September 12, 2026 @ 5:54 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Singapore’s central bank is urging financial institutions to prepare for a rapid transformation driven by artificial intelligence, tokenisation, and quantum computing, while strengthening governance and cybersecurity as increasingly autonomous AI systems reshape the financial system. Chia Der Jiun, managing director of the Monetary Authority of… Read More

September 12, 2026 @ 4:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kalshi has begun offering perpetual futures tied to gold and silver after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) cleared the listings, marking the prediction-market operator’s first move of this product type beyond digital assets. Trading in the new contracts opened Thursday on the company’s platform,… Read More

September 12, 2026 @ 3:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Italian lender UniCredit is evaluating a broader move into digital assets, including tokenized investment products and crypto-related services that could eventually be offered to clients. The discussions remain early and no final choices have been made, according to people familiar with the matter. The Milan-based… Read More

September 12, 2026 @ 3:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether, the issuer of the world’s most widely used dollar-linked stablecoin, has been publicly thanked by the US Department of Justice for helping investigators disrupt a sprawling marketplace accused of supporting crypto fraud and money laundering. The company said on September 11, 2026, that the… Read More

September 12, 2026 @ 12:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CloudPay has joined a $10 million funding round for Intermezzo, a Menlo Park startup building AI-powered payroll infrastructure that other software companies can embed rather than build themselves. The round also includes Crosslink Capital, UKG Ventures, Character Capital, Behind Genius Ventures, and angel investors. Intermezzo… Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 5:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

A securities crowdfunding OG has submitted a comment letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on its proposed rule, Regulation Crypto Assets. The SEC has leveraged existing securities exemptions, Reg CF and Reg A, to guide the proposed rules and provide compliant options for… Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 4:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Enterprise demand for stablecoin-backed cards is accelerating, and a new partnership is designed to shorten the path from concept to live product. Wirex, a global stablecoin infrastructure company and principal member of both Visa and Mastercard, has brought Tempo onto its platform as a settlement… Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 4:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MoneyGram has introduced a new spending product that turns a dollar-linked digital balance into everyday payments. The company said the MoneyGram Card is now available to eligible users in Colombia, marking the first live market for a Visa-branded card backed by stablecoins rather than a… Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 1:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) received some coverage from Morgan Stanley yesterday, which set a price target of $250, representing an approximately 45% increase to today’s price. This is the first time that Morgan Stanley has covered the digital asset exchange. The investment bank gave Coinbase an equal-weight… Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 1:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

New York financial regulators have spelled out how banks, insurers, and other supervised firms should measure cyber risk so those findings actually shape day-to-day security programs. On September 10, 2026, Acting Superintendent Kaitlin Asrow of the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) released… Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 1:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK payments professionals largely endorse the government’s plan to modernise the country’s retail payment rails, yet few feel fully assured that the program will be delivered as intended. That is the central message of From Vision to Delivery, a survey of 350 industry figures published… Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 1:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

On September 9, 2026, US authorities took action against Xinbi Guarantee, a Chinese-language marketplace investigators describe as a central hub for Southeast Asia’s industrial-scale online fraud economy. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) listed the platform as a significant transnational criminal organization and also designated… Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 11:23 am By JD Alois  |  

Payment stablecoins will soon be ubiquitous. Less crypto and more a modern approach to transferring value, stablecoins can enable faster, lower-cost payments if implemented correctly. Fighting against stablecoins makes little sense. Yesterday, Moov and Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) announced they’re working together to help community banks enable… Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 10:34 am By JD Alois  |  

There is never a shortage of Bitcoin price prognosticators. The world’s most popular crypto is highly volatile, if anything. Its capped issuance leads some to point to its inflation-fighting credibility. If demand increases while supply stays steady, prices must rise. Yesterday, Brian Armstrong, Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN)… Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 10:11 am By JD Alois  |  

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its Consumer Price Index (CPI-U) report today, showing inflation remains a bit hot, up 0.4% on a seasonally adjusted basis in August after rising 0.1% in July. Over the last 12 months, the index rose 3.4% before seasonal adjustments… Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 8:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) has restored the Coinbase Wallet name to the self-custodial app it relaunched as Base App in July 2025. The change, confirmed on September 10, 2026, marks a clear shift away from a social-first “everything app” and back toward fast, permissionless trading across many… Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 8:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A collaborative research effort involving more than 100 participants and AI coding agents has sharply lowered a widely cited measure of the quantum resources needed for a core arithmetic step in a theoretical attack on the elliptic-curve signatures used by Bitcoin and Ethereum. The work,… Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 7:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset exchange Gemini (NASDAQ:GEMI) has completed a long-running regulatory process in Singapore, and its local subsidiary now holds a Major Payment Institution (MPI) license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). The approval, announced by the company in early September 2026, authorizes Gemini Digital Payments Singapore Pte. Ltd…. Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 1:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UniCredit has taken a minority holding in Frankfurt-based fintech VC Trade, deepening the Italian lender’s push into digital debt markets. Terms were not disclosed. The agreement includes a right for UniCredit to raise its ownership later and is intended both to fund VC Trade’s growth… Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 12:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) is expanding its role in digital finance by pairing its traditional settlement network with blockchain-based credit tools. On September 8, 2026, the payments company outlined a model meant to help fintechs and issuers of stablecoin-linked cards obtain working capital more quickly than… Read More