Precious Metals and Market News

California Released 24,000 Illegal Immigrants With ICE Detainers, DHS Says - California Released 24,000 Illegal Immigrants With ICE Detainers, DHS Says Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times,Almost 24,000 illegal immigrants with criminal convictions or charges have been released into communities since Jan. 20, 2025, due to California's refusal to honor Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)...

Eisenkot Refuses To Join US-Backed 'Unity Government' With Netanyahu - Eisenkot Refuses To Join US-Backed 'Unity Government' With Netanyahu Via The CradleIsraeli Yashar party chairman Gadi Eisenkot says he will not serve in any government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, even at the personal request of US President Donald Trump, Israel's Public Broadcaster (KAN) reported Monday."I will not sit in a government led by Netanyahu," Eisenkot repor...

Jim Bovard: Cynicism Should Win The Mid-Term Elections - Jim Bovard: Cynicism Should Win The Mid-Term Elections Authored by Jim BovardIn an era of clueless voters and profoundly dishonest candidates, cynicism is one of the last best checks on political power run amok.  Regardless of the final vote count in Tuesday’s mid-term congressional elections, both Republicans and Democrats have earned all the distrust they will reap.   Any hope th...

Do Young People Understand the Democratic Socialists Of America? - Do Young People Understand the Democratic Socialists Of America? Authored by Christian Milord via The Epoch Times,Polls show that many young folks in their 20s and 30s favor the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Some polls estimate that more than 40 percent of folks in that demographic think that socialism, rather than capitalism, is a beneficial system for society.However, d...

Seven Toss-Ups, A Decoy Candidate, & A 1AM Finish: Watch Election Night Results Live Here - Seven Toss-Ups, A Decoy Candidate, & A 1AM Finish: Watch Election Night Results Live Here And so it begins...The drama of election night in the US plays out across 50 states and six time zones, with poll closings cascading across the country from east to west.Each state sets its own polling hours, and sixteen states have different closing times depending on which time zone the poll...

Haley Stevens Gave Democrat Voters 'Permission To Change Their Minds' And Vote For Mike Rogers - Haley Stevens Gave Democrat Voters 'Permission To Change Their Minds' And Vote For Mike Rogers Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) dropped a bombshell endorsement on Sunday, switching her support from Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed to Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan's U.S. Senate race a mere two days before Election Day. Her move drew swift condemnation from leaders and allies in her o...

Mysterious Group Plots To Mass-Dox America's Billionaires, Teases First Targets - Mysterious Group Plots To Mass-Dox America's Billionaires, Teases First Targets A shadowy international group calling itself The Capytistas is preparing to expose the private homes of some of America's wealthiest individuals in a new campaign, according to a dossier viewed by WIRED. Trillionaire and former presidential adviser Elon Musk speaking during a cabinet meeting at the Whi...

AMD Soars After Blowout $17 Billion Guide... As Free Cash Flow Quietly Shrinks To 4% Of Revenue - AMD Soars After Blowout $17 Billion Guide... As Free Cash Flow Quietly Shrinks To 4% Of Revenue Three months ago, AMD beat on every line and the stock crashed anyway. Tonight, the market got the number it wanted.After a brutal month in which AMD shares lost more than a quarter of their value, pummeled first by Intel's PC warning and then by the broader AI capex hangover, Lisa Su de...

Inside The $250 Electric Bill: Dissecting The Midterms' Most Hated Piece Of Mail - Inside The $250 Electric Bill: Dissecting The Midterms' Most Hated Piece Of Mail Today, for perhaps the first time in modern American history, the monthly electric bill is on the ballot.Not literally, of course (although in nine states, utility commissioners literally are), but as Reuters put it on Friday, this could be "the first election to feature utilities and electricity, spec...

