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Payward, the parent company of Kraken, has signed an agreement to acquire Saldo Bank in Lithuania to expand its financial services across five European markets.

Ripple and Meritz Securities have announced a strategic partnership to implement custody and tokenization in South Korea, which could change the country's financial landscape.

Samsung Electro-Mechanics signed a contract to supply electronic components worth 285 billion won, or about $210 million.

SLB Corporation has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Kelvion.

Kalshi platform has signed an exclusive agreement with the United States Tennis Association. The company became the sole prediction markets partner of the Open Championship.

Anthropic, the developer of the Claude AI model, has agreed to spend $45 billion on renting computing capacity from British cloud provider Nscale.