September 4, 2026 @ 10:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

New Jersey has now formally asked the nation’s highest court to settle a growing dispute over who has the power to oversee sports wagering that takes place on prediction-market platforms. On September 2, 2026, Attorney General Jennifer Davenport filed a petition for a writ of… Read More

September 4, 2026 @ 9:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Hargreaves Lansdown, one of the UK’s largest retail investment platform, has begun listing Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded notes for eligible clients, ending a long period in which it stood apart from most rivals on crypto access. From 3 September 2026, the firm made nine products… Read More

September 4, 2026 @ 9:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut has taken a major step toward operating as a fully licensed bank in the United States. On September 3, 2026, the company said the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) granted preliminary conditional approval for a national bank charter that would allow… Read More

September 4, 2026 @ 8:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OpenAI has reportedly pledged $1 billion in subsidized access to its Daybreak cybersecurity tools, training, and technical support for organizations that guard essential public services. The commitment, announced September 3, 2026, is designed to be used over roughly the next six months and begins with… Read More

September 4, 2026 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nasdaq (NASDAQ: NDAQ) has closed its purchase of Dasseti, folding the specialist’s artificial-intelligence tools for due diligence and ongoing manager oversight into Nasdaq eVestment. The deal, first unveiled on July 23, 2026 and completed on September 2, extends a relationship that began when Nasdaq Ventures… Read More

September 4, 2026 @ 7:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ: SOFI) and Payward, the parent of the Kraken digital asset platform, have agreed to tie SoFi’s banking rails to Kraken’s market infrastructure. The arrangement is meant to tighten the link between regulated dollar settlement and always-on crypto trading.Under the deal, Payward will… Read More

September 4, 2026 @ 12:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has reached an agreement to buy Tokyo-based COMWARE Co., Ltd., a move designed to expand its mid-market offering in Japan and deepen the capabilities of Accenture Edge, a unit created in June 2026 to help smaller and mid-sized firms use artificial intelligence… Read More

September 3, 2026 @ 5:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has asked a federal judge to throw out CME Group’s challenge to the agency’s approval of cryptocurrency perpetual futures, arguing that the world’s largest derivatives exchange has not shown a legally cognizable injury. In a motion filed September… Read More

September 3, 2026 @ 5:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A Michigan circuit court has extended restrictions that keep Kalshi from offering sports-related prediction contracts to people in the state, converting an earlier short-term freeze into a preliminary injunction that remains in place while the underlying lawsuit proceeds. Ingham County Circuit Judge Rosemarie E. Aquilina… Read More

September 3, 2026 @ 9:02 am By JD Alois  |  

Hugging Face, a repository for open source artificial intelligence models, has been acquired by NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) for $12,930,300,000. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2027. The announcement did not come as a surprise as markets had anticipated the move last… Read More

September 3, 2026 @ 8:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Payward Inc., the parent of crypto exchange Kraken, has not confirmed a new public-listing date, and the company has not issued a statement postponing its IPO. The latest reporting, based on people familiar with internal planning rather than an official announcement, says the firm is… Read More

September 3, 2026 @ 8:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) has added Anthony Armstrong, a veteran banker who later served as finance chief across several Elon Musk companies, to its board of directors. The appointment took effect September 1, 2026, after the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee recommended expanding the board from nine… Read More

September 3, 2026 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Belgium’s National Bank has publicly identified Wise Europe SA, part of Wise Group PLC (NASDAQ: WSE), as the first firm named under a strengthened policy for disclosing anti-money laundering enforcement actions. The publications, dated 25 August 2026, mark the start of a more transparent approach… Read More

September 3, 2026 @ 3:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Dutch payments group Mollie has formally closed its takeover of UK bank-payments specialist GoCardless, bringing to an end a deal first agreed in December 2025. The combination creates a single European financial-services platform serving more than 350,000 businesses in over 30 markets, pairing Mollie’s card-acquiring… Read More

September 3, 2026 @ 2:48 am By Michael Wong  |  

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has committed S$220 million ($173 million) over three years to support financial technology development, artificial intelligence adoption, and industry infrastructure under the fourth edition of its Financial Sector Technology and Innovation Scheme. The renewed programme, known as FSTI 4.0,… Read More

September 3, 2026 @ 1:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Russia’s largest bank has issued a cautious but sizable outlook for the country’s newly legalized cryptocurrency market. Sberbank Deputy Chairman Anatoly Popov said licensed trading platforms could handle roughly 3.5 trillion to 4 trillion rubles—about $46 billion—during the first 12 months after the rules take… Read More

September 3, 2026 @ 1:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Hyperliquid Strategies Inc. (NASDAQ: PURR), the digital asset treasury company trading under the ticker PURR, has enlarged the committed equity purchase arrangement it maintains with Chardan Capital Markets. An amendment filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on September 1, 2026, lifts the… Read More

September 3, 2026 @ 12:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

American households are holding a relatively steady outlook on their finances even as many continue to stretch budgets, delay purchases, and lean on savings or credit, according to the latest EY-Parthenon Consumer Sentiment Survey. The sixth wave of the study, released August 10, 2026, found… Read More

September 3, 2026 @ 12:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Alpaca and Indonesia’s exchange have taken a formal step toward linking local brokers with overseas markets. On September 1, 2026, Alpaca co-founder and CEO Yoshi Yokokawa and Indonesia Stock Exchange President Director Jeffrey Hendrik signed an agreement at IDX’s main hall in Jakarta. The pact… Read More