Franklin Templeton has listed two exchange-traded funds on Nasdaq that hold US shares and spend the dividends on Bitcoin. The Franklin U.S. Equity Bitcoin DRIP Index ETF (FBEQ) and the Franklin U.S. Innovation Bitcoin DRIP Index ETF (FIBT) each begin 95% in equities and 5% in Bitcoin, then channel the income those shares pay into the digital asset rather than into more stock. For finance professionals, the practical news is a packaged way to accumulate Bitcoin out of equity c

A regulated dollar stablecoin and faster settlement rails have cut Water.org's cross-border transfer fees by up to 66% and shortened settlement from two or three days to same-day in its two largest Latin American markets, as the water charity deepens its use of Ripple's stablecoin payments infrastructure. The expanded partnership, announced as Ripple hosts its Swell conference in New York from 27 to 29 October, has now reached more than one million people with water or sanita

A quiet October rewired two corners of credit: short-term consumer loans finally start showing up on a lender's screen, and tokenised real estate graduates from pilot into tradable product. As of this week, the lending stack looks different from how it did at the start of the month. Credit infrastructure is absorbing buy now, pay later data in a way bureaus have been promising since 2022. Dubai has turned its real estate tokenisation experiment into something that resembles a

The largest US registered investment adviser absorbs Pacific Sage Partners as record wealth management dealmaking rolls on. CAPTRUST, the largest registered investment adviser in the United States by total client assets, has acquired Pacific Sage Partners, an Edmonds, Washington firm advising on about $1.1 billion, tightening its hold on the Pacific Northwest in a record year for wealth management dealmaking. The eight-person team, led by founder and chief executive Mark Ande

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Cregis, a Hong Kong-based digital asset custody and payments infrastructure provider, will supply the security and key-management layer for Remi Technology's cross-border payment technology network, which connects licensed banks and coordinates their digital asset transactions. The agreement places Cregis alongside Bison Bank, the Portuguese lender whose euro- and dollar-referenced tokens give the arrangement its regulated settlement asset. Between them, the three firms are b