FinanceOct 26, 2026
Anthropic Goes Public With Its S-1 and Targets a Trillion-Dollar Nasdaq Debut
The AI lab's prospectus is public, with reported plans to raise $100 billion or more in mid-November at a valuation of $1.5 trillion or higher.
FinanceOct 21, 2026
OCC Finalizes Its GENIUS Act Rulebook for Stablecoin Issuers, Three Months Late
The Comptroller's final rule sets reserve, redemption and custody standards ahead of the law's January 2027 effective date, but AML rules are still pending.
FinanceOct 20, 2026
FedNow Clears 6.4 Million Payments in Q3 as Instant Payments Finally Pick Up Speed
The Fed's real-time rail more than doubled its quarterly volume in six months while the average payment shrank to about $58,000.
FinanceOct 18, 2026
Stablecoin Supply Has Gone Sideways for a Year, Even as Payment Volume Hits Records
Total supply sits near $302 billion, below its May peak, while transaction volume has run well past all of 2025.
FinanceOct 5, 2026
Venture Capital Hit Record Mega-Round Counts in Q3 as AI Took Nearly Two-Thirds
Crunchbase counted 27 rounds of $1 billion or more and $102 billion going to AI startups, even as the quarter's total fell from Q2.
FinanceSep 30, 2026
Micron Books $54 Billion in a Quarter at an 87% Gross Margin as Memory Becomes the Choke Point
A chipmaker that earned $11 billion a year ago is guiding to $61.5 billion next quarter, and memory pricing is now a macro story.
FinanceSep 3, 2026
Revolut Clears the First Hurdle to Becoming a US Bank, With a 2027 Launch Targeted
The OCC's conditional nod for Revolut Bank US sets up a fight with incumbents over loans, FDIC-insured deposits and crypto access.
FinanceAug 5, 2026
CFPB Sends Its Open Banking Rewrite to the White House, With Data-Access Fees in Play
The bureau's redo of the Section 1033 rule is now at OIRA, and the biggest open question is whether banks can charge for the data fintechs pull.
FinanceJun 12, 2026
Mastercard Launches Payments for Machines, Built for Sub-Cent Transactions Between AI Agents
Agent Pay for Machines extends the card network to tiny, automated payments, with Stripe, Cloudflare, Coinbase and Checkout.com on board.
FinanceJun 12, 2026
SpaceX Raises $75 Billion in the Biggest IPO Ever and Opens the Mega-Listing Window
Priced at $135 on Nasdaq, SpaceX more than doubled Saudi Aramco's proceeds and jumped to a $2.1 trillion value on day one.
FinanceMay 20, 2026
Nvidia's $81.6 Billion Quarter Comes With a $91 Billion Forecast and No China
Revenue grew 85% to a record, networking nearly tripled, and Nvidia is guiding higher while assuming zero data center compute sales to China.
FinanceMay 14, 2026
Cerebras Prices a $5.5 Billion IPO Far Above Range and Nearly Doubles at the Open
The wafer-scale chipmaker became 2026's biggest US listing so far, and its prospectus shows how much of the story rests on OpenAI and the UAE.
FinanceMay 14, 2026
Crypto Market-Structure Bill Clears Senate Banking Committee 15-9, Then Stalls on the Floor
The CLARITY Act finally has a committee majority with two Democrats on board, but it needs 60 votes to reach a full Senate debate.
FinanceApr 30, 2026
Big Tech Is Now Planning $725 Billion of AI Spending, and Investors Are Picking Sides
Q1 earnings pushed 2026 capex guidance up again at Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta, and shares split on who can show a return.
FinanceApr 12, 2026
Tokenized Treasuries Pass $13.5 Billion, With Circle and BlackRock Leading the Pack
On-chain US government debt has grown steadily through 2026, with five products holding nearly 70% of the market and Ethereum carrying about half.
FinanceFeb 2, 2026
SpaceX Swallows xAI in the Largest Merger on Record
Elon Musk folded his AI startup into SpaceX at a reported $1.25 trillion combined value, setting up a mega-IPO and a bet on space-based data centers.
FinanceJan 29, 2026
Nubank Wins Conditional OCC Approval for a US National Bank in 121 Days
The Brazilian digital bank, with about 127 million customers, still needs FDIC and Fed sign-off before it can take American deposits.
FinanceDec 11, 2025
Bitcoin Slips Under $90,000 as Spot ETF Investors Pull $3.4 Billion in November
Two months after a record high near $126,000, bitcoin has lost about 28% as fund outflows and shaky rate-cut hopes drain demand.
FinanceDec 10, 2025
The Fed Cut Rates Again, and Tech Stocks Cared More About What It Said Next
A quarter-point cut to 3.50%-3.75% came with two dissents and a thin 2026 roadmap, a reminder that Nasdaq trades the path of rates, not the move.
FinanceNov 19, 2025
Nvidia Posts a $57 Billion Quarter and Dares Skeptics to Call It a Bubble
Revenue up 62% and a $65 billion guide put fresh numbers behind Nvidia's argument that AI demand is real, just weeks after it hit $5 trillion.