Midterm Election Incoherences, Misadventures, & Paradoxes - Midterm Election Incoherences, Misadventures, & Paradoxes Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness,The predicted blue wave may never materialize. And even if Democrats retake Congress, history suggests Trump could emerge stronger, not weaker, with the presidency's expansive powers.2022 vs. 2026In June 2022, the price of gasoline topped $5 a gallon and stayed around $4...

What analysts are telling us while Apple’s stock falls after earnings report - Shares in Apple declined nearly 2% on Tuesday after investors were left feeling disappointed about the company’s gross margin outlook and slowing services revenue growth.

Shopify’s stock slides after earnings. This is what’s worrying Wall Street. - The company missed revenue expectations, a tough outcome in today’s less-forgiving tech market.

AI’s control over the bond market is growing — even rivaling war and elections - “Hyperscalers” burned through their cash. Now their bond deals are helping fuel the economy.

S&P 500 is looking over the edge of a technical cliff — what happens if it falls off? - Falling below 7,500 would lead to a dramatic increase in selling pressure and volatility, a J.P. Morgan strategist says, and that could end in a full-blown correction

Depressing, but true: If you want to get ahead at work, embrace virtue signaling - Strategically embracing the right symbols in the office really can advance your career.

Super Micro’s stock pops as earnings show booming demand for AI servers - Super Micro is building out a “high-quality customer base” that’s fueling revenue growth, CFO Mark Long told MarketWatch.

Anthropic’s IPO is a high-stakes referendum on Big Tech — and this chart proves it - Tech giants like Broadcom, Google and SpaceX have plenty of skin in the game as Anthropic heads for the public market.

The internet is ‘dying’: AI is eating it and obliterating these business models - “The internet as we’ve known it for the past 20-plus years is going away, and it’s going to completely change,” one CEO says.

‘It’s good to be old’: I’ve been invited to a dozen free meals that turn into annuity sales pitches. Should I stop going? - “Salespeople typically push annuities, Medicare plans and estate-planning services.”

An overlooked energy source could solve AI’s power crunch — and these 2 stocks are prime plays - Geothermal technology is in the early stages of its own shale revolution, Morgan Stanley says.

Midterm elections 2026 live updates: First polls close as House, Senate control hang in balance - Follow 2026 midterm elections live updates, including House and Senate races, Texas, Georgia, Ohio and Minnesota, and key results as polls close.

AMD stock jumps 8% on earnings as data center revenue nearly doubles - AMD reported better-than-expected third-quarter results, driven by booming sales of AI chips

Apple warns of risks related to AI agents behaving in 'unintended or unpredictable' ways - Apple’s annual filing warns that AI agents could exceed permissions, resist instructions or take actions that are difficult to reverse.

S&P 500 futures gain slightly on AMD's strong earnings as traders await election results: Live updates - Investors braced for the results of the 2026 U.S. midterm elections.

Trump DOJ sends target letters to Democrats in Alaska Senate criminal probe: Reports - "There's no doubt that the threats are threats to our democracy," said John Cusick, assistant counsel at the Legal Defense Fund.

Job openings posted big September gain in positive sign for labor market ahead of payrolls report - The BLS reported job openings at 7.52 million, up 333,000 from August and well above the Dow Jones consensus outlook for 7.15 million

Australia hikes rates to 18-year high to fight inflation - The Reserve Bank of Australia's decision was in line with expectations from economists polled by Reuters, and marked its fifth rate increase this year.

South Korea targets 'world's highest performance' sovereign AI model in record new budget - The 2027 budget will rise 12.8% to 820.9 trillion won, and will include a 21.3 trillion won investment into semiconductors, physical AI and AI data centers.

Euro zone economy slows to 0.4% growth in Q3 as crisis-hit France contracts - The euro zone showed surprising resilience, but weak productivity, industrial competitiveness challenges and demographic pressures remain, analysts said.

European Central Bank keeps key interest rate on hold at 2.5% - Markets saw the decision as a hawkish pause and were last pricing in a 67% chance of a December rate hike.

