Bitcoin has long carried a reputation for extreme price swings that set it apart from conventional investments. A recent analysis from Grayscale, however, places those movements in a more familiar context by measuring them against individual stocks in the S&P 500. According to the firm’s… Read More
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Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) brought in roughly 1,000 external contractors during the second quarter of 2026 to help its existing workforce close software vulnerabilities uncovered by advanced AI models, including Anthropic’s Mythos, CEO Brian Moynihan disclosed in an interview with CNBC following the bank’s… Read More
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South Korean brokerage Meritz Securities has entered a strategic memorandum of understanding with the Canton Foundation, marking a significant step toward exploring the tokenization of domestic financial assets and their potential integration into worldwide institutional markets. The agreement, formalized earlier this month at Meritz’s headquarters… Read More
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Ripple has expanded its institutional prime brokerage offering by enabling clients to trade real-world asset (RWA) perpetual swaps that track traditional financial instruments. Announced on October 15, 2026, the initiative through Ripple Prime gives professional traders continuous access to more than one hundred reference markets… Read More
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Uniform Labs, the company behind Multiliquid, has completed a seed funding round led by Polychain. The round also drew participation from Strobe Ventures, CMT Digital, Metalayer Ventures, Generative Ventures, and Circle Ventures. Combined with earlier capital, the company has now raised a total of $8… Read More
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Mastercard (NYSE: MA) has unveiled a new infrastructure offering designed to blend conventional financial tools with digital assets. On October 15, 2026, the company, together with BVNK, introduced the Mastercard Global Money Platform. This marks the first significant product combination following Mastercard’s acquisition of the… Read More
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Sweden’s central bank has formally asked lawmakers to begin preparatory work on legislation that could enable a digital version of the krona, citing rapid changes in the payments landscape driven in part by the European Central Bank’s advancing it central bank digital currency (CBDC) project…. Read More
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Southeast Asia’s fintech sector attracted $2.3 billion in funding in the first nine months of 2026, more than triple the amount raised a year earlier, according to a report by data intelligence firm Tracxn. The rise in fintech funding comes as a handful of large transactions… Read More
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Binance.US, the U.S.-focused cryptocurrency trading platform, is reportedly exploring a new private capital raise of as much as $100 million that would value the company at approximately $1 billion. According to people familiar with the confidential discussions, the potential round is intended to strengthen the… Read More
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Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India has led a $29 million Series B funding round in RapidCanvas, an enterprise artificial intelligence startup seeking to help businesses deploy AI applications at scale. The round also included Hitachi Ventures, alongside existing investors Accel, Peak XV Partners, Valley… 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.
YTD: Jan 1, 2026 - Oct 22, 2026 vs Jan 1, 2025 - Oct 22, 2025
| This YTD | Year prior | Change | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Filings | 130 | 125 | +4.0% |
| Target raise | $3.37B | $3.54B | -4.7% |
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The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has introduced a framework to guide the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the banking sector. The move comes as as financial institutions explore AI systems capable of planning and executing tasks with greater autonomy. The “ART” Framework… Read More
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TD Cowen increased its price target on Strive, Inc. (NASDAQ:ASST) by about 27 percent, from $44 to $56, while retaining a Buy rating. Analysts Lance Vitanza and Jonnathan Navarrete cited the firm’s bitcoin buying activity, which has already surpassed their projected total for the full… Read More
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The People’s Bank of China granted Visa (NYSE: V) approval to begin formal preparations for a bank card clearing institution through its local subsidiary, Visa Information Technology (Beijing) Co. Ltd. The decision allows the U.S. payments company to advance toward handling renminbi-denominated card transactions inside… Read More
Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) has released a detailed set of technical priorities aimed at guiding Bitcoin’s shift toward quantum-resistant security. In a blog post dated October 13, 2026, the digital assets focused firm emphasized the need for proactive steps on signature scheme upgrades and the gradual… Read More
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Brooklyn prosecutors have dismantled the core online infrastructure of a far-reaching cryptocurrency investment fraud that preyed on Russian-speaking residents of the United States, with a disproportionate number of victims in Brooklyn itself. District Attorney Eric Gonzalez disclosed on October 14, 2026, that his office’s Virtual… Read More
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HSBC (NYSE: HSBC) and Ant Digital Technologies announced the successful completion of a technical verification exercise exploring how artificial intelligence agents could handle both service interactions and payments in a single automated flow. The pilot demonstrated an end-to-end process in which software agents identified digital… Read More
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Canada’s development finance institution FinDev Canada has signed a $50 million loan to Mongolia’s Golomt Bank, with 30% of the proceeds earmarked for climate and nature-related projects and the remainder allocated to MSMEs. The financing marks FinDev Canada’s first transaction with a designated nature finance… Read More
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Ripple has announced two significant developments that expand its role in institutional finance. On October 14, 2026, the company formed a partnership with DriveWealth, a brokerage-as-a-service platform that supplies infrastructure to more than 100 partners worldwide, including fintech firms, digital wallets, and financial institutions offering… Read More
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Prometheum and Federated Hermes (NYSE: FHI) have recently formed a partnership aimed at bringing tokenized fund shares into the regulated US brokerage system that serves most American investors. Announced on October 13, 2026, the collaboration pairs Federated Hermes, the active asset manager overseeing roughly $912… Read More
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An early backer of the self-custody infrastructure project Safe has asked Switzerland’s foundation supervisor to examine the board of the entity that oversees the ecosystem, after private talks failed to produce the governance changes it sought. Greenfield Capital said this week that it submitted a… Read More
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