A new digital asset hedge fund, Arkangel Fund SP, has been launched via the leading institutional digital asset manager, CV5 Capital, with an investment strategy led by Arkangel Wealth Management. The Fund implements a systematic, market-neutral quantitative strategy that aims to monetize short-lived micro inefficiencies across digital-asset markets. Using proprietary, high-frequency and low-latency models, the Fund harvests volatility and structural spreads through diversified alpha sleeves executed primarily on an intra-day horizon and hedged to maintain near-zero net beta.

Chris Coll-Beswick and Gold Darr, principals of Arkangel Wealth Management, are seasoned technology entrepreneurs and investors, with deep expertise spanning artificial intelligence (AI), web3, blockchain, and decentralized finance (DeFi).

“We are thrilled to launch the Arkangel Fund SP. The Fund offers investors a uniquely informed perspective on leveraging technology to navigate and capitalize on the future of institutional digital asset investments.The Fund is aimed at professional and sophisticated investors, supported by tier-1service providers under the CV5 Digital platform with a core focus on the governance and compliance expected of institutional investors globally. Arkangel Wealth Management has partnered with CV5 Capital, an industry-leading digital asset hedge fund platform, to ensure the highest quality services and operational excellence. CV5 Capital has become the leading platform for digital asset managers seeking to launch a regulated and audited digital asset fund from the world’s leading jurisdiction for hedge funds.David Lloyd, Chief Executive Officer of CV5 Capital: “We are delighted to assist and support the launch of the Arkangel Fund SP and look forward to supporting their growth for many years to come.”

About Arkangel Wealth Management Ltd

Arkangel Wealth Management Ltd an investment manager and regulated by the British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission (BVI FSC) as an Approved Manager, with registration number IBR/AIM/25/2453.

About CV5 Capital

CV5 Capital is the platform manager of CV5 and CV5 Digital, Cayman-domiciled multi-manager hedge fund and digital asset fund platforms that enable investment managers worldwide to launch and operate alternative strategies with institutional governance and infrastructure. CV5 Capital is regulated by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority under the Securities Investment Business Act (as revised). Funds on the CV5 and CV5 Digital platforms are regulated under the Cayman Islands Mutual Funds Act (as revised).

Delivering VCF expertise and measurable ROI for cloud and data center modernization

RapidScale, a Cox Business company and leading provider of enterprise managed and professional services for public, private, and hybrid cloud environments and a VMware Cloud Service Provider (VCSP) Pinnacle partner, today introduced its Accelerated VMware Adoption Program. This program is designed to help customers maximize the value of their current VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) investments in a consumption-based service delivery model, while enabling better compliance and modern enterprise IT readiness.

As the VMware Cloud Foundation platform reshapes the cloud industry, RapidScale is working in collaboration with Broadcom to provide additional guidance and help enterprises and managed service providers (MSPs) move forward with confidence. In a time of accelerated industry transformation and uncertainty, RapidScale is at the forefront of shaping best practices and helping organizations adapt—not only as a trusted Broadcom partner, but as a leader in guiding businesses through the changing multi-cloud environment.

“Change should feel like progress and possibility,” said Maureen Power Sweeny, Chief Revenue Officer at RapidScale. “Our focus is on delivering actionable strategies that drive meaningful business outcomes. We work as a true partner, anticipating needs, and helping clients unlock new opportunities. Our clients receive more than a transactional vendor—they gain a partner who sees around corners and helps them master growth. We’re proud to be part of the next chapter of VMware software at Broadcom and even prouder to help our clients write theirs.”

RapidScale’s approach combines strategic foresight, deep engineering expertise, and a client-first mindset to deliver hybrid-cloud ready architecture, flexibility, and enterprise-grade support. RapidScale provides tailored solutions to meet every need. As clients transition from basic data center virtualization to a modern private cloud, they can deploy on premises, in RapidScale hosted environments, or across leading hyperscalers. As a Broadcom Pinnacle Partner—and a certified AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud provider—RapidScale leverages nearly two decades of VMware experience to help organizations confidently navigate complex transitions.

RapidScale’s Accelerated VMware Adoption Program offers:

Immediate Access to VCF Subscriptions for Faster ROI:
Clients gain immediate access to the latest VCF technology under RapidScale’s ‘Ready-to-Contract’ path, minimizing downtime and accelerating time-to-market.