Central banks accelerated gold buying in Q3, WGC says - By Giulia PetroniThe Wall Street JournalTuesday, November 3, 2026 Central banks stepped up gold buying in the third quarter to its fastest pace since late 2024, as geopolitical risks and concerns over fiscal discipline bolstered institutional demand for the precious metal. The institutions added a net 321 metric tons to their reserves in the period, driven by portfolio diversification and risk ...

India's tax hike drives illegal gold imports to three-year high - By Yihui Xie and Preeti SoniBloomberg NewsTuesday, November 3, 2026 India's illegal gold imports surged to the highest since 2023 in the third quarter as a government duty hike spurred use of unofficial channels, according to a report from the World Gold Council. Informal shipments for July to September jumped more than 1,500% to 50 metric tons from 3 tons a year earlier, the producer-funded gr...

Tokenized gold bars to advance Hong Kong's ambitions as digital, metal trading hub - By Xinmei ShenSouth China Morning Post, Hong KongTuesday, November 3, 2026 https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3373071/tokenised-gold-bar-advance-hong-kongs-ambitions-digital-metal-trading-hub Hong Kong's plan to start an interbank tokenized gold transaction project marks a crucial step in its quest to make itself a key global hub for the precious metal, according to analysts....

China's government calls meeting on supporting stock market, reports say - From Bloomberg NewsSunday, November 1, 2026 China's central bank and its securities regulator will hold a meeting on Monday to discuss the use of tools designed to support the country's capital market, according to local media. The People's Bank of China will meet with the National Financial Regulatory Administration, China Securities Regulatory Commission, and major banks to study how to impro...

Alasdair Macleod: Bullion banks preparing for higher gold and silver prices - By Alasdair MacleodGoldMoney, TorontoFriday, October 30, 2026 Despite extremely negative sentiment, large flows of bullion continue to leave Western markets, and bullion banks appear to be positioning themselves for higher prices. This week saw gold move sideways, while silver dips towards historic peaks at $50. But quietl, there appears to be a move of bullion into stronger hands. Silver’s ope...

Labor Market Churn Accelerates on Big Jump in Quits - Job Openings to fill those left-behind slots rose, hires jumped, layoffs & discharges fell and were low.

No Inflection Point Yet: Near-Exponential Data Center Boom Sends Shockwaves to Industrial Economy, Construction Hit by 2nd Wave of Inflation - They all spiked: Construction of data centers and power plants; orders for equipment at US manufacturers; and inflation in construction.

US Government Sold $907 Billion of Treasury Securities this Week. That’s a Lot of Paper. Yields Pulled Back - As AI & chip stocks tanked, investors shifted from the “AI trade” to the “safe-haven trade” and bid up Treasuries.

Legal Tender Forces Gold Out - The government has many ways of forcing us to use their paper dollar as money. The tax on capital gains on gold (I wrote about this here) is one bullet in their gun. The legal tender law—U.S. Code ...

These Countries May Be Next To Accept Bitcoin as Legal Tender - One of the main knocks against cryptocurrency has always been that it will never gain universal adoption, meaning its usefulness will always be limited. This perhaps changed forever on September 7, ...

Arkansas Passes Legal Tender Act, Removes Taxes on Gold and Silver - LITTLE ROCK, AR / ACCESSWIRE / April 20, 2023 / Sound money advocates are rejoicing as House Bill 1718, the Arkansas Legal Tender Act has become the law in the Natural State. Backed by the Sound Money ...

Legal Tender - Legal tender is a medium of payment recognized by a legal system to be valid for meeting a financial obligation. Paper currency and coins are common forms of legal tender in many countries. Legal ...

What Is Considered Legal Tender in the US? - "Legal tender" means that the financial instrument in question legally serves to pay any public or private debt. Federal law guarantees its printed value regardless of its intrinsic convertible value, ...

