UK bank Griffin has raised $20 million in a Series B round to expand its card issuance and stablecoin-related services. According to PANews, Octagon Partners led the round, which valued the company at more than $100 million. Existing investors Notion Capital, A+ Ventures, NordicNinja, and Breega also participated. Griffin previously raised $24 million in March 2024 in a round led by MassMutual Ventures, NordicNinja, and Breega. The company received a full banking license at that time.

Wells Fargo & Co.-backed Norwest has raised $4 billion for its latest fund, which will invest in early-stage AI startups and sectors overlooked by much of the market, according to Bloomberg. The firm plans to announce the fund Thursday.

Foreign inflows into Indian stocks may sustain their strong momentum amid improving earnings, cheaper valuations and light positioning, BofA Global Research said, according to Bloomberg.

Lauren van Biljon, senior rates and FX portfolio manager at Allspring Global Investments, said UK gilts are “attractive” and the Bank of England will likely raise interest rates again, probably not until next year, according to Bloomberg. Van Biljon made the comments on Bloomberg Television.

因谋杀 Cash App 创始人 Bob Lee 而被定罪的 Nima Momeni 被判处 16 年至终身监禁，他正准备对案件的法律结果提出质疑。

Binance Wallet announced on X that users can claim and use a Trial Voucher for Prediction Markets through Binance App → Exchange → Markets → Prediction or Binance App → Wallet → Home → Prediction. Users should claim the voucher from the pop-up, choose an eligible match market, select a prediction, apply the Trial Voucher in the order panel and submit the order. Prediction Markets are available only to users in eligible regions and may not be available to all users.

Binance announced on X that Binance Square has launched its Leaderboard, featuring four rankings to help users identify leading traders and follow their trades.

Sequoia Capital plans to invest several hundred million dollars in Sequence Holdings, a company founded in 2025 that is pursuing acquisitions in established industries. According to Sina Finance, people familiar with the matter said Sequence recently announced a $7.7 billion insurance-sector acquisition, with Michael Dell’s family office among the co-leads. The investment would be Sequoia’s second known bet on a new type of holding company that acquires businesses in mature industries, including accounting, insurance, and homeowners association management, and uses AI to replace some manual work. The new funding could help Sequence pursue more acquisitions, people familiar with the matter said. Sequoia previously invested in Ithaca Holdings, founded by partner Ravi Gupta, which announced a $1.3 billion deal. The planned investment comes as Sequoia undergoes internal changes under Alfred Lin and Pat Grady, who took the lead last November. In recent weeks, the firm merged its early-stage and growth investment teams, closed its London office to refocus on U.S. investments, and adjusted the evergreen fund established by former leader Roelof Botha. The fund was designed to hold stakes in public startups longer than Sequoia’s usual investment period. Sequoia missed major AI investments during Botha’s tenure; this year, it has made a major push into AI, co-led Anthropic’s financing in May at a $965 billion valuation, and completed dozens of AI-related investments since last November. Representatives for Sequoia and Sequence declined to comment. Sequence has raised at least $75 million from 8VC, Lux Capital, Conviction, and others. Last month, it partnered with DFO Management, Michael Dell’s family office, to take insurance broker Baldwin Group private in a cash-and-debt transaction. Sequence has also made a minority investment in unlisted community bank BankSouth. Four industry participants said returns on these perpetual holding companies are closer to private equity, at around four times invested capital, compared with the 10-times returns sought by venture capital. Investors see their returns as more predictable and view them as another way for venture firms to return cash to limited partners. Over the past year, venture-backed AI holding companies have completed large acquisitions. Thrive Holdings, established last year by Thrive Capital founder Josh Kushner, raised funding from Altimeter, D1 Capital, SoftBank, and others. Last month, it agreed to acquire ADT, a 152-year-old security company, in an all-cash deal valued at $15.3 billion including debt. General Catalyst invested in holding company Long Lake in 2024; earlier this year, Long Lake took American Express Global Business Travel private for $6.3 billion. Sequence CEO Michael Lee said in a podcast interview with Sarah Guo, a partner at Conviction, that since March, AI had shortened consumer loan risk approval times by 94% and cut business loan approvals from 30 days to 11. Lee also said Sequence differs from traditional private equity by completing one major deal a year rather than making acquisitions in batches, and by involving engineers in major business decisions.

US stock index futures fell as Nvidia Corp. considers replacing CEO Jensen Huang, according to Bloomberg, with the AI chipmaker’s drop accounting for more than half of the decline in Nasdaq 100 contracts.

According to ChainCatcher, SMIC reported third-quarter revenue of 21.983 billion yuan, up 28.1% year over year, and net profit attributable to shareholders of 2.847 billion yuan, up 87.6%. Sales revenue was $3.19 billion, up 6.1% from the previous quarter, while gross margin rose 4.6 percentage points quarter over quarter to 29.9%. The company attributed the changes to higher wafer shipments, increased capacity utilization and shifts in product mix. For the first three quarters, revenue totaled 60.618 billion yuan, up 22.4%, and net profit was 7.314 billion yuan, up 91.6%. SMIC forecast fourth-quarter revenue growth of 4% to 6% quarter over quarter and a gross margin of 26% to 28%.

韩国将允许加密货币交易所在怀疑遭受黑客攻击时冻结存款和取款，无需等待确认，同时引入更严格的安全要求。韩国金融监督管理委员会（FSC）还要求所有28家注册加密货币企业获得金融安全研究所的网络安全支持，该研究所目前正在调查其自身系统遭到入侵的事件。

一家总部位于新加坡的公司在三年内成为英伟达在东南亚最大的人工智能芯片买家，如今却因中国公司如何在华​​盛顿的出口限制下继续获得这家美国芯片制造商的先进计算硬件而受到质疑。

MegaETH将3000万美元投入AI推理，试图让不同服务商提供的AI变得可验证，再把AI用量做成可交易合约。

PSB银行已向俄罗斯法院申请宣告BitRiver创始人伊戈尔·鲁内茨破产，原因是其拖欠超过7.7亿卢布（约合930万美元）的债务，这些债务与他为一家集团子公司担保的贷款有关，而该子公司最终违约。鲁内茨目前已因逃税和欺诈指控被拘留，BitRiver旗下的多家公司也正面临各自的破产程序。

从MEXC到币安和OKX，美国正通过执法、投资与美元稳定币，把全球加密货币交易所更深地纳入其金融规则体系。

黄仁勋再曝与直接下属的婚外关系，Polymarket 上其离任概率一度冲到 88%，分析师测算他若离开，英伟达估值可能缩水 1 万亿至 1.2 万亿美元。

Solana 为在中国建立更强大的影响力而采取的举措正面临日益严格的监管审查，中国央行正准备对该区块链网络的活动及其与当地企业的联系展开调查。

Strategy去年曾表示，如果被MSCI全球标准指数排除在外，将导致其价值 28 亿美元的股票被清算，并会“打击”整个行业。

OPay 挂牌前夜叫停发行，招股书显示 2026 上半年过半收入来自放贷，9.79 亿美元存款压在一张小贷牌照上，支付只是入口。