Trump signs executive order for strategic Bitcoin reserve amid market debate

CME Group will launch 24/7 trading for new, smaller crude oil and gold contracts pending regulatory review. The 10-Barrel WTI futures launch on 30 August, with 24/7 trading for 1-Ounce Gold futures starting 26 July, as the exchange responds to growing demand for right-sized, round-the-clock risk management tools.

Elwood US has launched connectivity to Kalshi, the CFTC-regulated prediction market, allowing institutional clients to manage event contracts through their existing compliance, risk and reconciliation infrastructure, extending Elwood's platform coverage alongside digital assets, tokenised derivatives and equities.

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Visa and OpenAI have announced a strategic partnership to enable secure, agent-initiated payments within OpenAI's platforms. Visa will provide tokenisation, fraud monitoring and network infrastructure, with transactions governed by user-defined spending controls and permissions.

Digital asset infrastructure provider Quadra has been named Solution Provider of the Year for Execution and Trading at the Hedgeweek Global Digital Assets Awards 2026.

Orbital, a global payment orchestration platform processing $12bn in annualised volume, has announced plans to establish a US presence in Miami, targeting stablecoin infrastructure demand and citing the GENIUS Act as a key driver of its market entry timing.

Clearstream, Deutsche Börse Group's post-trade business, has announced a next-generation digital securities infrastructure covering the full securities lifecycle for both traditional and tokenised markets, launching in stages across 2026 and 2027.

New positioning data shared with LiquidityFinder by trading analytics and risk management platform Tapaas reveals how retail and professional traders across ten countries responded to last week's renewed hostilities between Israel and Iran