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Polymarket has taken $77,507 in positions on whether the world's biggest banks, HSBC and Lloyds among them, fail by year-end. For British lenders the exposure is how fast that price could travel on social media during a period of stress.
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Britain's Financial Conduct Authority tells crypto firms to apply by 28 February 2027 to keep operating once its regime starts on 25 October. Existing firms that file in time may keep taking new business until they get a decision, so October binds mainly non-filers and firms the regulator refuses.
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Smarter Web Company plans to raise £15 million to £25 million with MORE, the first preferred share from a UK corporate Bitcoin holder, pending FCA approval. How much it raises, and at what dividend, is an early check on Michael Saylor's claim that Bitcoin-backed credit issuers enlarge each other's market.
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South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service plans to publish interim inspection findings only where consumer harm is feared or a major incident could follow. For inspected firms, most publicity would then come at the sanction stage.
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An account freezing order under the Proceeds of Crime Act attaches to the money wherever it sits, which is why a crypto sponsor's opening instalment of £10,024,041.33 has been immobilised since January.
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The group calling itself iamnotavillain wants 6,000 Monero within 24 hours and Revolut says no demand has reached it. The data went out through a government email account the bank was obliged to answer.
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The UK regulator has fixed the calendar for crypto authorisation. It says it will consult next month on updating the very perimeter guidance it has just published to help firms get ready.
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Daphni led the round alongside Outward VC and K Fund. Founder Andre Silva says the app is an independent financial advisor to the user, a status Quartz is not regulated to hold and says it hopes to obtain later.
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Stack BTC has agreed to pay up to £12 million for Direct Bullion, a gold dealer that earned £2.15 million after tax last year, and the seller is the treasury firm's own chief strategy officer. Aquis classes the deal as related-party.
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The proposed secondary objective arrives with an explicit stability carve-out and an annual report to Parliament, which leaves June's reserve rule, not the statute, as the number that prices a sterling stablecoin business.
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The value was never published, so the only checkable numbers are Circle's: $73.3 billion of USDC in circulation, $14.8 trillion moved in a quarter, and one UK e-money permission a club's compliance file can read.
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The grounding layer in Verivello re-verifies every register record against the entity the user actually asked about, preferring an exact company number and falling back to a normalised name plus a matching incorporation year.
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Smarter Web, the UK's largest listed bitcoin holder, wants £15m to £25m from London for a non-voting preferred share that pays a variable weekly dividend. The prospectus still needs FCA approval.
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The Bristol company wants £15m to £25m for MORE shares, a sterling perpetual preferred backed by 2,878 bitcoin, and the High Court cleared the dividend capacity in July, before any prospectus existed.
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Tong and Perez name GMX, dYdX, Hyperliquid and four others in their September 3 alert while stating that no one says the resident used any of them, leaving Connecticut with a citable list untethered to the case that prompted it.
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Andrew Bailey's August 28 letter names concentrated third-party providers as the fragile point and asks the sector to prove it can rebuild critical systems from bare metal. Supervisors will cite that wording long before any rule does.
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Andrew Bailey has told G20 finance ministers that many jurisdictions lack protocols for releasing frontier AI models. The gap he describes sits above any single firm. That makes it a matter for supervisors, not vendors.
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A sterling token in the FCA sandbox, across a 70 million customer base, moves the reserve and the yield on it onto Revolut's own balance sheet.
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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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A Forbes Tech Council column argues enterprise AI sovereignty clauses fix where data sits and say nothing about whose model gets smarter. The author also sells the remedy.
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Invest · August 15, 2026 · 1 publisher
Invest · August 15, 2026 · 1 publisher