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According to its official recruitment announcement, Hana Bank posted a job opening on September 29 for a blockchain security specialist position as part of its 2026 second-half career hiring campaign. The role focuses on establishing and operating AI and blockchain security systems, analyzing security threats on blockchain and Web3 platforms, ensuring compliance, and internalizing related technologies. The bank requires candidates with at least 3 years of information security policy experience a

According to UBS, the bank raised its 2026 Hong Kong IPO fundraising forecast to a maximum of HK$450 billion in September, up from its May estimate of HK$350–400 billion. UBS Deputy Chairman of Global Investment Banking and co-head of Asia Corporate Clients Li Zhengguo told media that U.S. rate hikes in September met market expectations and strong liquidity flows continued to support robust activity. Hong Kong recorded 117 IPO listings in the first three quarters of 2026, raising at least HK$387

According to Decrypt, on September 29, Coinbase and Citigroup announced an expanded partnership to launch enterprise stablecoin payment services in the United States. Merchants using Citigroup's payment services can now accept stablecoin payments such as USDC; Coinbase automatically converts the stablecoins to U.S. dollars, which Citigroup then settles to the merchant. Merchants do not need to hold or manage cryptocurrencies directly. The partnership also enables bidirectional conversion: busine

According to KOSCOM ETF Check, as of September 29, U.S. space and aerospace-related ETFs have declined significantly. KODEX U.S. Space & Aerospace ETF recorded a three-month loss of -27.46%, with other space-focused funds showing similar weakness ranging from -14.41% to -24.25% over the same period. SpaceX's Starship achieved a historic milestone on September 28 (local time) by successfully entering Earth orbit for the first time, deploying 26 Starlink V3 satellites to orbit despite one Raptor e

According to Korea Exchange, foreign investors sold a net 6.188 trillion won in KOSPI shares on Sept 28-29. The selling concentrated on semiconductor stocks: SK Hynix received 3.329 trillion won in outflows and Samsung Electronics 1.98 trillion won, together accounting for 94% of total foreign selling. Analysts attribute this to selective deleveraging in growth stocks amid macro headwinds and rising rate risks, rather than broad-based market pullback.

According to Jin10 Data, International Energy Agency chief Fatih Birol said on Tuesday that IEA member states may discuss whether to release additional strategic petroleum reserves to the market. Speaking ahead of an EU energy ministers meeting in Dublin, Birol stated: "We are closely monitoring the market, especially the refined oil and diesel markets. If there is a need, we will of course discuss the necessary measures with member governments."

According to Guru Club, Indonesia's benchmark stock index (Jakarta Composite Index) fell 4.2% to 5,688.574 points on June 4, marking its lowest level since December 2020.

U.S. storage sector stocks gained in pre-market trading on September 29. Micron Technology rose 1.6%, while SK Hynix and SanDisk each advanced 1.4%.

According to Jin10 Futures, on September 29, CFETS-NEX's market-wide sentiment index fell to 46 as of 4 p.m., down 2 points from 2:30 p.m. Sentiment indices for large banks, medium-to-small banks, and non-banking institutions declined to 43, 46, and 48 respectively, each down 2 points. The index uses a 0–100 scale, with 50 representing equilibrium and readings above 50 indicating fund tightness.

Summit Therapeutics shares surged over 20% in premarket trading on September 29 following AstraZeneca's announcement of a $2 billion investment in the company. The investment reflects AstraZeneca's backing of Summit's pipeline, including programs in oncology and other therapeutic areas.

According to Yahoo Finance, Goldman Sachs strategist Ben Snyder said on September 28 that the S&P 500's market breadth has fallen to its lowest level since the dot-com bubble, with median stock prices trading 16% below their 52-week highs despite AI-driven strength. Snyder expects broad-based gains and a rebound in underperforming stocks if macroeconomic uncertainties ease. Third-quarter earnings for S&P 500 companies are projected to grow nearly 29% year-over-year, providing fundamental support

According to ChainCatcher, NVIDIA's research team deployed an AI Agent to rewrite the GPU kernel for Kimi Delta Attention, a core attention mechanism in Moonshot AI's Kimi-Linear model. The Agent-optimized kernel achieved 2.96x the speed of Moonshot AI's official FlashKDA version on NVIDIA B300, measured as a geometric mean across six fixed-length and variable-sequence tasks. The optimized kernel underwent validation using real Kimi runtime data, randomized inputs, and extreme-value tests to pre

According to Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, on September 28, AI infrastructure expansion is pushing up near-term inflation pressures despite productivity gains expected in future years. In a speech in California, Cook stated that while productivity improvements may modestly lower inflation in coming years, they will not arrive in time to offset current pricing pressures. She highlighted that massive data center investments are intensifying competition for shared resources like energy and co

According to Odaily星球日报 and Jin10, spot gold prices rebounded slightly on Tuesday but remained below $4,200 per ounce, recovering from Monday's sharp selloff driven by rising U.S. Treasury yields and crude oil gains. IG analysts noted that expectations of sustained higher Federal Reserve rates have weakened investor demand for non-yielding assets, keeping gold prices near eight-week lows. Traders are pricing a 72.5% probability of a Fed rate hike in October, according to CME FedWatch data. Marke

According to Reuters IPO filing disclosure, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei earned approximately $18 million in 2025, primarily from stock and option awards. His sister Daniela, the company's second-highest-paid executive, earned $16.4 million in the same period. In the IPO prospectus, Dario Amodei, Daniela, and other co-founders committed to donating 80% of their personal Anthropic shares to charitable causes.

Blue Fire AI, a Singapore-based investment technology company, closed its latest funding round with total commitments of $9 million on September 29. Japan's Asset Management One (AM-One) will take a minority stake under a commercial agreement with Mizuho Financial Group. The companies plan to develop and distribute institutional asset management products in Japan, with AM-One using Blue Fire AI's neuro-symbolic AI system to support portfolio managers in bottom-up fundamental analysis.

According to Reuters, Anthropic's IPO prospectus disclosed that the company generated $4.59 billion in revenue in 2025 and held $20.28 billion in cash and short-term investments as of December 31, 2025. The prospectus revealed that Anthropic committed to spending $518 billion on cloud computing, compute capacity, and infrastructure in the future, representing 113 times its 2025 revenue and 26 times its current cash holdings.

Hyperliquid's core contributor tokens worth approximately $900 million at current mid-$30 price levels become available today (September 29), marking the first major unlock following the project's November 2024 genesis event. The unlock represents HYPE initially locked for one year before entering a multi-year vesting schedule. Leading token-unlock trackers report conflicting figures due to disagreements over how to classify the event — discrepancies center on the exact number of newly available