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Crypto exchange Coinbase Ireland has been penalised by the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) for a series of operational and governance failings over a five-year period.

A new draft targets a fourfold cut in the time it takes Ethereum transactions to become final, which could free up money transfer services tie up while customers’ payments clear.

Each SOFIE token represents $1 on deposit at SoFi Bank, earning 4.40% APY with FDIC insurance—a yield-and-protection combination ordinary stablecoins lack.

SoFi has launched SOFIE, a tokenized deposit offering 4.4% APY and FDIC insurance, with the option to convert to SoFiUSD.

The new real-time market feeds will cover trade data from over 200 onchain venues across 12 blockchain networks.

Barclays is the latest high street bank to announce a headcount reduction at the same time as an expansion in the use of AI.

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We have signed an agreement for a new office at 2 Wellington Place, which will become our long-term home in Leeds from 2028. The new office will provide 36,097 sq ft of space for our growing Leeds presence.Our Leeds office, currently at 6 Queen Street, has continued to grow…

Bitcoin as much as 2.9% to around $81,600 as Nasdaq futures dropped, while the CoinDesk 80 lost 3.5% and DeFi index slid 6%.

Police say a car-rental firm near Milan was an underground bank for 'Ndrangheta and Camorra figures, moving money abroad and into crypto.

The pre-IPO Jio contract on Bitget is trading near $12, a roughly 4% premium on the top price band, as India’s largest public offering remains open for subscription.

A Tianjin court will hear the application after a six-month notice period, while a parallel fight over the same coins continues in London.

The London Stock Exchange (LSEG) has agreed to acquire credit data provider Octus in a cash deal worth $3.535bn.

Spot bitcoin ETFs attracted $528 million on Wednesday as BlackRock and Fidelity led a recovery in institutional demand.

The Nasdaq is down more than 2% as the AI bull market trade continues to unwind. U.S. interest rates are plunging even as oil surges.

Technology shares led regional losses as mixed U.S. earnings unsettled investors and Brent crude climbed above $112 a barrel.

New offerings include enhanced supplier-spend analytics, virtual-card fraud prevention capabilities and a live pilot enabling trusted AI agents to complete B2B invoice payments Visa (NYSE: V) announced three capabilities across commercial card growth, virtual card security and…

The general availability gives eligible organizations more flexibility with net 30-day terms, a dedicated business line of credit and streamlined reconciliation TreviPay, a global B2B payments infrastructure partner, today announced the general availability of Pay By Invoice for…

Cross-border payments remain slow and expensive but fintech outfits such as Wise and Remitly have substantially cut costs relative to traditional retail bank wires while stabelcoins still suffer from issues with friction, according to BIS research.

Citadel's founder says investors are almost certainly in an AI bubble, warns a chip glut could crash prices like empty airline seats, yet expects the survivors to lead for decades.

Nvidia's OpenShell Reference Architecture pairs a software sandbox on Vera CPUs with Sentry monitoring on BlueField-4 chips, aiming to let companies run autonomous agents while enforcing limits agents cannot reach.

The regulation bans direct yield payments to customers from stablecoin issuers, but the OCC said it would "evaluate" third-party yield arrangements on a case-by-case basis.

OpenAI says its models found PHP2Shell and led a two-month coalition to fix it. It's the same AI that broke into Hugging Face and an Australian government portal this year.

Adding the fintech's branded-wallet platform, stored value and technology would let Cross River "offer partners a complete embedded finance stack," the $8.5 billion-asset bank said.

The Pittsburgh-based regional bank has made big bets on AI internally. But Bill Demchak said agents transacting could "mess with people's lives."

Speech by Sarah Pritchard, deputy chief executive, at Investment Association Annual Dinner 2026. Reform: more than writing rulesIn this sector, we’re just past peak rule making. The scale of change has been significant – and deliberate.But we’re not done yet.We want to see…

The FCA has banned Jeffrey Dawkins, the former chief executive of Vector Wealth Ltd, after he dishonestly acted as a front for a disqualified director using the company to sell high-risk bonds. Mr Dawkins has also been fined nearly £270,000.In 2019, Mr Dawkins sold Vector Wealth…

Das Eidgenössische Departement für Wirtschaft, Bildung und Forschung WBF hat eine Änderung des Anhangs 2 der Verordnung vom 22. Juni 2005 über Massnahmen gegenüber der Demokratischen Republik Kongo (SR 946.231.12) publiziert.