September 15, 2026 @ 1:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Brussels fintech Chift has closed a €10.5 million Series A round to expand the software “plumbing” that links Europe’s fragmented financial tools — and to make that plumbing usable by artificial intelligence as well as by traditional applications. The financing was led by BlackFin Capital… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 8:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

Senator Cynthia Lummis, a member of the Senate Banking Committee and a keen supporter of digital asset innovation, says that some Democrats simply won’t support the CLARITY Act no matter what. The CLARITY Act is scheduled for a cloture vote tomorrow (Tuesday, September 14, 2026)… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 8:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

South Korea‘s crypto investors have again pressed lawmakers to postpone a long-delayed tax on virtual-asset profits, after a National Assembly petition calling for a two-year grace period cleared the 50,000-signature threshold needed for committee review. Regulatory and finance officials, however, have given little indication that they… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 8:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple USD (RLUSD) has grown into one of the larger regulated dollar stablecoins, with net circulating supply recently topping an all-time high of about $2.44 billion before settling near $2.42 billion. That expansion looks like a success story for Ripple’s dual-chain product. A closer look… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 2:53 pm By JD Alois  |  

Pretty much across the board, analysts and observers expect the US Federal Reserve to raise benchmark rates this week by at least 25 basis points. Prediction markets have the probability at near certainty. Kalshi is currently at 86% for a 25 bps hike. Polymarket is… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 2:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital bank Revolut is facing a public extortion campaign after criminals began publishing identity files taken from a recent customer-data incident, just as the company presses ahead with plans to enter Israel. The firm has confirmed that an unauthorized party obtained sensitive records after submitting… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 2:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Lightning Development Kit version 0.2.6, published on September 9, 2026, closes two security problems that could have affected applications built on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network. One issue allowed a hostile channel partner to siphon a modest amount of value during a splice. The other could leave… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 2:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) reversed course last week, posting more than $460 million in net withdrawals after three straight weeks of inflows. Ethereum products moved in the opposite direction, finishing the same holiday-shortened stretch with nearly $200 million in net creations. The Bitcoin… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 1:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

Anthropic has announced that Claude for financial advisors is now available. Claude for Financial Advisors streamlines and automates tasks that often take up much of the time financial advisors spend serving customers. According to a blog post, Claude prepares briefs, summaries, and drafts analyses for… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 12:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s financial regulator is examining whether some digital representations of physical gold should sit outside existing fund rules, as part of a wider push to modernise wholesale markets and keep London at the centre of global bullion trading. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is working… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 10:25 am By JD Alois  |  

The time has come for the US Senate to determine if the US is going to move forward with profoundly vital crypto market legislation. The CLARITY Act is expected to come to a vote tomorrow for cloture and to open up the bill for debate…. Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 9:42 am By JD Alois  |  

Tokenovate shares that it has completed an intra-day repurchase agreement (Repo) on the Canton Network using the FINOS Common Domain Model (CDM), utilzing USDC. Tokenovate is a UK-based Fintech enabling post-trade lifecycle automation and digital settlement solutions. Canton is  a privacy-enabled blockchain network built for… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 8:29 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Plenty of heavy hitters came out of the Labor Day weekend with product releases and partnerships, including Visa, Mastercard, Ant, Nu, and Marqeta. Visa, Mastercard and Ant to develop agent trust framework The trio hopes to build a trust framework that will help agentic commerce… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 8:18 am By Michael Wong  |  

Hong Kong and Dubai financial authorities and exchanges have established a Strategic Working Group to strengthen ties between the financial markets of Hong Kong and the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), according to a joint announcement. The move comes as the two financial centres seek to… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Satsuma Technology PLC (LSE:SATS),  a United Kingdom company listed on the London Stock Exchange, has completed the sale of its entire Bitcoin treasury and secured court clearance to send the resulting cash back to investors. The firm disposed of 669.4867 Bitcoin in late July and will… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 6:26 am By Michael Wong  |  

AI-powered senior living technology company Inspiren has raised $70 million in a Series C funding round at a valuation of more than $500 million, as it looks to expand the use of artificial intelligence to help care teams monitor residents and identify potential emergencies. The… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 5:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitwise is ending its spot Dogecoin exchange-traded product less than a year after it began trading, closing a short chapter in the first wave of US memecoin ETFs. On September 10, 2026, Bitwise Investment Advisers said it would liquidate the Bitwise Dogecoin ETF, listed on… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 4:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

HelmGuard, a London-based startup building an agentic platform for governance, risk, and compliance, has closed a $7.3 million seed round as it looks to replace slow, document-heavy assurance work with AI systems that inspect risk at the source. The financing was co-led by Infinity Ventures… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 2:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin’s rebound has lifted sentiment, yet CryptoQuant’s latest research argues that a new bull market has not been confirmed. After a roughly 24 percent advance over two weeks, the BTC price stalled inside a $76,000–$82,000 band and was trading near $77,000 when the firm published… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 2:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple has expanded the artificial intelligence tools inside its enterprise treasury platform, positioning the update as a more controlled way for corporate finance teams to use AI without handing over final authority on money movement. On September 10, 2026, the company said it is broadening… Read More