September 23, 2026 @ 9:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Circle (NYSE:CRCL) says it has expanded its partnership with Binance, one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges. In a post on X, Circle said it has committed to a five-year deal in which Binance will support and promote USDC, Circle’s popular dollar-backed stablecoin. The deal… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 9:26 am By JD Alois  |  

NatWest has invested in its first outside venture capital fund. According to a company statement, NatWest Venture Banking has committed an undisclosed amount across Phoenix Court’s family of funds. Phoenix Court is a VC firm that supports private firms from pre-seed through to scale-up. The… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 8:57 am By JD Alois  |  

JP Morgan is now using DTCC’s Central Trade Matching Platform (CTM), according to a public release. JPM is using the service for US-listed options, including commission reconciliation and post-trade processing. DTCC says that CTM’s automated matching capabilities allow JPM to gain operational efficiency while mitigating… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Institutional demand for Bitcoin has reasserted itself with striking speed. U.S. spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds absorbed about $1.7 billion in net inflows across two trading sessions as the price of Bitcoin climbed above the estimated average cost basis of ETF holders. The move put the… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 6:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

US derivatives regulators have drawn a sharper line around a fast-growing corner of prediction markets: contracts that pay out based on what a named person says, where that person appears, or whom that person meets. On September 22, 2026, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC)… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 12:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OpenAI is preparing for one of the most expensive corporate buildouts in technology history. Internal forecasts reviewed by the FT show the company expecting about $278 billion in negative free cash flow from 2026 through 2030, even as it projects a steep rise in sales…. Read More

September 22, 2026 @ 11:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As companies rush to deploy artificial intelligence, the real bottleneck is not software. It is whether people actually use it, trust it, and change how they work. That is the argument innovation expert Soren Kaplan has been making as organizations discover that buying licenses is… Read More

September 22, 2026 @ 10:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Eurosystem has taken a concrete step toward digital wholesale markets by launching Pontes, a service that lets tokenised asset trades settle in central bank money. The rollout is the first operational piece of a broader plan to keep official reserves at the centre of… Read More

September 22, 2026 @ 10:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

South Korea’s consumer finance platforms have taken another step toward tokenized money. Kakao Pay and Kakao Bank have signed a memorandum of understanding with Fireblocks to study secure digital asset infrastructure in the country, with stablecoins at the center of the work. The non-binding pact,… Read More

September 22, 2026 @ 9:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CloudTech Group has introduced RooRooEx, a digital-asset trading venue meant to give professional desks, high-net-worth clients, and individual investors in the Asia-Pacific region access to tools and pricing that have long been associated with large institutions. The Melbourne-based firm built the platform on technology from… Read More

September 22, 2026 @ 9:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

xAI has introduced Grok 4.7, a new flagship model aimed at software development and professional knowledge work. The company frames the release as a practical upgrade over Grok 4.6 rather than a wholesale change in pricing or serving speed. According to the announcement, the model… Read More

September 22, 2026 @ 2:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has shut down Meta’s (NASDAQ: META) recently launched Muse personal AI agent from completing purchases on Amazon.com, drawing a sharp line in the emerging contest over who controls agentic shopping. The restriction took effect Sunday night, September 20, 2026. Users who asked… Read More

September 22, 2026 @ 2:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Brazil’s new virtual-asset licensing regime is already beginning to thin the field. With just over a month left in the transition window, local reporting indicates that only five virtual asset service providers have submitted authorization filings to the Banco Central do Brasil. Of those five,… Read More

September 22, 2026 @ 2:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance has widened access to one of its fastest-growing products, allowing a much larger group of traders to post tokenized US equities as collateral. The exchange said eligible users can now use bStocks in Cross Margin and Portfolio Margin accounts, ending an earlier limit that… Read More

September 22, 2026 @ 2:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Argentina has formally pledged to take part in a worldwide system that will automatically circulate information on cryptocurrency traders and investors, with the first exchanges scheduled no later than September 2029. The commitment, recorded by the OECD’s Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information… Read More

September 22, 2026 @ 2:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Sweden have dismantled a cross-border money-laundering network that investigators say moved millions in criminal proceeds through cash and cryptocurrency, with digital trails pointing toward organized crime and paid assassinations. In a coordinated operation announced this week, UAE security… Read More

September 22, 2026 @ 12:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FintechOS has closed a $28 million package of equity and senior debt as it shifts from a period of operational tightening into a more aggressive expansion phase, with the United States as the main priority. The capital came from existing shareholders Bek Ventures, IFC, Cipio… Read More

September 22, 2026 @ 11:34 am By JD Alois  |  

President Donald Trump took the podium at the United Nations today to promote his administration’s success while addressing the audience. The presentation was broad, covering diverse issues such as the war with Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, the ICC, and the economy of the US. At one… Read More

September 22, 2026 @ 11:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Kastle, a San Francisco startup focused on artificial intelligence for financial operations, has closed a $24 million Series A round to expand its platform of specialized AI agents for consumer lending. Insight Partners led the investment, with existing backers Y Combinator and Commerce Ventures returning… Read More