Category : Business

Alfa-Bank, Russia’s largest private bank, plans to launch its own digital depository and offer clients a full range of cryptocurrency services once the country’s digital asset regulation takes effect, Dmitry Vitman, chief operating officer of Alfa-Bank’s corporate and investment banking business, according to

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has opened a coordinated review of how crypto-asset service providers (CASP) safeguard client holdings, placing custody operations under direct scrutiny as the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation shifts from transition into active supervision. ESMA announced

Galaxy Digital has completed the first phase of its Helios campus in West Texas and begun earning lease revenue, delivering 133 MW of critical IT load to CoreWeave under a 15-year agreement. The company met its Phase I schedule and drew that load

Ripple has received full authorisation of its Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) license from Luxembourg’s Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSFF), completing its Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) requirements and clearing the company to offer regulated crypto asset services across all 30 countries

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) urged lawmakers to keep the country’s banks and regulated financial institutions insulated from cryptocurrencies and privately issued stablecoins, telling a parliamentary panel that outright prohibition remains a live policy option as India settles its approach to digital

The European Securities and Markets Authority has proposed a major redesign of EU transaction reporting, saying a new “Report Once” framework could save market participants between €250 million and €1 billion a year while reducing recurring reporting costs by 22% to 24%. In

Taiko reopened its cross-chain bridge after moving through a four-stage recovery from a June 21 attack that drained roughly $1.7 million, letting users shift funds between its Ethereum layer-2 network and the Ethereum mainnet again and confirming that every bridged asset now holds

Listen up, flyers: United Airlines said it will start removing passengers from flights who refuse to wear headphones while listening to content on their personal devices, and such behavior could lead to a permanent ban. The airline revised its contract of carriage on

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is stepping in to stop what it calls an “onslaught” of state-level regulation of prediction markets. CFTC Chairman Michael Selig said Tuesday in a video posted on X that the agency has filed a “friend of the

The operator of roughly 180 Eddie Bauer stores across the U.S. and Canada has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, blaming declining sales and a litany of other industry headwinds. The bankruptcy filing marks the third time in a little over two decades