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Kookmin Bank and Shinhan Bank, South Korea's two largest commercial banks, have exhausted their annual bond issuance quotas as of late September. Kookmin completed its 11 trillion won quota by September 23, while Shinhan reached its 16 trillion won limit by September 28. The rapid depletion

In US Stock Market News today, Archer Aviation (ACHR) has emerged as a stronger beneficiary of Pentagon defense spending on electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft compared to Joby Aviation (JOBY), as the Department of Defense shifts priorities toward hybrid and autonomous aircraft. A

In US Stock Market News, persistently elevated inflation driven by President Trump's policies is threatening the substantial gains achieved by major US equity indices since the start of his second term on January 20, 2025, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and Nasdaq Composite rising b

Circle, a stablecoin issuer, is expanding its stablecoin ecosystem in South Korea by hiring senior-level personnel to handle market entry strategy, partnerships with financial and digital asset industries, and regulatory tracking. According to Circle's job posting visible on the 28th (Korean

US tech stocks experienced a $3.6 trillion market capitalization swing in the Nasdaq-100 index over a two-week period, driven by rapidly shifting investor sentiment around artificial intelligence development. The index added $3 trillion in market cap from the 15th to the 25th, recovering losses

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is considering allowing ByteDance and Alibaba to purchase Nvidia Corp.'s RTX PRO 5500 GPUs. Shipments are reportedly expected to begin in late December, according to The Information, citing people familiar

NH-Amundi Asset Management surpassed 100 trillion won in assets under management as of the end of August, according to the financial investment industry on the 28th. The growth was driven by increased assets in domestic and overseas equity funds, money market funds (MMF), and domestic bonds. The

The Central Bank of Russia confirmed that the application window for registering a cryptocurrency exchange will open on October 5, 2026, in accordance with Federal Law No. 282-FZ, “On Digital Currencies and Digital Rights.” According to the official navigation page of the Bank of Russia, operators will be able to submit documents through the regulator’s personal account starting on that date. The review of each application may take up to 60 business days, so a license will not be issued the day

South Korea's top 10 securities firms by total capital earned 1.1781 trillion won from customer deposit operations in the first half, but paid investors only 434.28 billion won in interest, retaining nearly two-thirds of the profits, according to data disclosed on May 28. National Assembly Policy

The number of cryptocurrency users in Russia is estimated at 20 million, and the total value of their cryptocurrency investments amounts to ₽3.7 trillion. Ivan Chebeskov, Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation, provided this estimate on September 21. The figure includes both direct holdings of digital currencies and related financial products. Three months ago, the Bank of Russia estimated the average monthly balance of Russians’ funds on foreign centralized crypto exchanges at ₽72

European Union sanctions against Russia are becoming increasingly intertwined with national interests, as the capitals of member states use negotiations over the Kremlin blacklist to secure concessions on unrelated issues. This week, the capitals reached an agreement to extend the renewal period for sanctions against individuals close to the Kremlin in exchange for removing oligarchs Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman from the bloc’s blacklist. The initiative, led by France and supported by Slo

Google DeepMind's new head, Koray Kavukcuoglu, gave his first public interview at The Information's AI Agenda Live summit, revealing that Gemini 4 has entered the post-training phase and is being tested internally on the Antigravity coding platform, with the goal of launching “much earlier” than the end of 2026. Gemini 4's Current Status: Post-Training Underway and Already Tested on the Internal Antigravity Platform At the AI Agenda Live summit, Koray said Gemini 4 has entered the post-training

The European Central Bank (ECB) has undergone significant personnel changes over the past 1.5 years, with 8 new policy members joining the 27-member council and 7 central bank governors being replaced, according to a

Hypersphere Ventures sold 62,869 $HYPE tokens for $5.78 million, generating a profit of $2.13 million, according to CryptoTwitter commentator @lookonchain. The transaction occurred as another whale wallet identified as 0xc745 deposited 177,518 $HYPE tokens worth $16.08 million into exchanges OKX

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei was humorously impersonated during the season 52 premiere of “Saturday Night Live” (SNL) this weekend, and Axios subsequently disclosed that he will visit the White House on Sept. 28 for his first one-on-one dinner with U.S. President Trump. The meeting comes after the two publicly clashed over their positions on AI safety: Amodei released a plan to slow AI development in mid-September. The Timing of the White House Dinner: A Series of AI Agent Safety Incidents Elevate

USDai operates tokenized AI compute credit markets on Arbitrum by transforming GPUs into collateral. The platform creates credit markets designed for AI infrastructure financing. This approach represents an innovation in decentralized finance applied to AI project funding mechanisms. USDai

China Central Television (CCTV) Finance reported that Shenzhen’s Huaqiangbei MLCC (multilayer ceramic capacitor) spot market saw an unusual period in June this year in which prices changed every day. Some popular models increased seven- to eightfold in one month, while the Spot Prices of some models reached two to 10 times their original levels. Known in China’s industry as the “rice of the electronics industry,” MLCCs are widely used for voltage stabilization and filtering in smartphones, compu

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published an article on September 28 outlining how Ethereum will transition by 2030 from an architecture in which “every node repeatedly verifies the same batch of transactions” to a hybrid system combining an underlying blockchain, cryptographic proofs, and an off-chain computing network. Buterin believes the Hegotá upgrade, expected to launch in 2027, will be the last “traditional” hard fork. Bottlenecks in the Existing Architecture: Scalability Limits of Re

South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges saw trading concentration among the top 10% of users reach 96% in the first half of 2026, according to data submitted by lawmaker Park Hong-bae's office from the Financial Supervisory Service. The concentration intensified as overall market trading volume