{"id":964770,"date":"2025-09-27T09:39:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T04:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=964770"},"modified":"2025-09-27T09:40:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T04:10:44","slug":"softbank-ark-in-talks-to-join-tether-major-funding-round-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/27\/softbank-ark-in-talks-to-join-tether-major-funding-round-report\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank, Ark in talks to join Tether major funding round: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank Group and Ark Investment Management are among potential investors in a funding round for stablecoin issuer Tether, Bloomberg News reported on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The two investors are among several high-profile backers in early talks to fund the world&#8217;s largest stablecoin issuer in its biggest search for capital, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Tether is seeking between $15 billion and $20 billion for about a 3% stake through a private placement that could value the crypto giant at as much as $500 billion, Bloomberg News had reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SoftBank Group and Ark Investment Management are among potential investors in a funding round for stablecoin issuer Tether, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. The two investors are among several high-profile backers in early talks to fund the world&#8217;s largest stablecoin issuer in its biggest search for capital, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter. Tether is seeking between $15 billion and $20 billion for about a 3% stake through a private placement that could value the crypto giant at as much as $500 billion, Bloomberg News had reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}