The U.S. just unexpectedly lost 92,000 jobs. Here’s how that could affect Fed interest rates, gas prices, and the Iran war
Jennifer Mattson / fastcompany - The latest U.S. jobs report is out and it isn’t pretty. The economy lost 92,000 jobs in February, missing expectations, as unemployment rose to 4.4%, according to data from the Labor Department. Economists had expected 60,000 new jobs in February.“The hea…
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Kazakhstan's Central Bank Will Invest Up to $350 Million in Crypto Assets: Reuters
André Beganski / decrypt - The planned investments represent a sliver of its gold and foreign exchange reserves.
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Softbank seeks record $40 billion loan to fund OpenAI stake
Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - A $40 billion loan for a single bet on OpenAI. Softbank is taking what the AI industry has been doing for a while to its logical extreme: financing the boom on credit.The article Softbank seeks record $40 billion loan to fund OpenAI stake appeared first o…
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TaxDown secures €4M from BBVA Spark to enhance its AI solution
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Madrid-based TaxDown hassecured €4 million in financing from BBVA Spark. The funding is supported bythe European Union’s NextGenerationEU program and the European Investment Fund(EIF), with additional...
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Vancouver mayor's bitcoin investment proposal blocked by city, provincial law
Sam Reynolds / coindesk - Officials say the Vancouver Charter limits city reserves to government debt, bank instruments and other traditional assets.
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Kraken's surprise Fed win may harken onslaught of crypto firms with narrow Fed access
Jesse Hamilton / coindesk - The Kansas City Fed may term this "Tier 3" access, but Kraken's entry into the vaunted Fed payments system has riled bankers and raised crypto hopes.
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Core Scientific Secures Up to $1 Billion From Morgan Stanley for Pivot From Bitcoin Mining to AI
André Beganski / decrypt - The firm continues to pivot away from Bitcoin mining.
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Crypto-friendly fintech giant Revolut files for U.S. banking license
Francisco Rodrigues / coindesk - The license would allow the firm to operate like a traditional bank and gain direct access to payment networks like Fedwire and ACH.
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Silverflow raises $40M Series B to expand cloud-native payments platform
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Silverflow, a cloud-nativepayment processing company, has closed a $40 million Series B funding round ledby Picus Capital, with participation from Rabo Investments and existinginvestors Inkef, Global ...
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Kraken First Digital Asset Bank to Gain Fed Payment Rail Access
PYMNTS / pymnts - Kraken says its digital asset bank has been granted a Federal Reserve master account. This approval, announced by the crypto exchange Wednesday (March 4), means that Kraken Financial is the first bank of its kind given access to the Fed’s payment system, …
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Diligent AI Raises $2.5M To Support KYC And AML Teams With AI Agents
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - London-based Diligent AI, a Y Combinator-backed startup has raised $2.5 million in seed funding to develop autonomous AI analysts for financial crime compliance. The round was led by Speedinvest and Shapers, with participation from strategic angels includ…
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Drones attack several AWS Middle East region data centers amid Iran war, leading to outages — service health been disrupted after power cut due to fire risk
tomshardware - Amazon’s data center business in the Middle East has been adversely impacted amid the 2026 Iran Conflict.
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Visa and Stripe plan global expansion of stablecoin card issuance product to over 100 countries
Daniel Kuhn / theblock - The product, when first unveiled in 2025, was initially focused on Central and South American countries and is currently live in 18 countries.
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US Senate’s anti-CBDC housing bill advances with bipartisan support
Danny Park / theblock - The bill includes a provision prohibiting the Federal Reserve from issuing a CBDC through the beginning of 2031.
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Hamburg-based DivTax raises €1 million to help investors reclaim overpaid withholding tax on foreign dividends
Rahul Raj / eu-startups - DivTax, a Hamburg-based FinTech startup, today announced that it has raised €1 million in a pre-Seed financing round to accelerate product development and institutional partnerships. Participants in the round included Angel Invest, CapCircle, Superangels,…
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Barclays Accelerates Push Into Stablecoins and Tokenized Deposits
PYMNTS / pymnts - Barclays is looking to build a blockchain platform that could handle stablecoin payments and tokenized deposits, Bloomberg reported Friday (Feb. 27), citing unnamed sources. The bank has sent a request for information to some technology suppliers that cou…
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MetaMask Crypto Debit Mastercard Launches Across United States
Logan Hitchcock / decrypt - The Mastercard-powered MetaMask debit card is now rolling out access to all users across the United States.
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India may finally get Apple Pay by mid-2026
appleinsider - A new report backs up recent claims that India is shortly to get Apple Pay after years of complex negotiations.Apple Pay may finally come to IndiaIn January 2026, it was rumored that Apple was in talks to get Apple Pay in India. Now Bloomberg is reporting…
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UK Selects Firms for Stablecoin Regulatory Sandbox, Including Revolut
Sander Lutz / decrypt - The four firms will now have free reign to experiment in a program that will inform final UK stablecoin rules set to be released later this year.
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Circle reports $770 million Q4 revenue as USDC circulation reaches $75 billion, targets 40% CAGR for stablecoin
Brian Danga / theblock - Circle reported $770 million in Q4 revenue and reserve income as USDC circulation reached $75.3 billion and issued 40% CAGR guidance.
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