State-run Transgaz (TGN.RO), the top performing stock in the BET index in 2025, has announced that on October 28, its Board of Directors extended the term of Chairman Nicolae Minea from November 7, 2025 to November 6, 2026, according to a report to the Bucharest Stock Exchange.
Institutional crypto yield demands regulatory compliance, not just attractive returns. Market consolidation will separate compliant providers from speculators. Opinion by: James Harris, group CEO of Tesseract In an environment of tightening margins and heightened competition, yield is no longer optional. It has become a necessity. This gold rush mentality obscures a critical truth defining the industry’s future: Not all yield is created equal. The market’s obsession with headline returns sets up institutions for catastrophic losses. Read more
Milei’s LLA made a good showing in the midterm elections, but that doesn’t necessarily spell victory for the crypto industry. The party of Argentine President Javier Milei, La Libertad Avanza (LLA), has won the 2025 midterm elections handily. But the crypto industry doesn’t necessarily have cause for celebration. Milei endeared himself to many in the crypto space with his pro-crypto rhetoric. He has called central banks “a scam” and said that Bitcoin (BTC) was “the natural reaction against the central bank scammers.” The economist-turned-president has publicly stated that cryptocurrencies can address some of Argentina’s economic problems. He said, “There will be free competition of currencies, so if you want to use Bitcoin, there will be no problems.” Read more
As Pi Network prepares to align with ISO 20022 by November 2025, can it truly stand beside the XRP Ledger and the Stellar Network in cross-border finance? ISO 20022 is a global standard that defines how financial institutions exchange information for transactions such as payments, securities and remittances. It replaces older, fragmented messaging systems with a unified, structured format that enables banks, fintech companies and payment networks across the world to communicate in the same digital language. Adopting ISO 20022 enhances cross-border compatibility by enabling secure and efficient sharing of richer, structured transaction data (such as payment purpose and sender and receiver information). This improves transparency, reduces the number of errors and accelerates the processing of international transfers. Read more
Coinbase has completed more than 40 high-profile mergers and acquisitions, investing billions of dollars in promising cryptocurrency startups and unicorns. With an estimated value of $100 billion, it’s hard to believe that a company like Coinbase needs to acquire new businesses to grow. But with $10 billion in cash on hand, the US’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange continues to seek out the next big opportunity in the sector. Coinbase has not been shy about writing checks in 2025. The exchange reportedly paid $2.9 billion in a cash-and-stock acquisition of cryptocurrency options trading platform Deribit in August. Then came its headline-grabbing $375 million acquisition of onchain capital raising platform Echo in October. Crypto Twitter was buzzing over the news, thanks to some genius marketeering involving Echo’s founder and influencer Cobie, who received $25 million from Coinbase as part of the deal to relaunch his long-dormant UpOnly podcast. Read more