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EU officials are demanding tougher monitoring of high-risk AI systems after rogue behavior from OpenAI and Anthropic agents, with compliance costs set to rise globally.…
Texas lawmakers are weighing an outright ban on crypto kiosks after scams drained $57M from residents, following three states that already outlawed Bitcoin ATMs.…
Twenty-eight financial institutions and central banks settled $1 million in real-value cross-border payments across six currencies using tokenized reserves under BIS Project Agorá.…
San Francisco fintech Increase secures a full banking charter via the acquisition of Washington State's Twin City Bank, eliminating middleware dependency at scale.…
The European Central Bank announces it will extend climate-related factors within the Eurosystem collateral framework to cover non-financial corporate credit claims.…
A $1.9B consortium investment into Seven & i Holdings signals a decisive push to modernize Japan's digital payments landscape at the retail frontier.…
A new report links crypto platform Shelbit to a $4 billion illicit Iranian gambling network, raising urgent questions about global crypto compliance standards.…
New York State has sued Kalshi, alleging the federally regulated prediction market platform constitutes an illegal gambling operation under state law.…
The European Central Bank announced on 24 July 2026 it will begin implementing an enhanced repo facility targeting central bank counterparties, deepening its global liquidity backstop architecture.…
The IRS Criminal Investigation unit has issued a fraud alert warning crypto holders about fake compliance letters carrying QR codes that lead to a data-stealing portal.…
Coinkite says an AI-assisted attack on its open source firmware likely enabled a key generation vulnerability, draining $38M in Bitcoin from Coldcard wallets.…
An ongoing exploit targeting weak keys generated by Coldcard hardware wallets has drained $38 million in Bitcoin. Affected users must migrate funds immediately.…