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Six of seven comments summarized by Crowdfund Insider back a petition to lift the SEC's Reg CF cap from $5 million to $20 million. A higher limit would bring crowdfunding to seed-round size for issuers that outgrow the cap and now finish raising from accredited investors only.
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Goldman Sachs says a record share of S&P 500 stocks now show negative beta, nearing half the index over a short recent window. The readings track how far a few AI names set the index's direction, so a low-beta portfolio can hold risks its beta hides.
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Leaked internal files from the Promsvyazbank-backed payments group describe roughly 100 front companies in four jurisdictions opening accounts at banks still on the network, with counterfeit invoices produced whenever compliance teams asked questions.
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Nasdaq's net income standard now requires $15 million of unrestricted public float, three times the old bar, and the blank-check pool positioned to absorb the issuers it excludes is filling faster than it is finding them.
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Crowdfund Insider's nine disclosed fintech rounds last week add to $401.4m. Grab is paying $1.49bn for a majority of Atome's lending and buy-now-pay-later book. The largest raise, Kaiko's $110m extension, was led by S&P Global.
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Colombia's approval is Revolut's sixth banking licence and the FINMA filing would be its seventh. The same week, the bank was still working through a fraudulent legal request it honoured from a real government domain.
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The Philippine SEC has put a 150 percent increase in the online fundraising ceiling out for comment. The limits that decide who can fund those raises, and how much each of them may commit, are unchanged.
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A consortium of 21 financial institutions plans a dollar stablecoin for 2027, and USDC already runs natively on 35 blockchains, so TransFi's Raj Kamal argues the ledger underneath the money now matters as much as the issuer.
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Chime, Circle and PayTabs agreed to $1.09 billion of acquisitions in a single week, the largest of them Chime buying the bank that has partnered with it for more than seven years. Investors funded the opposite approach the same week.
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Acting Superintendent Kaitlin Asrow's September 10 letter restates duties Part 500 has carried since 2017. Examiners want a written line from each finding to the control it bought or the risk someone accepted.
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Brian Belley of Kingscrowd and the CfPA wants the Reg CF ceiling at $20 million and Reg A Tier 2 at $150 million, and he rests the case on the issuers who showed up after the cap moved from $1.07 million to $5 million.
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The three tokens join bitcoin and ethereum in accounts held at Schwab's bank affiliate, with no launch date, no SIPC cover and a fee that takes $150 out of a $10,000 position bought and sold once.
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The late-August update stresses text-based fields and untouched seed phrases, while the earlier regulatory filings list passport numbers, dates of birth and two-factor details, and both descriptions are accurate at once.
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Poland's MiCA-aligning bill has been vetoed three times since December 2025. That is why roughly $94 million of Zondacrypto customer money now sits behind prosecutors rather than a licensing regime, and it is why the vote count matters more than the rulebook.
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KPMG counts $499m across 53 Singapore fintech deals in the first half, the weakest since at least 2019, and $320m of it went to one cross-border payments platform, leaving 52 other rounds to share $179m.
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Fifty-six per cent of 18- to 40-year-old investors trust AI tools more than TV, press or influencers, and a third expect compensation cover that does not exist. The shortfall lands on them.
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A tokenized-stock operator says his platform's volume ran more than ten times normal over the weekend of July 13. The exchange fix arriving in December does not cover weekends.
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The first critical third parties have been designated, putting technology, data and operations suppliers under direct UK supervision. Firm-level responsibility does not move an inch.
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Three employees, including the head of Dubai operations, were detained or summoned by UAE police. Binance calls it routine statement-taking; one of them still spent a night in a police station.
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The board leaves the cash-equivalents definition untouched and adds illustrative examples instead, which turns an auditor's judgment call into something a controller can point at.
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