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(RTTNews) – Indian shares struggled for direction in early trade on Friday as long-term U.S. Treasury yields resumed their climb and oil prices remained elevated near one-month highs amid the continuing standoff between Washington and Teran over control of the Strait of Hormuz. The benchmark 30-share BSE Sensex edged up marginally to 77,582 after rebounding sharply on Thursday to snap its seven-session losing streak. The NSE Nifty index inched up 11 points at 24,243. Power Grid Corp, Kotak Mahindra Bank and BEL all rose around 1 percent while Titan Company, Hindustan Unilever and Indigo fell around 1 percent each. RailTel…

Ads by Money. We may be compensated if you click this ad.Ad It has gotten much easier to buy crypto over the years. Today, you can buy the digital assets through PayPal, and numerous traditional brokerage firms even let their customers trade cryptocurrencies (despite many of them being reluctant to do so when the asset class was in its infancy). But even now, most brokerage firms have some safeguards in play. Most of them limit you to the most established cryptos, such as bitcoin and ethereum, while others only provide access to crypto-themed exchange-traded funds. However, even if you’re able…

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Key insight: Of all the banks involved in the 2010s FX scandal, the German lender’s consent order was the last to get dropped.Supporting data: The 2017 order had required Deutsche Bank to pay a $137 million fine, among other compliance measures.Expert quote: “Deutsche Bank secretly conspired with its competitors to rig the benchmark interest rates at the heart of the global financial system.” —Former U.S. Assistant Attorney General Bill BaerProcessing ContentAfter nine years, Deutsche Bank is finally free of the last consequences from an Obama-era foreign exchange scandal.The Federal Reserve announced Thursday that it has dropped its 2017 consent order…

The fastest growing consumer lending product category in the U.S. is unsecured personal loans. According to TransUnion’s Q2 2026 Credit Industry Insights Report, outstanding personal loan balances reached a record $281 billion in Q2, up 9.6% YoY, more than double the next-fastest category and roughly 3.5x the overall market. These statistics are especially striking to me because of the inherent flexibility of personal loans. Unlike auto loans or mortgages, personal loans don’t have a prescribed purpose. Consumers can and do get them for all kinds of different reasons. And unlike credit cards — another general purpose consumer credit product —…

Key TakeawaysHungary repealed strict local crypto validation checks to fully align with the EU’s new MiCA framework.The move eliminates duplicate compliance rules, allowing EU exchanges to operate freely in Hungary.The repealed laws previously criminalized unauthorized crypto conversions with up to 8 years in prison. Hungary Decriminalizes Crypto Assets’ Offenses in Line With MiCA Implementation Hungary is repealing draconian-style regulations to avoid clashes with the EU-wide Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) framework, dropping national requirements and offenses related to the illicit use of cryptocurrency. The Hungarian Parliament recently passed Act XXXVIII of 2026 on the Repeal of Certain Statutory Provisions Concerning…

In brief CME Group Chairman Terry Duffy and Kalshi co-founder Luana Lopes Lara clashed during a CFTC roundtable in Washington, D.C. Duffy singled out Kalshi while questioning whether prediction markets face the same regulatory scrutiny as established exchanges. The clash comes amid a fight between federal and state regulators over prediction markets. A CFTC roundtable on prediction markets turned heated Thursday when CME Group Chairman Terry Duffy and Kalshi co-founder Luana Lopes Lara traded insults over market manipulation and regulation.The confrontation unfolded during a Commodity Futures Trading Commission meeting in Washington, D.C., as executives from traditional finance, crypto, and prediction…

Fortitude Mining, Digital Currency Group’s Zcash-focused miner, bought a 9.4% stake in Nasdaq-listed HeartSciences for about $1 million, giving its proposed merger partner cash for operating expenses while shareholder approval remains pending.The Aug. 12 private placement covered 411,522 HeartSciences common shares at $2.43 each. A beneficial ownership filing put Fortitude’s exact cash outlay at $999,998.46 and its post-purchase stake at approximately 9.4%.HeartSciences said the price represented a 22% premium to its closing share price on the purchase date. The target said it would use the net proceeds for operating expenses before the proposed combination closes, making the transaction a cash…

An options trader opened a large straddle on XRP, betting on wild price swings by Aug. 28.

Timothy Morano Aug 20, 2026 10:47 PLTR tokenized stock is trading at $174.57, pressing hard against immediate resistance at $177.64 while Wall Street’s 36-analyst consensus sits at $192.19 — a setup that favors bulls in the 7–30 da… PLTR’s Technical Reality Check Momentum on PLTR is at a critical inflection. The price is trading comfortably above every major moving average — the 7-day SMA at $173.94, the 20-day at $164.92, the 50-day at $143.24 — which tells you this is still a market firmly in uptrend structure. But here’s the tension: with the…