FINANCE · 11 Jul 2026 —
Klarna Applies to Become a US Bank — Not Act Like One — With a Utah Charter Bid
Klarna filed on 6 July for a Utah industrial bank charter to bring its US banking in-house and reduce its reliance on pa...
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FINANCE · 8 Jul 2026 —
Honeywell Spin-off Solstice to Buy Element Solutions for $14.5B, Betting on the Materials Layer of the AI Boom
Solstice Advanced Materials, the specialty-chemicals business spun off from Honeywell in October 2025, has agreed to acq...
FINANCE · 7 Jul 2026 —
The FCA's Mills Review: No New AI Rulebook for Finance — but Targeted New Powers, Including Over the Vendors
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority published the Mills Review on 6 July 2026 — the first regulator-led review of its k...
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FINANCE · 16 Jun 2026 —
OpenAI Files Confidentially for an IPO — What Is Actually Confirmed, and What Is Still Just a Target
OpenAI has confirmed it submitted a confidential draft IPO registration to the SEC. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are...
FINANCE · 8 Jun 2026 —
Stablecoins Are Becoming Settlement Plumbing — and Singapore's Rulebook Is About to Matter
Early-June moves by Mastercard and Visa show stablecoins shifting from speculative asset to back-end settlement rail. As...
FINANCE · 6 Jun 2026 —
SoFi Coach Shows Where Fintech AI Is Really Heading
SoFi Coach brings AI financial guidance directly into a consumer fintech app. The bigger signal is not chat itself, but...
FINANCE · 1 Jun 2026 —
Snowflake jumps 36 per cent in a day on an earnings beat and a US$6 billion AWS chip deal
Snowflake had its best day as a public company on 28 May, closing up 36 per cent after a clean first-quarter beat and a...
FINANCE · 1 Jun 2026 —
MAS Scraps Mandatory Financial Advice for Most Complex Product Buyers in Retail Shake-Up
Singapore retail investors buying structured notes, derivatives and investment-linked policies will no longer need manda...
FINANCE · 1 Jun 2026 —
SEC Rewrites Float Rules, PSE Moves to Implement Them — Clearing the Path for GCash's USD 1B Philippine IPO
The SEC lowered the public float floor for large Philippine issuers in February 2026. The PSE followed with a consultati...
FINANCE · 1 Jun 2026 —
Vietnam Shortlists Five Crypto Exchanges for Q3 2026 Regulated Digital Asset Market Launch
Vietnam's Ministry of Finance has cleared five exchanges — VIXEX, SCEX, CAEX, TCEX, and Vietnam Digital Assets — for pil...
FINANCE · 1 Jun 2026 —
Hong Kong's First Licensed HKD Stablecoins Are Months Away as HSBC and Anchorpoint Ready Commercial Launches
Hong Kong awarded its first stablecoin issuer licences on 10 April 2026 — HSBC and Anchorpoint Financial each received a...
FINANCE · 1 Jun 2026 —
UPI Posts All-Time Monthly Record of 23.2 Billion Transactions in May 2026, Handling Nearly Half of Global Real-Time Payments
India's UPI processed 23.20 billion transactions worth ₹29.90 lakh crore in May 2026 — a new all-time monthly high — gro...
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