Two months after a €1.1B full buyout of ISS STOXX, Deutsche Börse takes a minority stake in a cloud-native U.S. index firm specialising in structured products and real-time derivatives underlyings. Deutsche Börse Group has invested $15 million for a minority stake in MerQube , a San Francisco-based index technology firm founded in 2019, co-investing alongside 7RIDGE , a Frankfurt private markets manager. The deal fills a specific gap in Deutsche Börse's index business: MerQu

The Lithuanian crowdfunding platform is tokenising bond ownership on distributed ledger infrastructure, lowering a barrier that has historically kept retail investors out of fixed-income capital markets. Profitus , the Vilnius-based real estate crowdfunding platform, has launched digital bond investments in partnership with fintech infrastructure provider Axiology , a move that halves the conventional minimum investment threshold and anchors every transaction on distributed l

Bank integration and payment automation platform AccessPay has secured a majority investment from Accel-KKR , the global pri vate equity firm with over $10 billion in assets under management focused exclusively on enterprise software. The deal, terms of which were not disclosed, positions the Manchester-based SaaS company to scale enterprise operations, develop new product lines, and pursue acquisitions. The timing is deliberate. CFOs are navigating compounding pressure: ti

Vincent Grard, Country Manager France - Trade Republic When Trade Republic is mentioned, it is often described as a bank. According to Vincent Grard, Country Manager France and Belgium, that label misses the point. “We position ourselves as a tech company with a full banking license,” he explains. “That changes everything—from how we build our infrastructure to how we price our products.” This positioning is more than semantics. It reflects a deliberate strategic choice that