China is broadly expected to keep its benchmark lending rates unchanged in September for a 16th consecutive month, a Reuters poll found. Policymakers remain wary of adding stimulus as major central banks globally adopt a more hawkish stance.
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ReutersOriginal★★★☆☆2026-09-18 06:40
The Canadian government has hired Morgan Stanley and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce to advise on selling operating rights at the country’s four largest airports, people familiar with the discussions said.
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Bloomberg NewsOriginal★★★☆☆2026-09-18 06:00
Stablecoin payments company dtcpay has closed a $25 million Series A backed by SBI Group. The funding will support expansion of its product suite and merchant network, including a revamped business portal for enterprise customers.
TThe BlockOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-18 05:29
Structured financing is helping secondaries funds grow by making their investments more appealing to risk-averse investors, including insurers.
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Financial TimesOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-18 04:00
Indonesia's new finance minister, Suahasil Nazara, said at a Friday press conference that taxpayers who had overpaid would receive refunds in line with regulations.
RReutersOriginal★★★☆☆2026-09-18 03:20
More than six months into the Iran war, JPMorgan’s oil analysts say the timing of its end—and the resulting path for oil—is becoming increasingly impossible to predict, echoing what many traders have privately argued for some time.
BBloomberg NewsOriginal★★★★☆2026-09-18 03:18
Apollo Global Management is in talks with SoftBank Group about increasing a loan to $9 billion from $5.4 billion, helping the Japanese company finance its investment in artificial-intelligence giant OpenAI.
BBloomberg NewsOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-18 00:30
JPMorgan said Thursday that, for the first time since the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran began, it has no clear baseline view for the oil market.
RReutersOriginal★★★★☆2026-09-17 23:45
Off-contract ocean container rates from China to the U.S. East Coast have climbed back to levels reached after COVID-19 disrupted global trade. Analysts say they could set new records as the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran raises fuel costs.
The SEC is creating a regulated U.S. route for tokenized stocks, while keeping trading volumes, access and issuers’ rights under tight control.
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CoinDeskOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-17 21:47
The SEC has created a five-year pathway for regulated US stocks to trade on blockchain-native venues, following the Senate’s failure to advance the CLARITY Act. The exemption gives qualifying tokenized-securities venues temporary relief from some exchange and dealer-registration rules, while imposing limits on symbols and volume plus transparency, recordkeeping and technology safeguards.
The SEC’s five-year experiment creates a new U.S. route for DeFi-style trading venues, tokenization companies and liquidity providers. Synthetic stock tokens, however, remain outside the framework.
A US regulator is opening a pathway for tokenised stock trading. Blockchain-based representations of traditional equities can trade around the clock and be used more readily as collateral.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission unveiled a long-awaited five-year exemption allowing companies to offer blockchain-based, or “tokenized,” stocks and other securities for trading. The move could bring digital assets more deeply into traditional markets.
The SEC has opened a route for tokenized stock trading, moving markets closer to round-the-clock operations. The long-awaited Innovation Exemption came two days after the Senate voted to stop the CLARITY Act crypto market structure bill from advancing.
Shares in Raiffeisen Bank International fell 9% after Grizzly Research accused it of helping Russia evade sanctions. The bank called the report misleading and factually wrong, while saying it has spent years trying to sell its Russian business and leave the country. Bloomberg Intelligence analysts said the report may overstate the sanctions risks.
MMeduzaOriginal★★★☆☆2026-09-17 18:04
US regulators are seeking interviews with Guggenheim Partners employees as they look for evidence of potential wrongdoing across Chief Executive Officer Mark Walter’s business empire.
BBloomberg NewsOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-17 18:00
JPMorgan analysts say bitcoin could receive stronger support than gold if investors reduce their hedging of ETFs.
TThe BlockOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-17 17:48
The House Ways and Means Committee advanced the Digital Asset Tax Certainty Act by 38-5, sending a package covering crypto payments, stablecoins, trading, lending, staking and mining toward the full House. Industry groups welcomed the move but want broader relief for everyday transactions and delayed income recognition for staking and mining rewards.
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CryptoSlateOriginal★★★☆☆2026-09-17 17:30
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has adopted a developer-friendly no-action stance on crypto, giving software developers who build crypto trading tools some breathing room.
