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September 11, 2026 @ 8:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A collaborative research effort involving more than 100 participants and AI coding agents has sharply lowered a widely cited measure of the quantum resources needed for a core arithmetic step in a theoretical attack on the elliptic-curve signatures used by Bitcoin and Ethereum. The work,… Read More

September 11, 2026 @ 1:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UniCredit has taken a minority holding in Frankfurt-based fintech VC Trade, deepening the Italian lender’s push into digital debt markets. Terms were not disclosed. The agreement includes a right for UniCredit to raise its ownership later and is intended both to fund VC Trade’s growth… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 11:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CoinCorner and AnchorWatch have brought a new insured Bitcoin custody option to everyday holders, pairing exchange-account convenience with multi-signature control and coverage arranged through Lloyd’s of London.Isle of Man-based CoinCorner, a Bitcoin and Lightning company that has served customers for more than a decade, has… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 10:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Global card networks Mastercard (NYSE: MA) and Visa (NYSE: V) have aligned with a new World Bank Group effort designed to lower a little-noticed barrier that keeps many local banks and fintechs from scaling electronic payments in developing economies. The International Finance Corporation, the World… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 5:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

In the UK, legislation is evolving to support innovation in payments and transfers. Recently, the House of Lords supported a secondary statutory duty for the Bank of England to enable innovation in payments, including digital money. The change is part of the Financial Services and… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 11:20 am By JD Alois  |  

The UK has long been known as Europe’s leading fintech hub and has punched above its weight globally. A combination of strong university-level education, an entrepreneurial culture, and a history of supporting innovation has helped it lead continental Europe in tech and entrepreneurship. Yet no… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 10:53 am By JD Alois  |  

This past week, the media ran reports about a former Anthropic Researcher who claims he left the firm because he believes artificial intelligence (AI) will lead to a global catastrophe. The first reports emerged on WSJ.com. Researcher Jacob Coxon warned that labs are racing toward… Read More

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

London-based card acquirer MADFIN Tech has teamed up with Tribe Payments to underpin its UK merchant-acquiring rollout, using Tribe’s processing stack and 3D Secure tools as it builds out operations. The collaboration, reported on 9 September 2026, is designed to give the young firm a… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 9:51 am By FCA  |  

This post was originally published on fca.org.uk  Mr Woolcott held shares in Touchstone Exploration Inc and stood to benefit financially from any upward movement in the share price had the fake takeover bid been announced to the market. Mr Woolcott admitted creating a fictitious takeover… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 9:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Institutional digital asset markets still suffer from a familiar problem: capital is often trapped in disconnected systems. Liquidity sits across venues, regions, and product types, and the tools used to move it rarely line up with the processes firms already run. EDX Markets and Fireblocks… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 7:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BVNK and Marqeta (NASDAQ: MQ) have joined forces to give companies a simpler way to turn stablecoins into everyday spending tools. The two firms announced a partnership that will let Marqeta clients add digital-dollar functionality to cards, wallets, and other financial products used by both… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 3:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Australia’s financial regulator ASIC has issued a last reminder to digital asset businesses that a temporary enforcement pause is ending. Companies that have been operating under ASIC’s sector-wide no-action position must complete the required licensing steps by 30 September 2026 or risk falling outside the… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 3:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Poland’s lower house of parliament has again fallen short in its bid to overturn a presidential veto on national cryptocurrency legislation, leaving the country without a completed framework to implement European Union digital asset rules. On Friday, lawmakers in the Sejm voted 241 to 198,… Read More

September 10, 2026 @ 2:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Iran-linked cyber spies have been approaching technology specialists in aviation, aerospace and financial services with fabricated job opportunities that conceal previously unseen malware, according to recent findings from Kaspersky. The cluster, which the Russian firm tracks as Mirage Kitten, has focused on developers and other… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 10:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) and Revolut have completed a tightly controlled live test in which an artificial intelligence agent initiated a real purchase on a French Revolut Visa card, authenticated through Visa Payment Passkeys rather than a one-time code, PIN or manual card entry. The trial,… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 5:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Federal investigators are examining reports that scans of millions of American identity documents may have been exposed through a company that verifies IDs for businesses, Bloomberg News reported after a bureau spokesperson confirmed the inquiry. The warning arrived as an underground service calling itself Nexus… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 8:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

French artificial intelligence company Mistral AI has closed a major new financing that underscores Europe’s push for greater technological independence in the sector. The Paris-based firm said it has secured €3 billion in a Series D round that values the company at more than €21… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 6:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A coalition of market operators, including Nasdaq (NASDAQ: NDAQ) and Börse Stuttgart Group, has urged European Union lawmakers to revisit and strengthen proposed updates to the bloc’s distributed ledger technology framework. The group argues that current and planned restrictions, particularly an aggregate activity limit of… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 3:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

El Salvador has not directed taxpayer money toward additional bitcoin purchases since the first review of its IMF-backed loan program last June, according to the International Monetary Fund. Officials in San Salvador instead supplied records showing that coins added after that review arrived as private… Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 3:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

US and UK based investigators have opened a new chapter in the fight against industrial-scale cryptocurrency fraud. On September 3, 2026, officials from both countries signed a first-of-its-kind memorandum of understanding that commits them to pursue the overseas compounds behind investment and romance scams that… Read More