Better Pays Coinbase One Members Up to $10,000 to Take Out a HELOC
Fintech—Marvin Evans—September 19, 2026
The Better Coinbase HELOC rebate pays 1% up to $10,000 as Better home equity volume hits 18% of originations. A costly bet on a good channel.
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Robinhood Routes Football Prediction Markets to Crypto.com, Takes Equity Stake
September 17, 2026
Robinhood Crypto.com ties deepened on September 8, 2026. Robinhood began routing a slate of football prediction-market contracts to the CFTC-regulated exchange and clearinghouse now held by OG.com, just ahead of NFL kickoff. Inside the Crypto.com app, that venue is branded Crypto.com Derivatives North America. Separately, OG.com runs it as a trader-focused app following its spin-off
Bitpanda Enterprise brings crypto trading into BW-Bank retail accounts in Germany
September 16, 2026
Bitpanda BW-Bank crypto trading is now open to all self-directed retail customers of the LBBW Group unit. Since 9 September they can buy and sell ten crypto assets through their existing securities account. Access runs via BW Nextbroker. Bitpanda Enterprise supplies the trading and custody infrastructure behind it. Inside the Bitpanda BW-Bank crypto rollout The
Binance.US Picks Socure, and Now Four of the Top Five U.S. Crypto Exchanges Run the Same Identity Stack
September 11, 2026
Binance.US taps Socure for identity verification and fraud screening, putting four of the top five U.S. crypto exchanges on the same stack.
Elliptic Wants to Write the Rulebook for AI Agents Moving Crypto
September 11, 2026
Elliptic publishes an agentic crypto compliance standard: eight principles for governing AI agents that originate and settle on-chain transactions.
Coinbase Launches Crypto Futures for Canadian Traders, Undercutting a Market Regulators Have Kept Cautious
September 10, 2026
Coinbase Canada futures went live on Tuesday through Coinbase Financial Markets, the derivatives arm of the exchange. The company calls itself the first major crypto-native platform to offer direct, native crypto futures in the Canadian market. That claim holds up, though not for the reason the headline suggests. Inside the Coinbase Canada futures launch The
Citi Becomes First U.S. Bank to Run Live Transactions on the New Swift Ledger
September 8, 2026
Citi Swift ledger transactions went live on September 2, making Citi the first U.S. bank to move client money across the network's new blockchain infrastructure. The payments ran in U.S. dollars alongside First Abu Dhabi Bank and Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation. Those were the first ledger transactions from the Middle East and Southeast Asia respectively. Inside
Fintech is about to relearn what DeFi already learned about approvals
September 7, 2026
Author: Nick Sawinyh, Head of Product & GTM, Veodyn Agentic payments look like an open question, and they are not one. The question worth asking is not whether autonomous software will be given authority to move money. In one corner of finance it has had that authority for years, and the results are already on the
Grupo Salinas Taps Integral Digital to Power New Crypto Trading Desk
September 4, 2026
Grupo Salinas and Integral Digital, trading desk technology deal, announced September 3. The Grupo Salinas Integral Digital agreement makes Integral Digital the technology behind a new institutional digital-asset trading desk run through Grupo Salinas' COINPRO unit. Grupo Salinas is the Mexican conglomerate that also owns Banco Azteca, and the desk will serve corporate and institutional
BitGo Links Institutional Wallets to Aptos-Powered Decibel Exchange
September 4, 2026
BitGo and Decibel, custody connectivity, announced September 3. The new BitGo Decibel custody connection adds support linking BitGo's institutional multi-party-computation self-custody wallets to Decibel, a decentralized spot and perpetuals exchange built on the Aptos blockchain. The integration runs through WalletConnect and lets institutional clients trade on Decibel while their assets stay inside BitGo-connected wallets, preserving
SoFi Ties Its Banking Rails to Kraken’s Parent Company
September 4, 2026
SoFi Technologies and Payward, banking and crypto infrastructure partnership, announced September 3. SoFi and Payward, the company behind Kraken, announced the SoFi Payward partnership connecting SoFi's banking infrastructure to Payward's crypto trading and custody business. Payward will join the SoFi Exchange Network, SoFi's real-time settlement rail, for 24/7 institutional USD clearing and settlement, and will
Kraken Owner Payward and the London Stock Exchange Will Try Tokenizing the Biggest UK Stocks
September 3, 2026
LSE xStocks arrived as an announcement on 1 September, when Payward, the company behind Kraken, and the London Stock Exchange said they would bring the 100 largest London-listed companies onchain through Payward's tokenized equity framework. What the LSE xStocks Announcement Commits To LSE xStocks would be tokens backed 1:1 by an underlying share, designed to
BitGo Buys NYDIG Trading Desk as NYDIG Bets Its Future on Power, Not Crypto
August 29, 2026
BitGo NYDIG acquisition terms became public on August 27, when BitGo Holdings (NYSE: BTGO) completed its purchase of the institutional trading business of NYDIG. The deal covers the derivatives, structured products and financing desk that NYDIG built for hedge funds, asset managers and family offices over the past several years. About 30 NYDIG staff moved