Coinbase Files to Bring Equity Perpetuals Onshore
The exchange has started an SEC process for non-expiring stock derivatives, with separate CFTC approval still required before launch.
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SEC Moves to Scrap Its Investment-Adviser Pay-to-Play Rule
The proposal would remove a two-year compensation ban tied to political donations while leaving antifraud and fiduciary duties intact.
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Brazil and the ECB Study a Direct Pix–TIPS Payments Link
A possible 2028 pilot would connect Brazil’s instant-payment network with the euro area’s settlement rail for the first time.
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Revolut Wins Conditional OCC Approval for a U.S. National Bank
The fintech plans a 2027 launch, but still needs approvals from the FDIC, Federal Reserve and a final OCC decision.
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X Pulse: Rate Relief, Hiring Concentration and DeFi Throughput
Three high-engagement posts frame the day through shifting Fed odds, large-company hiring and a burst of decentralised-exchange activity.
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Waller Cuts the Odds of a September Rate Increase
A cooler-inflation condition from the Fed governor reversed part of the hawkish repricing triggered days earlier and lifted risk assets.
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Nvidia Agrees to Buy Hugging Face for $12.93 Billion
The chipmaker is acquiring the largest open AI-model community while promising to preserve its multi-cloud, multi-accelerator character.
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Standard Chartered Extends Institutional Crypto Trading to the UAE
The bank now offers deliverable bitcoin and ether spot trading from the Dubai International Financial Centre through familiar FX channels.
• Blockchain
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Thomson Reuters Discloses C-Track Court-System Data Breach
Files containing personal information were taken from a cloud environment serving courts in 11 US states, one territory and Canada.
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ByteDance Secures a Reported $29.6 Billion Loan
Banks reportedly expanded ByteDance’s borrowing from an initial $20 billion target, giving the private technology group an unusually large financing cushion.
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X Pulse: Bond Relief, Labour Slack and Bitcoin Conviction
Three widely viewed posts captured a market caught between temporary bond relief, a less tight US jobs backdrop and long-horizon crypto positioning.
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Securitize and Socios Plan Regulated Tokenized Sports Equity
The partners aim to turn minority stakes in professional teams into regulated digital securities, beginning through Europe’s DLT Pilot framework.
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New Jersey Takes Prediction-Market Jurisdiction to the Supreme Court
A new petition asks the justices to resolve whether federal derivatives law prevents states from applying sports-gambling rules to Kalshi.
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Chevron Commits More Than $7 Billion to Double Venezuela Output
Chevron plans to lift its Venezuelan joint ventures toward 600,000 barrels a day, turning a political opening into a five-year capital programme.
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Japan’s Bond Rout Starts Pulling Domestic Capital Home
A new pension survey and ¥3 trillion of overseas-debt sales show how higher Japanese yields are changing the marginal buyer of global bonds.
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Bank of England Takes More Complex Credit as Cash Collateral
Level C assets pledged through the central bank’s six-month repo facility have more than doubled in a year as quantitative tightening drains reserves.
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SEC Pulls Transfer-Agent Rules Into the Tokenized-Securities Era
A 421-page proposal would make blockchain records, tokenization providers and cyber resilience explicit parts of the regulated ownership layer for US securities.
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Twenty-One Financial Institutions Commit to a Joint Dollar Stablecoin
A bank-led group plans a dollar token in the first half of 2027, with euro issuance next in line, but reserve design, technology and customer demand remain unresolved.
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London Stock Exchange Plans Rights-Preserving Tokenized UK Shares
LSE will explore blockchain-based UK equities with Kraken owner Payward and intends to list xStocks on its planned 24-hour venue in 2027, subject to approval.
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India Prepares Guardrails for AI Agents to Pay Through UPI
A proposed Unified Agent Protocol would let users delegate limited, auditable UPI payments to AI agents, starting with frequent low-value purchases.
• Fintech