Stablecoin-powered neobank Fasset has closed a $51 million Series B led by Japan's SBI Group, Investcorp and Turkey's Arz Portföy, taking the Los Angeles-headquartered fintech to a reported $32 billion annualised processing volume across 125…
COMEX copper to $7.00/lb by year-end 2026: the…
COMEX copper reaches $7.00/lb by December 31, 2026 in the base case, $7.50/lb in the bull case, and $5.40/lb in the bear case. The base case rests on JPMorgan's projected 330,000-tonne refined-copper deficit for 2026,…
Mercury raises $200m at $5.2bn as OCC clears…
Mercury closed a $200 million Series D at a $5.2 billion valuation on May 20, 2026 — up 49% from its valuation just 14 months earlier — and the timing is as instructive as the…
S&P 500 to 7,800 by year-end 2026: the…
The S&P 500 reaches 7,800 by December 31, 2026 in the base case, 8,200 in the bull case, and 6,800 in the bear case, driven by an AI-capex cycle that has not yet peaked, a…
BlackRock files BSTBL and BRSRV tokenized funds on…
BlackRock has filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to launch two tokenized money-market funds — BSTBL on Ethereum and BRSRV across multiple blockchains — built explicitly for stablecoin holders who want a regulated…
FATF Travel Rule 2026: 85 jurisdictions, but enforcement…
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Travel Rule has reached 85 of 163 jurisdictions with passed legislation in 2026 — up from 65 a year earlier — but the binding compliance risk for crypto exchanges,…