A host of major financial players, including Goldman Sachs and BNY Mellon, have taken part in a pilot of Digital Asset’s Canton Network blockchain platform for tokenised assets.

Donald Trump’s media company says it is raising $2.5 billion from institutional investors to build a bitcoin reserve.

Berlin-based private markets platform bunch has closed a $15.5 million Series A

Barclays and Citi have co-led a $7 million seed funding round in deal intelligence platform Claira.

Bank of England’s governor, Andrew Bailey stated that the UK must “rebuild relations” with the EU while respecting the decision of the British people to leave in his Mansion House speech to investors.

Companies that decide to list outside the UK or move valuable operations from the country should be made to pay back tax-payer funded support they have previously taken, according to a UK Finance report.

Klarna is setting up a UK holding company ahead of a widely-expected initial public offering. Separately, the BNPL giant has struck a collective agreement with Swedish workers to head off a strike.

Green fintech Iceberg Data Lab has launched a new product that harnesses generative AI technology to generate real-time, text-based and fully sourced explanations in response to questions regarding the ESG data of portfolio companies.

Major players from crypto and traditional finance have joined in a $135 million funding round in Digital Asset, the firm behind the Canton Network blockchain platform for tokenised assets.

Rabobank has completed a series of pilots to execute more than €2 billion in commercial paper transactions on blockchain platform Ubermorgen.

ProPicks, an AI-based stock picker provided to subscribers of Investing.com, has outperformed the S&P 500 by almost 50% since its launch last year.

Swiss core banking vendor Temenos has offloaded its asset administration business Multifonds to Montagu Private Equity for $400 million.

The central bank of Latvia is bolsterings its credentials as a fintech innovation hub by launching free pre-licencing consultations for crypto-asset service providers looking to pursue the EU MiCA licence.

Morgan Stanley has struck a deal to buy EquityZen, a trading platform for shares in private companies. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Ripple is to acquire crypo-friendly prime brokerage Hidden Road for $1.25 billion, representing one of the largest deals in the digital assets space.