October 7, 2026 @ 2:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Founders Fund, the venture firm associated with Peter Thiel, has led a $5 million purchase of ANVL governance tokens in Anvil, an Ethereum protocol that treats locked digital assets as collateral for payments, credit, and deposits. The purchase was disclosed on October 6, 2026 alongside… Read More

 Tagged anvil, bullish, founders fund, pantera capital, peter thiel, research

October 7, 2026 @ 9:48 am By JD Alois  |  

The Montana Bankers Association has issued a statement supporting Stablecore as a provider of digital asset services for its members. MBA aims to ensure community banks remain strong. Stablecore helps banks to offer payments, stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and digital assets from a single platform.  Stablecore is backed by… Read More

 Tagged montana, Montana Bankers Association, Stablecore, tokenization

October 7, 2026 @ 8:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The United Kingdom has moved its first digitally native government bond closer to market by naming the banks that will lead the pilot sale. On 6 October 2026, HM Treasury appointed Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, Morgan Stanley, NatWest and RBC Capital Markets as joint lead managers… Read More

 Tagged barclays, digit, dlt, morgan stanley, natwest, uk, united kingdom

October 7, 2026 @ 12:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

On October 1, 2026, the Ethereum Foundation’s dAI team and the Open Anonymity Project placed zkAPI on Ethereum mainnet, a payment layer that lets people buy metered API access—especially AI inference—without tying the payer’s identity to the requests themselves. Today’s typical AI key points back… Read More

 Tagged ai, eth, ethereum, payments, privacy, zkps

October 6, 2026 @ 11:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Brazilian Fintech focused stocks jumped sharply in US trading on Monday after the first round of the country’s presidential election left Senator Flávio Bolsonaro narrowly ahead of incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, raising the odds of a rightward policy turn before a runoff set… Read More

 Tagged brazil, elections, fintech, latam

October 6, 2026 @ 10:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut is focused on its push into Israel by recruiting locally for roles that sit at the heart of a regulated bank, a signal that the British fintech is preparing for more than a light payments presence. Job listings tied to its Israeli operations cover… Read More

 Tagged digital bank, europe, israel, revolut, uk

October 6, 2026 @ 5:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Federal securities regulators have filed a civil action against a New York fintech startup and its founder, accusing them of raising millions of dollars with financial records that did not reflect the company’s real results. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued Gökçe Güven and… Read More

 Tagged gokce guven, kalder inc., sec, securities and exchange commission

October 6, 2026 @ 4:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nasdaq (NASDAQ: NDAQ) is positioning its financial technology arm as a central engine of longer-term expansion, as banks, brokers, and other institutions step up spending on cloud-based market infrastructure, compliance tools, and systems that detect financial crime. The unit mixes recurring and subscription-style income, which… Read More

 Tagged fintech, nasdaq, regtech

October 6, 2026 @ 12:01 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

AI busts budgets, creates opportunities: US Bank The new report, U.S. Bank CFO Insights Report: Fall 2026, has nine key findings, including that 51% of companies exceeded their AI budgets. The good news is that 69% said that the rapid growth of AI investment has… Read More

 Tagged research

October 6, 2026 @ 11:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Webull (NASDAQ: BULL) has entered X’s Cashtag Partner Program, linking conversations about stocks and digital assets on the social platform with a route into the broker’s trading services. The Nasdaq-listed firm disclosed the arrangement on October 2, 2026, framing it as a way to pair… Read More

 Tagged investing, trading, webull, x