September 17, 2026 @ 10:17 am By JD Alois  |  

Deutsche Bank says it will begin offering digital asset custody to institutional customers. In a corporate statement, the bank said that it would launch its digital asset custody solution this year. European clients will gain access to regulated custody services for “selected digital assets.” At… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 9:49 am By JD Alois  |  

The Digital Asset Tax Certainty Act (H.R. 10357) passed the House Ways and Means Committee this week, “clarifying the tax treatment of mining and staking, and creating parity with traditional financial assets.” The bill aims to: Remove tax barriers to the use of digital assets… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 8:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A bipartisan proposal to put the federal government’s Bitcoin holdings on firmer statutory footing has moved into the House Financial Services Committee, where lawmakers can amend the text before it advances any further. The measure, H.R. 8957, known as the American Reserve Modernization Act of… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 8:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Danske Bank has rolled out a new wealth advisory offering that pairs its own investment specialists with BlackRock’s (NYSE: BLK) Aladdin Wealth technology. The service, branded Butterfly, went live for the bank’s private banking clients on 9 September 2026 and is described by the lender… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 8:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) has revised its Federal Reserve outlook after this week’s policy meeting, now projecting another quarter-point increase in October rather than treating September’s move as the last adjustment of 2026. The bank had previously expected a single hike this year. That view changed… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 7:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s financial regulator has given digital-asset businesses a clearer map of what will count as a regulated activity under the country’s incoming crypto framework. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published perimeter guidance explaining which firms will need full authorisation once the new regime takes… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 1:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Albuquerque has moved to shut down physical cryptocurrency kiosks after the City Council approved a citywide prohibition on virtual currency ATMs and cashier-assisted crypto transactions. The ordinance, passed on September 10, 2026, requires operators and host businesses to take existing machines offline and remove them… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 1:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A new exchange-traded product offering US investors regulated access to Tron’s native token is scheduled to begin trading Wednesday. The Canary Staked TRX ETF, listed under the ticker TRXS on Cboe BZX Exchange, is designed to hold TRX directly while also participating in the network’s… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 12:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Clearpool, a decentralized marketplace focused on on-chain institutional credit, has outlined plans to extend its lending stack to the XRP Ledger. The firm positions the move as its next growth chapter, arguing that XRPL is a mature network whose institutional credit market remains comparatively undeveloped…. Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 11:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Lithuanian electronic money institution ConnectPay has turned the proprietary core banking stack it built for its own operations into a standalone commercial product. The platform, now branded Serdis, is being offered to other European EMIs and financial institutions that want cloud-native infrastructure they can run… Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 9:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cross-chain protocol Symbiosis has said it reclaimed about 15 bitcoin after a vulnerability in its native Bitcoin Bridge was used on September 11. The team also extended a 20 percent white-hat bounty to the attacker, with a September 13 cutoff for a direct return of… Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 9:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

A group of seven Democratic senators issued a statement declaring their support for the CLARITY Act after voting against the bill this week, effectively killing it for now. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand, Angela Alsobrooks, Cory Booker, Catherine Cortez Masto, Ruben Gallego, Mark Warner, and Raphael Warnock stated: “Democrats… Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 9:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mexican federal and state investigators have shut down a concealed cryptocurrency mining site in the mountains of Puebla, seizing hundreds of specialized computers while examining whether the facility stole electricity and helped disguise illicit funds. The property was secured in Tlaola, a remote municipality in… Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 9:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Saudi Arabia–based fintech Tabby has closed a $233 million Series F equity raise that values the company at $6.5 billion, marking another step up for one of the Middle East’s consumer finance platforms. The round was led by existing backer Blue Pool Capital, the Hong… Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 9:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The XRP Ledger is approaching a major payments upgrade after RippleX published a technical review of Batch V1.1, the rebuilt form of the XLS-56 amendment now under validator vote. The change would allow several transactions from different accounts to run together in one ledger close…. Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 4:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

Within hours of the Fed’s announcement that it had raised benchmark rates, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to once again say he believes interest rates should move lower, not higher. President Trump declared: “Interest Rates in the United States should be 1%, or less, because we are the… Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 4:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

The US Federal Reserve‘s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) voted unanimously to raise benchmark rates by 25 basis points. The move was widely expected, but market indices took the news poorly, with most sectors closing down for the day. At the same time, yields of… Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 4:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Two former Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD) engineers have been charged in federal court with using confidential company information about upcoming cryptocurrency listings to place trades on a separate derivatives platform, prosecutors said this week. The US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY)… Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 4:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Enova International (NYSE:ENVA) has stepped away from its planned purchase of Grasshopper Bancorp, withdrawing the regulatory filings needed to complete the transaction. The Chicago-based online lender said on September 14 that it had pulled applications submitted to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency… Read More

September 16, 2026 @ 1:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

Wirex has announced the launch of Wirex One, which is described as a “stablecoin neobank.” The goal is to serve the mass affluent by acting as a private bank. A neobank is typically a digital application that provides services similar to traditional banks, frequently in… Read More