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BNY in Talks With Kraken Parent Payward Over Infrastructure Partnership, Report Says
BNY is in talks with Kraken parent Payward about a partnership covering custody, trading and payments, CoinDesk reports. Neither firm has confirmed it.

Absa Says It Is Africa’s First Bank to Offer Bitcoin Custody
Absa, one of South Africa’s largest banks, has started holding bitcoin and other digital assets for institutional clients, and says no other bank in Africa offers the service. Its corporate…

SEC Crypto Custody Plan Would Let Advisers and Funds Self-Custody Tokens
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission proposed new custody rules on Oct. 1 that would give registered investment advisers and regulated funds, meaning registered investment companies and business development companies,…

ESMA seeks MiCA rules for DeFi gateways, staking and crypto lending
The European Securities and Markets Authority wants MiCA to cover crypto firms that act as gateways to decentralised finance. In its response to the European Commission’s MiCA review consultation, published…

SEC Staff Limit Token Buyback Relief to Networks With No Central Party
Staff at the US Securities and Exchange Commission have narrowed their guidance on crypto token buybacks three days after publishing it. On 28 September the Division of Corporation Finance added…

South Korea Weighs Legalizing Crypto Market Making After JPYC Spike
South Korea may soon let professional firms make markets in crypto. Yoo Young-joon, director general for digital finance policy at the Financial Services Commission (FSC), told The Bridge Summit 2026…

ESMA Shifts MiCA Focus to Crypto Supervision in 2027
Europe’s markets regulator is shifting its crypto work from writing rules to checking how they are applied. The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) set out its crypto plans for…

Bitcoin Price Forecast: BTC Holds Near $77K as Spot ETFs Shed $463M Into Fed Week
Bitcoin (BTC) was trading around $77,000 on Monday after a week in which U.S. spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds flipped from a strong inflow burst to their weakest redemption stretch in…

The Best Crypto Data Analyzers
Ever since cryptocurrency has been introduced as an investment tool around the world, finding the right information is even more important. To be able to do so, there are tools…

What is the size of the cryptocurrency market?
When comparing the market to traditional asset classes, there are a few things to keep in mind. The first thing to remember is that cryptocurrency is very new to the…
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