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September 14, 2026 @ 2:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital bank Revolut is facing a public extortion campaign after criminals began publishing identity files taken from a recent customer-data incident, just as the company presses ahead with plans to enter Israel. The firm has confirmed that an unauthorized party obtained sensitive records after submitting… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 12:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s financial regulator is examining whether some digital representations of physical gold should sit outside existing fund rules, as part of a wider push to modernise wholesale markets and keep London at the centre of global bullion trading. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is working… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 10:46 am By FCA  |  

This post was originally published on fca.org.uk  You should proceed with caution if you are approached by a CMC or a law firm. For the vast majority of clients, there is no benefit in involving a third party in reclaiming your assets. If you use… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 9:45 am By FCA  |  

This post was originally published on fca.org.uk  Mr Odey was the founder and majority owner of Odey Asset Management (OAM). He faced an internal disciplinary process for breaching a final written warning relating to repeated and persistent inappropriate behaviour towards female employees. In response, Mr… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 9:42 am By JD Alois  |  

Tokenovate shares that it has completed an intra-day repurchase agreement (Repo) on the Canton Network using the FINOS Common Domain Model (CDM), utilzing USDC. Tokenovate is a UK-based Fintech enabling post-trade lifecycle automation and digital settlement solutions. Canton is  a privacy-enabled blockchain network built for… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 8:18 am By Michael Wong  |  

Hong Kong and Dubai financial authorities and exchanges have established a Strategic Working Group to strengthen ties between the financial markets of Hong Kong and the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), according to a joint announcement. The move comes as the two financial centres seek to… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Satsuma Technology PLC (LSE:SATS),  a United Kingdom company listed on the London Stock Exchange, has completed the sale of its entire Bitcoin treasury and secured court clearance to send the resulting cash back to investors. The firm disposed of 669.4867 Bitcoin in late July and will… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 4:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

HelmGuard, a London-based startup building an agentic platform for governance, risk, and compliance, has closed a $7.3 million seed round as it looks to replace slow, document-heavy assurance work with AI systems that inspect risk at the source. The financing was co-led by Infinity Ventures… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 11:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin Suisse, a digital assets focused firm currently based in Zug, is preparing a far-reaching reorganization that would transfer a large share of its Swiss workforce to operations in other countries. The company, founded in 2013, currently employs about 120 people in Switzerland and roughly… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 9:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has secured an unprecedented influx of cash from two cryptocurrency billionaires, who together handed the party £72 million in the space of a day. The gifts, each worth £36 million, rank as the largest individual donations ever recorded to a British… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 8:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stablecoins are beginning to rewrite the playbook for global remittances, a market that has operated on aging infrastructure for decades. A Solana Foundation report argues that digital dollars on high-throughput blockchains can cut costs, speed settlement, and expand access in ways traditional money-transfer rails have… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 5:12 pm By Barry James  |  

The Existential AI-Race Seeking Rescue From The Drowning It’s T minus 10, Cape Canaveral,1962 – the height of the space race. An astronaut sits atop a NASA rocket with over a hundred tonnes of explosive propellant beneath his seat, contemplating that each component was built… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 4:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinhood Markets (NASDAQ:HOOD) chief executive officer Vlad Tenev has restated that publicly traded companies should not automatically possess the power to block third-party stock tokens linked to their shares. The comments, published Friday on his X account, extend a public disagreement with AMC Entertainment (NYSE:… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 12:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wealth management professionals are showing growing interest in digital assets, even as most have yet to put client money to work in the space. That mixed picture emerged after Bitwise Head of Research Ryan Rasmussen and Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan spoke to a room… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 8:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL) has become one of 2026’s most striking stock-market stories, as investors recast a long-familiar computer maker as a central supplier of the hardware that large-scale artificial intelligence requires. On Friday, the shares advanced about 12 percent, taking the year’s gain to roughly… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 8:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Andreessen Horowitz has become one of the most recent backers of Flock Safety, the Atlanta-based company whose license-plate readers, cameras, drones and audio sensors now operate across thousands of US based communities. The firm led Flock’s 2021 Series D round and returned to lead a… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 2:48 am By Michael Wong  |  

Asia-Pacific hardware and software companies that make products with digital elements available on the European Union market are now required to report actively exploited vulnerabilities and severe incidents impacting product security under the bloc’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). The reporting obligations took effect on Sept…. Read More

September 12, 2026 @ 3:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Italian lender UniCredit is evaluating a broader move into digital assets, including tokenized investment products and crypto-related services that could eventually be offered to clients. The discussions remain early and no final choices have been made, according to people familiar with the matter. The Milan-based… Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 4:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MoneyGram has introduced a new spending product that turns a dollar-linked digital balance into everyday payments. The company said the MoneyGram Card is now available to eligible users in Colombia, marking the first live market for a Visa-branded card backed by stablecoins rather than a… Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 1:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK payments professionals largely endorse the government’s plan to modernise the country’s retail payment rails, yet few feel fully assured that the program will be delivered as intended. That is the central message of From Vision to Delivery, a survey of 350 industry figures published… Read More