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Financing | Oct 30, 2025 Wealthsimple's $750 Million Round Puts Canadian Fintech on the Global Map On October 27, 2025, Wealthsimple announced it had raised $750 million in new equity funding at a $10 billion post money valuation. The deal includes $550 million in new shares and up to $200 million from secondary sales. Dragoneer

The Trump administration is moving closer to limiting eligibility for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program.

Payments Report | Oct 30, 2025 BCG’s 2025 Global Payments Report Shows Tokenization, Real-time Systems, and Digital Assets Driving a $2.4 Trillion Market On Sept 22, 2025 the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) released the Global Payments Report 2025 titled 'The Future is (Anything but) Stable" (37 page PDF report) reported that worldwide payment revenues totalled

Rigel Pharmaceuticals has landed on CNBC's list of top performing stocks of companies located in San Francisco.

The clinical-stage biopharma stock has rallied more than 70% over the past three months on the back of promising clinical data for its lead drug, Palazestrant.

Fintech | Oct 28, 2025 Deloitte’s 2025 Fast 50 Highlights Fintech and AI Innovators Driving Canada’s Tech Growth On October 23, 2025, Deloitte Canada released its annual 2025 Technology Fast 50 rankings, recognizing the country’s fastest growing innovators based on verified three-year revenue growth from companies that self-submitted their data for evaluation. The program celebrates excellence

Lowering the federal funds rate typically leads to increases in asset values and may widen wealth gaps in the U.S.

Prediction Markets | Oct 29, 2025 NHL Embraces Fintech Innovation, Turning Prediction Markets Into A New Form of Fan Finance On October 22, 2025, the National Hockey League (NHL) announced new multi-year partnerships with Kalshi and Polymarket. It's the first time a major sports league has given prediction markets an official seat at the table.

Here’s a look at all of the ways the Fed decision could affect your finances.

AI Partnership | Oct 28 2025 Are Canadian Fintechs, Regulators and Merchants Ready For Agent Led Commerce? On October 28 2025, PayPal announced that it will adopt the Agentic Commerce Protocol and partner with OpenAI to bring shopping and paymentsdirectly into ChatGPT. The partnership links PayPal’s merchant network with ChatGPT users so people can buy and

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Dalio talked with CNBC's Sara Eisen in an exclusive interview from the Future Investment Institute in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Oct 28, 2025 Anthropic Expands Claude’s Finance Tools with Excel Access, Real-time Data, and Automated Analyst Workflows On October 27 2025, Anthropic announced new finance upgrades for Claude Sonnet 4.5 that make it work more deeply inside everyday finance tasks. The update adds an Excel integration, real time data connections, and built in tools that

Shares of Cytokinetics, which targets medicines for specialty heart diseases, have jumped about 69% over the past three months and are up 31% year to date.

The stock has soared more than 215% this year despite slides earlier this year.