Finance
Eurogroup Chief Mulls Emergency Meeting on Surging Energy Costs
Euro-area finance ministers may hold an extraordinary meeting to discuss how to cope with increasing energy prices amid strained budgets and global bond-market turmoil.
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- Finance
How to Tell Whether a Plunging Stock Will Keep Plunging
Plus, the yen slides again…
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- Finance
Ex-Monzo execs’ Sync Savings completes funding round
UK payroll savings platform Sync Savings has been backed by leading female investors to make saving easier and more accessible to consumers.
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- Industry
Light & Wonder appoints Muthu Palanichamy as Senior Vice President & General Manager of Global Systems
Sixteen-year company veteran leads continued growth and evolution of global Systems business Light & Wonder has appointed Muthu Palanichamy as Senior Vice President & General Manager, Global Systems. Palanichamy, who assumed the role last month, leads the company’s global Systems business. In…
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- Finance
Hantec Prime Reports Trading Volume Up Over 300% in 2026 with 42+ Institutional Clients
Hantec Prime, the institutional division of Hantec Markets, has reported trading volume up more than 300% year-to-date and the addition of 42 new institutional clients since December, capping one of its strongest years of growth to date. The firm, which provides liquidity, execution…
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- Industry
BEGE EXPO 2026 announces FashionTV Gaming Group as its official partner
The company will showcase its portfolio of branded games and casino and sports websites under the FashionTV brand during the event. Press release.- Glamour, class and luxury are set to take over the world of gaming this autumn. For the first time, BEGE EXPO 2026 will welcome FashionTV Gaming…
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- Policy
US Sanctions Iranian Exchange BitBank Over Bitcoin Transfers to the IRGC and Hormuz Passage Fees
Treasury says the Tehran exchange moved hundreds of millions in bitcoin to the Revolutionary Guards and handled fees collected from tankers buying passage through the Strait of Hormuz. The post US Sanctions Iranian Exchange BitBank Over Bitcoin Transfers to the IRGC and Hormuz Passage Fees…
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- Finance
U.K. Retail Sales Climbed Despite Inflation Pickup
Retail sales rebounded in August, helped by online sales, as consumers shrugged off recently rising inflation.
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- Online Casinos
Atlantic City’s casinos enjoy best summer in a decade despite August fall-off
August’s GGR from land-based slot machines and table games declined by 5.5 per cent year-on-year to $294.9m Atlantic City’s casinos enjoyed their best summer in a decade despite a downturn in August when spend from in-person gamblers was down at every casino apart from the Borgata. August’s…
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- Altcoins
Kevin O’Leary is buying crypto again, says major stock exchange adoption is the ‘watershed moment’ to watch
Kevin O'Leary says he is buying crypto again and watching for a major stock exchange to adopt a blockchain network.
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- Bitcoin
Bitcoin weathers September storm as rate hikes and Clarity act setback test bulls
Bitcoin is down just 1.5% in its historically weakest month and remains on track for its first quarterly gain in a year, despite rising rates, surging oil and a stronger dollar.
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- Finance
Three guys using Anthropic’s Claude hacked into OpenAI and accessed its source code for $6,500 reward
Everything you need to know before you reach the office this morning.
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- Industry
Missouri Couple Celebrates Life-Changing $3M Win
A couple in Missouri was lucky enough to bag a $3,000,000 jackpot, winning the prize from a 7-Eleven in Affton. The game that the pair played was a Missouri Lottery Scratchers 300X ticket, leading to the seven-figure reward. Couple Get $3M Windfall off Scratcher Lottery Game The couple told…
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- Finance
Ascory Bank AG partners with Mount Street to enhance monitoring and credit management
Mount Street has been appointed by Ascory Bank AG to provide outsourced portfolio administration, monitoring and surveillance services across the bank’s portfolio. The scope also includes the design, implementation and maintenance of a bespoke rating framework for its structured finance exposures.
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- Industry
US court rules in favor of California tribes in Kalshi dispute
The ruling challenged the treatment of Kalshi’s sports contracts as federally regulated derivatives. US.- The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled unanimously in favour of the Blue Lake Rancheria Indians and the Chicken Ranch Rancheria of the Me-Wuk Indians in their legal…
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- Finance
Bots now outnumber human traffic on the web. Cloudflare’s CEO wants AI companies to pay for it
Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.
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- Policy
Bitget CLO Marks 8th Anniversary With Open Letter on Trust, Security and Compliance
Bitget, the leading cryptocurrency exchange and Web3 company, today published an open letter penned by Chief Legal Officer Hon Ng to mark the platform’s eighth anniversary. In the letter, Ng reflects on Bitget’s evolution from a crypto derivatives exchange to a platform serving more than…
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- Altcoins
AI Scams are Surging in Crypto. KuCoin is Betting on a New Security Standard
Crypto scammers can now automate the conversations that persuade victims to send them money. Criminal adoption of AI rose 40% over the past year, TRM Labs reported in August, with scammers making the widest use of the technology. Crypto Exchanges also use AI to detect fraud, monitor markets,…
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- Finance
Parents are interfering with teens’ first jobs. Here’s why employers say it can backfire
Parents are sending their teens' work emails for them. “An employer may reasonably wonder whether the teenager can communicate independently," says expert.
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- Finance
Poland MPC Member Warns Rate Increase Possible on Energy Risks
Poland may need to tighten what is an already restrictive monetary stance if energy prices accelerate, according to central banker Wieslaw Janczyk.
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- Finance
HitPay launches CFO Stack to simplify SME finance operations
HitPay, a payment platform for small and medium-sized enterprises across Southeast Asia, today launched the first phase of its CFO Stack, a suite of finance tools designed to help businesses manage more payment operations in one place.
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- Altcoins
UAE, Sweden Arrest Seven Over $7.1M Crypto Laundering Ring Linked to Contract Killings
Investigators say tracing the network's crypto transactions exposed links to organized crime and murder-for-hire.
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- Bitcoin
Live updates: Bitcoin climbs over $80,000 as rally accelerates at U.S. market open
Another central bank hiked rates overnight, this time the Bank of Japan. The move failed to halt the slide in the yen.
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