What voters said about their views on crypto - A CoinDesk-commissioned poll from April sheds light on how voters — who aren't necessarily part of the crypto sector — view this industry.

What happens if North Korea steals Wall Street's tokenized assets next - The $6.3 billion Binance hack showed how quickly cryptocurrencies can disappear on blockchain rails. Tokenized securities may offer better recourse than crypto after a theft, but the markets around them can still break down when stress hits.

CFTC gets into legal clash over stock perps after having cleared path for crypto version - A group backed by Citadel Securities and other firms sued the U.S. derivatives regulator for opening a path for perps that it argued belong in the SEC's hands.

Justin Sun seeks sanctions against Trump-linked World Liberty Financial over UAE ties - The Tron founder says World Liberty failed to disclose its UAE ties until months into his lawsuit over $45 million in WLFI tokens.

South Korea's president says country needs a ‘cybersecurity czar’ following $6.3 billion Binance hack - Lee Jae Myung said he wants a government-wide agency to tackle cyberattacks as AI raises security concerns across financial institutions and critical infrastructure.

Amazon, Tesla and SpaceX join OKX–ICE tokenized stock objections as deadline looms - Objections have reached 56 companies, with nearly 80% of the venture’s initial stock selection opting out.

Stablecoin governance group behind OUSD sets out management fee, offers equity earning pool - Governance group Open Standard will charge a 0.1 basis point management fee on payment volume, capped at at $0.01 per payment.

CFTC clears perpetual futures on stocks, bringing crypto trading model to Wall Street - CFTC Chair Michael Selig said the move gives U.S. traders a regulated alternative to “offshore, and often unregulated, venues.”

Binance's $6.3 billion hack began with a fake job interview, and a campaign 'built over many months' - North Korea-linked attackers spent months compromising Binance employees and internal systems before exploiting its hot-wallet signing infrastructure through Ethereum's EIP-7702 mechanism.

South Korea asks its biggest banks how a major crypto hack would hit them - In its first such survey, the BOK also asked about a crypto price crash, losses at another firm, and each firm’s crypto teams, budgets and investments.

Tron Founder Justin Sun Seeks Sanctions Against Trump-Backed World Liberty Financial - Tron founder Justin Sun is seeking nearly $264,000 in sanctions against World Liberty Financial and its attorneys, accusing the Trump family-backed cryptocurrency company of withholding information about its United Arab Emirates ownership ties until months into a lawsuit over his frozen WLFI tokens. Sun Seeks Sanctions In a motion filed Monday in the U.S. District […]

Binance Inflows Flip Positive After $7 Billion Post-Hack Exodus - Binance’s tracked wallets have swung back to roughly $3.25 billion in 24-hour net inflows after recording more than $7 billion in daily outflows following its $6.3 billion hack. Binance Users Return as 24-Hour Inflows Swing Positive Money is starting to flow back into Binance after one of the largest security shocks in crypto history. Binance […]

October’s Dormant Bitcoin Awakenings Cool as Transfers Plunge 81% From August - Dormant bitcoin wallets dating back to 2012 moved 2,159.15 BTC valued at $167.56 million last month, marking a second consecutive monthly slowdown. Despite the declining activity, wallets originating in 2013 dominated the month, while addresses from Bitcoin’s earliest years remained conspicuously absent. Dormant Bitcoin Activity Slows as 35 Transfers Move $167 Million October brought another […...

Tether’s Bitcoin Fortune Extends Beyond Its Publicly Identified Wallet - Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino has disclosed a substantially larger bitcoin treasury than previously documented in the stablecoin issuer’s financial statements. His remarks at a Swiss cryptocurrency conference introduce new questions about the company’s investment activities, asset ownership, and the extent of its publicly reported financial holdings. Tether’s Bitcoin Fortune Tops $11 Billion as CEO ...

