Bullish (BLSH) shares surged more than 11% following the company’s $4.2 billion agreement to acquire transfer agent Equiniti, with the stock climbing another 1.5% in pre-market trading Wednesday as analysts framed the deal as a transformational move beyond crypto trading. The acquisition gives Bullish, the crypto platform led by former NYSE president Tom Farley (also
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said he expects 30% of Ripple Treasury’s $13 trillion yearly payment volume to move on-chain within the next five years. He made this statement during a conversation with Bullish CEO Tom Farley at the ongoing Consensus 2026 conference in Miami. Key Points Brad Garlinghouse said 30% of Ripple Treasury’s yearly volume
Author of the bestselling book Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki, issued another forecast in which he described 2026 as a period of major transformation for baby boomers’ savings. In his view, the traditional retirement savings model is losing stability, while U.S. government bonds are no longer functioning as a “safe haven” due to inflationary
Larry Fink, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock, used the Milken Institute Global Conference stage on Tuesday to dispel concerns about an AI bubble. He maintained that a new tradable asset class, computing power futures, will emerge due to growing demand for computing capacity. Fink said that there is no AI bubble and emphasized that the
Intel (INTC) is back in Wall Street’s face after a brutal rally that pushed the stock above 17% in one day. Shares gained 13% on Tuesday and reached a record $110 before another 4.76% jump after regular trading ended. The reason was simple: traders saw a new chance that Intel could land deeper work with
In a Tuesday press conference, Spain’s Banco Sabadell announced that it will join Qivalis, the European banking consortium developing a regulated euro-pegged stablecoin. The release comes from outgoing CEO Cesar Gonzalez-Bueno. Bankinter is also in advanced talks to follow, alongside unlisted Spanish institutions Abanca, Kutxabank, and Cecabank. “It is primarily designed to make transactions more
Cryptocurrency custody firm Taurus has been granted a MiFID II investment license in Cyprus under the regulatory ambit of Mediterranean island’s regulator, the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC). The license enables Taurus to offer MiFID-regulated investment services for tokenized financial instruments to banks and asset managers across the European Union (EU), as well as
The line separating crypto derivatives from traditional finance has all but dissolved, and the two markets are now so intertwined that perpetuals, once a purely crypto instrument, could soon be as much a stock trading product as a crypto one. That’s the core takeaway from the panel “Digital Asset Derivatives: Building Ecosystems and Establishing Opportunities”