September 2, 2026 @ 3:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Jack Henry & Associates (Nasdaq: JKHY), a US financial technology firm that supplies core banking platforms and related services to more than 7,200 banks and credit unions, has disclosed a cybersecurity incident that began with a voice-phishing scheme. The company said the event was confined to… Read More

September 2, 2026 @ 11:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Félix, the Miami-based fintech that helps Latin Americans send money home through WhatsApp, has raised $200 million in new capital as it moves beyond remittances into a broader set of financial products. The round, described by the company and several investors as a Series C,… Read More

September 2, 2026 @ 10:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Singapore’s central bank has taken a further step toward turning its long-planned stablecoin regime into law. On 1 September 2026 the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) published a consultation on proposed changes to the Payment Services Act 2019. The package would give legal force to… Read More

September 2, 2026 @ 9:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A synchronized drop in government bond prices has pushed borrowing costs across major economies toward levels last seen around the 2008 crisis. A Bloomberg gauge of global sovereign yields climbed to about 3.72 percent, its highest reading since mid-2008, as investors demanded more compensation to… Read More

September 2, 2026 @ 9:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

XRP advanced sharply in late August, rising from about $0.99 on August 17 to roughly $1.38 by August 31. That gain of nearly 40 percent arrived alongside a contraction in overall futures exposure, a combination that often signals traders were taking risk off rather than… Read More

September 2, 2026 @ 8:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Circle (NYSE: CRCL) and OKX have announced a collaboration aimed at deepening the role of USDC across the exchange’s trading products. In a Sept. 1, 2026 post, Circle said the two companies are working together to increase USDC liquidity and trading utility on OKX, giving… Read More

September 2, 2026 @ 8:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

1789 Capital, the venture firm in which Donald Trump Jr. is a partner, is heading a large new financing for Polymarket that would put the prediction-market company at a $21 billion valuation. A spokesperson for the firm said the platform is seeking $1 billion in… Read More

September 2, 2026 @ 8:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance has taken another step toward becoming a full multi-asset venue by introducing options on more than 1,000 selected U.S.-listed stocks and exchange-traded funds. The product went live on September 1, 2026, and is available only to eligible customers outside the United States. The contracts… Read More

September 2, 2026 @ 3:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Five years on from Asia-Pacific’s venture capital surge, most startups funded at the peak remain in business, but far fewer have kept advancing through new rounds, later stages or exits. A PitchBook resaerch study published in late August 2026 tracks the 24,602 unique APAC-headquartered companies… Read More

September 2, 2026 @ 2:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Swivel, a fintech unit of SWBC, has confirmed that its payment and engagement technology is now available inside Temenos Digital Collector, a self-service collections tool within Temenos’ Lifecycle Management Suite. The connection is designed so banks and credit unions can offer more tailored, data-informed support… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 7:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe has acquired Clerky, the online legal platform long used by high-growth startups and their lawyers for incorporation and routine corporate paperwork. The deal expands Stripe’s reach beyond payments and Stripe Atlas into the legal workflows that accompany company formation, fundraising, hiring, and ongoing governance…. Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 7:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cosmos Labs has recently acknowledged that it initially misclassified a critical flaw in Cosmos EVM, the shared software layer that lets Cosmos SDK chains support Ethereum-style applications. That error later enabled attackers to drain assets from six networks between August 20 and August 25, 2026…. Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 10:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Supporters of Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 110 or BIP-110 have revived a breakaway chain that had gone quiet after an early August split, pairing a new mining algorithm with a much smaller block limit. The minority network forked from Bitcoin at block 961,632 when nodes enforcing… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 9:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The US Department of War has begun offering a specialized version of OpenAI’s chatbot across its central generative-AI environment, expanding the tools available to millions of service members, civilians, and contractors for everyday unclassified work. On August 31, 2026, officials activated ChatGPT Mil on GenAI.mil,… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 9:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest has again increased its stake in Block Inc., (NYSE: XYZ), the payments and financial services company led by Jack Dorsey, continuing a pattern of adding shares during periods of price weakness. Reports published at the start of September indicated that ARK… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

USA₮, Tether’s U.S.-focused dollar stablecoin issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, remained above the $175 million circulation mark at the end of July while posting the largest reserve surplus in its short history. The latest independent reserve report, prepared under the AICPA’s 2025 criteria for asset-backed… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 7:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Vietnam is reportedly building a supervised market for tokenized real-world assets, treating blockchain not as a speculative venue but as a new channel for raising capital against tangible economic activity. The core legal instrument is Government Resolution 05/2025/NQ-CP, signed on 9 September 2025. It launched… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 6:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Telegram has begun placing a built-in cryptocurrency wallet in front of a first wave of accounts, marking the start of a staged expansion that company founder Pavel Durov says will eventually reach more than a billion people on the messaging platform. In a post on… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 6:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Strategy (NASDAQ:MSTR), which decisively remains the largest public holder of bitcoin and a prominent digital asset treasury company, has formally objected to a new consultation launched by index provider MSCI. The firm described the proposal as discriminatory toward companies that maintain substantial digital asset reserves as… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 3:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Solana’s (SOL) first binding on-chain governance process ended with a razor-thin decision on token issuance. After days of stake-weighted voting, validators and delegators approved SGP-0002, the so-called Double Disinflation measure, by a margin of roughly one-third of a percentage point. The proposal needed a two-thirds… Read More