CFTC Breaks New Ground as Equity Perpetual Futures Get Green Light - The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has cleared the way for perpetual futures tied to individual stocks to begin trading on regulated U.S. exchanges for the first time. CFTC Chairman Selig Hails New Era as Stock Perpetual Futures Enter US Markets A trading instrument that helped transform cryptocurrency speculation is crossing into America’s traditional stock […]

Why Is Donald Trump Suddenly Obsessed With Men's Bodies, Especially Their Butts? - I talked with John Stagliano, the adult filmmaker known as Buttman, about the president's newest fixation.

Trump's Dismissed Epstein Letter Lawsuit Is the Latest Example of His Failure To State Cognizable Claims - The president's defamation case against The Wall Street Journal fits a pattern of frivolous litigation aimed at punishing speech that irks him.

The Housing Ballot Initiatives To Watch - Across the country, voters will decide whether to shrink minimum lot sizes, roll back environmental review laws, and cut property taxes.

Court Orders Plaintiff to File Handwritten Opposition, - after noting that many of plaintiff's filings contained seeming AI hallucinations, despite assertions in plaintiff's filings that all the citations were valid.

The DSA's Coming-Out Party - Today begins the era when out-and-proud socialists will have real pull in Washington, D.C.

Will the Iran War Cost Republicans Control of the Senate? - In several key Senate races, GOP candidates broke against Trump's wildly unpopular war. But only after previously supporting it.

Americans Would Rather Win the Midterms Than a Sports Title. Here's Why That Might Be. - A government so large that it can threaten our lives and livelihoods can also threaten our favorite sports teams.

A Ken Paxton Moment - As Texas AG, Paxton's done a lot of controversial and in-my-opinion unwise things, but this is the one that sticks in my craw

On Election Day, We All Get to Be Haley Stevens and Pick the (Hopefully) Less Lousy Candidates - Once again, Americans will have to live with the consequences of their political choices.

California's Bond Issues Aren't 'Free' Money. Voters Should Tread Carefully. - Borrowing money for infrastructure projects can be a good idea, but it can often become a sinkhole for taxpayers.

This isn’t an Instruction Manual. It’s a Warning. How Empires Fall. - Collapse is self-inflicted: Benjamin Franklin knew the pattern all through history. In 1773, he wrote a masterpiece of biting satire - 20 rules for how a great empire destroys itself from within by making its own people see it as detestable. It was supposed to be a warning, but London completely ignored it and paid the price. Once you hear his “rules,” judge for yourself. Is this just another h...

Lost Cause: The Federal Government will Never Limit Itself - Going to the federal government to convince the federal government to limit its own power? That’s not just dumb strategy and a lost cause. It’s dangerous to the Constitution and liberty. On this episode, it’s James Madison’s blueprint for beating the feds without relying on the feds to magically limit their own power. Plus the right to keep and bear arms as the ultimate safeguard for freedom. T...

The Word “Emergency” Doesn’t Exist in the Constitution. That’s no Accident. - That means the rules of the constitution apply whether someone calls it an “emergency” or not. On this episode, it’s the founders’ long-forgotten warning about the oldest weapon in the book. Let politicians have extra power or funding because THEY declare an emergency? And you’ll get never-ending emergencies. The post The Word “Emergency” Doesn’t Exist in the Constitution. That’s no Accident. a...

Postal Service Surveilled Protest Activities Online With Little Rules, Oversight - The U.S. Postal Service used social media surveillance to monitor and report on protests across the political spectrum, government records show. The records, disclosed to EFF and other requesters suing the postal service under the Freedom of Information Act, show that the agency’s internet Covert Operations Program, or iCOP, routinely sifted through social media posts organizing and discussing ...

Privacy's Defenders Podcast: The Secret Room - The government’s surveillance powers grew rapidly after Sept. 11, 2001, some in public view and some in secret. EFF suspected but couldn’t prove that the National Security Agency was spying on Americans' communications. The New York Times sat on a story about it for over a year, finally publishing it in December 2005. Then, in January 2006, a retired AT&T technician named Mark Klein walked into...

