July 19, 2026 @ 9:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has collaborated closely with the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA) to develop and expand a specialized AI assistant. This initiative is reshaping daily operations for thousands of employees at headquarters and in delegations spanning more than 100 countries. The… Read More

July 19, 2026 @ 7:52 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Singapore-founded crypto payments infrastructure provider Paymonade has received a Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) license from Liechtenstein’s Financial Market Authority. The license allows it to offer regulated crypto-asset services across all 30 European Economic Area (EEA) member states under a single passportable license. The approval comes… Read More

July 19, 2026 @ 6:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Debates over the best ways to safeguard digital assets often intensify when key industrt voices weigh in. Recently, well-known blockchain investigator ZachXBT sparked widespread discussion by sharply criticizing dedicated hardware devices, labeling them unreliable for serious use in storing funds or approving transfers. His comments,… Read More

July 19, 2026 @ 6:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Federal banking and financial regulators have allowed the statutory one-year period for completing implementing regulations under the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act to lapse without delivering finalized rules. July 18, 2026—one year after the law’s enactment—passed without the full set… Read More

July 19, 2026 @ 6:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As part of a detailed analysis released recently, on-chain analytics platform CryptoQuant (NASDAQ:MSTR) highlighted growing financial strains at Strategy, the prominent Bitcoin-focused firm led by Michael Saylor.  Researchers pointed to a significant deterioration in the company’s liquidity position, driven by surging dividend obligations on its… Read More

July 19, 2026 @ 6:08 pm By Michael Wong  |  

A consortium led by Swedish private equity firm EQT has raised its tender offer for Japanese online platform operator Kakaku.com to 3,450 yen ($21.25) per share, overtaking a competing proposal from a consortium led by SoftBank-owned LY Corp and Bain Capital as the battle for… Read More

July 19, 2026 @ 3:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee (SBCFAC) will meet this week to discuss initial public offerings (IPOs) and capital formation. Part of the broader ambition of making IPOs “great again,” as well as improving access to capital, including online… Read More

July 19, 2026 @ 2:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

T. Rowe Price (NASDAQ: TRW), a global investment management company known for its retirement expertise, has introduced a product in the digital asset space. On July 16, 2026, the firm debuted the T. Rowe Price Active Crypto ETF (ticker: TKNZ) on NYSE Arca, marking the… Read More

July 19, 2026 @ 2:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Multicoin Capital has provided $1.75 million in seed funding as the sole institutional backer for Trasia Labs, the developer of a specialized perpetual futures trading platform built natively on Hyperliquid. This transaction represents Multicoin’s entry into the Hyperliquid ecosystem and supports a project explicitly designed… Read More

July 19, 2026 @ 2:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Deloitte has unveiled a new platform designed to accelerate the remediation of software vulnerabilities. Powered by Anthropic’s advanced Claude AI models, the solution targets one of the most pressing issues in modern cybersecurity: the widening divide between identifying threats and effectively fixing them. Enterprises today… Read More

July 19, 2026 @ 1:04 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Deep Finance Capital has launched in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), positioning itself as the emirate’s first AI-native asset manager. The DFSA-regulated firm will serve institutional and professional investors across real estate, private equity, commodities and special situations. Deep Finance Capital emerged from Rasameel… Read More

July 19, 2026 @ 11:58 am By Michael Wong  |  

Bank of America has appointed Sonali Theisen to lead its global digital assets platform as the Wall Street lender expands its work on blockchain-based financial services. Theisen will oversee the design, development, expansion and governance of the bank’s blockchain infrastructure. Her responsibilities will cover tokenized… Read More

July 18, 2026 @ 10:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) apperas to finally be taking concrete steps to fuse cutting-edge technologies with its established banking operations by elevating experienced professionals to specialized roles. This initiative highlights the institution’s focus on harnessing blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and artificial intelligence to enhance efficiency, innovation,… Read More

July 18, 2026 @ 3:53 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Emergent has raised $130 million in a Series C funding round that values the AI software creation platform at $1.5 billion, a fivefold increase in four months and enough to give it unicorn status a year after its public launch. The round was led by… Read More

July 18, 2026 @ 2:30 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Elliptic launches continuous monitoring Elliptic’s solution gives crypto compliance teams a continuously accurate view of customer risk rather than a picture frozen at the last screening. It pairs event detection with fully configurable alerting. Continuous Monitoring detects the full range of risk-changing events rather than… Read More

July 18, 2026 @ 2:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kraken, a cryptocurrency exchange that also offers stock trading, has introduced a fresh lineup of options contracts on Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH). This move aims to make sophisticated derivatives trading available to a broader group of professional and institutional investors as the crypto market… Read More

July 18, 2026 @ 12:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas has outlined a compelling historical parallel between Bitcoin exchange-traded funds and gold ETFs, suggesting that investors in the newer products could experience a similar mix of rapid early success, extended periods of disappointment, and eventual recovery. In his latest commentary,… Read More

July 18, 2026 @ 11:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Gate US has formed a key partnership with SoFi (NASDAQ: SOFI), a nationally chartered banking institution. This collaboration positions SoFi as a vital infrastructure partner, enhancing Gate US’s capabilities to deliver secure, efficient, and regulation-compliant financial services to US based users. The partnership underscores Gate US’s… Read More

July 18, 2026 @ 10:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Recent analysis from on-chain intelligence platform Token Terminal highlights a significant milestone for Ethereum in the evolving landscape of tokenized financial products. Over the past year, the network has recorded the highest absolute capital inflows into tokenized exchange-traded funds (ETFs) compared to any other blockchain…. Read More

July 18, 2026 @ 10:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The estate of the collapsed crypto exchange FTX is set to release approximately $900 million to eligible claimants in what represents its fifth major wave of repayments. This development, detailed in a recent announcement, highlights the continued progress in addressing obligations stemming from the exchange‘s… Read More