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Berger Financial Group, a Plymouth, Minnesota-based registered investment advisory firm that has been employee-owned since 2018, has received a majority stake investment from global investment manager Investcorp. The deal will support the firm’s plans to expand its geographic footprint while maintaining significant employee ownership.Processing ContentFounded in 1981, Berger currently operates in five states — Minnesota, Illinois, Vermont, Arizona and Maine — through 10 locations. The firm, which has $2.95 billion in assets under management, offers portfolio management, retirement planning, tax planning and more, aims to expand to 10 states and 25 locations.  Nick Asmus, CEO of Berger Financial GroupCourtesy Berger…

Key TakeawaysRipple says its European crypto business is now ready to scale.Full MiCA authorization gives Ripple a regulated base in the EEA.Stablecoin payments are central to its next phase of expansion. Ripple Declares Europe Ready for Its Next Phase Ripple said in an Aug. 5, 2026, insight that the regulatory groundwork for its European expansion is now in place. With MiCA authorization secured, the company is shifting its focus toward scaling digital asset payments, stablecoins, and institutional services across the region. One month earlier, the company received full authorization as a Crypto Asset Service Provider, or CASP, from Luxembourg’s Commission…

In brief The initiative says it has scanned about 150 Bitcoin repositories and made more than a dozen vulnerability disclosures. The team is developing an open-source AI platform for auditing Bitcoin software. Developers say the effort is uncovering critical vulnerabilities across wallets, cryptographic libraries, and infrastructure. A volunteer security initiative says it used frontier AI models to scan 150 Bitcoin repositories and found more than a dozen vulnerabilities as developers increasingly use artificial intelligence to audit blockchains.In a post on X earlier this week, AnchorWatch CEO Rob Hamilton said the group has spent about $20,000 on AI services while building…

US-listed spot Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded funds pulled in more than $1 billion in fresh cash this week, with both groups registering their strongest inflows since April as demand for regulated crypto investment products rebounded.Data from SoSoValue shows that spot Bitcoin ETFs attracted $853.54 million during the week ended Aug. 7, their biggest haul in nearly four months.The funds recorded inflows in every session, including $170.09 million on Monday, $211.49 million on Tuesday and $244.42 million on Wednesday before demand moderated toward the end of the week.The total surpassed the roughly $824 million collected during the week of April 24…

Bitcoin has reached block 961,632, triggering the long-awaited mandatory signaling period for BIP-110, a controversial proposal designed to temporarily curb non-financial data from being embedded on the network.The proposal entered the signaling phase at around 19:35 UTC on Saturday, with support from miners seldom exceeding 2.5%, a long way short of the 55% mark required.Prominent Bitcoin voices such as Strategy chairman Michael Saylor and Blockstream CEO Adam Back have also voiced their opposition to the proposal.Its supporters, however, are pushing BIP-110 as a user-activated soft fork (UASF), meaning it would rely on node operators, not miners, to force the rule…

James Ding Aug 08, 2026 09:51 AAVE sits at $90.12, pinned below every meaningful moving average with taker sell flow running nearly 2:1 over buyers. The 65% probability path points to a test of the $87.93–$86.33 support zone be… The Immediate Setup AAVE is trading at $90.12, balanced on a knife-edge just above its daily pivot of $90.01 — and that symmetry is deceptive. The price is below the SMA 7, below the SMA 50, below both key EMAs, and $9 south of the 200-day SMA at $99.59. Every short-term mean in the…

The US labour market debate is divided. Ask consumers and they’ll tell you hiring conditions are the worst since the mid-2010s (ex-pandemic). Ask the initial claims data and you’d conclude companies won’t let anyone go. Today the Fed’s Barkin reiterated that it’s a low-hire, low-fire economy.Zoom out and the pain is concentrated in one place: people trying to get their first real job.National Bank’s Jocelyn Paquet flags it in this week’s Hot Chart. The unemployment rate for recent graduates is running at 5.7% versus 4.1% for all workers. That might not sound dramatic until you consider the history: from 1990…

Standard Chartered’s Jonathan Koh and Edward Lee now expect Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to keep its policy rate unchanged at the 27 August meeting, abandoning a previously projected hike. The bank trims its 2026 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth forecast to 3.5% and lowers Consumer Price Index (CPI) expectations, while still projecting rate cuts in 2027 once inflation falls below 4%. BSP rhetoric is expected to stay hawkish.BSP seen on hold but still hawkish”We now expect Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to keep its policy rate unchanged at its 27 August meeting, versus our previous forecast of a 25bps…

The British Pound retreats against the Japanese Yen, down about 0.24%, as the Yen is poised to end the week on a higher note. However, GBP/JPY is poised to finish the week with minimal gains, trading at 212.64.GBP/JPY Price Forecast: Technical outlookThe GBP/JPY trades sideways, though slightly tilted to the downside, following an intervention in the FX markets by US and Japanese authorities. Worth noting that after soft US jobs data, Japanese Finance Minister Katayama said she agreed with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that FX markets had been affected by moves rather than fundamentals.This pushed GBP/JPY to the day’s…