TThe BlockOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-17 16:50
Higher capital costs should theoretically reduce a company’s value, but share prices are telling a different story, complicating the spreadsheets used by investment bankers.
FFinancial TimesOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-17 16:39
Anatoly Aksakov, chairman of the Russian State Duma’s Financial Market Committee, expects up to 3% of Russians with bank accounts to use the digital ruble in daily life by early next year. He said some iPhone users can already use it despite connection problems, which he expects to be resolved by then. The mass rollout began on September 1.
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TASSOriginal★★★☆☆2026-09-17 15:07
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission examined plans for around-the-clock trading at an event held the same morning it approved tokenized securities.
CCoinDeskOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-17 15:03
Officials from 29 countries completed the fifth round of consultations in Hangzhou on creating a Shanghai Cooperation Organization Development Bank. The participants discussed the institution’s operating parameters, while the 2026 Bishkek Declaration welcomed progress and urged continued momentum.
TTASSOriginal★★★☆☆2026-09-17 14:50
A dusty dairy town’s enthusiasm for options trading captures the story of a multibillion-dollar retail wipeout and the regulatory crackdown that followed.
BBloomberg NewsOriginal★★★☆☆2026-09-17 13:00
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued a blanket five-year exemption allowing venues to list and trade tokenized securities without registering as exchanges.
CCoinDeskOriginal★★★☆☆2026-09-17 13:00
The SEC has released its long-awaited “innovation exemption,” presenting it as a response to the Senate’s failure to move forward with cryptocurrency legislation.
Crypto.com has registered with the SEC for single-stock futures. CEO Kris Marszalek said the company is also working with the SEC and CFTC to offer single-stock perpetual futures in the United States.
TThe BlockOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-17 12:41
Hong Kong has released its first Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development, covering 2026-2030, alongside the annual Policy Address. The blueprint makes the Northern Metropolis its leading strategic pillar, targeting 900 hectares of serviced land, about 70,000 homes and 1 million square meters of economic floor space to advance innovation, industry, housing and cooperation with Shenzhen.
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CGTNOriginal★★★☆☆2026-09-17 12:33
Hong Kong’s first five-year plan for economic and social development calls for broader equity markets, deeper offshore yuan business and expanded gold trading. The blueprint, unveiled by Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu with his 2026 policy address, aims to reinforce the city’s position as Asia’s leading financial centre and narrow the gap with London.
Regulators are moving to restore calm after a stock-market scandal, freezing or liquidating funds and referring 38 people to prosecutors.
FFinancial TimesOriginal★★★☆☆2026-09-17 11:59
Revolut chief executive Storonsky says the fintech is planning a dual listing in New York and London, citing the US market’s greater liquidity and larger pool of institutional investors.
FFinancial TimesOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-17 11:34
India will impose a 0.4 percent Merchant Discount Rate from October 15 on UPI payments to businesses above 2,000 rupees, capped at 300 rupees. Person-to-person transfers will remain free, while some services will cost five rupees per transaction. Experts warn the charges could drive businesses away, as opposition parties accuse Narendra Modi’s government of shifting costs to merchants.
AAl JazeeraOriginal★★★☆☆2026-09-17 11:18
The World Bank says it mobilized $112 billion in private capital in the year through June, up from $69 billion a year earlier and more than triple the fiscal 2022 amount. Combined with $123 billion from its own resources, the total reached $235 billion. It aims to exceed $200 billion in private capital within two to three years.
CCGTNOriginal★★★☆☆2026-09-17 11:00
Hong Kong’s property market avoided an immediate blow from the Federal Reserve’s quarter-point rate increase after HSBC and other major local banks left their prime rates unchanged. Industry insiders warned that another hike could undermine the market’s fragile recovery.
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South China Morning PostOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-17 10:00
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has opened an anti-money laundering investigation into a payment firm.
TTRT WorldOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-17 09:31
China leads the world in producing solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicles and batteries. The question is whether finance, rather than technology alone, is the real climate hero.
BBloomberg NewsOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-17 09:00
Goldman Sachs says the Federal Reserve is likely to raise rates by 25 basis points in October, highlighting the central bank’s own hawkish near-term rate projections.
CCoinDeskOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-17 04:17
Gold prices recovered after the US Federal Reserve raised interest rates, with analysts and investment banks retaining a positive long-term view of the metal amid structural challenges facing the US economy. Spot gold was at US$4,288 an ounce in Asian trading on Thursday after falling as much as 2.7 per cent to US$4,234.
SSouth China Morning PostOriginal★★★☆☆2026-09-17 01:08
India’s digital payments system, which currently processes more than 1 million transactions every two minutes at no cost, is set to begin charging merchants.
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CNBCOriginal★★★☆☆2026-09-17 00:33
The European Central Bank is inviting online merchants to apply for a controlled digital euro pilot, with applications due by 17:00 CET on Oct. 27. The 12-month operational phase is expected to start in the second half of 2027, but the beta will not be legal tender or enter public circulation.
CCryptoSlateOriginal★★★☆☆2026-09-17 00:20
XRP dropped more than 8% after the US Senate failed, by a 49-50 vote, to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act. Ripple said the setback does not change XRP’s existing digital-commodity treatment or its commercial expansion, but acknowledged that the regulatory protection is less durable than legislation.
CCryptoSlateOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-16 20:30
The SEC and CFTC are preparing to advance cryptocurrency rules as the Clarity Act stalls in the Senate. CFTC Chair Mike Selig said his agency is “locked in and ready to ship its rules for the new frontier of finance.”
TThe BlockOriginal★★★☆☆2026-09-16 18:06
Aave founder Stani Kulechov said decentralized finance could follow an “Uber path” if U.S. crypto legislation stalls. He made the comments to The Starting Block after the Clarity Act failed a Senate vote.
TThe BlockOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-16 17:08
JPMorgan said the Clarity Act is “not fully dead,” but the opportunity for the crypto bill to pass this year has become “extremely narrow.”
HM Treasury has laid a final draft that would remove UK qualifying stablecoin payments from parts of the dealing and arranging perimeter. Transfers, money exchanges and some collateral arrangements could qualify, while transactions requiring the stablecoin to be returned and swaps into other cryptoassets remain outside the payment carve-out. The draft still needs Parliament’s approval and is not in force.
CCryptoSlateOriginal★★★☆☆2026-09-16 14:30
BRICS Pay is a decentralised digital payment system designed to enable international transactions in local currencies rather than the dollar. BRICS leaders backed investment in cross-border payment systems at their New Delhi summit, but the project remains in pilot and phased rollout stages and is not yet globally operational for all members. It would connect national systems and support settlement through QR codes, digital wallets and mobile apps.
AAl JazeeraOriginal★★★★☆2026-09-16 12:53
Bernstein says stablecoin rewards on idle balances can continue after Senate lawmakers failed to advance the Clarity Act. The firm expects the SEC and CFTC to move swiftly on crypto rulemaking.
TThe BlockOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-16 12:47
The World Bank has appointed Nobel laureate and University of Chicago professor Michael Kremer as its next chief economist. He will succeed Indermit Gill, who retired last month.
RReutersOriginal★★★☆☆2026-09-16 12:40
Deutsche Bank is nearing the launch of a crypto-custody service for institutions. At debut, it will support a select group of cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, ether and stablecoins such as USDC and EURC.
CCoinDeskOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-16 10:46
Deutsche Bank plans to launch a digital-asset custody service in Europe this year, initially covering bitcoin, ether and selected stablecoins for institutional clients.
The European Union plans to create a climate insurance alliance to help cover losses as global warming makes droughts, floods and wildfires more frequent and intense.
BBloomberg NewsOriginal★★★★☆2026-09-16 10:10
The European Union will establish a climate insurance alliance to expand coverage for extreme weather, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said. The initiative follows a summer marked across the bloc by drought, wildfires and heatwaves.
Standard Chartered initiated coverage of Arbitrum’s ARB token with a $10 target for 2030. ARB rose as much as 9% that session while Bitcoin and Ethereum fell, creating an unusually large gap against market and layer-2 benchmarks. The analysis examines whether the bank’s digital-asset research has itself become a tradable event, while noting mixed results for UNI, MORPHO, AAVE and LINK.
CCryptoSlateOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-16 10:05
Scanning QR codes with mobile phones to make payments has become almost ubiquitous in India over the past decade, driven by the widely used homegrown Unified Payments Interface (UPI) network.
RReutersOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-16 09:59
Shares of Indian payment companies rose on Wednesday after the national payments authority introduced a fee on selected merchant transactions above 2,000 rupees, or about $20, made through a popular homegrown payment interface. The move improved expectations for firms’ revenue prospects.
China Water Environment Group, one of the country’s largest sewage-treatment companies, recently failed to repay an offshore loan, according to people familiar with the matter. It is the latest state-backed company to default.
BBloomberg NewsOriginal★★★☆☆2026-09-16 07:00
Hong Kong retained its position as Asia’s leading financial centre for a fourth consecutive edition of the Global Financial Centres Index. It ranked third worldwide with a score of 756, one point behind London, as geopolitical pressures slightly weakened scores across many major centres.
SSouth China Morning PostOriginal★★★☆☆2026-09-16 06:00
China’s central bank governor, Pan Gongsheng, said slower loan growth is becoming the new normal as contraction in the property and local-government sectors weakens credit demand faster than emerging industries can make up the shortfall.
RReutersOriginal★★★★☆2026-09-16 05:35
With a 25-basis-point Federal Reserve rate increase at Thursday’s meeting now seen as 92% likely, investors are weighing whether it would be a one-off move or the start of a new tightening cycle. They are also preparing for a highly likely increase in Japanese borrowing costs that could jolt capital flows.
SSouth China Morning PostOriginal★★★★☆2026-09-16 04:48
The Financial Conduct Authority says the judgment involving Odey should serve as a lesson for firms on ethical failings. The watchdog has introduced stricter rules to ensure people can speak up and remain protected from misconduct.
FFinancial TimesOriginal★★★☆☆2026-09-16 04:00
Cross-border renminbi receipts and payments between China and ASEAN reached 9.436 trillion yuan in 2025, up 5.99% year on year, a report from the People's Bank of China’s Guangxi branch said. Goods-trade settlement totaled 2.591 trillion yuan, while CIPS added 41 participants. Six ASEAN countries now have RMB clearing banks.
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China News ServiceOriginal★★★☆☆2026-09-16 03:51
Grab plans to spend $1.49 billion on Atome Financial as it seeks to expand its consumer lending business across Southeast Asia and take its financial-services operations to the “next level.”
CCNBCOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-16 03:50
JPMorgan Chase forecast gains in third-quarter trading revenue and investment-banking fees, sharply contrasting with Bank of America’s warning earlier this week.
BBloomberg NewsOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-15 23:30
JPMorgan Chase co-President Doug Petno said at an investor conference on Tuesday that the bank expects strong third-quarter growth in investment banking fees and trading revenue.
Behind-the-scenes disputes in the final stretch produced a dismal outcome for the market-structure legislation on which the crypto industry had placed its greatest hopes.
CCoinDeskOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-15 21:58
The US Senate failed to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, backed by President Donald Trump, after it received 50 votes in favour and 49 against—short of the 60 needed. Concerns over Trump’s crypto interests, stablecoin rewards and the impact on community banks blocked progress, sending bitcoin and crypto-related shares lower.
A landmark US cryptocurrency bill failed after senators divided over concerns about Donald Trump’s ethics. The defeat is a major setback for an industry that has spent record sums lobbying for a favourable market structure.
A procedural vote on Tuesday to advance landmark digital-asset legislation failed spectacularly, leaving the cryptocurrency industry crushed and raising doubts about whether its biggest regulatory push is now dead.
Crypto stocks broadly sold off after the U.S. Senate failed to advance the long-awaited market structure bill, with Coinbase, Circle and Galaxy leading the decline.
The CLARITY Act failed to win the 60 votes needed to advance in the Senate after final bipartisan negotiations over ethics rules collapsed. Several Democrats who helped shape the bill opposed moving forward, saying restrictions on crypto interests held by Trump, his family and officials were too weak. The setback keeps the major crypto market-structure proposal off the Senate floor.
The U.S. Senate voted Tuesday to stop the Clarity Act from moving forward, dealing a setback to the crypto industry’s effort to secure a comprehensive framework for market regulation.
One of the most consequential U.S. regulations for crypto markets failed to secure enough support to clear the Senate’s final 60-vote hurdle, prompting reactions across the industry.
An initial Senate vote aimed at moving the Clarity Act closer to becoming law failed amid opposition to President Trump’s crypto wealth.
