Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

October 14, 2026 @ 8:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Interactive Brokers (Nasdaq: IBKR) introduced cryptocurrency staking for eligible clients, allowing them to generate rewards on certain digital assets while holding those positions alongside equities, options, futures, and other instruments on its single platform. The service is delivered by infrastructure partner zerohash. At the outset,… Read More

October 13, 2026 @ 10:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

South Korea’s digital asset sector is seeing two contrasting developments in quick succession. On one side, a regulated bank has launched the country’s first won-denominated loans secured by bitcoin for corporate borrowers. On the other, financial authorities have expanded restrictions on unregistered virtual asset service… Read More

October 13, 2026 @ 12:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) plans to support tokenized equities on its alternative trading system (ATS), Trajectory Cross, in the first quarter of 2027. Amy Oldenburg, the firm’s head of digital asset strategy, shared this updated timeline in an interview at Token2049 in Singapore. This marks… Read More

October 13, 2026 @ 12:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Mogul, a real estate investment platform, reports it has closed a $15.5 million Series A funding round led by Draper Associates. According to a release, the funding will be utilized to scale its artificial intelligence (AI) powered investing services. The Series A funding arrived at… Read More

October 13, 2026 @ 3:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Activity on Robinhood Chain, the Ethereum layer-2 network the brokerage launched in July 2026, has continued to ease after an intense early-September period. What initially appeared mainly as a sharp drop in network fees has now shown up more clearly in lower transaction counts, fewer… Read More

October 12, 2026 @ 9:09 am By JD Alois  |  

The definition of an Accredited Investor has long been a discriminatory rule that blocks millions from participating in the Reg D private securities marketplace. Securities issued under Reg D measure in the trillions each year, and almost all promising early-stage firms leverage the exemption to… Read More

October 12, 2026 @ 8:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) adjusted its outlooks on three major retail trading and crypto platforms in early October 2026, lifting targets on Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ: HOOD) and Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) while reducing its view on eToro Group (NASDAQ: ETOR) as the firms prepare to… Read More

October 11, 2026 @ 10:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital onboarding continues to create significant friction for customers of major fintech platforms, including the robo-advisor Betterment and the banking app Revolut. Recent incidents and user experiences illustrate tensions between regulatory compliance requirements, data security, and the practical convenience of opening accounts online. In September… Read More

October 11, 2026 @ 7:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ: HOOD) and SoFi (NASDAQ: SOFI), along with Public, are offering 3% match incentives on ACATS transfers of portfolios from Webull (NASDAQ: BULL) users, with deadlines falling around mid-October 2026 and multi-year holding requirements of roughly five years to avoid clawbacks. These promotions come… Read More

October 9, 2026 @ 6:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Samsung is preparing to place dollar-linked stablecoin transfers inside the digital wallet already installed on eligible Galaxy phones in the United States. The company said the capability will open in the final week of October and will begin with USDC, letting qualifying users move funds… Read More

October 8, 2026 @ 7:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

Securitize (NYSE: SECZ) has announced that tokenized stocks will trade on its broker-dealer platform, which uses Solana. Transactions will be settled using Circle’s dollar-based stablecoin USDC. According to a company statement, the digital securities will be available globally. Securitize said it will offer popular US… Read More

October 8, 2026 @ 2:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD) is pushing further into everyday spending by wiring a travel booking portal into its app, and it is doing so with inventory and booking infrastructure from Duffel, the London travel-technology company that sells flights, stays, and related services through a single programming… Read More

October 8, 2026 @ 11:47 am By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday, the bipartisan House Select Committee on China alleged that Webull Corporation (NASDAQ:BULL), a regulated broker and alternative investment platform, is closely aligned with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and its rulers, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Companies in China are well known to do the CCP’s bidding… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 5:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

Siebert Financial has suspended its Buy rating and price target on Webull Financial (NASDAQ:BULL) following the report issued by the House Select Committee on China, which claims Webull has ties to the Chinese government. Webull shares were down almost 20% today after the Committee’s report… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 3:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) says the long-planned combination of its own markets with Deribit is finished, and that the result is a new venue it calls Coinbase Global Exchange. In a company blog post dated October 6, 2026, Coinbase said the completed integration will soon give… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 2:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

Earlier today, the House Select Committee on China reported that Webull Corporation (NASDAQ:BULL), a regulated broker-dealer operating in the United States, has been deemed to be colluding with Chinese authorities. The Committee cautioned that Webull users may be putting personal information and data at risk… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 11:43 am By JD Alois  |  

Webull Corporation (NASDAQ:BULL) shares are dropping today after the House Select Committee on China declared that its ties to China pose a national security risk. Currently, shares are down by around 20%. The company has a market cap of around $3.1 billion. Webull was founded… Read More

October 7, 2026 @ 9:24 am By JD Alois  |  

The French securities regulator, Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), says it has completed a round of spot inspections of several securities crowdfunding platforms and now says more must be done to strengthen knowledge tests and assess an investor’s ability to understand and bear risk. The AMF… Read More

October 6, 2026 @ 3:36 pm By JD Alois  |  

OKX, a leading crypto exchange, infrastructure provider, and tokenization platform, has extended a funding round at a $25 billion pre-money valuation. As was previously reported, ICE, the parent company of the NYSE, has partnered with OKX to enable 24/7 trading of tokenized assets. The updated… Read More

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