Global

September 26, 2026 @ 2:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Harry Adams, the entrepreneur who established the foreign-exchange specialist Argentex, has obtained a fresh capital injection for Tenora, the fintech he launched after departing his previous company. Irish payments and currency group Fexco is committing £7.5 million, split between a £5.5 million equity stake and… Read More

September 26, 2026 @ 11:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The European Central Bank (ECB) has formally begun work on whether its pan-European instant settlement platform can be joined to Brazil’s public real-time payment network. On 24 September 2026 the ECB Governing Council authorised a feasibility assessment of an interconnection between TARGET Instant Payment Settlement… Read More

September 26, 2026 @ 11:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) has highlighted an unusual split inside the U.S. stock market that, in the bank’s view, looks uncomfortably close to the late-1990s technology boom. A record share of S&P 500 companies now display negative beta, meaning they have recently tended to fall when… Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 3:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Large institutional investors increasingly describe Bitcoin (BTC) as a digital counterpart to gold, yet they still place it inside the same portfolio sleeve they use for technology and other crypto-assets. That contradiction sits at the center of a new Bitwise research study based on interviews… Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 9:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Swedish open banking company Trustly is reducing its workforce by about a quarter, eliminating roughly 200 positions worldwide as it tries to simplify its structure and put more money behind a smaller set of priorities. The company, based in Stockholm, employs more than 800 people… Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 9:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A group of the UK’s largest banking institutions has moved tokenised bank money out of laboratory tests and into actual customer activity, completing the first live retail transactions using digital representations of ordinary sterling deposits. The work sits inside the Great British Tokenized Deposit programme,… Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 9:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital bank Revolut has become entangled in another customer-data scare after a security incident at US brokerage partner DriveWealth. The event is separate from an earlier September episode at Revolut itself. This time, the exposure occurred on DriveWealth’s systems, not inside Revolut’s own infrastructure. DriveWealth… Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 9:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has called on EU policymakers to consider bringing crypto-asset lending within the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation as part of a wider review of the bloc’s digital asset rulebook. In its response to the European Commission’s targeted consultation, published on 24… Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 8:14 am By FCA  |  

This post was originally published on fca.org.uk  You should be cautious if you are approached by a claims management company (CMC) or a law firm. For most customers, there is no benefit in involving a third party in reclaiming your assets. If you use a… Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 5:12 am By FCA  |  

This post was originally published on fca.org.uk  The FCA was concerned the firms were misusing their authorised status to mislead consumers. Three other firms are currently cancelling their permissions. The FCA has been challenging CFD firms that carry out little UK business but use their… Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 12:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut is taking what appears to be a distinctly conservative path on credit even as it builds out a full banking presence in more countries. Rather than following the traditional model of recycling large volumes of customer deposits into loans, the fintech intends to keep… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 6:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdcube, a leading online investment platform in the UK and Europe, says secondaries have quickly become a significant part of its business. According to a blog post, Crowdcube reports that £543 million in PISCES secondaries are in the pipeline. In total, including the PISCES listings,… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 1:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdcube has just listed an offering of shares in Veremark, a screening and background-check firm that supports employers. According to the offering page, Veremark is offering shares at £6.34. The Series B funding round in February valued the company at about $100 million and raised… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 10:06 am By JD Alois  |  

Crypto investment firm Keyrock has announced the launch of Keyrock Securities, a subsidiary that supports tokenized securities and institutional derivatives. According to a release, Keyrock Securities is a dealer registered in the Cayman Islands via the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority under the Securities Investment Business… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 9:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) research suggests that familiar banking-style safeguards could sharply lift US consumer interest in stablecoins, even though most Americans still know little about the category. The payments company released its Money Travels 2026 report on September 23, 2026. The US portion of the… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether’s refusal to seek authorization under Europe’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework was driven by one reserve rule rather than a general objection to oversight. MiCA requires issuers of significant stablecoins to keep at least 60 percent of backing assets as deposits with commercial banks. Chief… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 3:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ethical researchers appear to have done what many Coldcard victims had hoped for: they reached 52.37 bitcoin before thieves could empty the exposed wallets. Alex Thorn, Galaxy Digital’s (NASDAQ: GLXY) head of firmwide research, said those coins have now been gathered into a single address… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 12:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Anthropic has reportedly taken a first step toward the safety framework its chief executive outlined earlier this month, naming Accenture (NYSE: ACN) as an on-site independent reviewer of its most advanced systems. The arrangement is meant to put outside scrutiny inside the lab itself, rather… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 5:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hashed, the global crypto venture firm, has agreed to serve as the anchor investor in a new private credit vehicle aimed at digital-asset institutions. The fund is targeting $300 million and will be managed by Thoro Capital Management, a platform set up by Abu Dhabi-based… Read More

September 23, 2026 @ 1:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Blockchain.com are “exploring” 24/7 trading using tokenized shares. This would include US equities and ETFs. These securities would be made available to investors worldwide. The agreement is said to include deep market intelligence as the two sides share… Read More