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October 4, 2026 @ 3:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

On Thursday, October 2, 2026, attackers briefly seized Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) official account on X and used the company’s enormous audience to push a speculative token built around Clippy, the long-retired Office paperclip assistant. The @Microsoft profile, which has more than 13 million followers, was under… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 12:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) issued tokenized equities posted the sharpest weekly rise in deposits into decentralized finance venues among major issuers, according to fresh on-chain tracking from Token Terminal. Over the past seven days, balances of those Coinbase tokens sitting in DeFi protocols climbed by $5.6… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 9:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European market supervisors are examining whether Binance is still providing crypto-asset services to customers in the European Union without the authorization the bloc’s new regime now requires. Reporting by the FT says the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and national authorities in France, Germany and… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 5:58 am By Michael Wong  |  

FMO, the Dutch entrepreneurial development bank, will provide a $10 million equivalent loan in Vietnamese dong to Vietnam-based microfinance institution Tinh Thuong One Member Limited Liability Microfinance Institution (TYM), according to project information seen by CrowdFund Insider. The loan will support lending to rural micro-entrepreneurs,… Read More

October 3, 2026 @ 12:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Arthur Hayes, chief investment officer of the crypto fund Maelstrom and chief executive of Flop Labs, is arguing that the artificial-intelligence buildout is less a durable earnings story than a credit boom whose eventual strain could force official liquidity back into digital assets. In his… Read More

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

MetaMask has begun withdrawing a large set of Ethereum validators from active duty after reporting a security incident inside part of its infrastructure. The company says ordinary wallet users were not exposed and that customer funds were not put at risk. The response is concentrated… Read More

October 3, 2026 @ 10:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Barclays (NYSE: BCS) is widening its partnership with Anthropic, bringing the Claude family of models deeper into day-to-day work across the British universal bank. The October 1, 2026 announcement frames the move as an effort to place secure, enterprise-grade systems throughout global operations, with particular… Read More

October 2, 2026 @ 6:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Government bond markets worldwide came under renewed strain at the start of October as investors reassessed the path of inflation and growth, pushing sovereign yields to levels not seen in decades and lifting borrowing costs across major economies. The benchmark 10-year US Treasury yield briefly… Read More

October 2, 2026 @ 4:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Evernorth Holdings has cleared a decisive shareholder hurdle on the way to a planned Nasdaq listing, after investors in its blank-check merger partner backed the deal that would turn the firm into a publicly traded vehicle centered on XRP. Evernorth and Armada Acquisition Corp. II… Read More

October 2, 2026 @ 8:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Core Lightning maintainers issued an urgent notice on October 2, 2026, telling operators of the open-source Bitcoin Lightning implementation to move off older builds after receiving reports that attackers are actively probing nodes that have not applied recent security updates. In a post from the… Read More

October 2, 2026 @ 8:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zilch, the London-founded consumer credit fintech, has taken a concrete step toward going public by inviting investment banks to compete for advisory roles on a possible stock market debut as early as 2027. The move, reported in late September 2026, would represent a notable boost… Read More

October 2, 2026 @ 8:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Friday’s September employment report is expected to show that US hiring cooled after August’s unexpectedly strong gain, even as the labor market remains broadly intact. Economists surveyed ahead of the Bureau of Labor Statistics release look for roughly 90,000 nonfarm payroll jobs to have been… Read More

October 2, 2026 @ 6:57 am By FCA  |  

This post was originally published on fca.org.uk  The FCA and Practitioner Panel annual survey of regulated firms provides valuable insights into how firms think we’re performing. The latest survey shows 79% of firms are highly satisfied with their relationship with the FCA, up from 74%… Read More

October 2, 2026 @ 1:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Trading Technologies International has completed the purchase of TRAFiX, a New York–based specialist in equities and equity-options order and execution management. The deal, announced and closed on September 30, 2026, is intended to close a long-standing gap in TT’s product set and move the Chicago… Read More

October 2, 2026 @ 12:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) and Lloyds Banking Group have finished a week-long live experiment in using stablecoins for institutional settlement, showing that funds can move across borders far more quickly than on conventional rails—even when banks are closed. The trial, announced on 30 September 2026, is… Read More

October 1, 2026 @ 11:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fraudsters drained more than 766 ETH—valued by the community at roughly $2 million—by launching a counterfeit Ethereum Layer 2 that posed as GIWA before the real network ever went live. GIWA is an OP Stack project from Dunamu, the operator of South Korea’s Upbit exchange…. Read More

October 1, 2026 @ 6:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Miami-based Fintech Jeeves has closed a $110 million equity round to grow its stablecoin-native banking platform for companies that operate across borders. CoinFund led the financing, with AllianceBernstein, Andreessen Horowitz, Coinbase Ventures, CRV, GIC, Global PayTech Ventures, ParaFi, Vista, Wintermute, Y Combinator and additional backers… Read More

October 1, 2026 @ 10:12 am By JD Alois  |  

This week the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced a new “Crypto Gateway“ for firms to register to provide crypto services in the country. A grace period applies: firms must apply by February 28, 2027, to provide services, with the new regime coming into force… Read More

October 1, 2026 @ 9:27 am By JD Alois  |  

The Payments Association in the UK advocates for the payments and transfer sectors, including crypto participants. Today, the Payments Association says it has acquired its European counterpart, the Payments Association – EU (TPA-EU). Any monetary considerations were not revealed. Together, the two entities will now… Read More

October 1, 2026 @ 8:58 am By JD Alois  |  

Stablecoin rewards, or yield, are a contentious topic in the US and Europe. In the US, the battle is ongoing, but so far the legacy banking sector has the edge, as direct yield has been banned. The GENIUS Act, the US stablecoin law, bars permitted… Read More