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Ant’s $1.2 Billion Series A The financing supports expansion of its global payments and financial services business and positions the Alibaba-backed fintech unit for a potential future IPO. Participants included Ant Group and Alibaba Group. Parafin’s $300M forward-flow funding agreement Parafin recently surpassed 50,000 funded businesses and inked partnerships with Goldman Sachs, EverBank, First Citizens, and Cross River. Augustus raises $180M at $1B valuation It seeks to build a U.S. bank from scratch and is backed by Tiger Global, QED, Hummingbird, and fintech founders including Nubank, Ramp and Circle. The goal is to give banks and fintechs worldwide direct access…

Key TakeawaysSean Assaf revealed how local-first AI brings CRM tasks directly into Telegram.Automating pre-deal tasks reduces 100% of tedious manual CRM logging without risking user conversation privacy.By 2026, Assaf foresees developers building team layers to transform Telegram into an enterprise operating system. Removing the Middleman to Preserve Privacy Every day, thousands of business development executives, venture capitalists, and ecosystem leaders engage in a tedious, two-step routine. First, they conduct high-stakes partnership discussions inside messaging apps like Telegram. Then, they jump out of the conversation, open a separate browser tab, log into a customer relationship management (CRM) dashboard, and manually retype…

ASX-listed Change Financial Limited have provided an update on the company’s business activities for the quarter ended 30 June 2026 (Q4 FY26, Q4 or the Quarter).Key highlights include Q4 FY26 revenue of A$6.6 million (US$4.6m), up 16% on prior corresponding period (pcp) and FY26 revenue (unaudited) of A$26.0 million (US$18.2m), up 21% on FY25.Change Financial CEO Tony Sheehan (pictured), commented, “We are very pleased to have delivered on our upgraded FY26 revenue and Underlying EBITDA guidance. Our PaaS operations continue to be a key driver of growth, with total revenue for the year up 21% on FY25. We are also…

The week in one sentence. Speculators rebuilt their bearish conviction in JPY and EUR, kept selling AUD, and continued covering GBP, while WTI delivered the cleanest positive turn as both positioning and price moved sharply higher.A more defensive resetThe foreign-exchange complex turned more defensive. JPY registered the largest weekly deterioration, with net positioning falling by 29,462 contracts to a 152,125-contract short. That leaves the market near the 3rd historical percentile. The 0.57% rise in USD/JPY – a weaker Yen – confirmed the renewed selling and makes JPY the clearest bearish FX signal of the week.EUR followed closely. Speculators cut net…

The CLARITY Act appears unlikely to move through the Senate before the August recess, slowing the crypto market structure push at a moment when the industry had hoped for faster progress. The bill, formally listed on Congress.gov as H.R. 3633, the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025, is designed to create clearer rules for digital asset markets. Reported comments from Senate Majority Leader John Thune indicate the bill is unlikely to get a vote before lawmakers leave for the August break. That does not mean the bill is dead. It does mean the timeline has slipped, with unresolved disputes…

Wall Street giant Morgan Stanley Bitcoin exchange-traded fund now has close to $400 million in assets under management — despite only launching in April.  The NYSE Arca-listed fund, which is the first by a bank, got off to a roaring start when it debuted, bringing in over $33 million in fresh cash on its first day.  Now, the fund has over $391 million in assets, demonstrating the popularity of the product. Many ETFs never reach $400 million in assets at all, let alone in one quarter. Senior Bloomberg Intelligence ETF analyst Eric Balchunas revealed Friday that the product has been…

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways The AIB Concept offers a clear, sophisticated and actionable blueprint for turning localized execution into international prestige and premium market dominance. When your raw commercial expertise is translated into the universal, undisputed language of validated science, it effortlessly breaks through geographical, cultural and competitive barriers. Traditional digital marketing can open the door for your business, but it is scientific validation that keeps that door open permanently. For ambitious entrepreneurs, scaling past a certain threshold often reveals an invisible glass ceiling. You conquer your regional market, build a stellar track record…

AI SceneSummer 2026 tech is fragmented among retailers. The INIU SnapGo Air is available via Amazon and directly from INIU’s website. Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 Pro stocks are available at Samsung, Best Buy, and Amazon. Anker Soundcore Boom 2 can be purchased from Best Buy, Target, Walmart and Amazon.A gift card for a store with many products means the gift recipient has to choose and enter one ecosystem, then discover which product they care about most.A multi-brand gift card on how summer-tech buyers really shopped in 2026. Guided by specs, prices, and inventories, they dance from one retailer to the…

PandaMiner is a new company that started manufacturing mining gear in 2016. They aren’t as popular as Bitmain, but their outlook is promising. PandaMiner decided to get into the market with their first all-in-one miner, the PandaMiner B1 Plus “scrypt asic miner” , multi-algorithm mining. Some people loved it while others hated it (although most of them haven’t tried the miner yet). There have been a lot of talk about the PandaMiner B1; in this article, we will try to find out what’s really going on. Overview The PandaMiner B1 is a pre-assembled GPU mining rig. It consists of eight…

BitMEX is facing a proposed class action in the Southern District of New York seeking the return of 622.66 BTC over alleged forced liquidations and platform misconduct. The complaint was filed on July 23, 2026, by BKX Services Inc. and David Namdar against HDR Global Trading Limited, Arthur Hayes, Benjamin Delo, Samuel Reed, and Gregory Dwyer, according to public court-monitoring records and related reports. The case is listed under No. 1:26-cv-06259. The allegations are serious. The plaintiffs claim BitMEX operated an internal trading desk that had access to customer data and traded against users, while platform freezes allegedly contributed to…