Japan Plans Blockchain Rail for Instant Stock and JGB Settlement
Japan’s financial authorities and institutions are preparing a study that could replace day-long securities settlement lags with near-real-time transfers.
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IMF Sees AI Investment Offsetting Part of the Global Energy Shock
The IMF says AI infrastructure is supporting growth beyond the United States, while high debt, inflation and energy risks constrain the outlook.
• Markets
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Grayscale’s Spot Zcash Product Begins Trading on NYSE Arca
The converted ZCSH vehicle brings spot exposure to a privacy-focused token into US brokerage accounts, with fewer protections than a conventional fund.
• Markets
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SEC Subpoenas Wall Street Banks Over AI Hedge Fund Unwind
The regulator is examining trades, margin calls and lender communications after Situational Awareness lost 67% in July.
• Markets
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RUM Group Signs $13.7 Billion AI Contract but Still Needs the Capital
The six-year GPU-services agreement offers enormous scale, yet financing, construction, customer identity and dilution remain unresolved.
• Markets
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Strategy Raises $2 Billion and Builds a $1.59 Billion Liquidity Pool
Common-stock sales funded preferred-share repurchases, a larger protected reserve and a separate cash pool for bitcoin or capital management.
• Blockchain
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French Bond Yields Reach 2008 High as Budget Talks Tighten
France’s 10-year yield has climbed above 4.13% as the government seeks a politically viable route to a deficit near 5% of GDP.
• Markets
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Fasset Reaches $1 Billion Valuation After SBI-Led $68 Million Round
The stablecoin neobank will use its Series C to expand tokenised settlement, corridor banking and its Own Network infrastructure.
• Fintech
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America’s AI Boom Widens Europe’s Investment Gap
U.S. business investment is projected to rise 40% from 2021 to 2027, against 12% in the euro area, as AI infrastructure concentrates capital and productivity gains.
• Markets
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Term Finance Loses an Estimated $8.5 Million in Governance Exploit
An attacker drained most of Term Finance’s Ethereum vault value through its governance layer, raising new questions about timelocks, vetoes and concentrated control.
• DeFi
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Crypto ETF Inflows Reach $2.6 Billion as Weekly Trading Volume Triples
Bitcoin and ether funds recorded their strongest inflow week since October, although most of the asset increase came from higher prices rather than new subscriptions.
• Markets
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Solana Cuts Mainnet Slot Time to 350 Milliseconds
Solana has begun a staged latency overhaul, shortening its mainnet slot target while preserving approximate work capacity per second.
• Blockchain
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BounceBit Retires Its Blockchain After a $3 Million Authorization Exploit
BounceBit will replace its Layer 1 with a BNB Chain token after a protocol flaw moved 286.5 million BB without stolen keys or forged signatures.
• Blockchain
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Starcloud Raises $250 Million to Take AI Data Centers Into Orbit
The orbital-compute startup has doubled its valuation to $2.3 billion, financing manufacturing and hardware development while launch economics remain unproven.
• Markets
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Markets Price a Longer ECB Tightening Cycle as Europe’s Energy Risks Deepen
European rates now imply a deposit rate near 3% by late 2027 as energy exposure, fiscal demand and a higher neutral-rate estimate reshape the policy path.
• Markets
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India Weighs Two-Year Banking Fix for Fairfax’s $5 Billion IDBI Deal
A proposed transition period could let Fairfax complete India’s largest foreign bank investment while resolving its existing stake in CSB Bank.
• Markets
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Monte dei Paschi Launches €34 Billion Twin Bids to Escape Intesa Takeover
MPS has answered Intesa’s hostile approach with twin offers for Banco BPM and Banca Generali, turning Italy’s banking consolidation into a contest among intertwined shareholders.
• Markets
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Muon Space Raises $250 Million to Build Satellite Infrastructure at Scale
The $1.5 billion satellite startup is financing factory capacity, orbital computing and an integrated model for deploying complete constellations.
• Markets
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Walmart’s Rare Sales Miss Erases $80 Billion and Reopens Consumer Risk
Walmart’s slowest comparable-sales growth in six years exposed pressure on household budgets and helped reverse the previous day’s bond-market relief rally.
• Markets
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Major Banks Adopt Ant International’s Specialized AI for FX Forecasting
Six large banks are working with an upgraded time-series model intended to sharpen cash-flow forecasts and reduce inefficient currency hedging.
• Fintech