September 26, 2026 @ 1:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Atum, a San Francisco startup building what it calls the first open payments network for moving money worldwide, has come out of stealth with $13.5 million in new capital. The company was founded by Pete Cooling, who previously led Visa’s crypto product team and spent… Read More

September 26, 2026 @ 12:39 pm By Michael Wong  |  

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and Bank Indonesia (BI) have signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen cooperation on QR code-based cross-border payments between Hong Kong and Indonesia, as both sides seek to make transactions faster and more affordable. The MoU aims to establish… Read More

September 26, 2026 @ 11:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The European Central Bank (ECB) has formally begun work on whether its pan-European instant settlement platform can be joined to Brazil’s public real-time payment network. On 24 September 2026 the ECB Governing Council authorised a feasibility assessment of an interconnection between TARGET Instant Payment Settlement… Read More

September 26, 2026 @ 11:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) has highlighted an unusual split inside the U.S. stock market that, in the bank’s view, looks uncomfortably close to the late-1990s technology boom. A record share of S&P 500 companies now display negative beta, meaning they have recently tended to fall when… Read More

September 26, 2026 @ 11:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Federal prosecutors in Missouri have accused a Vietnamese national of helping move digital assets stolen in a large-scale cryptocurrency confidence fraud, a case that highlights how quickly stolen coins can be shuffled off public ledgers. Trung Nguyen Van, 37, faces two money-laundering counts in the… Read More

September 26, 2026 @ 3:27 am By Michael Wong  |  

Singapore Exchange Regulation (SGX RegCo) will require listed companies to provide more detailed disclosures on executive remuneration, dividend policies, and investor relations as it seeks to strengthen transparency and encourage a greater focus on long-term value creation. The changes will take effect on Jan. 1,… Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 11:14 pm By Michael Wong  |  

GCash has evolved from a loss-making digital wallet into a highly profitable financial technology platform, illustrating the scale Southeast Asian fintech companies can reach, according to Warburg Pincus executive Vishal Mahadevia. The Philippine digital wallet had about 15 million monthly active users when Warburg Pincus… Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 5:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, who has completed two terms at the nation’s securities regulator, will end her tenure at the beginning of next month. In a post on X, Commissioner Peirce shared a letter to President Donald Trump thanking him for the chance to serve… Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 3:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Large institutional investors increasingly describe Bitcoin (BTC) as a digital counterpart to gold, yet they still place it inside the same portfolio sleeve they use for technology and other crypto-assets. That contradiction sits at the center of a new Bitwise research study based on interviews… Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 3:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitget revealed that a $351.6 million breach was not a private-key theft. According to CEO Gracy Chen, attackers broke into a critical wallet backend, fed forged transfer data into the exchange’s own approval process, and walked funds out of hot and warm wallets as if… Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 3:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ondo Finance, working alongside BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) and Securitize, (NYSE: SECZ) has put forward its tokenized US Treasuries product, OUSG, as a candidate for Sky’s Spark Tokenization Grand Prix. The initiative, run by the protocol formerly known as MakerDAO, seeks to bring roughly $1 billion… Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 3:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The US Federal Reserve has taken a major step toward implementing last year’s federal stablecoin statute. On September 24, 2026, the Board of Governors asked the public to weigh in on two draft rules that would apply to payment-stablecoin issuers the central bank already oversees…. Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 12:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has scheduled an open meeting next week to review several issues. Perhaps the most important for investors is a potential update to the definition of an Accredited Investor. In general, an Accredited Investor is someone who earns over $200,000… Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 11:32 am By JD Alois  |  

Nordic Fintech SaveLend Group has partnered with Kleer Group AB to offer invoice financing on Kleer’s platform. Kleer is a Finance-as-a-Service company serving consulting firms and SaaS/AI companies in Sweden. It combines an automated accounting and payroll platform with a dedicated team of accounting consultants… Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 10:28 am By JD Alois  |  

SoFi Bank (NASDAQ:SOFI) is now live in settling transactions across the Mastercard network using its in-house stablecoin, SoFiUSD. SoFi Bank claims to be the first national bank to do so. It has been estimated that by migrating its entire debt/credit card services to stablecoins, this… Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 10:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

New York officials have opened a new front in their campaign against prediction-market platforms, accusing Polymarket’s US operation of conducting unlicensed wagering inside the state. On September 24, 2026, Attorney General Letitia James and Governor Kathy Hochul announced a civil action against QCX LLC, which… Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 9:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Swedish open banking company Trustly is reducing its workforce by about a quarter, eliminating roughly 200 positions worldwide as it tries to simplify its structure and put more money behind a smaller set of priorities. The company, based in Stockholm, employs more than 800 people… Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 9:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A group of the UK’s largest banking institutions has moved tokenised bank money out of laboratory tests and into actual customer activity, completing the first live retail transactions using digital representations of ordinary sterling deposits. The work sits inside the Great British Tokenized Deposit programme,… Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 9:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital bank Revolut has become entangled in another customer-data scare after a security incident at US brokerage partner DriveWealth. The event is separate from an earlier September episode at Revolut itself. This time, the exposure occurred on DriveWealth’s systems, not inside Revolut’s own infrastructure. DriveWealth… Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 9:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has called on EU policymakers to consider bringing crypto-asset lending within the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation as part of a wider review of the bloc’s digital asset rulebook. In its response to the European Commission’s targeted consultation, published on 24… Read More