Subscription Portability to Maximize Financial Efficiency:
Through RapidScale’s VMware Factory, enterprises can port existing VCF subscriptions to RapidScale hosted environments, preserving previous investments while optimizing cost and entitlement under the new structure. This helps ensure clients maximize subscription utilization.

Seamless Asset Migration for Operational Resilience:
RapidScale streamlines VMware asset migration and acquisition—covering servers, storage, and networking—while maintaining compliance and minimizing disruption. Using a “walk-in takeover” model, RapidScale bridges physical and contractual gaps for data center clients, delivering operational continuity and resilience through seamless platform transitions.

Flexible Subscription Models for Strategic Decision Making:
RapidScale provides choice and flexibility with our VCF service options. This allows organizations to right-size their usage and build a hybrid strategy that aligns with long-term business goals.

Full-Stack VMware Expertise + Managed Services for Competitive Advantage:
RapidScale offers a streamlined VMware-as-a-Service solution, including private cloud, multi-tenant infrastructure, managed security, DRaaS, and hybrid networking. With enterprise-grade infrastructure, expert managed services, and 24/7/365 U.S.-based support, we enable enterprises to accelerate digital transformation, protect assets, and achieve business growth while reducing complexity and optimizing costs.

Frictionless Partner Ecosystem support to ensure Business Continuity

RapidScale is ready to support non-renewing VCSP partners as a retained partner by seamlessly transitioning impacted customers to ensure zero disruption to their existing customers. RapidScale accelerates partner transitions, providing a clear path to ongoing VMware value and operational continuity through a pre-approved compliance framework, reducing onboarding time from months to weeks.

“Broadcom’s goal is to cultivate an environment where capable and highly trained partners such as RapidScale can deliver exceptional value and a superior experience to customers,” said Ricky Cooper, general manager of Global Cloud Service Providers and OEMs, Broadcom. “Together, we’re empowering customers to modernize faster, scale smarter, and unlock the full value of their digital transformation through managed VCF-based private cloud services that reduce our mutual customers’ costs, IT complexity, and risk.”

RapidScale’s Accelerated VMware Adoption Program is available immediately for VMware customers, managed service providers, and partners seeking a compliant, low-risk path forward.

About RapidScale

RapidScale empowers business innovation through secure, scalable cloud solutions—driven by exceptional talent. We deliver managed, professional, and advisory services across private, public, and hybrid environments, enabling mid-market and enterprise organizations to extend their technology reach, activate change, and accelerate growth. Whether hosted, on-premises, or hybrid, our solutions are designed to meet the needs of our clients’ business outcomes—not just their infrastructure needs—ensuring each solution is bespoke, unbiased, and precisely aligned with client goals.

As a Broadcom Pinnacle Partner, AWS Premier Partner, Microsoft Azure Expert MSP, and certified Google Cloud Partner, RapidScale transforms complexity into agility. Our services span the full cloud lifecycle—from strategy to execution—with embedded cyber resiliency and AI-powered data insights that protect today’s operations and enable tomorrow’s competitive edge.

Through RapidScale, Cox Business, Segra and Hospitality Network, Cox Communications provides a broad commercial solutions portfolio including advanced cloud and managed IT solutions and fiber-based network solutions that create connected environments, unique hospitality experiences and support diverse applications for nearly 370,000 businesses nationwide.

This release advances Prowler’s mission to make cloud security proactive, enabling teams to understand, prioritize, and eliminate real-world attack routes

Prowler, the leader in open cloud security, today announced the release of Attack Path Visualization, a major enhancement to the Prowler platform that reveals how threats move across multi-cloud environments and identifies the most impactful routes attackers could exploit.

The launch builds on the momentum following Lighthouse AI and MCP Server and further establishes Prowler as the world’s most widely adopted open cloud-security platform that delivers cloud security for ANY cloud at AI speed.

A Knowledge Graph for Cloud Security

DevSecOps teams continue to face overwhelming volumes of disconnected alerts that provide little understanding of how risks relate to one another. Traditional scanners identify thousands of issues but rarely show how misconfigurations, permissions, identities, and data access combine to form real attack paths. What’s missing is a relationship-aware, connected view of the cloud, one that turns fragmented findings into meaningful insights and highlights the risks that actually matter.

