The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) granted preliminary conditional approval on August 14, 2026 to World Liberty Trust Company, National Association — the latest digital-asset applicant to clear that bar, and the…
Payment orchestration consolidates as merchant PSP estates shrink
Payment orchestration exists to solve fragmentation: merchants running six or eight payment service providers (PSPs) need a routing layer above them. That premise is now in tension with the market's direction. Fintech funding rose 23%…
SEC marketing rule and FCA gateway converge on…
Three of the world's largest financial regulators have arrived at the same enforcement target — the compensated endorsement — by three incompatible routes. The United States polices it after publication under the SEC Marketing Rule,…
GBP/JPY to 205 by Q4 2026: the carry-cushion…
GBP/JPY reaches 205 by December 31, 2026 in the base case, 196 in the bear case and 224 in the bull case. The mechanism is a carry cushion that has stopped compensating for the tail:…
Metaplanet leans on debt as bitcoin treasury discounts…
Two of the largest non-ETF holders of Bitcoin (BTC) are now under simultaneous balance-sheet pressure, and the market is treating them as unrelated stories. They are not. Miners sold roughly 32,000 BTC while spot sat…
Bulenox review: the balance cap that forces payouts
Verdict. Bulenox suits futures traders who grind small, repeatable days on NinjaTrader and want money out weekly rather than monthly. It does not suit traders who make their month in one or two outsized sessions…
Bitcoin miners sold 32,000 BTC as price holds…
Bitcoin (BTC) traded at $63,999 on July 25, 2026, roughly 18% below the $78,000 all-in production cost that JPMorgan attributes to the public mining sector. The bank's analysts, led by managing director Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, say…