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On September 28, Shanghai's Yangpu District residential land was sold in an auction. The 18,557 square-meter plot attracted five bidders and underwent 109 rounds of bidding. A joint venture of China Merchants Shekou and Nanshan secured the land for a total of 2.92 billion yuan, resulting in a per-square-meter floor price of 65,574 yuan and a premium rate of 21.46%.

Samsung Electronics and five affiliates announced on Sep 29 a combined $1 billion investment in Helix Digital Infrastructure, a joint venture between Nvidia and KKR. Samsung Electronics contributed $500 million, with the remaining $500 million coming from five Samsung subsidiaries: Samsung C&T, Samsung SDS, Samsung SDI, Samsung Life Insurance, and Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance.

According to an announcement by Chainlink on September 28, the platform is developing an integration that enables financial institutions within Swift's community to read from and write to Swift's blockchain ledger. The initiative is designed to support tokenized deposits and 24/7 cross-border payments. Chainlink's Runtime Environment (CRE) will coordinate the underlying workflows while allowing participating institutions to maintain control over their transaction keys.

According to Foresight News, on-chain derivatives protocol Variational's open interest has surpassed $2 billion, with over one-third of the open positions sourced from traditional markets.

According to sources, Vietnam Export-Import Commercial Bank is considering its first offshore bond issuance, potentially worth $300 million between November 2026 and March 2027. The bank has not yet determined the specific timing and scale of the potential debt offering.

The Reserve Bank of Australia will announce its interest rate decision today (September 29) at 12:30 Beijing time.

According to Newsis, South Korea's financial authorities on September 29 detected an information cartel formed by professionals from elite business clubs, global consulting firms, and financial companies who shared non-public M&A and tender offer information for approximately 200 billion won in illegal gains over five years. The group allegedly purchased stocks ahead of public disclosure of favorable information and sold after price increases. The Financial Services Commission, Financial Supervi

According to Chosun Daily, LG Electronics unveiled its Hydronic Modular cooling system for AI data centers on September 29 at Data Center World Asia 2026 in Singapore. The factory-built, ISO-standard container units pre-assemble pumps, valves, emergency buffer tanks, and piping to reduce on-site construction and support phased capacity expansion. LG also displayed air-cooled oil-free inverter turbo chillers and liquid-cooling coolant distribution units in 1-megawatt and 2.6-megawatt classes. The

According to CoinShares' latest report on September 29, the U.S. CLARITY Act failed to advance in the Senate, cooling short-term expectations for crypto legislation. However, collaboration between traditional finance and on-chain infrastructure continues, with recent TradeFi developments including NYSE and Blockchain.com exploring 24-hour tokenized equities trading, ICE establishing data partnerships with Blockchain.com, and Circle expanding its five-year collaboration with Binance while securin

According to Jin10 and the China Coast Guard's East China Sea branch, Fujian maritime police have been conducting routine patrols near Kinmen since September, strengthening management of the waters and safeguarding the lawful rights and safety of fishermen from both sides, as well as ensuring normal navigation and operations in the Xiamen-Kinmen waters.

According to Stifel and William Blair, MongoDB CEO C.J. Desai departed for a senior role at Meta Platforms on Monday after less than a year in the position, with former CEO Dev Ittycheria returning as interim chief. The abrupt leadership change comes ahead of MongoDB's Investor Day on Tuesday, creating uncertainty around Atlas cloud database growth. Stifel noted the sudden transition could weigh on investor sentiment, though the stock's valuation at 6.5x projected 2028 revenue may limit further

According to Coinbase, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) approved Coinbase Clearing LLC on September 28, allowing the company to operate a US-based derivatives clearinghouse. The clearinghouse can clear fully collateralized futures, options on futures and swaps, with native USDC collateral and 24/7 settlement, though it cannot clear leveraged products. The approval completes Coinbase's end-to-end derivatives infrastructure alongside its existing futures broker and exchange.

According to China Zhuhai Customs, Hengqin-Macau deep cooperation zone's total imports and exports reached 485 billion yuan in the first eight months of 2026, a 57.8% year-over-year increase that exceeded the entire 2025 full-year total and marked a historic record. Imports totaled 135 billion yuan, up over 22%, while exports reached 350 billion yuan, up over 77%.

According to the Financial Times, on Sept 29, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and leaders of five other EU nations warned they will refuse to approve the EU's next seven-year budget unless it includes "cuts in the billions of euros." The six countries—Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, and Finland—signed a joint letter stating the budget "must undergo fundamental reform, we must make choices." An official from a signatory nation said: "If the budget is not cut by billions of euros,

According to Financial Times, NVIDIA is seeking insurance companies to help manage risks associated with artificial intelligence infrastructure development. The move reflects growing industry focus on risk mitigation as major tech companies scale up AI deployments.

President Trump will host an AI risk discussion lunch on Tuesday (September 29) with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, according to White House officials. OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, and Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown are also expected to attend the event co-hosted by Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson. Separately, U.S. lawmakers have introduced multiple AI safety bills, including a proposal from Republican Rep. N

According to analysis by Rep. Park Sung-hoon's office based on data from the Financial Supervisory Service, Korea Exchange, and Financial Investment Association, 82 complaints and disputes regarding single-stock leveraged ETFs were filed between May and August 2026, with 67% concentrated in July-August as stock prices declined. The Korea Exchange's comparison of volatility metrics before and after the May 15 product launch showed Samsung Electronics' annualized volatility increased from 78% to 1

According to Samsung Electronics' investor briefing on September 29, AI-driven semiconductor demand is expanding beyond high-bandwidth memory (HBM) to general-purpose DRAM and NAND flash. Kim Tae-woo, vice president of Samsung's Memory Business Division, stated that while initial AI model training concentrated demand on GPUs and HBM, inference and agentic AI deployment are now driving broader memory consumption across server DRAM and solid-state storage. Samsung highlighted production constraint

According to Peter Stein, CEO of ASIFMA and GFMA, on September 29 at Korea Premium Week 2026, global investors called for Korea to address underlying market infrastructure gaps before accelerating settlement cycle reforms. Stein likened the issue to fixing "rusty pipes," highlighting operational bottlenecks in trading, settlement, and collateral systems that could obstruct foreign investor participation. While supporting the government's capital market reform roadmap, Stein cautioned that transi

According to Korea Exchange, the exchange and Korea Development Bank will jointly host a seminar on 'Derivatives Market Development and Marine Finance Development Direction' on October 2 at Lotte Hotel Busan. The event is part of Korea Premium Weeks 2026, a three-week capital markets conference and investor relations program running from September 28 through October 16. The seminar will feature two sessions covering recent trends in KRX derivative products and South Korea's marine finance landsc