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Revolut received a full French banking license on Monday, its second bank inside the European Union. The European Central Bank’s Governing Council adopted the decision after a joint assessment with France’s Autorite de Controle Prudentiel et de Resolution, the company said.Revolut Bank S.A. will start with customers in France, then Germany, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain in later phases. The Lithuanian entity, Revolut Bank UAB, keeps the rest of the European Economic Area under the dual-hub structure the company set out in 2025.For retail brokers, the license lands on a competitor that already sells trading. Revolut runs CFD trading in…

Granite Protocol has been listed on Borrow on Bitcoin, adding another lending route for users who want to put Bitcoin-linked collateral to work without leaving the broader Bitcoin DeFi stack. The listing centers on Granite’s Stacks-based lending market, where users can deposit sBTC collateral and borrow USDCx. The validated notes point to a variable borrow rate of 1.66% APR, along with features including isolated pools, soft liquidations, and no rehypothecation of user collateral. The product is not available in the US, and that limitation matters. Still, the listing is another sign that Bitcoin DeFi is becoming more specific. Instead of…

Safehire.ai, a London-based digital risk intelligence company helping organisations make safer, more informed hiring and access decisions, has secured a €583.2k (£500k) follow-on investment from a private investor.  This round, together with the €1.22 million (£1.05 million) Seed investment round closed in April 2025, brings total investment to €1.8 million (£1.55 million).  “Safehire challenges the idea that traditional checks are enough. By looking beyond the surface, we help organisations identify hidden risk, strengthen safeguarding and make high-trust decisions with greater confidence. This investment allows us to scale Digital Risk Screening beyond education, support larger enterprise use cases, develop our insider…

At the start of 2026 these builder-deployed markets were about 2% of Hyperliquid’s perp volume. They are now roughly half of it.The pass-through shows up in the accounts. Cost of revenue, the portion of fees Hyperliquid hands straight back to builders, market makers and its own liquidity vault, was under 6% of gross revenue in the second quarter of 2025. A year later it was 18%.Builder code fees, which front-ends like Phantom charge on top for routing an order, arrived at roughly $16 million of revenue in the second quarter and left as roughly $16 million of cost in the…

Imagine you’re in the middle of a de-clogging job inside a client’s sink base cabinet when your phone buzzes in your pocket. With your back on the floor and both hands occupied, you can’t take the call. As someone who’s answered home-service calls long enough, you know that plumbing customers rarely call back, and there’s a higher chance they’ll hang up upon reaching voicemail than leave a message. By the time you check your phone system, the caller may have already reported their problem to another provider. The tough reality in the plumbing business is that independent contractors and business…

AARP: Book 3+ Hotel Nights and Get a $75 Gift Card AARP members can get a $75 gift card when booking a hotel stay of at least three nights through the AARP Travel Center Powered by Expedia. The offer is part of AARP’s current U.S. hotel sale, which is also advertising savings of 25% or more at select hotels. Reservations must be booked by August 31, 2026, with travel completed by October 31, 2026. Offer Details Here’s how this promotion works: Must be an AARP member (anyone 18+ can join) Book an eligible hotel stay of 3 nights or more…

Key TakeawaysCySEC and ESMA announced joint digital resilience audits for crypto custody providers under CSA 2026.EU crypto custodians must prove strict compliance across 6 core operational risk areas.CySEC will execute on-site and desk reviews on a sample of firms from H2 2026 to H1 2027. Targeting Custody and Infrastructure Risks The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) will launch a wave of on-site visits and desk-based reviews targeting authorized crypto asset service providers (CASPs) as part of a broader European effort to strengthen operational resilience in digital asset custody. In a circular issued to regulated firms, CySEC chairperson George Theocharides…

Ethereum has turned 11, and the network’s birthday arrives with a very Ethereum-style contradiction: it is still one of the most important settlement layers in crypto, but its base-chain revenue has cooled sharply. The validated July 31 notes show Ethereum hosting roughly $148.8 billion in stablecoins and around $15.5 billion in tokenized real-world assets. At the same time, daily mainnet revenue was reported near $330,000, with base-chain fees around $734,000 over a 24-hour period. That combination tells the real story better than a birthday tribute would. Ethereum is still deeply important. Stablecoins, DeFi, tokenized assets, Layer 2 settlement, and institutional…

The following showcases the 2026 developments of fintech and wider digital landscape of San Marino. For most countries, fintech is about making finance faster. For San Marino, it is about making the country more competitive. Surrounded entirely by Italy and covering just 61 square kilometres, the world’s fifth-smallest state has spent much of the past decade redefining its economic identity. Long associated with banking, tourism and manufacturing, the republic has worked to modernise its financial sector following international pressure for greater transparency and stronger regulation. Today, fintech has become part of that reinvention. San Marino is not trying to become…

How much is enough? How much researching, chart-watching and just general thinking about your trading is harmful? How does doing too much trading related activity hurt your chances of trading success? In today’s lesson, we are going to discuss these topics and delve deeper into why you may indeed be self-sabotaging your trading simply by doing too much of everything. You can call it “micro-management” or you can call it “over-thinking” or “over-analysis”, but no matter the label given, the intent is the same: Control. Perhaps at the very root of this problem of micro-managing one’s trading, is fear. When…