The FCA’s landmark Mills Review mapped four systemic shifts AI will bring to finance by 2030. But for firms already using AI in portfolio construction, the hardest question — can your model show its working? — remains conspicuously unanswered.
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Robinhood Chain launched to tokenise equities on Ethereum. Two weeks later, a single cat-themed memecoin is worth 12 times every real-world asset on the chain combined.
Robinhood Built a Blockchain for Stocks — Degens Filled It with Cat Coins Read More »
SWIFT launched its blockchain-based shared ledger with 17 global banks on 9 July 2026. Built on ConsenSys’s Ethereum L2 but fully permissioned, it raises a fundamental question: is this crypto’s vindication, or the ultimate TradFi power grab?
SWIFT’s Blockchain Is Here — And It’s the Walled Garden Crypto Always Feared Read More »
KAST, the $600 million crypto neobank, has been quietly classifying user stablecoin deposits as ‘sales’ to the company — capping user liability at just $500. A public CEO feud exposed what the fine print had hidden for months.
KAST’s $600M Secret: Your Crypto Deposit Isn’t Yours Read More »
The EU Council’s decision to let oil companies qualify for sustainable fund labels exposes the hollowness of generic ESG. Cause-specific impact investing — from animal welfare to environmental protection — offers investors something labels alone cannot: clarity about what their money actually does.
When ‘Sustainable’ Includes Oil: The Case for Cause-Specific Impact Investing Read More »
Security firm Hexens disclosed a critical vulnerability in the Aptos blockchain’s Move VM that could have exposed $70 billion in crypto infrastructure. The attack cost? Just $3,000. The success rate? Nearly 90%. No funds were lost — but the details should terrify every protocol builder in the ecosystem.
Nearly 1,700 UK investors have filed a £150 million class-action lawsuit against Binance and founder CZ in London’s High Court, alleging the exchange sold unauthorised crypto derivatives to retail customers in breach of the Financial Services and Markets Act.
The UK’s CCI disclosure regime is three months old and the Financial Services Bill has introduced overseas recognition powers. For foreign firms eyeing the UK retail market, the transition clock is ticking.
CCI at Three Months: What Overseas Firms Cannot Afford to Ignore Read More »
Binance has withdrawn its MiCA licence bid and will suspend EU services from 1 July. Only 210 of 1,200+ crypto firms survived Europe’s regulatory cull — and the world’s biggest exchange wasn’t one of them.
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