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Key TakeawaysA Bank of Montreal-controlled investment adviser managed about $3,000 worth of XRP fund shares.The filing does not identify the beneficial owner or investment strategy.One fund seeks to follow XRP, while the other targets twice its daily move. Two Line Items Inside a 14,271-Position Filing Bank of Montreal (NYSE: BMO) filed a consolidated report containing $2,970 of XRP-linked fund shares in the quarterly holdings report it submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Aug. 12. The document covers positions as of June 30 and spans 14,271 entries worth $303.65 billion. Two entries carry the whole exposure, and…

In brief The Bitcoin Red Team is using Chinese AI models to search Bitcoin projects for security flaws. Calle said developers have confirmed numerous critical and high-severity vulnerabilities. They warned that unmaintained projects should not be trusted. The Bitcoin Red Team is using Chinese AI models to search nearly the entire Bitcoin open-source ecosystem for security flaws, according to pseudonymous developer and Red Team lead Calle.The volunteer group combines AI tools with human review to examine wallets, Lightning applications, software libraries, and other Bitcoin projects. Researchers privately report credible findings to developers so the flaws can be fixed before details…

Soluna Holdings, a renewable-powered data center operator spanning Bitcoin mining and developing AI infrastructure, reported rapid revenue growth in the second quarter alongside weaker consolidated profitability.The company reported $15.1 million of revenue for the three months ended June 30, up 145% from $6.2 million a year earlier. A new presentation of pass-through electricity costs added $4.4 million to both revenue and cost of revenue, with no effect on gross profit, operating loss or net loss. Excluding that change, revenue still grew 73%.Project Kati 1 completed 48 MW of construction and recorded its first positive site gross profit of $82,000. Project…

The source also said SEC staff have become increasingly focused on the agency’s legal authority to issue such broad relief, including whether it has completed sufficient economic analysis and followed the procedural steps required to justify an exemption. Industry insiders have been instructed that this effort may need to wait for the outcome of the Clarity Act.Resistance came from traditional financial institutions as well.SIFMA, the Wall Street trade group whose members include major broker-dealers and investment banks, has emerged as one of the main groups halting the SEC’s initiative, according to an industry source familiar with the discussions. SIFMA did…

Felix Pinkston Aug 13, 2026 09:57 HKMA issues RMB1.25B in reopened 7-year government bonds at 1.656% yield, with strong demand showing a 4.81 bid-to-cover ratio. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has successfully concluded the reopening of its 7-year RMB-denominated institutional government bonds. The tender, held on August 13, 2026, offered RMB1.25 billion in bonds under the Infrastructure Bond Programme, receiving significant demand with RMB6.01 billion in applications. This resulted in a strong bid-to-cover ratio of 4.81, signaling sustained investor interest. The average accepted price for the bonds was 100.84, implying an annualised…

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The Pound holds just under 1.3500 on Thursday inside a session range barely 40 pips wide, which is a thin response to a morning that handed Britain a growth beat and an afternoon that handed the Dollar a soft inflation print. Sterling reached fractionally above 1.3500 and was turned back just short of 1.3550 on Wednesday, the same area that capped the pair in mid-July.Both legs of the exchange rate moved in the Pound’s favour and the price did nothing with either. The pair has still climbed roughly two cents since the start of August, enough to reclaim the converged…

The Dollar changes hands at 159.50 against the Yen on Thursday, a fraction higher on the session inside a range of barely 55 pips. The level matters more than the move, because 159.50 sits almost exactly halfway between the pre-intervention peak just short of 164.00 and the low just above 155.00 that Tokyo and Washington bought together at the start of the month.Seven sessions on from the largest Yen-buying operation ever mounted, half of it has been handed back. No fresh operation has been announced and none has been required, because the market has unwound the move without anyone standing…

The Aussie Dollar holds steady at around 0.7061 after US inflation data weighed on the Greenback, which recovered some ground to finish Thursday’s session almost flat. The AUD/USD registers modest losses of 0.01%AUD/USD steadies as softer US data clashes with hawkish RBA guidanceData from the US showed that PPI was below estimates and improved compared with June’s print. Core PPI also ticked lower, aligned with the forecast. At the same time, Initial Jobless Claims for the week ending August 8 edged up from 200K to 209K, above forecasts but close to the 4-week average, an indication that the labour market…

« Engineered for ambition ». La plateforme de paiements Adyen se veut « conçue pour l’ambition », la sienne et celle de ses clients. C’est tout un programme car la concurrence fait rage. La Bourse d’Amsterdam a donc poussé un ouf de soulagement après sa publication trimestrielle (+16,4 % pour l’action), la quatrième meilleure séance depuis la cotation en juin 2018. Elle avait poussé des cris d’orfraie il y a six mois (-21,9 %), pour cause de perspectives décevantes, la deuxième des pires dégringolades.Les chiffres dévoilés sont bien ligne avec les espérances. Et les rachats de Talon. One et d’Orb, annoncés en avril dernier, vont faire gagner…