Attack Path Visualization introduces a unified knowledge graph that maps all cloud resources along with the relationships that link them. Unique to Prowler, any findings related to resources are also linked in the graph for faster traversal and contextual analysis.

By analyzing these dependencies, Prowler exposes the precise paths an attacker could use to escalate privileges, move laterally, or reach sensitive systems.

Security teams gain an immediate understanding of how individual misconfigurations or exposed resources contribute to larger, multi-step risks. Instead of isolated alerts, they now see the full chain of impact.

Lighthouse AI Integrates Deep Security Context

The new knowledge graph will also serve as a core data source for Lighthouse AI, Prowler’s autonomous security assistant. Lighthouse AI now reasons directly over this connected graph to:

• Identify high-impact attack paths and the earliest point of compromise
• Prioritize findings based on real attackability rather than static severity
• Generate accurate, environment-aware remediation steps
• Automate fixes through MCP-powered workflows inside developer tools

By combining deep graph context with agentic AI decision-making, Lighthouse AI dramatically accelerates risk understanding and shrinks the gap between detection and remediation. Cloud environments continue to expand in scale and complexity, making it harder for teams to understand how risks interact. Attack Path Visualization transforms this complexity into clarity by presenting the full chain of potential compromise and highlighting the earliest point where action will have the greatest impact.

“Our mission has always been to bring clarity and autonomy to cloud security,” said Toni de la Fuente, founder & CEO of Prowler. “Attack Path Visualization gives teams the complete picture of how risks connect, and Lighthouse AI turns that understanding into instant, actionable decisions. It’s another step toward a future where security isn’t just faster, it’s fundamentally more intelligent.”

The launch builds on the momentum following Lighthouse AI and MCP Server and further establishes Prowler as the world’s most widely adopted open cloud-security platform that delivers cloud security for ANY cloud at AI speed.

Meet Prowler at AWS re:Invent

Attack Path Visualization is available in preview today within Prowler Cloud and integrates automatically with Lighthouse AI and the MCP Server. Demonstrations and hands-on walkthroughs are available this week at AWS re:Invent. Meet the Prowler team at booth 1238 on the expo floor.

To learn more or get started, visit www.prowler.com or sign up for Prowler Cloud at https://cloud.prowler.com.

About Prowler

Prowler is the world’s most widely used open-source cloud-security platform, automating security and compliance across any cloud environment. Backed by thousands of contributors and a vibrant global community, Prowler leads the open-source security movement with transparent, customizable, and easy-to-use solutions that secure AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, OCI, Kubernetes, GitHub, and Microsoft 365.

By leveraging the innovation and cost-efficiency of open source, Prowler makes cloud security 10× more cost-effective and accessible than alternatives.

“Like Sentry, but for AI Agents” – Funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners will enable Raindrop to meet enterprise demand and become the default monitoring solution for AI agents.

Raindrop, the monitoring platform for AI agents, announced $15M in seed funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The funding will enable Raindrop to meet enterprise demand, and continue defining the frontier of production monitoring and issue detection for AI agents.

The round includes participation from leading AI companies including Figma Ventures, Vercel Ventures, founders of Replit (Amjad Masad and Michele Castata), Cognition (Walden Yan), Framer (Koen Bok and Joen van Dijk), Speak (Andrew Hsu), Notion (Akshay Kothari), and YC.

“AI agents are more capable than ever. They’re reasoning longer, using more tools, and connecting to MCP servers. Some agents now run autonomously for hours,” said Raindrop CEO Zubin Koticha. “Traditional testing methods, like evals, aren’t capable of handling the complexity of these long trajectories. This leaves engineering teams in the dark – unable to discover or track issues. Raindrop is the first monitoring platform to solve this problem.”

AI agents are increasingly entrusted with high-stakes tasks and deployed across critical sectors like healthcare and financial services; failures mean business-critical or even life-threatening issues. Recent headlines have been flooded by issues like ChatGPT encouraging users to stop taking medication or Air Canada being sued because their chatbot promised refunds they couldn’t honor.

Legacy monitoring tools for AI agents simply provided latency or token usage metrics. At best, they offered unreliable or generic metrics like toxicity or user sentiment. These metrics were not effective at revealing errors in AI agents.

