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Australia’s financial intelligence regulator AUSTRAC said Sept. 7 that it canceled, suspended or refused to renew 45 remittance and virtual asset provider registrations over the past year, highlighting how failures under the registration regime can cost businesses permission to operate. The disclosure covers both sectors, with AUSTRAC saying the actions removed those businesses from its registers. AUSTRAC CEO Brendan Thomas said businesses with canceled registrations can no longer operate. AUSTRAC also linked its earlier cancellation of GetCoins, a virtual asset service provider, to disruption of alleged cryptocurrency investment scams. The regulator identified the business as BA Digital Ventures Pty Ltd,…

Shinhan Asset Management said on September 14 that it received final approval to serve as a “super validator” on the Canton Network, the institutional blockchain whose participants include Nasdaq, the Depository Trust and Clearing Corp. (DTCC) and Goldman Sachs, according to Seoul Economic Daily. The South Korean firm, part of Shinhan Financial Group, one of the country’s largest financial groups, will start by testing tokenization technology before moving to official activity once domestic rules take shape. What a Super Validator Does A super validator verifies blockchain transaction records to help keep the network running stably and takes part in key…

Fresh U.S. inflation data briefly lifted sentiment across financial markets this week, but the optimism quickly faded in the cryptocurrency market. Although inflation came in below economists’ expectations, investors remained focused on the Federal Reserve’s next policy moves and ongoing geopolitical tensions, keeping demand for Bitcoin and other digital assets subdued. The latest data showed annual Consumer Price Index inflation slowed to 3.5%, below expectations of 3.8%, while Core Producer Price Index inflation rose 0.2%, also coming in below forecasts of 0.3%. Even so, traders remained cautious as uncertainty over interest rates, market liquidity and global developments continued to weigh…

XRP has come under renewed selling pressure after Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh delivered a notably hawkish message on inflation during his first Jackson Hole speech. The cryptocurrency dropped to around $1.38 on Friday. The cryptocurrency is down roughly 5% over the past 24 hours, according to CoinGecko data. The Ripple-linked cryptocurrency had been trading as high as $1.47 before reversing lower. Market participants are now pricing in the possibility of another interest rate hike. Warsh’s hawkish comments Warsh has confirmed that the Federal Reserve continues to stick to its 2% inflation target. He argued that price pressures remain elevated.…

Australia removed 45 remittance and virtual asset businesses from its anti-money laundering registers over the past year. The Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) disclosed the figure today (Monday), combining cancellations, suspensions and refusals to renew registrations. The consequence is immediate. A canceled registration stops a provider from operating the covered service. AUSTRAC said it referred people behind some providers to law enforcement and regulatory partners in Australia and overseas. No category breakdown was published. AUSTRAC’s reasons ranged from dormancy and insolvency to registration failures, missed notifications and money laundering or terrorism financing risk. GetCoins Website Still Claims AUSTRAC…

Maple has officially joined the Interchange network, a platform from Zodia Custody that facilitates institutional settlement. This partnership allows institutions to access Maple’s onchain financing while keeping their collateral secured in segregated wallets. This move is significant as it expands Maple’s reach within the institutional sector, enhancing the company’s position in the growing derivatives market, as reported in their official announcement. Breaking It Down The broader crypto market is currently showing mixed signals, but Maple’s integration into the Interchange network represents a notable development. With this partnership, institutions can now utilize Maple’s onchain financing capabilities without sacrificing the security of…

That interpretation is intuitive given that ETFs, which let investors gain exposure to the cryptocurrency without owning it directly, are widely seen as a cleaner crypto market gateway for institutions. As a result, positive ETF inflows are taken to mean $BTC is receiving institutional support, while outflows suggest the opposite. Bitcoin’s price too has stabilized between $64,000 and $65,000 lately, offering hope that a bottom may be in. Prices peaked above $126,000 in October last year. On the surface, it looks like the tide has turned. However, there is a massive caveat that makes these ETF inflows look like statistical…

Bitcoin fell below $77,000 Friday after Fed Chair Kevin Warsh revived the threat of higher interest rates at Jackson Hole. Data from CryptoSlate shows the largest cryptocurrency dropped to as low as $76,909 before recovering to $77,712 as of press time, down about 4% over the previous 24 hours. The retreat accelerated a broader crypto deleveraging that erased nearly $488 million from derivatives traders. The selloff followed a sharp repricing of Federal Reserve expectations. Traders lifted the probability of a September rate increase to about 60% from roughly 35% before Warsh spoke, while short-term Treasury yields rose and the dollar…

The next major $XRP Ledger upgrade is moving closer to reality after upcoming features went through a community-driven security review. In the past week, RippleX Head of Product Jazzi Cooper shared details of an upcoming XRPL release 3.3.0, which includes five amendments. These are Confidential MPTs, a feature that brings native privacy to Multi-Purpose Tokens (MPTs) on the $XRP Ledger by combining zero-knowledge proofs with elliptic-curve encryption; Batch, which enables up to eight transactions across different accounts to execute atomically in a single ledger; Permission Delegation, which allows institutions to delegate narrowly scoped transaction permissions without handing over full signing…

Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority has reportedly discussed easing restrictions on retail financial prediction markets, but the regulator had announced no policy change as of September 7, 2026. The FCA held discussions with trading platforms about potentially reopening financial prediction markets to retail investors, according to a Times report. Industry representatives reportedly argued that British consumers already access overseas platforms, including Kalshi and Polymarket. The discussions have not produced a public consultation, proposed rule or implementation date. The regulator’s latest published position continues to classify prediction contracts linked to financial and certain climate events as binary options. The FCA has held…