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Circle (CRCL) and Coinbase (COIN) shares both fell more than 3% after reports that JPMorgan Chase and a consortium of major banks were moving toward issuing their own stablecoins following the advancement of the CLARITY Act. The news focused attention on the potential for traditional lenders to compete with crypto-native issuers such as Circle and Tether.The selloff followed a Wall Street Journal report that U.S. banks are warming to stablecoins as nonbank issuers expand and executives worry the tokens could encroach on traditional banking. JPMorgan Chase has explored a potential stablecoin, though the discussions remain preliminary and no product is…

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A view of a destroyed building of a research institute following an attack, which local Russian-installed officials called a Ukrainian strike, in Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, on August 26, 2026, amid the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict.Stringer | Afp | Getty ImagesRussian forces have intensified attacks within Ukraine’s so-called “fortress belt” of industrial cities in the eastern Donetsk region, seeking to ramp up pressure on critical Ukrainian strongholds after more than four and a half years of full-scale war.Russian forces have long targeted the strategic cities of Kostyantynivka, Kramatorsk and Sloviansk as part of a push to completely capture the Donetsk Oblast, one…

Chinese and U.S. flags flutter near The Bund, before U.S. trade delegation meet their Chinese counterparts for talks in Shanghai, China July 30, 2019.Aly Song | ReutersBEIJING — As the U.S. ramped up pressure this week on China with secondary Iran sanctions, the world’s two largest economies have still managed to stay focused on ways to cooperate.It’s a sign of the balancing act on both sides, even as White House rhetoric has remained tough.U.S. President Donald Trump signaled to reporters Thursday local time he could be sanctioning Chinese banks. “I don’t have to announce everything,” he said, according to a…

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Co-operation with the National Bank of Tajikistan has advanced financial inclusion and the quality of corporate governance in the country, the World Bank’s representative in the central Asian state tells Central Banking.“The World Bank Group’s engagement with the National Bank of Tajikistan is ongoing and encompasses regular policy dialogue, technical assistance, analytical work, and lending operations,” says Gael Raballand, World Bank Group country manager for Tajikistan. He adds that this Only users who have a paid subscription or are part of a corporate subscription are able to print or copy content.To access these options, along with all other subscription benefits,…

A wallet tagged to the US government moved a small amount of Bitcoin linked to assets seized from Alameda Research’s Binance.US accounts.The movement revives a familiar fear that Washington could be preparing to liquidate more of its forfeited Bitcoin stash.Bitcoin deposited into the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve “shall not be sold” under President Donald Trump’s March 2025 executive order, turning qualifying forfeited BTC into a long-term Treasury asset.Trump himself said on Aug. 19 that he had made Bitcoin “a permanent asset of the United States Treasury.”CategoryCovered by reserve sale ban?Why it mattersSeized BTCNot automaticallyGovernment control alone does not make BTC part…

Wednesday, August 26th, 2026Today’a trading session looked a bit hesitant ahead of NVIDIA’s NVDA Q2 results after the closing bell today, but it needn’t have been: earnings of $2.22 per share on revenues of $96.2 billion in the quarter left the Zacks estimates of $2.09 per share on $91.85 billion in the dust. This marks a +120% year-over-year increase on the bottom line and +106% on the top. Expectations had been for +99% earnings growth and +96.5% on revenues.NVIDIA’s Data Center business alone accounted for $89.00 billion in revenues for the July quarter, up a cool +117% from this time…

The following is a fintech and wider digital economic development view of Pacific Nation Tonga. Few countries depend on money sent home quite like Tonga. Across Australia, New Zealand, the United States and elsewhere, Tongans working abroad regularly transfer part of their earnings back to relatives in the Pacific kingdom. That money pays for groceries, school fees, electricity, housing and countless other everyday expenses. Remittances are consequently not a peripheral part of Tonga’s financial system. They are one of its foundations. This gives fintech a particular purpose in the country. Tonga does not need technology simply to make banking more…

The mounting U.S. debt is an intractable problem. A quick look at the numbers shows how interest payments are set to snowball, but short-term relief could be coming.