In this category we explore the world of fintech, a rapidly evolving sector that combines technology and finance to revolutionise the way we manage money, investments and payments. Learn about the latest innovations, the most promising platforms and how these technologies are changing our financial habits.
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Legal & General Asset Management has tokenized over £50 billion in money market funds via Calastone's CTD Network, live on Ethereum. The largest single institutional RWA move of 2026 — and it's already on-chain.
XRP is now spendable at 5 million Japanese stores for 44 million Rakuten Pay users, with $23 billion in loyalty points convertible to crypto. Ripple calls it a historic milestone — and the on-chain data backs it up.
Kraken IPO is back on track: co-CEO Arjun Sethi confirmed a confidential SEC filing at the Semafor summit on April 14, 2026. Deutsche Börse invested $200M at a $13.3B valuation. Here is what it means for crypto markets.
CoinShares (CSHR) listed on Nasdaq on April 1, 2026, marking the first European pure-play crypto asset manager to trade on a US exchange. With $6B AUM and 12 straight profitable years, CEO Mognetti is targeting US market share directly.
Pyth Network's Data Marketplace launched April 9, 2026 with Fidelity, Euronext, and Tradeweb publishing proprietary data on-chain for the first time. The $50 billion financial data industry just got its first real challenger.
Pre-IPO tokens for SpaceX and OpenAI are now live on Binance Web3 Wallet. Private markets worth trillions just opened to retail investors on-chain — no brokerage account needed.
Italy's CONSOB sets April 15, 2026 as the first hard deadline for crypto supervisory fees under MiCA. Miss it and forced collection kicks in — with a full market shutdown looming on June 30.
SAFO, the tokenized fund from Amundi and Spiko, hit $400 million AUM in under three weeks — overtaking BlackRock BUIDL as the fastest-growing tokenized fund on Chainlink. Europe's institutional RWA race is now real.