Raindrop established the new standard for monitoring AI agent behavior: small, custom models that adapt to the unique shape of each AI product. This enables engineers to monitor signals that were previously invisible. For example, in addition to Raindrop’s default signals like “User Frustration,” customers can define custom signals like “UI Aesthetic Complaints” or “Agent Stuck in a Loop” and see incident rates over millions of events. Raindrop then triggers Sentry-style notifications when problems emerge.

To discover hidden issues, Raindrop’s AI agents work in the background to triage and investigate potential issue patterns. When a new issue is detected, like the agent encouraging toxic user behavior, Raindrop collects information on the issue and generates step-by-step explanations of what happened.

“We keep seeing AI engineering teams struggling with agent failures in production, and traditional evals are not really helping,” said Bucky Moore, Partner at Lightspeed. “We invested in Raindrop because they defined monitoring for AI agents. They made an early bet that monitoring would be the most critical part of building reliable agents, and they’ve been right. They’re growing fast as Raindrop is being embraced by some of the most forward-thinking engineering teams in AI. Lightspeed is thrilled to partner with Alexis, Ben, Zubin, and team to help them scale Raindrop into the default agent observability platform for enterprises and startups alike.”

Today Raindrop works with frontier AI customers processing millions of events each day to help quickly discover, monitor and resolve critical issues. Many of these teams use Raindrop Experiments, the first A/B testing platform for agents, to validate and iterate on solutions (tool, model or broader pipeline changes) and see if their fixes actually worked.

“Raindrop has been invaluable as we’ve been growing quickly,” said Evan Goldschmidt, CTO Tolan. “It’s critical for us to keep issue incidence below an acceptable threshold and become aware of any spikes. It’s like if we see an iOS crash report in Sentry, but for our AI capabilities.”

“Our founding team was building a coding agent ourselves and kept running into silent agent failures in production. When we did YC we saw everybody building agents in our batch had the same problem,” said Zubin Koticha, Raindrop’s CEO.

Raindrop was founded by Ben Hylak, Zubin Koticha and Alexis Gauba. Alexis and Zubin are second-time founders (previous company acquired by Coinbase); Ben was an engineer at Apple, before joining Apple’s elite Human Interface (HI) Design team where he worked for four years.

About Raindrop

Raindrop is an applied AI research company building “Sentry for AI agents” – monitoring infrastructure that catches when AI agents fail silently in production. Raindrop allows AI engineering teams to discover, track, and fix issues with their agents. Raindrop is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners and other leading investors. https://www.raindrop.ai/

About Lightspeed Venture Partners

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends in the Enterprise, Consumer, Health, and Fintech sectors. Over the past 25 years, the Lightspeed team has backed hundreds of entrepreneurs and helped build more than 500 companies globally, including Abridge, Affirm, Anthropic, Cato Networks, Epic Games, Glean, Mistral, Moveworks, Navan, Netskope, Rubrik, Snap, Wiz and more. Lightspeed and its global team currently manage $30B in AUM across the Lightspeed platform, with investment professionals and advisors in the U.S., Europe, India, Israel, and Southeast Asia. www.lsvp.com

CIMG Inc. (“CIMG” or the “Company”), a business group specializing in digital health and sales development, which utilizes technology and marketing to enhance its business partners’ sales growth and commercial value, today announced that its tokenized stock, which it previously announced was authorized for issuance on the FlowStocks platform, has completed testing and has be officially launched for public trading on November 28.

The trading symbol for CIMG stock on FlowStocks is tIMG.

Starting November 28, 2025, CIMG shareholders will be able to tokenize their shares on FlowStocks, while the public can also purchase and transfer tIMG by depositing funds into their FlowStocks wallets.

Deposit instructions for the FlowStocks platform are as follows:

• Click the menu bar in the upper right corner of the FlowStocks page, select [Connect Wallet], and connect a commonly used wallet (e.g., MetaMask, OKX Wallet, etc.).
• Go to the product purchase page and click Deposit, or select [My Assets] -> [Deposit] from the menu bar. Choose the currency for deposit, enter the amount, and authorize the payment.
• After the transaction is submitted successfully, wait for on-chain confirmation.
• Return to the [My Assets] page to view your deposit history.

