Global

September 5, 2026 @ 1:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Euroclear and HSBC (NYSE: HSBC) have unveiled a partnership to introduce AutoFX, an automated foreign-exchange service aimed at helping securities-market participants handle the shift to shorter settlement cycles in Europe and the United Kingdom. The two organisations said the offering will fold currency conversion and… Read More

September 4, 2026 @ 9:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Hargreaves Lansdown, one of the UK’s largest retail investment platform, has begun listing Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded notes for eligible clients, ending a long period in which it stood apart from most rivals on crypto access. From 3 September 2026, the firm made nine products… Read More

September 4, 2026 @ 8:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OpenAI has reportedly pledged $1 billion in subsidized access to its Daybreak cybersecurity tools, training, and technical support for organizations that guard essential public services. The commitment, announced September 3, 2026, is designed to be used over roughly the next six months and begins with… Read More

September 3, 2026 @ 9:02 am By JD Alois  |  

Hugging Face, a repository for open source artificial intelligence models, has been acquired by NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) for $12,930,300,000. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2027. The announcement did not come as a surprise as markets had anticipated the move last… Read More

September 3, 2026 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Belgium’s National Bank has publicly identified Wise Europe SA, part of Wise Group PLC (NASDAQ: WSE), as the first firm named under a strengthened policy for disclosing anti-money laundering enforcement actions. The publications, dated 25 August 2026, mark the start of a more transparent approach… Read More

September 3, 2026 @ 5:12 am By FCA  |  

This post was originally published on fca.org.uk  Mr Thomas was a director and financial adviser at DPT Financial Solutions Limited. Over 5 years Mr Thomas advised 53 clients about 63 transfers out of defined benefit pension schemes and is believed to have earned more than… Read More

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

Dutch payments group Mollie has formally closed its takeover of UK bank-payments specialist GoCardless, bringing to an end a deal first agreed in December 2025. The combination creates a single European financial-services platform serving more than 350,000 businesses in over 30 markets, pairing Mollie’s card-acquiring… Read More

September 3, 2026 @ 1:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Russia’s largest bank has issued a cautious but sizable outlook for the country’s newly legalized cryptocurrency market. Sberbank Deputy Chairman Anatoly Popov said licensed trading platforms could handle roughly 3.5 trillion to 4 trillion rubles—about $46 billion—during the first 12 months after the rules take… 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 @ 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 1, 2026 @ 11:46 am By JD Alois  |  

Republic Europe has announced an opportunity to own shares in Mercury, a San Francisco-based neobank, through a secondary offering listed on its platform. Secondaries, or issued shares in private firms, have become an important revenue generator for securities crowdfunding platforms. Shares of more mature private… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 11:08 am By JD Alois  |  

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) and Payward (Kraken’s parent company) announced a partnership today to begin tokenizing shares, with more digital asset innovation in the pipeline. Indicating its interest in pursuing tokenization or digital securities, the LSE stated: “The London Stock Exchange is assessing a… 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 @ 6:40 am By JD Alois  |  

Payward, Kraken’s parent company, is partnering with the London Stock Exchange (LSE) to enable tokenized stocks. In a post on X, Payward said it would modernize UK equity markets by working with the LSE. “[The] LSE plans to list the full xStocks suite on LSE 24,… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 4:57 am By FCA  |  

This post was originally published on fca.org.uk  As students return to college and university this month, the FCA is urging young adults and parents to check whether they have a forgotten Child Trust Fund waiting to be claimed – potentially worth thousands of pounds. Figures… Read More

September 1, 2026 @ 2:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple is no longer treating quantum risk as a theoretical footnote. In late August 2026, Ayo Akinyele, the company’s senior director of engineering, said the XRP Ledger is being prepared now so that wallets, settlement, and institutional rails can change before a so-called Q-Day arrives—the… Read More

August 31, 2026 @ 5:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

On-chain records show that potentially taxable cryptocurrency activity worldwide exceeded $457 billion in 2025, according to analysis from Chainalysis. The United States accounted for the single largest national total, about $112.6 billion. Significant volumes appeared in every other country examined as well. The figures combine… Read More