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...
Real-world asset (RWA) tokenization firm Securitize moved a step closer to becoming a publicly traded company Friday (June 5) when the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) declared effective the Registration Statement on Form S-4 in connection with a proposed business combination between Securitize and Cantor...
Crypto-focused asset manager CoinShares has begun trading on the Nasdaq market. The company announced the listing Wednesday (April 1), following its special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger with Vine Hill Capital. “The Nasdaq listing positions CoinShares at the center of the world’s largest and most...
Kraken-affiliated company KRAKacquisition Corp is the latest cryptocurrency firm planning to go public. KRAKacquisition, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) backed by an affiliate of crypto exchange Kraken, filed Monday (Jan. 12) to go public with a $250 million initial public offering (IPO). The company...
December 19, 2022
For FinTechs looking to go public, 2023 will not be the year of the SPAC stock listing. If they opt to go public at all, that is. As PYMNTS’ own data shows, the pace of SPAC deals slowed to the low single digits in most cases, most notably in payments, shopping and work-related verticals. To […]
August 18, 2022
Not all that long ago, capital was a commodity, Eliot Buchanan, CEO of B2B payments platform Plastiq, told Karen Webster. The credit spigots were open. Interest rates were cheap, and...
June 02, 2022
Embedded payments and the digitization of the supply chain are coming to a public market near you. There has been no dearth of headlines heralding the end of Wall Street’s...
January 03, 2022
In the look back through the year that was, it might be too farfetched to say that SPACs and IPOs sizzled in the payments space. But things certainly — well...
October 22, 2026
David’s Bridal plans to separate its Pearl division, with Pearl becoming an independent public company offering a digital wedding planning, media and commerce platform, the company said in a Thursday (Oct. 22) press release. To enable this change, David’s Bridal and special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) K&F Growth Acquisition Corp. II have entered into a […]
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...
June 08, 2026
Real-world asset (RWA) tokenization firm Securitize moved a step closer to becoming a publicly traded company Friday (June 5) when the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) declared effective the Registration...
April 01, 2026
Crypto-focused asset manager CoinShares has begun trading on the Nasdaq market. The company announced the listing Wednesday (April 1), following its special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger with Vine Hill...