Clarification on Underlying Assets:

A total of 15,000,000 shares of CIMG—corresponding to this tokenization—have been fully transferred into FlowStocks Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) and duly registered under the Transfer Agent (TA) system. These shares have been tokenized on-chain at a 1:1 ratio and minted as tIMG tokens, serving as the underlying asset backing for the token.

In the initial phase of the tIMG launch, CIMG and FlowStocks will jointly introduce incentive programs for purchasing tIMG, such as token rewards for users who reach certain deposit or purchase thresholds.

Alice Wang, Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer of CIMG, stated, “We believe that stock tokenization is becoming a trend. It enables round-the-clock access to tokenized equity trading. By introducing tokenization, we are not only upgrading our financial infrastructure but also aiming to provide greater convenience for our investors.”

About CIMG Inc.

CIMG Inc. is a global business group in the digital health industry, built around cryptocurrency strategies. The company leverages AI and cryptocurrencies (such as Bitcoin and stablecoins) to drive industry growth, helping clients maximize user acquisition and brand management value. Its current portfolio includes brands like Kangduoyuan, Maca-Noni, Qianmao, Huomao, and Coco-mango.

Greluna Exchange today announced the official deployment of its Global Network Optimization Layer, a major infrastructure enhancement intended to improve cross-region connectivity and deliver faster, more stable trading performance for global users.

This rollout marks a significant step in Greluna’s ongoing effort to reinforce the technological foundation behind its institutional-grade digital asset platform.

A Measurable Step Toward Faster and More Reliable Connectivity

The newly deployed optimization layer introduces engineered network pathways, streamlined routing logic, and improved data-transfer consistency between Greluna’s international servers. These upgrades directly support users operating in time-sensitive trading environments where network stability and predictability are essential.

According to Greluna, early internal benchmarks indicate meaningful reductions in latency across several major regions, along with improved throughput and fewer connectivity fluctuations during high-activity periods.

Key enhancements include:

• Lower latency on global network routes
• Improved transmission stability and throughput
• More consistent connectivity between regional data centers
• Enhanced performance support for professional and high-frequency participants

These improvements help ensure that market participants—regardless of geography—experience reliable and responsive access to the platform.

Designed With Institutional Users in Mind

Greluna noted that the new optimization layer was developed in response to increasing demand from institutional trading desks, quantitative research teams, and advanced market operators who require highly stable infrastructure.

“Optimized global connectivity is fundamental to achieving consistent trading performance,” said Daniel R. Whitford, Senior Director of Risk & Governance Architecture.”This network upgrade strengthens the speed, stability, and resilience of our infrastructure, providing the reliability that professional users expect across regions.”

Part of a Multi-Year Infrastructure Roadmap

The deployment forms a key component of Greluna Exchange’s broader infrastructure investment strategy, which includes continued enhancements to network engineering, routing intelligence, and platform-wide performance layers.

The company stated that additional improvements—focused on system efficiency, operational resilience, and global node expansion—are scheduled for release throughout the coming year.

About Greluna Exchange

Greluna Exchange is a global digital asset platform delivering secure, high-performance trading infrastructure for individual and institutional users. Through advanced technology, rigorous compliance standards, and multilayer risk architectures, Greluna provides a trusted environment for digital asset engagement. The platform continues to expand its global presence while prioritizing transparency, user protection, and responsible financial innovation.

Website: https://greluna.com/

DB Group Holding Limited, a UAE-headquartered financial services firm, announces a series of major developments across its fintech portfolio, including DB Investing, DB Pay, and the newly launched DBI Prime. Together, these advancements reflect the Group’s strategy to unify trading, payments, and institutional solutions under one agile, user-focused ecosystem.

DB Investing: Smart Tools, Global Growth

DB Investing continues its rapid global expansion with new features such as the Acuity AI Research Terminal and the Instant Trade button built to equip everyday traders with data-driven decisions and faster execution. The company now offers over 20,000 financial instruments, crypto integration, and award-winning customer experience. Recent achievements include four international awards, and upcoming office launches in Oman and Saudi Arabia in Q1 2026.

“We’re not just scaling. We’re solving real user problems,” said Gennaro Lanza, CEO. “And we’ll keep doing that with precision and purpose.”

DB Pay: Borderless Payments for a New Era

DB Pay offers global digital accounts for freelancers, SMEs, and remote-first teams. With instant IBAN accounts, multi-currency management, and upcoming crypto exchange functionality, DB Pay simplifies global finance with zero-rate surprises and one powerful dashboard. The product is set lo be launched this year and is now in final testing stages.

