Mahathir Bayena

ESAB (NYSE:ESAB) announced on Monday a definitive agreement to acquire Eddyfi Technologies for $1.45 billion, marking a significant strategic pivot into the advanced non-destructive testing (NDT) and structural integrity market.

FEMSA (NYSE:FMX) finalized the separation of its Grupo Nós joint venture with Raízen on Monday, resulting in FEMSA assuming 100% ownership of OXXO Brazil.

Alvotech (NASDAQ:ALVO) solidified its global commercialization strategy on Monday, entering into new supply and marketing agreements with Sandoz to bring a suite of biosimilar candidates to Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

Cryptocurrency stolen through hacks and scams reached $370.3 million in January, nearly quadrupling year on year and marking the highest monthly total in 11 months, according to CertiK.

The chief executive of Russian bitcoin mining firm BitRiver has been placed under house arrest as authorities pursue tax evasion charges, according to local media reports.

The European Commission has opened infringement procedures against multiple member states for failing to implement new EU rules on crypto-asset taxation and market oversight.

Fipto said it has been granted a Crypto-Asset Service Provider licence by France’s markets regulator, making it the first European stablecoin payments firm to hold both a Payment Institution and full CASP authorisation.

Ripple said senior bank directors are moving from debating the value of digital assets to focusing on how to deploy tokenisation and crypto payments inside regulated financial systems

XDC Network has secured an institutional custody integration with BitGo, enabling regulated custody for XDC and USDC on the XDC blockchain.

Bcon Global has launched a non-custodial crypto payment gateway that allows businesses to accept cryptocurrency payments directly into their own wallets without giving up control of funds.