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The draft Markets in Financial Instruments (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2025 has been laid before the UK Parliament under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (FSMA 2023), together ...

Major banks launch stablecoins following GENIUS Act passage. JPMorgan, Fidelity, and SoFi enter market, challenging ...

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 28: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks during a protest in front of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) headquarters on November 28, 2017 in Washington, DC. Sen.

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Derivatives products, like options contracts — financial instruments that give investors the right but not the obligation to buy or sell an asset at a pre-determined price — will drive the Bitcoin ...

Finance is an industry moulded by disaster. It took a civil war to bring America’s banks under federal supervision, a banking panic to create the Federal Reserve and a Great Depression for the ...

Cyprus household financial assets rose to €63 billion at the end of September 2025, with more than half held in liquid and ...

The index measured perceived uncertainty against the national baseline score of 79. Average portfolios currently stall at about two instruments, leaving most households with fragile protection despite ...