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Forex News

  • Yen set for worst week since Oct 2025 as BoJ’s hike seen as not aggressive enough
  • Canadian dollar weakens against major currencies in the week ending September 18
  • U.S. Treasury curve flattens as long-end yields ease off multi-year peaks
  • Here’s what BoE tightening means for EUR/GBP
  • Citi sees EUR/JPY falling below ¥175 despite near-term rebound risk

Federal Reserve News

  • Federal Reserve Board announces termination of enforcement action with SNB Bancshares and Bank of Eufaula
  • Federal Reserve Board issues enforcement actions with former employee of Northstar Bank, former employee of American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc., and former employee of Regions Bank
  • Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement
  • Federal Reserve Board and Federal Open Market Committee release economic projections from the September 15-16 FOMC meeting
  • Agencies seek comment on proposed third-party risk management guidance and issue statement on community bank engagement with core service providers

WSJ Markets News

27 January 2025

  • Stocks Sink in Broad AI Rout Sparked by China's DeepSeek
  • Comex Gold, Silver Settle Lower
  • DeepSeek Won't Sink U.S. AI Titans
  • Financial Services Roundup: Market Talk
  • Arabica Coffee Prices Hit Record on U.S., Colombia Tariff Spat
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What To Look For In A Cash-in-Transit Provider

Written by: Matthew S Daye
Category: Cash-In-Transit

Trusting a cash-in-transit company with transporting cash or other valuables is not something you should do until you have thoroughly researched your options. About 60% of the cash-in-transit global market is controlled by only five companies due to the high cost of offering this kind of service. Here are a few things you should look for when selecting a CIT service provider.

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Top 3 Bitcoin Taxation Calculation Tools

Written by: The Merkle
Category: Digital Currency

The bitcoin taxation season is almost upon us, which highlights a very important problem. Most people are unaware of how they should incorporate bitcoin into their tax assessment. Thankfully, there are quite a few tools available which will help users take care of these problems with relative ease. It is important to keep in mind very few countries require bitcoin users to take cryptocurrency earnings into account right now.

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How Smartphones are Disrupting Traditional Branch Banking

Written by: Matthew S Daye
Category: Banking

According to a recent study completed by Javelin Strategy & Research (javelinstrategy.com) the banking system in the US has reached a crucial turning point. Now the number of customers performing banking services through a mobile device exceeds both in-bank branch visits and computer online access.

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Digital Currency Doesn't Mean We're Dropping Cash

Written by: Matthew S Daye
Category: Digital Currency

There's interesting news out of Ecuador. The government is planning to release a new digital currency, possibly as soon as late this year. Unlike Bitcoin and other existing digital currencies, this new version will be the first digital currency released by a national central bank as an official state currency.

Does this step indicate a "giant leap forward" for an all-digital monetary system, moving us even closer to a completely cashless society? While a total lack of cash may be somewhere in the future, we're not there yet. Not even close.

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Blockchain in Japan – Understanding the Legal Framework

Written by: Aikon
Category: Digital Currency

As with all innovation, blockchain technology can only develop so far before it faces legal hurdles making it necessary to create an acceptable legal framework to grow within.

So far, even the leading blockchain countries have been slow to accommodate this fast-growing business and technology development, thus hindering and even blocking it from achieving its potential.

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INFOGRAPHIC: Libra - Cryptocurrency By Facebook In 5 Minutes

Written by: Mr BTC
Category: Digital Currency

Libra, Let’s get started: Technology has improved the world around us, it is easy to send text, pictures and documents but why not money. What if we made the money truly global, stable, and secure. What if everyone has invited to the Global economy with access to the same financial opportunities.

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The ATM market is changing. What might the future look like?

Written by: Finextra
Category: ATM

Within the financial technology sector, the ATM is sometimes seen as an area of self-service that is seeing less use due to mobile or online adoption as consumers move towards e-money and contactless payments. What may surprise is that the global ATM market actually continues to grow at a significant pace. The theme of modernization, driven by replacements and new installations are anticipated to create change in this area of financial services in the coming years.

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Bitcoin News

  • NASA’s Apollo Computer Mined Bitcoin in 2019 But Today It Would Take Forever
  • Raoul Pal Says Bitcoin Will Outrun the Nasdaq as Rates Break Higher
  • Calacanis Calls Bitcoin a Dead Cat, Saylor and Cathie Wood Fire Back
  • Fake IT Job Interviews Help North Korea Steal Millions in Crypto
  • AI Is Rereading Crypto’s Old Code, and Finding What Humans Missed

Coin Telegraph News

  • Grayscale’s Zcash ETF files for 3-for-1 forward share split
  • Anthropic tabs Accenture as embedded evaluator to help with AI slowdown proposal  
  • REX launches 2x leveraged ETF tied to Bitcoin treasury firm Strive
  • Kalshi joins Coinbase with own filing for US stock perpetual futures
  • VanEck criticizes Metaplanet over executive dilution despite compensation cuts

Coin Journal News

  • XRP holds $1.30 as falling futures interest signals weak demand
  • XRP recovers but weak derivatives data limits bullish conviction
  • Ethereum reclaims $2,431 as buyers absorb rate hike and regulatory setback
  • Ethereum risks 10% drop against Bitcoin as double-top pattern emerges
  • Bitcoin holds above key moving averages despite CLARITY Act sell-off
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