Politics, Legal & Regulation

September 22, 2026 @ 11:34 am By JD Alois  |  

President Donald Trump took the podium at the United Nations today to promote his administration’s success while addressing the audience. The presentation was broad, covering diverse issues such as the war with Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, the ICC, and the economy of the US. At one… Read More

September 22, 2026 @ 10:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Silicon Valley Bank and Sphere Labs have jointly published a report, called Runaway Dollarization, on dollar-based payment stablecoins- effectively, regulated digital dollars. The thesis is that the growth of digital dollars will boost dollarization in a positive way while also reducing reliance on local currencies… Read More

September 22, 2026 @ 4:34 am By FCA  |  

This post was originally published on fca.org.uk  Free debt advice is available to everyone. However, the FCA is concerned that some consumers are being steered towards fee-paying debt solutions that may not be suitable for their needs, sometimes through high pressure sales tactics, misleading information… Read More

September 22, 2026 @ 1:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s financial regulator has stepped up pressure on unregistered digital-asset dealing in the capital, targeting premises suspected of running peer-to-peer cryptocurrency businesses without the approvals required under anti-money-laundering rules. On 10 September 2026, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) joined HM Revenue & Customs and the… Read More

September 21, 2026 @ 10:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Four of the world’s most prominent artificial intelligence developers now face a federal antitrust complaint accusing them of working together to hold back the pace of model improvement. The proposed class action, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, names… Read More

September 21, 2026 @ 5:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bastion Platforms has taken a step toward federal banking oversight after the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) granted preliminary conditional approval for the conversion of its New York state trust company into a national trust bank. The decision, issued on September 18, 2026,… Read More

September 21, 2026 @ 4:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A Hong Kong court has imposed a four-year prison sentence on a former retail banker who accepted more than US$470,000 in Tether (USDT) to lend the appearance of legitimacy to forged standby letters of credit and related documents with a combined face value exceeding US$1.6… Read More

September 21, 2026 @ 4:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

President Donald Trump said over the weekend that the United States will stand up a new “AI Force” and soon name an artificial intelligence czar, framing the move as a way to nurture the industry rather than restrain it. In a Saturday post on Truth… Read More

September 21, 2026 @ 3:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Prediction market operator Polymarket came under fresh scrutiny after a reported wave of stolen-card activity on its US platform coincided with leadership pressure to keep expanding, according to an investigation by The Wall Street Journal. In February 2026, shortly after the regulated U.S. venue began… Read More

September 21, 2026 @ 9:00 am By Press Release  |  

WASHINGTON — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Innovation Task Force today announced it will host the Frontier Forum Series, a series of public roundtables on the technologies that are transforming American financial markets. Each Frontier Forum will provide a venue for public dialogue on the financial technologies and evolving market structures

September 21, 2026 @ 8:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

French data breaches have coincided with a noticeable increase in phone-based cryptocurrency fraud, according to entrepreneur Owen Simonin, better known as Hasheur. The founder and chief executive of the French platform Meria says he has received multiple reports in recent days of callers posing as… Read More

September 21, 2026 @ 7:18 am By FCA  |  

This post was originally published on fca.org.uk  The FCA alleges that Hunter Jones, which sells loan notes, carries out regulated activity without authorisation. The FCA is asking the court to stop Hunter Jones carrying out regulated activity and require money to be returned to investors…. Read More

September 21, 2026 @ 5:17 am By FCA  |  

This post was originally published on fca.org.uk  While the market is working well for consumers who have protection insurance, millions of people remain unprotected. Around 58% of adults have no life insurance, critical illness cover or income protection – and 59% of that group has… Read More

September 20, 2026 @ 9:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Vietnam and Austria are deepening practical cooperation on financial-market supervision, with digital assets at the center of the conversation. On September 15 in Vienna, Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Finance Nguyen Duc Chi met Mariana Kühnel, the newly appointed executive director of Austria’s Financial Market Authority… Read More

September 20, 2026 @ 7:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Arthur Hayes, the BitMEX co-founder who now leads Flop Labs and serves as chief investment officer at Maelstrom, used Bitcoin’s rebound above $81,000 to argue that Washington’s latest market-structure bill was never the real catalyst. In his telling, crypto did not need the Digital Asset… Read More

September 20, 2026 @ 2:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan now argues that the Senate’s failure to advance the CLARITY Act is unlikely to halt the cryptocurrency rally that began in early July. In a September 16 memo, he recast the legislative setback as a temporary obstacle rather than… Read More

September 20, 2026 @ 12:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde personally pressed Greek leaders to stop Binance from receiving a pan-European crypto license, according to a Wall Street Journal account published in mid-September 2026. The report, based on people familiar with the talks and related documents, describes an… Read More

September 19, 2026 @ 7:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut’s latest expansion push arrives alongside a difficult security episode that the company is still managing. The London-based digital bank said this week that Colombia’s financial supervisor had granted it an operating licence, completing the last regulatory hurdle before it can open as a locally… Read More

September 19, 2026 @ 2:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nearly a thousand US retailers and trade groups have asked a federal judge to reject a proposed deal that would resolve a two-decade antitrust fight over Visa (NYSE:V) and Mastercard (NYSE:MA) swipe fees. The Merchant Payments Coalition said 978 businesses and associations filed objections with… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 1:42 pm By FCA  |  

This post was originally published on fca.org.uk