“DB Pay puts control back in the hands of creators and entrepreneurs,” said Lanza. “It’s built for the modern user who needs flexibility, speed, and clarity.”

Marketing Momentum Accelerates with Strategic Hires and Record Reach

DB Group’s marketing department has undergone a strategic expansion with the recent hires of Reno Mindemann as Head of Growth and Karthik Arumugam as Head of Marketing Operations. This renewed leadership has introduced agile systems, data-backed user acquisition, and streamlined brand execution across all regions. As a result, media visibility has skyrocketed, achieving a 10x increase in reach compared to earlier quarters, cementing DB’s position as one of the most talked-about fintechs in the region.

“With Reno and Karthik onboard, we’ve transformed marketing into a growth engine. The 10x spike in media reach isn’t just numbers: it’s trust, brand power, and market signal that DB is moving faster and smarter than ever.”

DBI Prime: Institutional-Grade Infrastructure

DBI Prime is the Group’s institutional arm, offering multi-asset liquidity, FIX API trading, and white-label brokerage services for banks, hedge funds, and professional partners. Backed by DB’s regulatory licenses and Tier-1 bank integrations, it delivers precision execution on a global scale.

Recognition and What’s Next

DB Investing closed the year on a high note with two prestigious accolades: “Best IB & Affiliate Program” at the Affiliate Summit Dubai 2025, and Gennaro Lanza’s “Entrepreneur CEO of the Year” at the Burj CEO Awards. These recognitions mark a growing global footprint, honoring both the company’s leadership and its bold approach to partner growth. As the company heads into 2026, DB is doubling down on innovation, expansion, and building ecosystems that scale trust.

The company will showcase its fintech vision at the Qatar Finance Expo this December.

About DB Investing

DB Investing, founded in 2018, is a global multi-asset brokerage offering traders and investors access to over 20,000 instruments — including forex, stocks, commodities, metals, ETFs, bonds, and cryptocurrencies — through MT5, proprietary tools, and mobile apps. With offices in Dubai, Seychelles, Cyprus, Nigeria, Malta, and more locations planned, the company combines international reach with localized client support. DB Investing operates under a strong regulatory framework, holding licenses from the SCA (UAE), FSA (Seychelles), FINTRAC (Canada), and the FSC (Mauritius). The firm stands out for its flexible account types, competitive trading conditions, advanced technology (including social trading and FIX API), 24/7 multilingual support, zero-fee deposits and withdrawals, Tier-1 liquidity partners, and a commitment to innovation, reliability, and performance.

Crossmint, the all-in-one stablecoin and wallet infrastructure provider, today announced that its programmable wallet stack is powering Wirex Pay’s next generation of crypto and stablecoin products.

Wirex is a major global fintech company serving over 66 million customers and processing more than $20 billion annually across 130 countries. Through this partnership, Wirex is using Crossmint to accelerate its product roadmap, expand to new chains, and introduce advanced programmable financial capabilities.

Wirex is integrating Crossmint’s programmable smart wallets to support global onboarding, cross-border money movement, stablecoin flows, and new card-linked financial products, all without requiring users or developers to manage blockchain complexity.

This integration allowed Wirex to significantly reduce engineering lift, cut six months of internal development time, and add support for additional chains — starting with Stellar — with a clear path to expanding toward 20+ networks over time.

For users, this unlocks secure, non-custodial accounts with the ability to access new assets and chains through familiar, app-native interfaces. For Wirex, Crossmint provides a unified programmable wallet layer to help scale new products and markets faster.

Why Wirex Selected Crossmint

Wirex required infrastructure that could:

• Accelerate multi-chain expansion, starting with Stellar and expanding toward 20+ networks
• Support global onboarding through simple login flows like email and passkeys
• Provide programmable controls including spend limits, whitelisting, and multi-party approvals
• Reduce engineering overhead across wallet operations and chain integrations

These capabilities help Wirex ship new financial products faster, unify parts of its onchain architecture, and provide a smoother experience across regions.

Crossmint have also integrated Wirex’s APIs directly into it’s SDK – providing Crossmint’s partners instant access to Wirex’s onchain stablecoin banking, payment and card rails.

