September 18, 2026 @ 2:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Envestnet has signed a definitive agreement to buy Vestmark, a move aimed at strengthening its wealth-technology platform as advisors demand more advanced trading, tax, and portfolio tools. The companies announced the transaction on September 9, 2026. Financial terms were not disclosed. Closing is expected in… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 12:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

While some see crypto and digital asset services as a negative for traditional finance, more specifically, smaller firms, the reality is quite different. All forms of finance will enter the digital age including digital assets like tokenized securities, stablecoins and other assets. This week, Coinbase… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 11:16 am By JD Alois  |  

A seismic shift for global finance as the US regulator brings the $75 trillion plus US equity market into the digital age As the tokenization market is predicted to quickly top trillions of dollars in securities within a few years, global participants in the tokenization… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 10:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European payments group Nexi and Agentic Commerce Optimization specialist ReFiBuy have joined forces to help merchants stay visible as shoppers lean more heavily on AI assistants. Announced on 17 September 2026 from Milan and Raleigh, the collaboration aims to keep product catalogues ready for evaluation,… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 10:21 am By JD Alois  |  

CI has received dozens of comments about the US Senate’s failure to advance the CLARITY Act. The legislation would have protected consumers while enabling innovation with defined regulatory oversight. This common-sense approach was crushed by midterm politics and the Democratic Party’s refusal to give Republicans… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 7:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

US officials have added an Iranian digital asset platform to the sanctions list, saying it helped move large bitcoin payments tied to Tehran’s security apparatus. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced the designations on September 17, 2026, as part of Operation Economic… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 6:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Singapore-based stablecoin payments company dtcpay has completed its Series A financing at US$25 million after bringing Japan’s SBI Group in as a strategic investor. The round was first led earlier in 2026 by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India. SBI Group is participating through SBI… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 5:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

WisdomTree (NYSE: WT) and MoonPay have unveiled a partnership aimed at widening how eligible American investors can reach tokenized investment products, with the first focus on a digital Treasury money-market fund. The firms said they will use MoonPay’s payments and blockchain rails to create a… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 3:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Payward, the company behind Kraken, has outlined plans to give eligible U.S. customers access to perpetual futures that settle and match on a public blockchain rather than a conventional centralized venue. The first destination would be Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 framework, which lets a third party create,… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 12:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

North Korea has expanded a covert campaign to place information-technology staff inside American firms by recruiting people in third countries to help hide the true origin of job applicants, according to US officials and cybersecurity researchers. The effort previously relied heavily on stolen US identities… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 11:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE) has introduced a dedicated reference data product for privately originated credit instruments, extending work that began earlier this year with unique deal identifiers. The offering, branded ICE Private Credit Reference Data, is intended to give lenders, asset managers and other counterparties… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 10:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

X Money, the Fintech segment of social media platform X, has added a new trading pathway to its cashtag system, giving US users a shorter route from market conversation to an actual brokerage or crypto exchange. The company announced the US Cashtag Partner Program on… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 8:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

South Korea’s police have advanced a months-long inquiry into domestic use of Polymarket from investigation into formal charging. Twenty-six local participants on the crypto prediction platform have been booked on suspicion of illegal gambling, and 18 of those cases have already been sent to prosecutors…. Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 8:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Circle Internet Group (NYSE: CRCL) has opened the public mainnet of Arc, an open Layer-1 blockchain the company positions as infrastructure for markets, fast settlement, and automated onchain activity. The network went live on September 16, 2026, after a private mainnet period and a public… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 4:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

tZERO, a pioneer in the tokenization sector, has commented on the Innovation Exemption order published by the Securities and Exchange Commission today.  The innovation exemption supports tokenized assets or digital securities. A tokenized securities venue, or TSV, can trade tokenized NMS stocks (NYSE/Nasdaq listings) through… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 4:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

OKX released a report, in partnership with Token Terminal, stating that RWAs [real-world assets] futures have surpassed crypto futures in trading volume. In brief, onchain perpetual futures markets for traditional assets have become as busy as onchain betting markets for crypto. According to the write-up,… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 2:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Zcash (ZEC) led Thursday’s cryptocurrency rebound after US policymakers delivered their first rate increase since 2023, a move that markets largely treated as already expected rather than a shock. The privacy token advanced roughly 23 percent over 24 hours and traded near $1,369. Bitcoin rose… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 2:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Grab Holdings (NASDAQ: GRAB) has agreed to take a controlling interest in Atome Financial, a Singapore-based digital lending platform owned by Advance Intelligence Group, in a two-stage transaction that would significantly expand Grab’s consumer-credit business across Southeast Asia. Under definitive agreements announced on 15 September… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 12:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

As expected, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published its “Innovation Exemption” for tokenized or digital securities. The new rules will allow tokenized securities to trade on marketplaces or Tokenized Securities Venues (TSVs), each of which is a “TSV” under the definition of “exchange”… Read More

September 17, 2026 @ 11:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Nik Storonsky, CEO and co-founder of digital bank Revolut, was in France this week after receiving approval for a French banking license. Speaking with Les Echos, the country’s leading financial publication, Storonsky said Revolut may dual-list its shares on Nasdaq and the London Stock Exchange… Read More