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October 6, 2026 @ 5:46 am By FCA  |  

This post was originally published on fca.org.uk  Just over a week ago, we received the incredibly sad news that a whistleblower, Simon Andriesz, who we had been in contact with over many years, had died. We’ve shared our condolences, and our thoughts are with his… Read More

October 5, 2026 @ 8:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Senator Flávio Bolsonaro finished ahead of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the opening round of Brazil’s 2026 presidential election, an ordering that several late national polls had not projected and that the prediction market Polymarket had priced for weeks. The split between survey… Read More

October 5, 2026 @ 5:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Veremark, a background-checking platform that has generated success, will see its secondary offering listed on Crowdcube close today. As it stands currently, 51 investors have committed £504,461 (an average of almost £10,000) to purchase insider shares. As was previously reported, Veremark generated annual revenue of £6.7… Read More

October 5, 2026 @ 1:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

Global venture capital funding is having a huge year, with funding jumping dramatically from the prior year. Approximately half of startup capital invested in the third quarter went to companies founded since 2022. According to Crunchbase, funding totaled $159 billion in Q3 2026, with close… Read More

October 5, 2026 @ 12:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Executives at several crypto-focused companies in France have urged the government to treat conversions between volatile digital assets and stablecoins as taxable events. The proposal comes from Jean Meyer of the payments firm Deblock, Damien Patureaux of Lyzi, and Pierre Morizot of the tax-reporting software… Read More

October 5, 2026 @ 10:32 am By JD Alois  |  

The movement to tokenize assets, including digital securities, is gaining traction around the world. Most keenly in global financial centers. Today, OKX and ICE (parent company of the NYSE) have announced the creation of a Tokenized Securities Venue (TSV), which will aim to facilitate 24/7… Read More

October 5, 2026 @ 8:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Partners Banka has reportedly become the first bank in the Czech Republic to let customers buy and sell bitcoin in its own mobile banking app, after partnering with the domestic crypto firm Anycoin to handle trades and custody. The service was announced in Prague on 5 August 2026… Read More

October 5, 2026 @ 7:25 am By Michael Wong  |  

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is considering a commitment of up to €25 million to a new private equity fund targeting lower mid-market companies in Turkey, as the country’s private equity industry seeks to recover from a prolonged downturn in investment. The proposed investment in… Read More

October 5, 2026 @ 5:35 am By FCA  |  

This post was originally published on fca.org.uk  Turning reform into results You can see our approach in the reforms we have already delivered. We have completed around 30 capital-markets focused workstreams. And there’s an even larger number across the FCA’s broader work. That’s too many… Read More

October 5, 2026 @ 5:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ARK Invest chief executive Cathie Wood has adjusted a rule of thumb she has used for years. Investors, she long argued, should watch where developers concentrate their time if they want an early read on technology. Speaking on a panel at Robinhood’s HOOD Summit in… Read More

October 5, 2026 @ 2:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on October 1, 2026, advanced a package of proposed amendments and new provisions under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and the Investment Company Act of 1940 aimed at creating a workable path for registered investment advisers and… Read More

October 5, 2026 @ 2:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The European Central Bank (ECB) has outlined three distinct ways to make central-bank money available on programmable networks, arguing that the safest settlement asset should remain accessible as markets move toward tokenized securities, deposits, and stablecoins. Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel presented the framework on… Read More

October 5, 2026 @ 12:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Senior leaders at UK’s banking institutions, insurers, asset managers and financial sponsors increasingly view tokenisation as a force that will reshape how money and securities move through the financial system. Findings from Lloyds Banking Group’s tenth annual Financial Institutions Sentiment Survey show that 71 per… Read More

October 5, 2026 @ 12:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Prometeo has expanded its account-checking tools into a broader trust layer meant to give companies more certainty before they send money. The company announced Account Verification Boost on September 29, 2026, combining wider geographic reach, a new risk-intelligence product, and a rebuilt validation engine. The… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 11:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin (BTC) finished the third quarter of 2026 with its strongest July-to-September result since 2017, then carried that momentum into early October by absorbing a dense band of offers near $85,000 and trading back toward its best levels of the year. Soft US hiring data… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 9:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BitGo’s chief executive has warned that the US Senate’s failure to advance the CLARITY Act leaves American capital markets exposed to a concentrated failure he believes could prove more damaging than the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers. Mike Belshe made the argument at Korea Blockchain… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 9:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BNY (NYSE: BNY), one of the largest custody and asset-servicing banks in the world, is holding private discussions with Payward, the Wyoming-based parent of the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, about a possible collaboration centered on market infrastructure, according to people familiar with the matter. The conversations… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 4:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Aave founder Stani Kulechov has publicly challenged positions taken by European authorities as the European Commission reviews the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). In comments published on October 2, 2026, he said he was disappointed by the European Central Bank and the European Banking Authority’s… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 3:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

On Thursday, October 2, 2026, attackers briefly seized Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) official account on X and used the company’s enormous audience to push a speculative token built around Clippy, the long-retired Office paperclip assistant. The @Microsoft profile, which has more than 13 million followers, was under… Read More

October 4, 2026 @ 12:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) issued tokenized equities posted the sharpest weekly rise in deposits into decentralized finance venues among major issuers, according to fresh on-chain tracking from Token Terminal. Over the past seven days, balances of those Coinbase tokens sitting in DeFi protocols climbed by $5.6… Read More