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October 1, 2026 @ 8:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Circle (NYSE: CRCL) and Volante have announced a partnership designed to help banks fold stablecoin payments into the systems they already run, rather than forcing them to stand up a parallel digital asset platform. On September 28, 2026, Volante Technologies, a payments-as-a-service provider whose platform… Read More

October 1, 2026 @ 7:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Small and mid-sized firms that sell or buy across borders are preparing to change how they move money. A Mastercard (NYSE: MA) study produced with Bain & Company finds that 91 percent of internationally active SMEs expect to leave their current cross-border payment provider within… Read More

October 1, 2026 @ 7:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Uphold has rolled out Vault Inheritance, which is described as a legacy-planning option for customers who keep Bitcoin, XRP, and Hedera in the platform’s assisted self-custody wallet. The company framed the product as a response to a problem unique to crypto: legal title can pass… Read More

October 1, 2026 @ 2:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s competition regulator has raised formal concerns that The Brink’s Company’s planned takeover of NCR Atleos could reduce rivalry in parts of the UK cash-machine market. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the $6.6 billion cash-and-stock transaction may be expected to result in a… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 11:30 am By FCA  |  

This post was originally published on fca.org.uk  Lea Paterson CBE and Matthew Tobin have been appointed by the Treasury as non-executive directors, while deputy chief executive Sarah Pritchard has joined the Board as an executive member. Lea Paterson CBE has a career spanning economics, financial… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 11:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Australian lawmakers have formally invited the leaders of two major artificial intelligence companies to appear before a Senate inquiry, following revelations that an autonomous OpenAI system gained unauthorised access to government websites. Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, who chairs the inquiry examining artificial intelligence and data… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 10:19 am By JD Alois  |  

This week, the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, part of the US Senate, published a report on Iran and its use of crypto and shadow banking to evade financial sanctions. The report focused much of its information on Iran’s use of Tether, the issuer of USDT,… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 9:51 am By JD Alois  |  

EstateGuru, an online investment platform focused on secured debt offerings, says its relatively new EstateGuru Grow offering has grown from zero to €7 million invested in one year. In a blog post, EstateGuru shared that the service has grown every quarter. The company accepts investments… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 8:41 am By JD Alois  |  

The United Kingdom has launched regulated crypto activities. Previously, crypto firms operated under a mix of limited registrations and opaque rules as policymakers worked to update the regulatory regime. These firms now fall under the remit of the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which issued… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin is pressing into a densely packed band of long-term holder supply just as derivatives leverage has been stripped from the market. Glassnode’s latest on-chain maps show that more coins held by addresses inactive for months sit between $84,000 and $85,000 than in any other… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 8:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Brazil’s regulated capital markets have taken a notable step toward integrating public blockchain infrastructure. CSD BR, a licensed registrar, central securities depository and settlement system, has launched the first stage of a partnership with Ripple that places selected ownership records on the XRP Ledger while… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 5:27 am By FCA  |  

This post was originally published on fca.org.uk  For the first time, crypto firms operating in the UK will be brought into full FCA regulation, with clear standards covering consumer protection, safeguarding, market integrity and financial resilience. This is a significant milestone, not just for the… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 3:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Paris-based Marble, which builds infrastructure for real-time fraud detection and anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT) programs, has reportedly closed a €6.5 million funding round. The raise would add fuel to a company that has spent the past several years trying to give banks, fintechs,… Read More

September 30, 2026 @ 2:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has taken on an expanded role within institutional blockchain infrastructure after being named a Super Validator on the Canton Network. The appointment, disclosed on 28 September 2026, builds on work already under way through LSEG’s Digital Settlement House, or DiSH,… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 4:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

BAGEY, Baillie Gifford’s Enhanced Yield Fund, a regulated investment fund, is said to be the UK’s first authorized tokenized fund. According to a note from Anchorage Digital, it will provide digital asset custody for the offering, along with other services. Baillie Gifford is a UK-based… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 2:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Swift and a coalition of banks, payment schemes, and technology firms have begun work on linking popular domestic instant-payment systems so that consumers can send money abroad using the same simple identifiers they already use at home. The initiative, announced on 28 September 2026, focuses… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 12:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Meta (NASDAQ: META) has taken a step beyond advertising and consumer products, launching a dedicated unit aimed at selling artificial intelligence tools directly to companies. On September 28, 2026, founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta Enterprise Platform and named Chirantan “CJ” Desai, who… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 9:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Institutional money returned to bitcoin in force last week, even as policy and geopolitics offered little comfort. U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded products absorbed about $2.4 billion in net new capital during the five sessions through September 25, 2026 according to SoSoValue. That was the strongest… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 8:56 am By Michael Wong  |  

Banking software provider Oradian says banks need to overhaul their core technology infrastructure to move generative artificial intelligence from experimentation to production, as most enterprise AI pilots fail to generate measurable returns. Oradian, citing data from MIT’s Project NANDA 2025 report, said 95% of enterprise… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 7:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) used a single Monday in late September 2026 to send two messages at once: the company intends to shape how autonomous AI agents are controlled, and it still sees its own stock as one of the best uses of the cash those… Read More