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Nasdaq's Tokenized Bet, India's CBDC Shift & Cyber's $525M Signal
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Nasdaq backs tokenized equity infrastructure with a $100M commitment, India's Finance Minister pushes CBDC beyond pilot stage, and cybersecurity pulls in $525M across four deals. Today's briefing covers the funding moves and policy signals reshaping digital finance this week.
Audio is available on Spreaker — see link below.
Mistral just closed a three billion euro Series D at a twenty-one billion euro valuation, and it's the largest equity funding round in European tech history. Samsung led the round.
The other major funding story this week is cybersecurity. Five hundred and twenty-five million dollars raised across four deals.
Nasdaq invested one hundred million dollars in Payward this week to build tokenized equity infrastructure. The target launch is Q2 twenty twenty-seven.
In India, Finance Minister Sitharaman publicly called on the Reserve Bank of India to advance both wholesale and retail CBDC pilots. The prompt for this came from a successful tokenized bond pilot, where REC demonstrated simultaneous asset and digital rupee settlement in a live environment.
Also in India this week, the Financial Intelligence Unit issued non-compliance notices to fifteen crypto platforms, including Weex, Blofin, and Bitunix. This is an escalation.
One clean, practical development to close on. Xflow partnered with HSBC to let global merchants accept UPI payments from Indian customers without establishing a local entity.
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