The years-long push to establish U.S. rules for crypto markets failed to secure enough support to clear the Senate’s final 60-vote threshold.
With both parties digging in, the crypto market-structure bill still lacks the votes needed to clear the Senate’s first hurdle scheduled for Tuesday.
Hours before an initial vote on the Clarity Act, Senate Republicans rejected a counterproposal put forward by fellow Democrats.
Prediction markets sharply cut the near-term chances of the crypto market structure bill passing, as negotiations remained deadlocked just hours before a key Senate vote.
The CLARITY Act is approaching a critical Senate vote without a clear coalition for the 60 votes required to advance it. Polymarket odds of enactment fell below 20% from about 34% in the prior 24 hours as Republican leaders struggled to secure their conference and Democrats sought further concessions. Banking concerns and ethics rules tied to Donald Trump’s crypto interests remain key obstacles.
Italy’s competition authority said on Tuesday it had opened an investigation into Intesa Sanpaolo’s bid to take over smaller rival Monte dei Paschi di Siena.
RReutersOriginal★★★☆☆2026-09-15 21:00
The World Bank’s International Development Association priced a $3 billion bond from an order book of nearly $8 billion, according to a source familiar with the transaction. It was the association’s first such deal after receiving an SEC waiver.
RReutersOriginal★★★★☆2026-09-15 20:45
Solana-based decentralized finance lender Kamino has appointed Yieldstreet co-founder Michael Weisz as its CEO. He will lead the company from a new New York headquarters as it expands into tokenized assets.
CCoinDeskOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-15 18:02
The European Central Bank is urging merchants to take part in a 12-month pilot of the digital euro. A beta version of the central bank currency will be tested through online, mobile, in-store and peer-to-peer payments.
CCoinDeskOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-15 14:15
A college internship is the surest route into investment banking, and many candidates begin preparing as early as their freshman year.
BBloomberg NewsOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-15 14:00
Morgan Stanley has joined other major Wall Street banks in taking a more hawkish view of interest rates. It expects the Federal Reserve to raise rates twice and the European Central Bank to make another increase later this year as inflationary pressures persist.
RReutersOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-15 12:35
Ether, Solana and XRP are likely to benefit if the Clarity Act moves forward, according to a Sept. 15 day-ahead outlook.
CCoinDeskOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-15 11:15
Banks could be among the biggest beneficiaries of clearer regulation, argues Alex Tapscott, CEO of CMCC Global Capital Markets.
Bitcoin dropped 1.7% since midnight UTC to $76,862, reversing a late-Monday rally. Polymarket odds that the Clarity Act will become law this year fell by half overnight.
London-based payments infrastructure firm Velocity has expanded its Series A funding to $48 million and reached a $200 million valuation with backing from Visa, Circle and Ripple, CEO Eric Queathem said.
CCoinDeskOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-15 11:00
ANZ Group Holdings CEO Nuno Matos warned that the risks associated with artificial intelligence are unpredictable and declined to rule out large-scale job cuts as the bank adopts the rapidly evolving technology.
BBloomberg NewsOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-15 10:00
Takis Georgakopoulos became Fiserv’s chief executive as the company faced major cultural and structural challenges, putting him in charge of a particularly difficult turnaround.
FFinancial TimesOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-15 10:00
HDFC Bank, India's largest private lender, climbed as much as 3.2% on Tuesday, its biggest percentage gain in more than four months. The move followed the bank's advancement of its CEO succession process and submission of two names to the central bank.
RReutersOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-15 08:00
Chinese companies’ global expansion is moving from the periphery to the core of business, Goldman Sachs says. Their average share of export markets is projected to rise from 18 per cent this year to 31 per cent by 2035, while revenue could grow 3.6-fold; share prices have not yet fully reflected that expansion.
SSouth China Morning PostOriginal★★★☆☆2026-09-15 08:00
The OCC’s proposed framework would generally give issuers two business days to redeem stablecoins, but a 24-hour redemption surge above 10% of outstanding issuance could extend the period to seven calendar days. Secondary-market trading could continue, while conversion providers may have to fund customers’ earlier exits and bear the waiting exposure.
CCryptoSlateOriginal★★☆☆☆2026-09-15 07:30
The Minutes Reader extension turns the original page into a focused reading view and translates articles and video subtitles on demand. It is in limited beta.