“Mainstream fintechs are adopting programmable money infrastructure to reach users global banks cannot serve today,” said Rodrigo Fernández, co-founder of Crossmint. “Wirex can now deploy financial products across markets with a single integration, while giving users a simpler, more secure account experience.”

Daniel Rowlands, General Manager at Wirex Pay, said: “Partnering with Crossmint allows Wirex to bring our stablecoin infrastructure to additional chains at scale. This is a major milestone in our mission to make stablecoin payments truly multichain, programmable, and ready for the next generation of Web3 banking.”

Crossmint’s infrastructure already powers applications across remittances, neobanking, payroll, marketplaces, telecom, and emerging AI-agent commerce — and now supports Wirex as it builds the next generation of programmable, global financial products.

About Crossmint

Crossmint provides enterprise-grade infrastructure for stablecoin wallets and payments, enabling companies to integrate digital asset capabilities with simple APIs and no-code tools. Businesses use Crossmint to send and receive stablecoin payments globally with built-in licensing, AML/KYT screening, and policy controls. Crossmint powers digital asset experiences for more than 40,000 developers and leading institutions. Backed by Ribbit Capital, Franklin Templeton, and other top investors, Crossmint’s mission is to make blockchain-based value movement invisible and accessible to everyone.

Learn more at crossmint.com.

About Wirex

Wirex is a prominent UK-based digital payments platform with over 7 million customers spread across 130 countries. It offers secure accounts, making it easy for users to store, purchase, and exchange multiple currencies seamlessly. As a principal member of both Visa and Mastercard, Wirex goes beyond traditional services, embracing the evolving trends of Web3 to provide mainstream access to digital finance and wealth management. Having processed transactions totalling $20 billion, Wirex aims to contribute to the adoption of a cashless society by facilitating straightforward transactions in various currencies worldwide. Wirex is simplifying digital payments, making it more accessible and convenient for people across the globe.

Learn more at wirexpaychain.com

On behalf of the QCAD Digital Trust, Stablecorp Digital Currencies Inc. (Stablecorp), a pioneering Canadian digital asset infrastructure company and servicer of the QCAD Digital Trust, announced today a significant milestone for Canada’s financial landscape. Following a multi-year regulatory approval process, the QCAD Digital Trust has received a final receipt for the prospectus qualifying the distribution of QCAD tokens pursuant to Canada’s current regulatory framework for stablecoins. This officially makes QCAD Canada’s first compliant CAD stablecoin.

This landmark achievement is the culmination of years of dedicated collaboration between Stablecorp, on behalf of the QCAD Digital Trust, and members of the Canadian Securities Administrators. In doing so, Stablecorp has established a new benchmark for transparency and trust in the digital asset space, paving the way for the mainstream adoption of digital currency in Canada.

“From day one, our mission was not to take the easy route, but the right one,” said Jean Desgagne, Chair of Stablecorp. “This approval is not just a victory for Stablecorp; it’s a defining moment for Canada. We have proven that innovation and regulation can go hand-in-hand, providing the robust foundation for the future of the Digital Canadian economy.”

“It is almost six years since we’ve minted the very first Canadian Dollar token in 2020,” said Fred Pye, a Director and Co-Founder of Stablecorp. “At times it felt like an uphill battle, but as was proven when I launched the world’s first regulated Bitcoin ETP, we are in the business of creating paradigm shifting products, and thrive at being at the forefront of digital transformation.”

A New Era of Canadian Digital Currencies

QCAD is a digital token that maintains a stable value of 1 Canadian dollar, by holding 1-to-1 dollar reserves for each issued QCAD at regulated financial institutions. This unlocks transformative benefits for all Canadians:

• Instant, Low-Cost Transactions: QCAD empowers individuals and businesses to send and receive funds across the country and beyond, nearly instantaneously and at a fraction of the cost of traditional financial rails. This directly impacts everything from e-commerce and payroll to remittances, personal payments and foreign exchange.
• The Bridge to the Digital Economy: QCAD serves as a secure and stable bridge between the traditional Canadian economy and the burgeoning global digital asset ecosystem. It allows for seamless integration with blockchain-based applications and Web3 innovation, ensuring Canada remains a competitive player on the world stage.
• Unprecedented Transparency and Security: The Canadian dollar reserves backing QCAD are subject to regular audits and public attestations, offering unparalleled peace of mind and consumer protection.

