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Stablecoins & digital assets on Markets+ ↗The FCA has secured High Court undertakings to ensure that HTX (formerly Huobi), a global crypto exchange, will not knowingly promote cryptoasset services unlawfully to UK consumers. The FCA took legal action against HTX in October 2025 for breaking UK financial promotion rules.
How many of us read the terms and conditions of a contract before buying a financial product?Contracts hold the detail that shapes everyone's financial life, whether you're taking out a loan, insuring your holiday, or signing up for a crypto wallet.All firms are responsible for making sure that terms in their consumer contracts comply with the fairness and transparency requirements of the Consumer Rights Act (CRA) 2015. When those terms don’t comply, our Consumer Contracts team has powers to challenge firms directly.This work shows how we use the full range of powers Parliament has given us…
PNC Bank is piloting USDC payment acceptance for corporate and institutional clients through its expanded partnership with Coinbase.
The Binance hack proved stablecoin freezes work. Now the UK should make clear freeze rules a condition of listing coins.
Aurora Intents, the cross-chain execution solution built by Aurora Labs, has partnered with Wirex, the global stablecoin infrastructure platform, to let partners’ users top up their accounts from almost any blockchain using one permanent deposit address.
Robinhood has launched commission-free IPO Access in the UK, allowing retail investors to request shares in eligible U.S. listings
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency elevated the biggest U.S. exchange's trust status from conditional to a full-fledged charter, the company said.
<p>Santiago Peña charged over alleged role in crisis as prosecutors request he be placed in preventive custody</p><p>Pedro Volpe had just woken up last Tuesday when he saw a message from a friend asking whether his bank account was down too.</p><p>It was a day after payday, and Volpe, 50, a writer and lawyer, opened his banking app and panicked: he could not even see his balance.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/07/paraguay-ueno-bank-collapse-santiago-pena">Continue reading...</a>
<p>Fans trying to access latest releases are being priced out in a cut-throat market driven by crypto-like hype</p><p>The runaway demand for Pokemon cards is because they are being hyped “like crypto”, according to one young fan who had spent the night queueing outside a London store to make sure he did not miss out on the latest card release.</p><p>Before its 10am opening on Friday, the line outside the pop culture store Forbidden Planet in central London snaked past five others and, despite its strict sales policy, was probably “50/50” fans and resellers, said Kai, who had been there since…
In this interview, GlobalData's Phoebe Hodgson comments on the market reaction and implications to the Binance hack.
At Sibos 2026, Quant and Murex discuss the barriers affecting institutional adoption of digital assets and overcoming fragmentation when integrating digital assets with money, liquidity, risk, and existing operating models.
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