Tagged: data

October 8, 2026 @ 6:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Europol has warned that advances in quantum computing could eventually place crypto-assets at risk, and it is urging the industry, policymakers and technical operators to start preparing well before any such capability exists.On 7 October 2026 the EU law-enforcement agency released two studies examining how… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 5:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FIS (NYSE: FIS) has embedded Spade’s real-time merchant enrichment tools into its debit processing stack, giving issuing banks and credit unions cleaner merchant identities at the moment a transaction is processed. The move is aimed at statements that actually look familiar to cardholders, fewer avoidable… Read More

September 29, 2026 @ 1:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance-owned CoinMarketCap has taken over Coinglass, a widely used platform that tracks cryptocurrency derivatives activity, according to an official announcement dated September 25, 2026. The deal is already closed. Neither company revealed the purchase price. CoinMarketCap is one of the most frequently cited sites for… Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 9:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital bank Revolut has become entangled in another customer-data scare after a security incident at US brokerage partner DriveWealth. The event is separate from an earlier September episode at Revolut itself. This time, the exposure occurred on DriveWealth’s systems, not inside Revolut’s own infrastructure. DriveWealth… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin’s (BTC) latest rebound has cleared several cost-basis hurdles that capped the market through much of 2026, and on-chain researchers at Glassnode now frame the $95,000–$97,000 band as the first genuine stress test if the advance continues. The firm notes that BTC price has moved… Read More

September 22, 2026 @ 2:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Argentina has formally pledged to take part in a worldwide system that will automatically circulate information on cryptocurrency traders and investors, with the first exchanges scheduled no later than September 2029. The commitment, recorded by the OECD’s Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information… Read More

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 18, 2026 @ 3:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BMLL Technologies has struck a partnership with Kalshi that brings the prediction-market venue’s historical order-book records onto BMLL’s institutional data platform. Announced on 17 September 2026 from London and New York, the deal folds Kalshi’s CFTC-regulated event-contract history into the same high-fidelity, multi-asset coverage that… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 2:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple has expanded the artificial intelligence tools inside its enterprise treasury platform, positioning the update as a more controlled way for corporate finance teams to use AI without handing over final authority on money movement. On September 10, 2026, the company said it is broadening… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 4:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut customers have been told that a subset of their most sensitive records was released after the company treated a fraudulent information demand as a genuine government inquiry. The episode became public on 11–12 September 2026 after affected users received notices and investigators circulated excerpts…. Read More

September 9, 2026 @ 5:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Federal investigators are examining reports that scans of millions of American identity documents may have been exposed through a company that verifies IDs for businesses, Bloomberg News reported after a bureau spokesperson confirmed the inquiry. The warning arrived as an underground service calling itself Nexus… Read More

September 7, 2026 @ 12:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Hardware wallet maker Trezor has confirmed that a data incident at its fulfillment partner ShipMonk reached far more people than first announced. In a September 4, 2026 update to its official notice, the company said ShipMonk contacted it on September 2 with word that stolen… Read More

August 21, 2026 @ 5:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and PT Bank Negara Indonesia (Persero) Tbk, known as BNI, revealed a new strategic collaboration centered on data and analytics. The agreement aims to bolster BNI’s efforts in serving clients, managing data responsibly, and advancing its digital initiatives. Through this… Read More

August 9, 2026 @ 3:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

US-listed spot Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded funds attracted a combined $1.1 billion in net inflows during the most recent trading week.  This performance stands as the most robust weekly result for these vehicles since April, according to the latest figures and data compiled by SoSoValue…. Read More

August 9, 2026 @ 9:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TS Imagine has added market-implied probabilities from prediction markets to its institutional risk and portfolio management platform. The new capability  lets clients treat the expected outcomes of major economic, political, regulatory and geopolitical events as live, continuously updating inputs within their existing analytics. Prediction market… Read More

August 3, 2026 @ 2:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Quantum computing is moving steadily toward becoming a practical commercial technology rather than remaining primarily a research endeavor, according to recent comments from IBM’s (NYSE:IBM) top executive. The company’s chief executive indicated that the field is nearing a point where it will begin delivering tangible… Read More

July 31, 2026 @ 5:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued a fresh warning to cryptocurrency owners about a sophisticated mail-based fraud campaign. Criminals are circulating counterfeit notices that closely resemble official agency correspondence, with the goal of tricking recipients into surrendering personal details or digital assets. According… Read More

July 30, 2026 @ 7:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) (NYSE:ICE) has taken a significant step toward integrating its proprietary fixed income information directly into modern artificial intelligence environments. On July 29, 2026, the company announced that licensed clients can now access key fixed income datasets and related methodologies through major AI… Read More

July 28, 2026 @ 7:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TD Cowen has significantly revised downward its price objective for Nakamoto Inc., the bitcoin-focused treasury firm associated with David Bailey, in response to an updated assessment of the cryptocurrency’s trajectory. Analysts at the firm reduced the split-adjusted target from the equivalent of $40 to $17,… Read More

July 26, 2026 @ 11:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Strategy (NASDAQ:MSTR), the Bitcoin treasury company led by Michael Saylor, has recently introduced a suite of refined BTC-centric performance indicators that explicitly account for its debt obligations and preferred stock. The update reflects the firm’s evolving capital structure. As preferred equity—often labeled “digital credit”—has grown… Read More