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ECB President Christine Lagarde defends the June rate hike as the eurozone's inflation fight intensifies, with ripple effects across global monetary policy and crypto markets.…
SEC Chair Paul Atkins has unveiled Project Crypto, a sweeping commission-wide initiative to modernize securities rules for crypto assets and onchain financial markets.…
Singapore's MAS and industry partners unveil SAFR, a framework governing how AI agents act, are authorised, and reviewed inside live financial systems.…
Ayatollah Khamenei's death triggers a week-long national mourning in Iran, raising acute questions about regime stability and the geopolitical risk premium across global markets.…
Nuvei and Visa have completed a live agentic commerce test in which a merchant's AI agent handled a full purchase without redirecting shoppers to a separate checkout flow.…
Michael Burry flagged an AI bubble on June 30. Within days, memory chip stocks and Tesla were sliding on mounting valuation concerns.…
Options traders are positioning defensively against Japanese yen swings as approaching US holiday trading threatens to amplify volatility across global risk assets including crypto.…
AMP is removing bonds from retirement portfolios and replacing them with gold, signaling a significant rethink of traditional diversification strategies amid shifting markets.…
The UK Payments Initiative has launched a new A2A payment scheme at Money20/20 Europe, challenging card network dominance with 37 million monthly open banking transactions already in play.…
Bitwise's Matt Hougan argues Strategy's STRC product was always a poor fit for Bitcoin exposure, signaling a potential shift in who leads institutional Bitcoin adoption.…
Rising tensions around the Strait of Hormuz are casting a harsh light on America's structural reliance on heavy crude imports and the fuel price risks that follow.…
Securitize listed on the NYSE and simultaneously issued tokenized versions of its shares on Solana and Avalanche, a historic first for a newly public company.…