Independent Digital Media Is Not a Privilege Governments Can Revoke: The Fight to Save Egypt’s Mada Masr - On November 11, Lina Attalah, founder and editor-in-chief of the independent Egyptian news outlet Mada Masr</span>, will face trial for the second time in just two weeks. This time, she faces charges of spreading false news, an accusation that has become one of the Egyptian government's most frequently used tools for prosecuting journalists.  The trial follows a conviction on October 27, when A...

Institute for Justice Urges Clewiston to Scrap Protectionist Food Truck Restrictions - Today, the Institute for Justice (IJ) sent a letter to officials in Clewiston, Florida, warning that the city’s food truck ordinance violates the Florida Constitution.   […] The post Institute for Justice Urges Clewiston to Scrap Protectionist Food Truck Restrictions appeared first on Institute for Justice.

Swim Instructor Appeals to South Carolina Supreme Court After Columbia Banned Her Backyard Business - COLUMBIA, S.C.—Lifelong swim instructor Libby Souder is appealing to the South Carolina Supreme Court in her fight to resume offering her backyard swim lessons to […] The post Swim Instructor Appeals to South Carolina Supreme Court After Columbia Banned Her Backyard Business appeared first on Institute for Justice.

Public Interest Law Firm Calls on Nampa to Reconsider Unconstitutional Food Truck Crackdown - Two years after the Institute for Justice (IJ) first warned Nampa, Idaho, that its food truck rules were unconstitutional, the city is back with a […] The post Public Interest Law Firm Calls on Nampa to Reconsider Unconstitutional Food Truck Crackdown appeared first on Institute for Justice.

TAURUS RENEWS PLATINUM-LEVEL CORPORATE PARTNERSHIP - BELLEVUE, Wash. — April 24, 2025 — The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) is pleased to announce that Taurus Holdings Inc. has renewed their commitment to the organization as a Platinum-level corporate partner. “At Taurus, we believe that the right to keep and bear arms is fundamental to the American way of life,” said Taurus USA The post TAURUS RENEWS PLATINUM-LEVEL CORPORATE PARTNERSHIP appear...

CA NON-RESIDENTS CAN APPLY FOR CARRY PERMIT STARTING APRIL 22 - BELLEVUE, Wash. — April 22, 2025 — Thanks to a preliminary injunction in the Second Amendment Foundation’s (SAF) case CRPA v. LASD, starting Tuesday, April 22, non-resident SAF members can apply for a California carry permit.  The injunction requires that California accept permit applications from any United States resident outside the state who is a The post CA NON-RESIDENTS CAN APPLY FOR CARR...

SCOTUS DENIES CERT IN WORTH, SAF WIN IN EIGHTH CIRCUIT STANDS - BELLEVUE, Wash. — April 21, 2025 — In a case that could potentially have far-reaching implications for similar lawsuits across the nation, the U.S. Supreme Court has denied Minnesota’s Petition for Writ of Certiorari in Jacobson v. Worth, the Second Amendment Foundation’s (SAF) challenge to the 18-20-year-old carry ban in the state. Minnesota asked the The post SCOTUS DENIES CERT IN WORTH, SAF ...

FL District 14: Vote for Mike Beltran—Send a Second Amendment Fighter to Congress. - Vote for Mike Beltran for Florida’s 14th Congressional District Gun Owners of America and Fuerza 2A proudly endorse Mike Beltran for Congress in Florida’s 14th Congressional District—and we’re asking you to vote for him on November 3. Washington needs representatives who will defend the Second Amendment when it counts. Mike Beltran has earned an A+ GOA rating and a 100% … Read more

