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Franklin Templeton Extends Tokenised Money Market Collateral to Bybit

Franklin Templeton Extends Tokenised Money Market Collateral to Bybit

Franklin Templeton has extended its tokenised money market collateral model to Bybit, allowing eligible institutional clients to pledge fund shares held outside the exchange and access USDT or USDC trading credit lines.The collateral consists of tokenised money market fund shares issued on Franklin …

Polymarket Wants Financial Status in Europe, but It May Come with a Retail Ban

Polymarket Wants Financial Status in Europe, but It May Come with a Retail Ban

Polymarket is trying to convince EU and UK regulators that its event contracts should be treated as financial instruments rather than gambling products.That classification could provide a basis for regulated operations, but contracts treated as financial instruments may also face restrictions on ret…

CloudTech Launches RooRooEx Days Before ASIC Licensing Relief Ends

CloudTech Launches RooRooEx Days Before ASIC Licensing Relief Ends

CloudTech Group has launched RooRooEx, an Integral-powered digital asset trading platform aimed at institutions, high-net-worth clients and individual investors.London's trading industry is coming home!The company plans to make the platform available in Australia, Singapore and Malaysia, although it…

Assetera Brings 200 Tokenised Stocks to European Retail Investors

Assetera Brings 200 Tokenised Stocks to European Retail Investors

Assetera has added xStocks to its platform, giving eligible retail investors and B2B partners access to more than 200 tokenised stocks across 30 EU and EEA markets.The move follows other European distribution deals for xStocks, including its debut on Deutsche Börse's 360X earlier this year.London's …

Bybit Adds Chat to Its AI Stack, Pointing to a Broader Shift

Bybit Adds Chat to Its AI Stack, Pointing to a Broader Shift

While crypto exchanges and retail brokers have largely converged on MCP integrations in their AI roadmaps, some, such as Bybit, are now adding a conversational AI front end that sits on top of that infrastructure.The second-largest crypto exchange by trading volume has unveiled today (Wednesday) Byb…

Saint Vincent Regulator Freezes Virtual Asset Applications, Existing Submissions Continue

Saint Vincent Regulator Freezes Virtual Asset Applications, Existing Submissions Continue

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has immediately suspended the submission of new applications for virtual asset businesses.The move follows earlier steps by the regulator to tighten oversight of financial businesses. In January 2023, the SVG FSA tightened re…

ASIC Crypto License Applications Pass 45 Before September Deadline

ASIC Crypto License Applications Pass 45 Before September Deadline

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) recorded more than 45 applications tied to digital-asset services, it said today (Wednesday). The count has increased by roughly half since ASIC extended its transitional licensing relief.Businesses relying on the regulator's no-action posi…

Polymarket withdraws NFL participation filings one day after certification

Polymarket withdraws NFL participation filings one day after certification

Polymarket US has withdrawn two filings for NFL player participation contracts one day after self-certifying them with the CFTC, the regulator's latest registry shows.The withdrawals cover both the broader product class and a specific contract asking whether Patrick Mahomes will participate in the K…

MEXC CEO Vugar Usi:

MEXC CEO Vugar Usi: "I Struggle to Construct a Retail Case for 500x Leverage"

MEXC Chief Executive Vugar Usi questioned the retail case for leverage of 500x in an interview with FinanceMagnates.com. His comments come as crypto exchanges push further into forex, commodities and U.S. equities.The statement also invites a closer look at how leverage varies across MEXC's expandin…

IG and tastytrade Digital Assets Executive Moves On After Seven Years

IG and tastytrade Digital Assets Executive Moves On After Seven Years

Laurence Willows has left IG Group and tastytrade after nearly seven years with the companies, according to a LinkedIn post published today.Willows wrote that he had “moved on from IG / tastytrade this summer” after “7 amazing years” with the businesses. “It’s been a pleasure working alongside so ma…

Hidden Code Suggests TikTok Could Add Money Transfers to DMs

Hidden Code Suggests TikTok Could Add Money Transfers to DMs

TikTok might be exploring a feature that would let users send money to each other in direct messages, based on code found hidden in the current US iPhone version of the app. The rumours remain unconfirmed.According to the Bloomberg report, the code shows recipients could “tap to accept” a payment be…

Swissquote Warns 600 Russian Customers of Possible Account Closures

Swissquote Warns 600 Russian Customers of Possible Account Closures

Swissquote has warned around 600 customers about possible account closures, most of them users of its digital banking subsidiary Yuh.The notices were sent to Russian citizens living in Switzerland, including some with permanent residence. Swiss financial blog Inside Paradeplatz and Russian publicati…