Category : Business

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) confirmed on 30 July 2026 that Project Agorá completed real-value testing, with JPMorgan, Citi, UBS and 25 other private sector institutions joining five central banks to settle roughly CHF 800,000 in live cross-border payments using tokenized central

Rivian did something unusual in a week dominated by expanding artificial-intelligence budgets: it told investors it could spend less, lose slightly less and still deliver more vehicles. Shares closed 2.9% higher at $16.83 on Thursday ahead of the results, then added about 2%

Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest reduced positions in four crypto-linked companies on Wednesday, selling shares of Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR), Block (XYZ), Bullish (BLSH) and Robinhood (HOOD) as each stock ended the session lower. The transactions, disclosed in Ark Invest’s daily trading report, follow

The Nairobi Securities Exchange has signed a memorandum of understanding with Tether, the issuer of the world’s largest stablecoin, to explore tokenizing securities, building blockchain-based market infrastructure, and potentially using USDT as a settlement layer on the exchange. The MoU, signed on 28

Flipster, a global cryptocurrency trading platform, has secured a full operational Exchange licence from Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA), allowing the company to offer regulated virtual asset services in the United Arab Emirates. The licence, issued to Flipster FZE under Licence No.

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) added 15 crypto-asset service providers to its interim MiCA register in the update dated 24 July, among them BNY SA/NV, the Belgian subsidiary of BNY Mellon, lifting the number of licensed firms across the European Union

Ripple has launched Ripple Mint, a unified platform that gives institutional customers a single interface to access, mint, redeem, and manage Ripple USD (RLUSD) through either a web console or programmatic integration. The launch streamlines RLUSD issuance and redemption by bringing operational controls,

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) beat Wall Street on revenue, earnings, margin and guidance in the second quarter and still reported a net loss of $11 billion. The chipmaker posted revenue of $16.13 billion, up 25% year on year and its fastest growth in more than

South Korean crypto exchange Korbit said Mirae Asset Consulting, part of Mirae Asset Group, which oversees more than $1 trillion in assets under management, has become its largest shareholder after completing the required regulatory process, placing the country’s first virtual asset exchange under

Oil climbed to a six-week high on Wednesday as a threatened Houthi naval blockade of Saudi Arabia pushed a second Middle East shipping chokepoint into the market’s risk calculation. Brent crude futures rose 4.2% to $94.83 a barrel at 09:38 GMT after touching