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According to Yonhapnews, on October 7, a Democratic Party lawmaker in South Korea proposed legislation to introduce fund-based retirement pensions, aimed at addressing low returns and high fees in the current system. Legislator Lee Yong-woo submitted a revised bill to the National Assembly, citing current retirement fund returns of 3-4% while retirement business operators' fee revenues surged 98% over seven years. Under the proposal, various institutions including financial companies, public age

According to Japan's Ministry of Finance, Japan's foreign exchange reserves totaled $117.839 billion as of the end of September, down $2.928 billion (2.4%) from the previous month, marking the fifth consecutive monthly decline. The decrease was driven primarily by a drop in the valuation of U.S. Treasury holdings, as 10-year U.S. Treasury yields rose more than 50 basis points last month. Securities, which comprise the majority of foreign exchange reserves, fell $1.78 billion month-over-month.

According to Reuters, on October 6, the S&P 500 Software & Services Index climbed 1.3% to its highest level since November, marking a sharp reversal from the sector's earlier slump. U.S. software stocks, which faced "SaaSpocalypse" fears earlier this year and declined over 26% from January to April, have rebounded since late June as companies like Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Accenture delivered strong earnings and pursued AI partnerships. The sector's third-quarter performance proved particularl

According to StockTwits, Skydance (SKYD) stock rose more than 1% overnight on Wednesday after the company completed its acquisition of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery, creating a combined media giant controlling major brands including HBO, CBS, CNN, Paramount+, and HBO Max. Skydance expects to produce at least 30 theatrical movies and more than 180 television programs annually. The company targets over $6 billion in annualized cost savings within three years and projects more than $10 billi

According to Financial News, on October 7, Korean Carbon and Tae Kwang Industry have initiated practical procedures to sign a memorandum of understanding as stalking horse bidders for a 99.6% stake in K Shipbuilding held by Unified Asset Management and KHI. The deal targets an old share price estimated at around 600 billion won, with total transaction value potentially reaching approximately 900 billion won including new share issuance and corporate bonds. The MOU will establish a baseline for s

According to Santiment data reported by ChainCatcher, Bitcoin CEX net outflows reached 24,073 BTC on Monday (October 5), marking the largest single-day exodus since March 1. CEX supply has declined to approximately 6.5% of total BTC supply.

India's central bank maintained its reverse repo rate at 3.35% on October 7, holding steady from the previous level.

India's Reserve Bank maintained its cash reserve ratio (CRR) at 3% on October 7, in line with market expectations. The rate remained unchanged from the previous level.

India's 10-year government bond yield reached 7.2655%, marking its highest level since December 2023. The uptick reflects broader trends in fixed-income markets amid shifting monetary conditions.

According to Hyperliquid Labs CEO Jeff Yan at Token2049 in Singapore today, the market may have overcomplicated the integration of AI and finance. While agents already possess superhuman capabilities in many domains, the real barrier to their widespread adoption is that current systems lack data and value at the same abstraction layer; value transfers still require institutional intermediaries to approve or reject transactions, unlike data transmission on the internet. Yan predicts that complian

According to Korea Exchange, on October 7, the bourse terminated CLSA Korea Securities' market-making contracts for 59 KOSDAQ-listed stocks effective immediately. The action followed the firm's failure to meet quarterly performance evaluation standards, with accumulated violations exceeding the threshold. CLSA Korea Securities' market-making credentials were suspended, and the firm is barred from participating in market-making activities for one year. Performance metrics assessed include maintai

According to Yonhapnews, Meritz Securities and Ripple signed a strategic partnership on October 1 to advance digital asset adoption in South Korea's capital markets. Under the collaboration, the two firms will explore integrating Ripple's tokenization infrastructure and Ripple Custody digital asset custody solution into the domestic financial ecosystem. Meritz Securities plans to expand cooperation in phases in line with regulatory developments, while reviewing offerings including spot ETFs, fra

On October 7 afternoon, South Korea's KOSPI index fell 1.04% to 6,896.48 points, while KOSDAQ dropped 1.68% to 904.44. Both indices opened lower and extended losses as the session progressed. Foreign investors and institutions led selling, offloading 1.62 trillion won and 467.9 billion won respectively on KOSPI, while retail investors purchased 1.57 trillion won. On KOSDAQ, foreign and institutional investors net sold 301.2 billion won and 100.6 billion won respectively, with retail buyers absor

According to the Reserve Bank of India governor, the central bank will not lower interest rates in the near term given the current economic situation.

According to Google DeepMind, the company unveiled EmbeddingGemma 2, an open-source multimodal embedding model with 740 million parameters that can run locally on consumer devices without cloud connectivity. The model extends the original text-only EmbeddingGemma to support code, images, videos, and audio, mapping all data types into a shared 768-dimensional vector space. EmbeddingGemma 2 enables cross-modal search capabilities—users can search for videos using text or voice, find images via tex

According to Coinglass data, the Crypto Fear and Greed Index currently stands at 70, down 4 points from yesterday. The seven-day average is 70, while the 30-day average sits at 67, indicating sustained greed sentiment in the market.

India's central bank raised its repo rate to 5.5% on October 7, matching market expectations. The rate was increased by 25 basis points from the previous level of 5.25%.

Sui Basecamp opens today with live coverage underway. The event agenda includes the Hudi Deathmatch, mainstage discussions on the future of agent finance with major announcements, and an attempt to break the world record for transactions per second (TPS) during the closing session.

According to Whale Alert, $120 million USDT was transferred from Bitfinex to Tether Treasury on October 7, 2026, as confirmed by their on-chain tracking.

According to Maple, the platform has announced a partnership with IRACE Digital Bank aimed at enhancing institutional cash management capabilities. The collaboration will facilitate fiat settlement and streamline payments between Maple and its institutional clients, supporting the development of onchain credit infrastructure essential for institutional growth in crypto markets.