Uganda’s shilling fell to a two-year low against the dollar as demand for foreign exchange surged in key sectors including energy, manufacturing and telecommunications, according to Bloomberg.

Asian refiners are considering lower run rates and possible fuel-export curbs as the widening Middle East war pushes oil prices higher and reduces stockpiles, according to Bloomberg.

Gas-dependent industries say South Africa has just two years to address an impending supply shortage, according to Bloomberg. The warning comes as businesses say the government needs to act to avoid a gas crisis.

Revolut, Europe’s highest-valued fintech startup, recently suffered a customer data leak and is facing a blackmail threat from hackers. According to Sina Finance, about 680 customers were affected, and the company said the incident was a “complex external impersonation scam” involving fraudulent information requests submitted through legitimate government agency domain email addresses. The London-based digital bank said it notified law enforcement and declined to discuss the blackmail threat. According to Sina Finance, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office said it is investigating the matter. The report said the leak has raised customer safety concerns and drawn regulatory scrutiny, while Revolut continues its U.S. expansion plans after receiving preliminary permission earlier this month to provide banking services in the United States.

European shares ended two days of losses as oil prices eased and the bond selloff slowed, with traders awaiting the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate decision later today, according to Bloomberg.

China's Beijing Financial Regulatory Bureau has approved Great Wall Life Insurance's 3.5 billion yuan 10-year callable capital supplementary bond and Beijing Life Insurance's 600 million yuan perpetual capital bond, according to Jiemian News. Jiemian News reported that nearly 20 insurers have been approved for or completed capital supplementary bond issuance so far this year, with total issuance exceeding 60 billion yuan and perpetual bonds accounting for almost 70%. The report said the insurance sector issued 16 capital supplementary bonds and perpetual bonds in the first half, totaling 32.07 billion yuan, of which perpetual bonds made up 19.34 billion yuan. It added that People's Insurance Company of China Life Insurance received approval in July to issue 10 billion yuan of perpetual bonds, New China Life completed a 10 billion yuan perpetual bond sale in July at a first-five-year coupon of 1.90%, China CITIC Prudential Life issued 9 billion yuan in two tranches this year, and Sunshine Life issued 5 billion yuan of capital supplementary bonds. Jiemian News also cited analysts and industry participants as saying bond issuance is faster than equity injections, does not dilute existing shareholders, and has become the main capital-raising tool for insurers as capital constraints rise under China's second-phase solvency rules. It said issuance costs have fallen as rates declined, with New China Life's July perpetual bond priced at 1.90% and People's Insurance Company of China Life Insurance's August perpetual bond priced at 1.88%, while Great Wall Life's newly approved 3.5 billion yuan quota is widely expected to come at a lower rate than its February 2.54% bond.

China’s wealth transfer market is entering a new phase as regulators and local authorities step up support for family trusts and family offices, according to Jiemian News. In June, China's central bank, the NDRC, the NFRA, the CSRC, SAFE and the Shanghai municipal government jointly issued an action plan for developing offshore finance in Shanghai, which called for studying the orderly development of family trusts and family office businesses. Earlier, the Shanghai municipal government office said it would support family trust development and promote a full-life-cycle wealth management model combining trust services and asset allocation. Market demand is also rising. A wealth report jointly released in June 2026 by Hurun Research Institute and Bank of East Asia said about 21 trillion yuan of wealth is expected to pass to the next generation over the next 10 years, and the scale of wealth transfer could reach 77 trillion yuan over 30 years. Chen Xuebin, chief executive of Shengshi Group, said Asia is becoming one of the fastest-growing regions for global family offices as capital flows shift and China’s intergenerational wealth transfer accelerates. Chen said family office clients are moving beyond managing financial products toward managing a cross-generational, cross-regional and cross-disciplinary family system. He said the focus is expanding to family governance, business succession, tax and legal issues, trust and insurance, education and health. He added that assets under management still matter, but are no longer enough to differentiate a firm, and that the real scarcity lies in turning complex information into judgments aligned with a family’s long-term goals. On asset allocation, UBS’s 2026 Global Family Office Report showed 60% of surveyed family offices plan to adjust strategic asset allocation in the next 12 months, 65% expect confidence in the U.S. dollar as the global reserve currency to weaken over the next year, and 65% have invested in AI value-chain sectors. Chen said these shifts reflect a reassessment of concentration risk rather than panic selling, and advised family offices to reduce single-currency and single-market exposure, strengthen multi-currency cash flow and liability matching, and invest in AI in stages after assessing valuation, capital intensity, regulation and liquidity. The report also found only 35% of family offices have a clear succession plan. Chen said succession is often slow not because tools are lacking, but because families have yet to reach consensus on control, ownership, management and beneficiary rights. He said younger clients are becoming more aware of risk earlier, which is pushing family offices to build family balance sheets, risk lists and value goals sooner and update them as circumstances change.

The CLARITY Act, Trump, SEC, CFTC, policy regulation, CLARITY's failure to pass the bill sends shockwaves through the crypto market. Who will fill the policy gap? Golden Finance: Not unexpected, but still regrettable.

Erebor Bank has restricted its free stablecoin-to-dollar service after trading firms including Wintermute and Galaxy Digital used it to profit from small price gaps in USDT.

CoinEx is pulling the plug on its operations after nine years, quoting the bad economy and how the risks of running a centralized crypto exchange have become overwhelmingly difficult as trading activity contracts and regulatory demands continue to rise.

The pressure from GPT-6 Astra has presented the domestic android industry with a real problem: it must increase its investment in data and computing power.

Microsoft has released a draft Humanist AI Code of Conduct that would establish strict behavioral requirements.

The Clarity Act has failed for now. We should keep an eye on the rule drafts from the SEC and CFTC, which will surely make up for the shortcomings of the Clarity Act in the short term.

The CLARITY Act, Trump, stablecoins, the financial system, and the failure of CLARITY have little to do with the state of the crypto industry. (Jinse Finance, just keep doing what you need to do.)

Pan Gongsheng, Governor of the People's Bank of China, published an article entitled "Deeply Understanding the Evolution of China's Financial Structure," stating that it is necessary to understand the inherent logic of the evolution of China's financial structure, dynamically optimize and adjust the monetary policy framework, and continuously build and develop a modern financial market system.

The platform, called Continuous Adversarial Testing (CAT), was announced by Coinbase on September 15, 2026.

Is OpenAI, AI Agent, LLM, and GPT-6 Sol coming soon? OpenAI may be experiencing a "release frenzy" this week. Golden Finance reports that OpenAI may be preparing for a large-scale product update.