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Payward has divided that vision into four pillars: trading through Kraken, banking, asset management and Payward Services, its business-to-business infrastructure division.Kraken has about 6.6 million funded accounts holding between $40 billion and $50 billion of assets, according to Sethi, across more than 190 countries and territories.To grow its vision of a unified financial platform, Payward is now adding services around those accounts, including cards, lending, derivatives and tokenized equities, as well as products that allow customers to borrow against assets or deploy them in decentralized-finance applications. Kraken Financial, its Wyoming-chartered special-purpose depository institution, also forms part of the stack.Build, buy…

“We have no debt and own our primary home, a vacation home, as well as my mother’s home in another state.”

An XRP Ledger upgrade expected to activate Sept. 29 has been pushed back by at least 10 days after validator support briefly fell below the level required to turn it on.The feature, called Batch, would let users submit up to eight transactions together. Its all-or-nothing option could let a buyer pay for a tokenized asset and receive it in one operation, preventing either side of the trade from completing alone.RippleX’s head of engineering, Ayo Akinyele, previously told CoinDesk that projects were being built around Batch and that Ripple would share more about work with asset managers once the feature went…

Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR) is up roughly 10% year-to-date and about 1% over the past year. Wall Street expects strong commercial momentum for Palantir following its latest updates around AI sovereignty. Palantir’s AIPCon 11 focused heavily on AI sovereignty rather than new models or compute partnerships, reinforcing the idea that enterprises and governments need AI systems that are model-agnostic, auditable, and fully under their control. DA Davidson Raises PT DA Davidson analyst Gil Luria made a move on PLTR’s price target, raising it from $200 to $250. Luria states that customers’ concerns lie around AI models, and they are increasingly…

With the 10-year Treasury up sharply and the outlook for the U.S. economy looking unclear, some say 8% mortgage rates are back on the table.

Mutsamudu, Comoros, September 25, 2026 – MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, will return to TOKEN2049 Singapore as a Platinum Sponsor, with a broader on-site presence spanning interactive booth experiences, product showcases and conversations on the MEXC Stage. The event will give users, partners and industry participants more ways to engage directly with MEXC, from exploring new AI experiences to joining discussions on how trading platforms and global markets are evolving. This year, MEXC’s presence will spotlight how AI is evolving from market analysis into active, agentic execution. Where quantitative capabilities and high-speed algorithmic tools were once locked…

The case adds to a growing fight between prediction markets and state gambling regulators over who has the authority to oversee the products.Prediction market companies argue that their event contracts are financial products overseen at the federal level by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). States have taken a different view, particularly when the contracts involve sports, arguing that the products are effectively bets and must follow state gambling rules.New York has been one of the most active states in that fight. The state sued Kalshi in July after negotiations between the company and Hochul’s office broke down, seeking as…

NEW YORK (AP) — Pressure from the U.S. bond market hit a new level on Wall Street Wednesday after a surprisingly strong report on the economy raised worries about inflation, while oil prices halted their slide. The squeeze caused U.S. stocks to sink. The S&P 500 fell 0.8% after finishing the prior day just 0.4% below its record set last month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 352 points, or 0.7%, while the Nasdaq composite sank 1.1% from its own all-time high. Stocks wilted after the yield on the 10-year Treasury jumped to 5.10% from 4.96% late Tuesday, which is…

When Micron reports earnings next week, a Rosenblatt analyst expects to hear about additional customer agreements, rising prices and stock buybacks.

New Ondo Intelligent Portfolios will offer portfolio tokens based on portfolio strategies developed by BlackRock for Ondo, bringing professionally designed portfolios delivered as single onchain tokens for eligible investors outside the United States. NEW YORK, Sept. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Ondo Finance today launched a new onchain product category: Ondo Intelligent Portfolios, curated portfolios delivered as single onchain transferable tokens. The three portfolio tokens launched today are based on portfolio strategies powered by BlackRock, developed by BlackRock for Ondo, marking the first time eligible onchain investors can access exposure to such strategies through a single token. Diversified, professionally constructed strategies have…