September 10, 2026 @ 5:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

In the UK, legislation is evolving to support innovation in payments and transfers. Recently, the House of Lords supported a secondary statutory duty for the Bank of England to enable innovation in payments, including digital money. The change is part of the Financial Services and… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 4:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bitcoin ATMs are fairly common in major US markets. Coin ATM Radar currently tracks around 19,400 locations nationwide. At its peak, estimates placed Bitcoin ATMs at over 30,000 locations. While not on the level of bank ATMs, that is still quite a lot. Still, some… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 3:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), M0, and MoonPay have taken PYUSDx from a February preview to a live developer platform. The stack lets companies issue custom on-chain dollars that sit on top of PayPal USD (PYUSD), rather than forcing each team to build reserves, issuance, and liquidity… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 11:20 am By JD Alois  |  

The UK has long been known as Europe’s leading fintech hub and has punched above its weight globally. A combination of strong university-level education, an entrepreneurial culture, and a history of supporting innovation has helped it lead continental Europe in tech and entrepreneurship. Yet no… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 10:53 am By JD Alois  |  

This past week, the media ran reports about a former Anthropic Researcher who claims he left the firm because he believes artificial intelligence (AI) will lead to a global catastrophe. The first reports emerged on WSJ.com. Researcher Jacob Coxon warned that labs are racing toward… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 10:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

London-based card acquirer MADFIN Tech has teamed up with Tribe Payments to underpin its UK merchant-acquiring rollout, using Tribe’s processing stack and 3D Secure tools as it builds out operations. The collaboration, reported on 9 September 2026, is designed to give the young firm a… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 9:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Archax Markets LLC, the United States subsidiary of UK-based digital asset firm Archax Group Ltd, has secured FINRA approval of its New Member Application. That decision completes the unit’s registration as a US broker-dealer with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and gives the group… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 9:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Institutional digital asset markets still suffer from a familiar problem: capital is often trapped in disconnected systems. Liquidity sits across venues, regions, and product types, and the tools used to move it rarely line up with the processes firms already run. EDX Markets and Fireblocks… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 8:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Consensys Software Inc. is preparing to divide into two independently operated companies so that consumer and institutional digital finance can each receive dedicated leadership, capital, and operating models. The existing legal entity will keep running but will adopt the MetaMask name and concentrate on self-custodial… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 8:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether and Fasanara Capital have unveiled a major new partnership aimed at channeling digital-asset infrastructure into traditional lending markets. On 9 September 2026 the two firms announced StableFund, an evergreen private-credit vehicle jointly sponsored as the Tether-Fasanara Lending Fund. The structure is backed by a… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 7:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BVNK and Marqeta (NASDAQ: MQ) have joined forces to give companies a simpler way to turn stablecoins into everyday spending tools. The two firms announced a partnership that will let Marqeta clients add digital-dollar functionality to cards, wallets, and other financial products used by both… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 3:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Australia’s financial regulator ASIC has issued a last reminder to digital asset businesses that a temporary enforcement pause is ending. Companies that have been operating under ASIC’s sector-wide no-action position must complete the required licensing steps by 30 September 2026 or risk falling outside the… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 3:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Poland’s lower house of parliament has again fallen short in its bid to overturn a presidential veto on national cryptocurrency legislation, leaving the country without a completed framework to implement European Union digital asset rules. On Friday, lawmakers in the Sejm voted 241 to 198,… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 1:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

President Donald Trump has publicly backed efforts to bring Hyperliquid, a fast-growing offshore cryptocurrency trading venue, into the United States under federal rules. Speaking at a White House gathering of crypto, technology, and finance executives on August 19, 2026, Trump said Commodity Futures Trading Commission… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 1:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ION, a provider of trading technology and workflow software for financial institutions, has announced that Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) has chosen its XTP for Event Contracts platform to handle clearing for Kalshi’s prediction market products. The announcement, dated September 9, 2026, frames the deal as infrastructure… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 12:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has set a clearer path for companies that take digital assets in the course of trade. The Federal Tax Authority has published Directive on Tax Transactions No. 3 of 2026, which tells taxable persons exactly how to turn cryptocurrency consideration… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 10:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) and Revolut have completed a tightly controlled live test in which an artificial intelligence agent initiated a real purchase on a French Revolut Visa card, authenticated through Visa Payment Passkeys rather than a one-time code, PIN or manual card entry. The trial,… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 7:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Router Protocol, a cross-chain interoperability project that spent more than four years building bridges, messaging tools, and related infrastructure, has said it will close remaining operations by September 30, 2026. The team described the move as a planned, orderly wind-down rather than an abrupt collapse,… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 6:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

Rogue agents emanating from OpenAI hijacked a German website this last spring. According to Reuters, OpenAI filed a report with the European Commission about the incident, in another scary example of AI acting on its own. OECD.AI says the rogue agents gained control of the… Read More