PopID announced an equity financing today including investments from Verifone, PayPal, Commerce Ventures, Chipotle’s Cultivate Next venture fund, and Visa Ventures. This new financing follows previous investments from Cali Group and the Ching family. Over the past several years, PopID has conducted millions of biometric loyalty and payment authentications, proving that face and palm scans for loyalty and payment authentication at the point of sale have unique benefits for consume...

Cirql®, a Vietnam-based innovation company focused on developing scalable, less impactful, finished midsole components and material solutions for footwear brands, announces a strategic agreement with Frasson Spa, an Italian solemakers company specializing in supercritical foaming and injection molding for footwear components. This partnership solidifies Cirql’s presence in Europe and allows the company to supply European footwear brands with their cutting-edge recycled polymer (rTPU) technology...

Money20/20, the world’s leading fintech show and the place where money does business, has in collaboration with FXC Intelligence, the foremost provider of cross-border payments data and insights, officially launched their joint report How Will Europe’s Money Move in the Future? 2025’s View of 2035.” today at Money20/20 Europe in Amsterdam. The report delivers a forward-looking, data-driven analysis of how Europe’s cross-border payments ecosystem is set to transfo...

Ares Management Corporation (NYSE: ARES) (“Ares”), a leading global alternative investment manager, announced today the pricing of its first European Direct Lending Collateralized Loan Obligation (“CLO”), Ares European Direct Lending CLO 1, at £305 million. Ares believes this is the first reinvesting CLO in the European Direct Lending market and is one of the first direct lending CLOs issued in Europe. Ares European Direct Lending CLO 1 is a diversified CLO comprised entirely of directly orig...

Westinghouse Electric Company and ITER signed a contract for $180 million for the assembly of the vacuum vessel for the fusion reactor. This is a key milestone in the construction of the ITER reactor, leading the way toward the use of fusion as a practical future source of reliable carbon-free energy. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250630497810/en/The ITER Tokamak pit with the two vacuum vessel sector modules install...

Cyolo, the leading provider of secure remote privileged access for operational technology (OT) and cyber-physical systems (CPS), has announced the launch of several major new capabilities, headlined by Cyolo Third-Party VPN Control (patent pending). This groundbreaking capability within the company’s Cyolo PRO (Privileged Remote Operations) solution delivers visibility and access control for enforced third-party VPN and direct connections without requiring changes to production infrastructure o...

Biocytogen Pharmaceuticals (Beijing) Co., Ltd. (“Biocytogen”, HKEX: 02315) and Nanjing Chia Tai Tianqing Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (“NJCTTQ”) announced that NTB003 (formerly BCG009), a co-developed injectable drug candidate, has received the Investigational New Drug (IND) approval from the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA). The approved indication is Thyroid Eye Disease (TED). About NTB003 Injection NTB003 is a second-generation full...