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A Korean regional bank just became the first of its kind to run Ripple Payments, and Grok AI predicts and opens a door for others to follow through. The price prediction places XRP at $1.80 to $2.60 by the end of 2026, with $2.10 as the realistic base case.The Jeonbuk Bank partnership handles 24/7 near-real-time cross-border settlements. Grok expects that to drive measurable volume demand for XRP as a bridge asset.The ledger side is moving in parallel. XRPL v3.3.0 amendments are now in validator voting.Those include Confidential Transfers for Multi-Purpose Tokens via zero-knowledge proofs. Atomic Batch transactions and sponsored fees…

Key PointsShares of ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) charged sharply higher on Wednesday, surging as much as 8.5%. As of 1:39 a.m. ET, the stock was still up 7%.The catalyst that drove the cloud-based digital workflow specialist higher was bullish commentary from a Wall Street analyst. Missed Nvidia in 2009? This Rare Signal Is Flashing Again. In 2009, a “Double Down” signal flashed for a little-known chipmaker called Nvidia. For the first time in years, that same “Total Conviction” signal is flashing for a company 1/100th the size of Nvidia. Continue » Image source: The Motley Fool. What AI disruption?BofA analyst Tal…

Free NewsletterGet the hottest Fintech Singapore News once a month in your InboxAccount takeover shows why fraud risk cannot be treated as an onboarding problem.Fraudsters are using stolen credentials, phishing and social engineering to get into real customer accounts, then move money, change account details or steal sensitive data.Banks see that pressure most clearly at login, account recovery and high risk transactions.The challenge is stopping account takeover without making everyday digital banking harder for customers.This webinar will discussWhy trusted customer accounts are becoming a bigger target for fraudstersHow account takeover can expose gaps in login, recovery and transaction controlsWhere phishing resistant…

Key PointsThe shares were sold for a total consideration of ~$214,127 at a weighted average price of $109.36 per share.The transaction resulted in an 8% reduction in the insider’s total direct equity holdings.The sale occurred as the company’s stock realized a 73% return over the 12-month period ending August 17, 2026.10 stocks we like better than Cheesecake Factory ›Janice L. Meyer, a member of the Board of Directors at The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated (NASDAQ:CAKE), sold 1,958 shares of common stock on August 17, 2026 according to a recent SEC Form 4 filing.Transaction summaryMetricValueTransaction value~$214,127Shares sold (directly held)1,958Post-transaction shares (directly held)21,251Post-transaction…

Farside’s currently reported $137.3 million U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF inflow on Aug. 17 rested heavily on Fidelity, leaving the session short of a market-wide demand signal.Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund, or FBTC, supplied $111.9 million, equal to 81.5% of the displayed total, according to Farside’s live table. ARKB added $14.2 million and MSBT added $11.2 million. Those were the only three numeric inflows in the row; the remaining reported fund entries were 0.0.BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust, or IBIT, did not have a numeric entry. Farside displayed a dash, which its table visually distinguishes from 0.0 without providing a legend for…

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Mortgage rates rose slightly due to a deepening bond-market selloff.

Avishek Das | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesSynchrony Financial, the credit card issuer for brands including Amazon, Walmart and Lowe’s, is working with OpenAI to allow shoppers to buy products directly inside ChatGPT using their store cards.The deal is one of the first major moves by a U.S. consumer lender to bring financing, payments and rewards directly into an AI chatbot.While agentic commerce has become a catchphrase for the next phase of online shopping, consumers who discover items in an AI agent are typically still routed to a brand’s website to complete the purchase. To change that, OpenAI has signed deals…

The investor prefers businesses that earn cash through ordinary operations before storing part of it in Bitcoin. Bitcoin investor and Ego Death Capital co-founder Jeff Booth has said that Strategy’s long-term survival comes down to one condition: BTC has to work as an actual currency, not just sit on a balance sheet as an asset. Booth made the case in a wide-ranging interview with Scott Melker, and it ties the fate of the world’s largest corporate Bitcoin holder directly to whether BTC itself moves beyond being just another financial holding. Why Strategy Needs Bitcoin to Become Money Booth told…