Nasdaq Verafin and Stablecore partnered to help financial institutions detect financial crimes across fiat and digital asset activity, Nasdaq said in a Tuesday (Sept. 15) press release. The partnership brings together digital asset transaction activity from Stablecore, a company that provides infrastructure used by banks...
Nasdaq Ventures has agreed to invest $100 million in Payward, the parent company of Kraken, Nasdaq said in a Thursday (Sept. 10) press release. The investment of part of a broader expansion of the partnership between Nasdaq and Payward that will also see the companies...
Wise debuted its U.S. listing on Nasdaq Monday (May 11), while maintaining a secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). The company’s shares were set to begin trading at 9:30 a.m. Eastern time, Wise said in a Monday press release. Wise enables the movement...
U.K. FinTech Wise is reporting a surge in cross-border transactions ahead of its Nasdaq listing. In a trading update Monday (April 13), the company says those transactions jumped 26% during its fourth quarter to 49.4 billion pounds ($66.2 billion) and 11.3 million active customers. “We are making good progress...
July 15, 2024
The Connected Economy (CE) 100 Stock Index was launched in February 2022. It was introduced as an equity index of 100 publicly traded companies across 11 categories, aiming to track the digital transformation and the growth of the connected economy. At the time, though we were emerging from the pandemic, and that the CE had some […]
September 22, 2022
A banner week — but just not in the direction investors would have hoped. Macro-economic concerns dominated market mindsets these past several sessions, and worries about interest rates in particular...
June 24, 2022
The super app offers a digital front door for a range of activities — from banking and investing to insurance, peer-to-peer (P2P) and beyond. In an interview with PYMNTS’ Karen...
December 09, 2021
By all accounts 2021 stands as a strong year for equities. We’re two weeks away from the end of a volatile 12-month span that, at this writing, has seen the...
October 07, 2026
Hong Kong-based stablecoin issuer First Digital says it is ready for its stock market debut. The Nasdaq listing is designed to help First Digital fund the expansion of Finance District, “ecosystem for the agentic economy,” the company said in a Wednesday (Oct. 7) news release. Vincent Chok, First Digital’s founder and CEO, said the company sees Finance District […]
September 15, 2026
Nasdaq Verafin and Stablecore partnered to help financial institutions detect financial crimes across fiat and digital asset activity, Nasdaq said in a Tuesday (Sept. 15) press release. The partnership brings...
September 10, 2026
Nasdaq Ventures has agreed to invest $100 million in Payward, the parent company of Kraken, Nasdaq said in a Thursday (Sept. 10) press release. The investment of part of a...
May 11, 2026
Wise debuted its U.S. listing on Nasdaq Monday (May 11), while maintaining a secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). The company’s shares were set to begin trading at...