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
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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
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Capitolis has agreed to purchase eSecLending in a $200 million all-cash deal, a move that adds securities lending to the fintech firm’s platform and widens its reach among the world’s largest asset owners. Announced on September 29, 2026, the transaction would combine Capitolis’s financial-resource optimization… Read More
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ABN AMRO Bank (ABN.AS) and Infosys (NYSE: INFY) have agreed to extend their long-running technology partnership, with a sharper focus on simplifying the Dutch lender’s IT environment and spreading artificial intelligence more widely across the organization. The announcement, issued on 30 September 2026, frames the… Read More
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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
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HSBC (NYSE: HSBC) has taken a visible step toward introducing a regulated Hong Kong dollar stablecoin, announcing that the token will be called HSBC RedCoin. The name was disclosed on 30 September 2026 as the bank prepares a commercial rollout later in the year. Officials… Read More
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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
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Citigroup (NYSE: C) has recently activated instant payments across several countries through Swift’s payments scheme, giving correspondent banks a simpler path into domestic real-time rails without building a local presence in each market. Announced on 29 September 2026, the capability is delivered through Citi’s WorldLink… Read More
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A few months ago, Crowdfund Capital Advisors (CCA) submitted a petition to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to increase the Reg CF [Regulation Crowdfunding] funding cap from $5 million to $20 million. In general, industry insiders support the move, viewing it as more closely… Read More
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ZA Bank is one of the first approved digital banks in Hong Kong. This week, the company reported “sustained profitability.” According to a release, for the 6 months ending in June, the bank generated a net profit of HKD 70.6 million (~USD 9million), an increase… Read More
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Beta. Initial Form 1-A only. Target raise is the stated Amount to be Raised, totaled. Compared with the same dates one year earlier.
Q2: Apr 1, 2026 - Jun 30, 2026 vs Apr 1, 2025 - Jun 30, 2025
| This Q2 | Year prior | Change | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Filings | 47 | 39 | +20.5% |
| Target raise | $1.53B | $1.06B | +44.7% |
Source: DisclosureQuest. Initial Form 1-A only.
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This display counts initial Form 1-A filings only. It does not represent subsequent filings, including Form 1-A/A amendments or Form 1-A POS post-qualification updates filed by the issuer. Amounts are the stated Amount to be Raised on the initial filing, not capital raised and not amounts revised in later filings.
Regulation Crowdfunding
YTD as of October 2026. Initial Form C only. C/A excluded. Amounts are as-filed, not capital raised. DisclosureQuest
Valley National Bancorp has reached a definitive agreement to purchase Bluevine Inc., a digital banking platform built for small businesses, in a transaction valued at about $340 million. The announcement, made on September 28, 2026, positions the deal as a way for Valley to strengthen… Read More
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Dogecoin has long been known as a simple, widely recognized payments network. That reputation is starting to change. DogeOS, an application layer built by the team behind the MyDoge wallet, has opened a public testnet intended to let developers deploy Ethereum-style smart contracts while leaving… Read More
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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
Read more in: Blockchain & Digital Assets, Global, Politics, Legal & Regulation | Tagged Crypto Gateway, fca, uk, united kingdom, xapo bank
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
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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
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Asia Pacific businesses are demanding faster cross-border payments as a wider range of payment providers and methods reshapes the international payments market, according to new research from Nium and financial research firm Celent. The study found that 73% of businesses in the region want international… Read More
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
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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
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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
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Base, the Ethereum Layer 2 incubated by Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN), has activated Cobalt, its third mainnet upgrade of 2026. The hard fork went live on September 30 after a Sepolia rollout the week before. The release focuses on two user-facing changes: Validity Transactions, which let traders… Read More
Read more in: Blockchain & Digital Assets | Tagged base, cobalt, coinbase, integration, product update
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