FL District 13: Vote Anna Paulina Luna—GOA Endorsed. A+ Rated in Congress. - Vote for Anna Paulina Luna for Florida’s 13th Congressional District Gun Owners of America proudly endorses Anna Paulina Luna for reelection to Congress in Florida’s 13th Congressional District—and we’re asking you to vote for her on November 3. Luna has earned an A+ GOA rating for standing up for the Second Amendment. Congress makes decisions that affect your ability to … Read more

FL District 17: Vote Greg Steube—A Proven Second Amendment Champion in Congress. - Vote for Greg Steube for Florida’s 17th Congressional District Gun Owners of America proudly endorses Greg Steube for reelection to Congress in Florida’s 17th Congressional District—and we’re asking you to vote for him on November 3. Steube has earned an A+ GOA rating. His fight for the Second Amendment began long before he reached Washington. As a Florida state lawmaker, … Read more

Truist expands merchant tools to boost value - The super-regional is rolling out a faster onboarding experience and adding insights for business owners, said Chris Ward, head of enterprise payments.

Bilt tackles sports loyalty with $300M deal - The rent-rewards platform aims to stretch beyond housing payments and credit cards with an acquisition of Lava, a technology firm that focuses on sports loyalty.

Mortgage business expansion killed Tioga-Franklin: FDIC OIG - ”The bank’s condition deteriorated due to weak earnings which led to liquidity and capital issues,” the FDIC’s Office of the Inspector General said Friday.

FDIC amends directive against Old Glory Bank - The regulator deemed the bank “adequately capitalized” last week after applying a more severe label in August. A special-purpose acquisition of the bank had fallen apart earlier this summer.

Financial AI needs a reliable view of the customer - Continuous assurance of customer identity keeps AI decisions grounded in reality

Banks moving to provide AI toolkits to small-business clients - Huntington plans to roll out an AI operating system aimed at time-strapped owner-operators. Goldman Sachs is focusing on education and research.

OPay abruptly pulls US IPO as inquiry derails offering - The Nigerian payments company had priced its initial shares at the bottom of its expected range before calling off the offering.

Nonbank lender OppFi abandons plan to buy a bank - OppFi, a non-bank consumer lender based in Chicago, says it has scrapped its effort to buy North Dakota's BNC National Bank — at least for now. The exact reasons were not immediately clear, but OppFi pointed to a lack of clarity from regulators.

Abrigo confirms 'data security incident' caused 3-day outage - The company told American Banker the access is contained but did not say whether Sageworks borrower data was taken. Borrower features remain offline.

Fiserv bets on payment tech, AI to drive recovery - The financial technology seller, which is looking to sell or sunset parts of its business, is recruiting banks to its agentic AI service while it upgrades its Clover point of sale system.

Pushing the monetary frontier: stablecoins and tokenised deposits - Speech by Mr Pablo Hernández de Cos, General Manager of the BIS, at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, 28 August 2026.

BIS residential property price statistics, Q1 2026 - Real global house prices declined by 1.2% year on year (yoy) in the first quarter of 2026.

Effective resolution strategies and plans for insurers – Executive Summary - The Key Attributes of Effective Resolution Regimes for Financial Institutions (Key Attributes) of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) require resolution plans to be developed for all financial institutions, including insurers, that could be systemically significant or critical upon failure.

Federal Reserve Board announces approval of application by The Bank of Nova Scotia - Federal Reserve Board announces approval of application by The Bank of Nova Scotia

Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement - Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement

Federal Reserve Board announces termination of enforcement actions with Gardner Bancshares, Inc. and Small Business Bank - Federal Reserve Board announces termination of enforcement actions with Gardner Bancshares, Inc. and Small Business Bank

FDIC Board of Directors Approve New Action - BOARD MEETING | OCTOBER 30, 2026 FDIC Board of Directors Approve New Action By notational vote, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's Board...

Press Release: FDIC Publishes Enforcement Orders for September 2026 - PRESS RELEASE | OCTOBER 30, 2026 FDIC Publishes Enforcement Orders for September 2026 WASHINGTON—The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)...