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...
Stablecoin issuer First Digital is reportedly the latest crypto company planning to go public. The Hong Kong-based company is aiming to list via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger with CSLM Digital Asset Acquisition Corp III, Bloomberg News reported Monday (Dec. 1), citing sources...
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 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 […]
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...
January 13, 2026
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...
