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The Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau and Invest Hong Kong unveiled details of Hong Kong FinTech Week x StartmeupHK 2026 at a press conference on Oct. 23. The event runs Nov. 2-6 in Hong Kong and expects more than…
Altcoin trading has cooled back to normal levels. Total crypto spot volume now runs at about 3 times Bitcoin’s (BTC), down from nearly 4 times in late September. The speculation has cooled, although the market has not yet tilted toward…
Chinese households are buying more gold as prices fall, lending the metal support as it slips below $4,000. Weekly volume on a key Shanghai contract just hit its highest level since April. The buying arrives when gold holders could use…
Holders of eligible Asterium Visa and Mastercard cards can now use Apple Pay, an easy, secure, and private way to pay with iPhone and Apple Watch. Asterium, a licensed fintech ecosystem based in Uzbekistan, has introduced Apple Pay for eligible…
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra on October 26, charging developers half the per-token price of its predecessor. Independent tests from Artificial Analysis, however, still rank 2 Anthropic models ahead of it. Terra now costs $1 per million input tokens and $5…
A few years ago, the playbook for a crypto wallet was simple. List the coin everyone was chasing before your competitors did. Support the hyped token only you carried, and users came to you. Last year, more than 11.5 million…
Crypto enters a week of 2 central bank decisions with lighter trading and a shrinking stablecoin supply. The Federal Reserve decides on October 28, and the Bank of Japan (BoJ) follows on October 30. Markets expect both banks to hold…
Crypto trader Ansem turns bearish on Bitcoin and ETH, blaming a blow-off top in AI stocks and warning that both could slide faster from here.
Ed Yardeni says air is leaving the AI bubble without a burst, as bond markets ration capital to weaker AI borrowers.
Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees. The time-limited program covers staff at level 70 and below in the US, Canada, India, and the UK. The offer arrives just before Microsoft reports fiscal first-quarter results on Wednesday. Investors…
Bitcoin (BTC) is heading for a second straight losing October, down 4.10% since the month began. Yet 4 signals across price, positioning, on-chain data, and macro still lean bullish. Galaxy and Santiment see signs of a bottom, while Glassnode data…
Ripple won final approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to open a national trust bank. The bank charter covers reserves behind its $2.5 billion Ripple USD (RLUSD) stablecoin but assigns XRP no role. XRP holders…
