September 13, 2026 @ 9:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has secured an unprecedented influx of cash from two cryptocurrency billionaires, who together handed the party £72 million in the space of a day. The gifts, each worth £36 million, rank as the largest individual donations ever recorded to a British… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 8:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stablecoins are beginning to rewrite the playbook for global remittances, a market that has operated on aging infrastructure for decades. A Solana Foundation report argues that digital dollars on high-throughput blockchains can cut costs, speed settlement, and expand access in ways traditional money-transfer rails have… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 5:35 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Chime hits its Stride in $590M deal Chime has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Stride Bank, N.A. for $590 million in cash. Stride is a nationally chartered bank that has been Chime’s bank partner for more than seven years. Upon closing, Stride will… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 4:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut customers have been told that a subset of their most sensitive records was released after the company treated a fraudulent information demand as a genuine government inquiry. The episode became public on 11–12 September 2026 after affected users received notices and investigators circulated excerpts…. Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 4:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ:HOOD) chief executive officer Vlad Tenev has restated that publicly traded companies should not automatically possess the power to block third-party stock tokens linked to their shares. The comments, published Friday on his X account, extend a public disagreement with AMC Entertainment (NYSE:… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 3:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OpenAI will not list its shares in 2026, chief executive Sam Altman said, arguing that a stock-market debut would be poorly timed while the industry confronts mounting questions about safety, security, alignment, and how governments should work with leading labs. The remarks, made in an… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 3:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Metaplanet (TYO: 3350) has reversed a large part of its executive equity package after investors objected to how much dilution the awards could create. The Tokyo-listed bitcoin treasury company said its board approved another rewrite of the Series 10 stock acquisition rights, shrinking the pool… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 3:08 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Shenzhen Xunce Technology Co Ltd plans to secure syndicated loans of up to 10 billion yuan ($1.4 billion) to finance the development of an artificial intelligence inference and computing centre, underscoring the growing capital requirements for China’s expanding AI infrastructure. The company, which provides real-time… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 1:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Federal regulators have quietly authorized multiple inquiries into unusual activity on a major prediction-markets platform, according to internal records released through a public-records request. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) signed off on at least three previously undisclosed probes into Polymarket event contracts tied to… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 1:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

India’s capital market regulator has begun a closely watched experiment that could reshape how corporate debt is issued, recorded and paid for. At the Global Fintech Fest in Mumbai, Reserve Bank of India Governor Sanjay Malhotra and Securities and Exchange Board of India Chairman Tuhin… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 12:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wealth management professionals are showing growing interest in digital assets, even as most have yet to put client money to work in the space. That mixed picture emerged after Bitwise Head of Research Ryan Rasmussen and Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan spoke to a room… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 11:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin, Etheruem, Solana, other digital assets briefly advanced after August US inflation figures arrived close to forecasts, then slipped again over the weekend as trading thinned. BTC, ETH, SOL and many smaller tokens rose Friday when markets judged that the Consumer Price Index did not… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 8:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) has become one of 2026’s most striking stock-market stories, as investors recast a long-familiar computer maker as a central supplier of the hardware that large-scale artificial intelligence requires. On Friday, the shares advanced about 12 percent, taking the year’s gain to roughly… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 8:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Andreessen Horowitz has become one of the most recent backers of Flock Safety, the Atlanta-based company whose license-plate readers, cameras, drones and audio sensors now operate across thousands of US based communities. The firm led Flock’s 2021 Series D round and returned to lead a… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 2:48 am By Michael Wong  |  

Asia-Pacific hardware and software companies that make products with digital elements available on the European Union market are now required to report actively exploited vulnerabilities and severe incidents impacting product security under the bloc’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). The reporting obligations took effect on Sept…. Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 2:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Julian Sawyer is handing over day-to-day leadership at Zodia Custody and moving into a strategic advisory role. The change was set out in a 10 September note to staff and later confirmed by the digital assets focused firm. He framed the shift as a natural… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 1:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) has released new research showing that consumer confidence will decide how quickly shoppers let artificial intelligence complete purchases on their behalf. The Visa Trust Index for agentic commerce, announced on September 9, 2026, measures attitudes toward a coming wave of AI-driven shopping… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 12:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Harmony has formally proposed shutting down its independent Layer 1 blockchain and moving its native ONE token onto Ethereum. In a September 6 post, the project said pressure from state-backed attackers and AI agents had become too severe to keep operating a standalone network. Mainnet… Read More