscribers around the world.Rather than a standalone product, the wallet will form part of the broader Barça Mobile app experience. It is intended to help subscribers manage digital services in one place, starting with connectivity and extending to…

As previously announced, the Holešky testnet has reached its planned end-of-life date and will be sunset shortly. The vast majority of remaining validator nodes will be shut down 2 weeks after the Fusaka upgrade has finalized on Holešky. After this, Holešky will no longer be supported by client, testing or infrastructure teams. Following the launch of the Hoodi testnet in March 2025, infrastructure providers and staking operators have had the opportunity to migrate their testing operations. Background Holešky was launched in 2023 as Ethereum’s largest public testnet, designed specifically for testing staking infrastructure and validator operations at scale. The network…

Women make up over 50% of the U.S. banking workforce. Few reach the top. Here’s where the pipeline breaks — and what needs to change in practice.  By Valentina Drofa, Founder and CEO at Drofa Comms. She is a financial market consultant, international entrepreneur, and business leader with over 15 years of experience.     The intelligence layer for fintech professionals who think for themselves. Primary source intelligence. Original analysis. Contributed pieces from the people defining the industry. Trusted by professionals at JP Morgan, Coinbase, BlackRock, Klarna and more. Join the FinTech Weekly Clarity Circle →     The story of…

SpaceX has lost more than US$500 billion in its first quarterly report as a public company, but the loss was less than Wall Street expected and revenue soared. The company run by Elon Musk reported a loss of $US541 million, or nine cents per share, in the three months through June, less than half what financial analysts had expected. Revenue jumped to US$7.8 billion, up more than 90% from the year-earlier period. Musk will field questions from investors and financial analysts soon on a conference call. Stock in the rocket, satellite communications and AI company has fallen by roughly half…

The Hyperliquid (HYPE) token trades at around $55, up roughly +5% in 24 hours, a bounce that still leaves it well off the highs that once made it one of crypto’s standout performers. The uncomfortable truth is that the rally was never built on earnings power, and the market is now seemingly pricing that in. HYPE’s price surge was engineered by concentrated treasury buying, not by accelerating DeFi revenue or expanding protocol fundamentals, and once that bid stopped, unwinding was inevitable. This drawback has left investors wondering whether HYPE really is the future of decentralized finance or if it will…