Hopes of a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz weakened after US President Donald Trump demanded that Iran pay compensation for people killed in wars, attacks and protests. The demand came after Tehran called for compensation for...

The New York Stock Exchange is moving further into blockchain-based market infrastructure, with President Lynn Martin saying the exchange is developing a platform for on-chain settlement of tokenized securities. The announcement comes as traditional market infrastructure firms increasingly...

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is in discussions with banks over a possible regulatory framework for tokenized gold, according to the Financial Times. The regulator is expected to publish guidance or standards in the coming months as...

The European Union's new crypto licensing rules are creating an unexpected side effect, a rise in scams targeting exchange customers forced to move their assets after unlicensed platforms lost the right to operate. Under the Markets in Crypto-Assets...

OpenAI has asked a U.S. federal court to dismiss Apple's lawsuit accusing the company of misappropriating trade secrets to push its consumer hardware ambitions. In a court filing submitted on Wednesday, OpenAI argued that it has no interest...

Arthur Hayes has argued that the AI infrastructure boom resembles the U.S. housing market before the 2008 financial crisis more than the dot-com bubble, warning that slowing data centre construction could expose billions of dollars in leveraged debt....

India's Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has ruled out an immediate review of its newly introduced stock closing auction, even after the mechanism triggered sharp volatility in futures and options markets during its first week. The...

Most businesses in Singapore have assigned responsibility for artificial intelligence (AI) systems, but far fewer can actually show how those systems arrive at their decisions, according to a new report by Sumsub and the Singapore FinTech Association (SFA)....

Nigeria has formally brought cryptocurrency profits and blockchain-based digital assets into its tax system after the Nigeria Revenue Service (NRS) released its first comprehensive Guidelines on Taxation of Virtual Assets. Issued on July 31, 2026, the framework outlines...

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has launched V4-Flash, a new version of its flagship artificial intelligence model that ranks as the lowest-cost model to run among leading AI systems, according to benchmarking firm Artificial Analysis. Released on Friday, V4-Flash...