Apart from supporting firms like Apple Inc, Alphabet Inc, and Microsoft Corporation, from their earliest stages, Nasdaq offers numerous other products and services, all of which increase market access and transparency for both institutions and retail participants.

Through this new partnership, the businesses that rely on Nasdaq for data will be able to tap into Benzinga’s Market Newswires feed, with ease, unlocking access to content crafted by a team of in-house reporters, analysts, and editors.

Newswires include individual stock coverage, Canadian asset coverage, cryptocurrency, macroeconomics, and innovations such as the Why-is-it-Moving API, which gives the 1-sentence reason why a stock is trading higher or lower on a given day.

As part of the development, Benzinga spoke with Hall and MX Chief Advocacy Officer Jane Barratt.

In celebration of this addition, TradeZero will also purchase a license to a New York Yankees hospitality suite in Yankee Stadium with Bitcoin, marking it the ball club’s first transaction using digital assets.

The idea behind Stake emerged in 2009 when Stake’s founder, Matt Leibowitz, sought a better way to invest in the immense innovation, diversity of companies, and advanced liquidity available in the United States.

Since then, in a move to expand into new markets, including Europe, and broaden its product offer, Stake announced the addition of $30 million in financing. This comes as Stake has seen an average 25% month-on-month U.K. customer growth and has amassed a global customer base of 330,000.

Additionally, the company secured a $50 million debt facility from Upper90 Capital.

The development comes as the company looks to continues growing its investor base and add cash-flow producing assets like intellectual property, royalties, real estate and more.

The development comes as Payslip grew its revenues by 40% and quarterly customer growth by 25%. With added funds, Payslip said it will be further empowered to help multinational organizations solve payroll pain points such as data standardization and automation, reporting and analytics, as well as compliance and operational efficiency.

In a round with participation by Barclays, BDMI, Great Oaks Capital, Imagination Capital, Techstars and DFJ Frontier, along with other fintech and creative industry angel investors, Lance raised $8 million to further product development and marketing.

Presently, the company works with employees from 80% of all U.S.-based unicorn technology companies and has over $10 billion in stock options registered on its platform.

In a move to expand its platform to stock option financing for executives and employees, the company added a $150-million facility from New York-based investment firm Serengeti Asset Management.

The development comes after the success of Serengeti’s first $550-million facility in January 2020.

Given their view that the futures market missed the boat on the retail world and general public, the Small Exchange was born offering products with standardized tick sizes, expiration cycles, and reduced notional sizes.

The latest product to launch is the Small US Crude Oil Futures (SMO) contract, a cash-settled future whose underlying is a United States-referenced blend of domestic light sweet crude oils.

"The launch of Small US Crude Oil futures is just another example of our dedication to answering the call of the retail trader," Roberts said in a statement to Benzinga. "The number of people looking to take their investments into their own hands is growing every day, and we are committed to giving them easier access to all markets with smaller products and lower costs to trade."

The problem with risky strategies: investors are quickly worn out when things turn bad.

More and more, as DIY investors go back to work and become less aggressively involved in the market, the demand for long-term investment tools has risen. Founded in 2017, Passiv is one fintech provider benefitting from this change in trend.