EquiLend today announced that EFG Hermes is going live on the firm’s Next Generation Trading (NGT) platform, becoming EquiLend’s first trading client based in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the first in the region to adopt full post-trade and trading automation via EquiLend.

Caladan, a leading institutional trading firm with over $170B in annual volume, has selected Finery Markets as its infrastructure partner to rapidly expand institutional access to digital asset liquidity across 35 countries. This strategic move follows the 112.6% surge in global crypto OTC activity during H1 2025, positioning Caladan at the forefront of a fast-growing market segment.

Yellow Network, the web3 universal layer of infrastructure, announced the $YELLOW token sale on Republic closed after raising over $1 million from accredited investors. The over-subscribed sale is among the first Web3 infrastructure tokens sold under Regulation D, setting a standard for compliant, institution-quality tokenization in the US.

Mitigram, a leading digital platform for trade finance execution, has today announced a partnership with Complidata, a specialist in AI-driven trade finance automation and financial crime compliance. The collaboration aims to enhance efficiency, compliance and risk management across the trade finance ecosystem.

Interactive Brokers (Nasdaq: IBKR), an automated global electronic broker, today announced the launch of Connections, a powerful new tool that helps investors uncover trading ideas and evaluate investment opportunities by highlighting connected investment ideas across the global market. Built directly into the IBKR platform, Connections enables users to explore related stocks, ETFs, options, economic indicators and other products from one centralized location.

Polkadot Capital Group today launched as the capital markets-focused division of Polkadot, the powerful, secure infrastructure of Web3, providing a shared foundation that unites some of the world’s most transformative apps and blockchains. Established in response to rising institutional demand and increasing U.S. regulatory clarity, Polkadot Capital’s remit is to connect traditional finance (TradFi) with next-generation blockchain infrastructure, enabling institutions to understand and access opportunities across the rich Polkadot ecosystem.

BurjX, the UAE-born digital asset trading platform, licensed for both brokerage and custody services by the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of ADGM, the international financial centre of Abu Dhabi, the Capital of the UAE, has announced that it is leveraging Fireblocks, an enterprise platform providing digital asset infrastructure solutions to businesses building on blockchain, to secure its digital asset trading and custody operations.

eToro, the multi‑asset trading and investing platform, is announcing a gross annual return of up to 4.3 %* on uninvested cash balances in their trading account. This initiative reflects eToro’s commitment to providing investors with straightforward, transparent and flexible solutions for putting cash to work between investment decisions.

HTX Ventures, the global investment arm of HTX, has released its latest research report “Are Tokenized Stocks a Treat or a Trap? A Complete Guide”. The report examines the driving forces, mainstream models, and possible evolution paths of tokenized stocks, and explores how they may merge with traditional capital markets.

Global Fintech leader Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR), today announced that it has acquired Signal, a leader in transforming customer communications for financial services and social sector firms in the UK.

A whopping 85% of UAE-based retail investors are currently invested in local stocks, and many are buying even more in response to global trade tensions, based on the latest edition of the UAE Retail Investor Beat by trading and investing platform eToro.

eToro, the trading and investing platform, has entered into a strategic partnership with Sahab School, an Emirati-owned financial education institution based in Dubai, to integrate eToro as the official trading platform of the school’s academic curriculum through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).

Fiinu Plc (AIM: BANK), the London-listed fintech behind the Plugin Overdraft® platform, has announced a proposed reverse takeover of Everfex, a profitable foreign exchange brokerage.

eToro Group Ltd. (“eToro”, or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: ETOR), the trading and investing platform, announced today how the company is harnessing artificial intelligence to redefine social investing.

Horizon Trading Solutions (Horizon), a leading global provider of multi-asset electronic trading technology, today announces it is set to provide its connectivity solutions to Bursa Malaysia Derivatives’ Securities Futures Trading System (SFTS).