Jefferies kept AIA Group at Buy with a target price of HK$114, saying Thailand is one of the insurer's most important markets and a high-quality business, according to ETNet. The report said AIA Thailand accounted for 15% of group new business value and 12% of embedded value. As of June 2026, annualized new premium in Thailand rose 6% year on year. AIA held a 17% share of new premiums, 20% of annualized new premium, 26% of total premiums and 27% of weighted total premium income, underscoring its market leadership. Jefferies said the insurer's position was supported by its large agency network and strategic partnership with Bangkok Bank, as well as leading shares in critical illness, investment-linked and medical products. The report added that investors still pay relatively little attention to the Thailand business despite its strong performance and importance to the group. It said management further outlined the unit's strengths in the 2025 results, reinforcing a positive view of the undervalued asset. Jefferies also pointed to growth potential in China, Malaysia and Singapore, along with share buybacks and a stable dividend policy, as support for the stock.

Blockaid said it detected an attack on Cozy, a DeFi risk management protocol on Optimism, with losses of about $170,000. According to Foresight News, the incident has been identified through monitoring by Blockaid.

French listed company Capital B increased its Bitcoin holdings by 376 coins, bringing its total to 3,521. According to Foresight News, the company disclosed the latest purchase without providing additional details.

New Jersey filed a petition last week asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on whether sports contracts tied to prediction markets are state-regulated products or swap products overseen by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. According to Sina Finance, the filing could clear the way for the court to take up a core legal dispute in the industry. The case centers on whether the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act overrides state gambling rules when the products trade on federally regulated designated contract markets. According to Sina Finance, the Ninth Circuit’s ruling last month conflicted with an earlier Third Circuit decision, creating a circuit split that lawyers said the Supreme Court had needed. According to Sina Finance, legal experts said the Supreme Court could still wait for other circuit courts to weigh in, but that no longer appears necessary. Chainlink Labs’ legal chief said the case would materially affect the industry’s business model and that the Supreme Court is likely to hear it. If a majority of justices decide the sports-related prediction markets are gambling products, companies offering them would need licenses and pay taxes in every state where they operate. If the court instead treats them as swap products regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the ruling would have major implications for states and pure-play sports betting companies. The Supreme Court has about 90 days to decide whether to grant the petition, and Kalshi can respond to New Jersey’s request within 30 days after the filing. According to Sina Finance, if the court agrees to hear the case, both sides would then argue the merits. Some lawyers still think the Supreme Court may wait for rulings from the Sixth or Fourth Circuit to gather more information, or wait for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to finish revising its prediction market rules. On Capitol Hill, the U.S. House of Representatives will be in recess for the last two weeks of September, and even if the Senate passes the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act this month, it cannot become law before the midterm elections.

Jane Foley, Rabobank's head of FX strategy, said confidence in the dollar has weakened after stronger-than-expected payrolls data, according to Bloomberg. She also said upcoming CPI data could still give the currency a boost if the reading comes in stronger than expected.

Novartis AG suffered a second trial setback in a week after its potential blockbuster heart drug failed in a final-stage study, according to Bloomberg. The result deepens pipeline setbacks for the Swiss drugmaker and comes as rivals are also affected.

According to Jin10, Australian data center operator AirTrunk Operating Pty said U.S. tech giants are interested in building data centers in Australia because of the country's green power grid and geographic proximity to Asia. Sab Whiteley, AirTrunk's vice president for energy and utilities, said interest from companies including Google, Apple, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft has exceeded expectations over the past six to eight months.

A whale that began going long on ChangXin Memory Technologies on July 15 has received about $2.645 million in funding fees and is still sitting on about $3.094 million in unrealized profit on the long position. According to Odaily, the whale also holds about $4.575 million in io:ANTH long positions. The whale still holds about 1.4956 million ChangXin Memory Technologies tokens, with an average entry price of about $6.62 and a position value of about $12.988 million. Funding fee income and current unrealized gains together total about $5.738 million, with the unrealized profit not yet locked in. The whale’s ANTH position began on September 1 with an initial purchase of about $95,700. The long position has since grown to 2,298.60 ANTH using 4x isolated leverage, with a combined entry price of $1,963.57, unrealized profit of about $61,900, and an estimated liquidation price of $1,321.35. The whale also has a limit buy order for 30 ANTH at $1,910 and plans to add about $57,300 more. ANTH is an Anthropic pre-listing perpetual contract deployed by EntropyIO. ANTH was quoted at about $1,990.5, implying a chain-based market value of about $1.99 trillion for Anthropic; the whale’s entry price implies an estimated valuation of about $1.964 trillion.

중국 국가안전부는 일부 해외 암호화폐 프로젝트가 디지털 토큰을 대가로 시민의 홍채 데이터를 수집하고 있어 개인정보 보호와 국가 안보에 대한 우려가 제기되고 있다고 경고했습니다. 이 권고는 생체 인식 데이터 관행에 대한 전 세계의 조사가 강화되고 있는 월드코인과 밀접하게 연관되어 있습니다.

엘리자베스 워런 상원의원은 6명의 상원의원으로 구성된 팀을 이끌고 트럼프의 국가 암호화폐 집행팀(NCET) 해산 결정을 폐지하기 위해 노력했습니다.

싱가포르에서는 월드코인 계정과 토큰의 불법 거래를 단속하고 있으며, 7명이 조사를 받고 있고 5명이 이미 체포되었습니다. 싱가포르 통화청은 월드코인 자체는 결제 서비스법에 따라 규제되지 않지만, 거래 활동은 법을 위반할 수 있으며 엄중한 처벌을 받을 수 있다고 밝혔습니다.

월드코인은 프랑스, 인도, 홍콩, 브라질 등 여러 국가에서 사용이 금지되는 등 개인정보 보호 문제로 인해 전 세계적인 제재를 받고 있습니다. 보편적인 금융 접근성을 제공하겠다는 야심에도 불구하고 접근 방식과 규제 준수에 대한 의문은 여전히 남아 있습니다.

나이지리아의 EFCC는 통화 조작과 자금 세탁 혐의로 1,100명이 넘는 암호화폐 트레이더의 계좌를 동결하여 암호화폐 규제에 대한 우려를 심화시켰습니다. CBN은 암호화폐 금지를 부인하고 있지만, EFCC의 조치와 규제 불확실성은 나이지리아의 암호화폐 미래에 그림자를 드리우고 있습니다.

홍채 스캔 기술에 대한 수요가 급증하면서 월드코인은 오브 부족에 직면해 있습니다. 이러한 어려움에도 불구하고 Worldcoin은 생체 인증과 블록체인 혁신을 통해 금융 혁신을 이루고자 합니다.