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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announces AI-powered trading agents are now live for equities, extending a service already available for crypto and derivatives.…
After years of divestitures and restructuring, Citigroup has stopped getting smaller. Now it must prove it can get genuinely better.…
A landmark ECB speech on blockchain, encrypted messaging used to move criminal millions, and a proposed UK bank tax converge in a pivotal week for global finance.…
Technical debt has become banking's most dangerous unacknowledged liability — and the divide between leaders and laggards has never been wider.…
Goldman Sachs built its elite talent pipeline on human mentorship and apprenticeship. Artificial intelligence is now forcing the bank to reckon with what that model truly means.…
U.S. Bank is growing its business banker roster in Florida and Georgia, deepening a regional footprint where it already deploys wealth and middle market teams.…
Ex-SEC and CFTC officials are pressing for lighter crypto derivatives regulation, warning that burdensome rules risk permanently exiling a $90 trillion perps market from US shores.…
Swift has postponed its deadline for eliminating unstructured postal addresses from ISO 20022 messages, as large corporates struggle to supply conforming structured data.…
Prediction market Kalshi has permanently banned former congressman George Santos after finding he traded on his own State of the Union attendance and made false statements to profit nearly $18,000.…
Ireland's new tax-advantaged investment accounts will cover stocks, bonds and ETFs — but crypto and derivatives are firmly off the list, deemed too risky.…
Intercontinental Exchange, owner of the NYSE, has signed a partnership with tZERO to tokenize public securities and committed to an investment in the blockchain firm.…
The CFTC and SEC jointly extended the compliance deadline for Form PF amendments on August 31, 2026, marking at least a second postponement of the rule.…