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Intercontinental Exchange and Trade[XYZ] have agreed to bring Trade[XYZ]’s perpetual markets onshore in the US through a new regulated market and clearing structure for round-the-clock retail trading built on Hyperliquid, operated separately from ICE’s institutional futures franchise, subject to regulatory approvals.

The Utah Attorney General's Office has filed 14 criminal charges against KalshiEX, LLC, the operator of US prediction market Kalshi, in a case that names co-founders Tarek Mansour, Chief Executive Officer, and Luana Lopes Lara, Chief Operating Officer, as co-defendants.

US blockchain payments company Ripple and US crypto exchange Coinbase have partnered to make Ripple's US dollar stablecoin, Ripple USD (RLUSD), available across Coinbase's platforms

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has secured High Court undertakings to ensure that global crypto exchange HTX, formerly known as Huobi, will not knowingly promote cryptoasset services unlawfully to UK consumers.

US post-trade market infrastructure provider DTCC has launched its DTCC Tokenization Service (DTS) through its subsidiary The Depository Trust Company.

Warsaw-listed broker XTB has reported preliminary consolidated net profit of PLN 213.7 million for the third quarter of 2026, up 301.4% from PLN 53.2 million a year earlier.

Trading platform developer Spotware Systems, the company behind cTrader, has partnered with Dubai-based CRM and back-office technology provider Techysquad

The Federal Reserve held its policy rate at 3.75% to 4.00% on Wednesday, as almost everyone expected. What the market did not fully expect was the vote. Two members of the Committee, Governor Lisa Cook and Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack, dissented in favor of an immediate quarter-point hike. It is the first time since October 1992 that a governor and a regional Fed president have dissented together on the same side.

B2BROKER Group has introduced Model Context Protocol support and an in-terminal AI Chat to B2TRADER. Traders can connect Claude, ChatGPT or custom AI agents to accounts, with brokers setting read-only or full access, while the chat requires explicit confirmation for trading actions proposed inside the web terminal.

iSAM Securities Apex has integrated with Scope Prime, giving brokers access to its institutional multi-asset liquidity through Apex’s ultra-low-latency execution platform.