Building for the Future

Stablecorp is backed by some of the largest names in digital assets, including Circle, and Coinbase. The journey to launch QCAD underscores Stablecorp’s commitment to building a compliant and robust financial future. QCAD serves as a platform for other innovators to build on and solidify Canada’s position as a global leader in the development of digital assets.

“This is the beginning of a profound shift,” said Kesem Frank, Stablecorp CEO. “We have laid the rails for a new financial system—one that is more open, efficient, and accessible for every Canadian. QCAD is more than just a token; it’s the key to unlocking Canada’s digital potential.”

QCAD will be rolling out to the broader public through Stablecorp’s extensive network of exchanges and partners.

About the QCAD Digital Trust and Stablecorp

The QCAD Digital Trust is an Ontario trust that holds the reserve assets on behalf of holders of QCAD. Stablecorp is one of Canada’s leading digital asset infrastructure companies, focused on building professional-grade blockchain solutions. In partnership with industry leaders, Stablecorp creates refined, scalable and compliant products, such as QCAD, that serve as the foundation for the next generation of financial services. Further information about QCAD, including the reserve assets and the terms and conditions associated with the QCAD program can be found on the Stablecorp website (www.stablecorp.ca) and under the trust’s profile on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca.

Organizations should prepare for a surge in ransomware attacks during holidays, weekends, and major corporate events, when cybersecurity staffing is its weakest.

Semperis, a leading provider of AI-powered identity security and cyber resilience, today released results from a global ransomware study underscoring that the majority of ransomware attacks continue to occur on holidays and weekends, when cybersecurity staffing is reduced. In addition, the study shows ransomware groups also intensify their attacks during corporate material business events, including mergers, acquisitions, IPOs, and layoffs, to exploit organizational disruption and reduced security focus.

“Threat actors continue to take advantage of reduced cybersecurity staffing on holidays and weekends to launch ransomware attacks. Vigilance during these times is more critical than ever because the persistence and patience attackers have can lead to long lasting business disruptions,” said Chris Inglis, the first U.S. National Cyber Director and Semperis Strategic Advisor. “In addition, corporate material events such as mergers and acquisitions often create distractions and ambiguity in governance and accountability—exactly the environment ransomware groups thrive on.”

The report, titled 2025 Holiday Ransomware Risk Report, found that 52% of surveyed organizations in the U.S., UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Singapore, Canada, Australia and New Zealand were targeted on holidays or weekends. Alarmingly, 78% of companies cut security operation center (SOC) staffing by 50% or more, during holidays and weekends, while 6% cut their SOC staffing entirely during these same times. 60% of attacks occurred following an IPO, merger or acquisition, or round of layoffs.

Key Ransomware Report Findings

Reasons for reducing SOC staffing on holidays and weekends.
62% of organizations want to provide employees with work/life balance, 47% reported their business is closed on holidays and weekends and 29% did not think they would be attacked.

Ransomware gangs will attack during corporate material events.
60% of ransomware attacks took place after a material corporate event and of those attacked after such an event, 54% of companies reported being targeted following a merger or acquisition.

ITDR plans prioritize detection over response and recovery.
Identity threat detection and response (ITDR) plans gain traction, with 90% of respondents reporting that their plans detect identity system vulnerabilities. However, only 45% of plans include remediation procedures, and only 63% automate identity system recovery.

The full ransomware study, which includes breakdowns of responses by vertical market and by country, is available at: https://www.semperis.com/ransomware-holiday-risk-report

For more information about how Semperis helps global organizations improve cyber resilience, visit the Semperis Identity Resilience Platform page: at https://www.semperis.com/identity-resilience-platform/.

About Semperis

Semperis protects critical enterprise identity services for security teams charged with defending hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Purpose-built for securing hybrid identity environments—including Active Directory, Entra ID, and Okta—Semperis’ AI-powered technology protects over 100 million identities from cyberattacks, data breaches, and operational errors.

As part of its mission to be a force for good, Semperis offers a variety of cyber community resources, including the award-winning Hybrid Identity Protection (HIP) Conference, HIP Podcast, and free identity security tools Purple Knight and Forest Druid. Semperis is a privately owned, international company headquartered in Hoboken, New Jersey, supporting the world’s biggest brands and government agencies, with customers in more than 40 countries.

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