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Thai crypto firms could seek derivatives licences without forming a new company.
That cuts an incorporation step. The licences stay separate.
Exchange, clearing, intermediary
Eight drafts
Hearing closes 28 November
One company, not one licence.
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Lumber's base case is one bad session away.
$496 by 17 December is Friday's $505.50 low minus Friday's $9.50 range.
January contract, delayed last $515
Single-family permits: 845,000
30-year mortgage: 7.24%
Scenarios: $534 bull, $477 bear.
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Finally raised hundreds of millions. Its bookkeeping arm sold for cash out of a creditor assignment.
Inkle says it's profitable on a $1.5M pre-seed.
150+ staff, five locations
Owned from 9 September
Announced 28 October
Profit is its own claim.
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Kite AI's unlock calendars can't agree on the cliff.
They print 153.33M, 180.4M, 203.17M or 670M KITE.
Project path: 1.11B step, Oct to Nov
Live supply: 2.627B KITE
CoinMarketCap's next date: 1 December
That 1.11B is a month-end ceiling, not a tranche.
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The SEC's Treasury repo clearing exemption isn't an exit. It's a countdown.
Non-US repo stays out under a shrinking cap:
25% from June 2027
20%, 15%, then 10% after June 2030
Or under $5B rolling average
Repo clearing still starts 30 June 2027.
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Celestia's core-contributor vesting ended 30 October. The unlock isn't over.
Contributors, 17.64% of genesis: done
Seed + Series A/B: done since Oct 2025
Research & ecosystem, 26.79%: vests to Oct 2027
The overhang changes hands. It doesn't disappear.
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Arabica is 9.7% off its 318.20 high. The first-notice case points back up.
Dec Coffee C 287.20 c/lb, -6.6% in five sessions
Certified stocks 222,035 bags, near the 217,646 low
First notice 19 November
Base case 310 cents by 18 Nov. Bear 269.75.
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Kipp recovers declined card sales. Its buyer isn't a processor.
A group led by consumer-data firm LTVCo bought it.
Claimed save rates: 20% to 50%
Founders stay: Lavi CEO, Levy CTO
Data owners are buying the checkout's sidecar.
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The FCA's FS26/3 holds the line on high-risk retail access. It can't close the gap.
Wealth thresholds unchanged since 2001
Para 2.10: the harm needs legislation
19,766 promotions pulled or fixed in 2024
The FCA can flag it. Parliament has to fix it.
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The solana:CARDSccUMFKoPRZxt5vt3ksUbxEFEcnZ3H2pd3dKxYjp unlock headline says 59.26M tokens. The contract says 44.59M.
Insider vest: ~$13.0M at $0.2905
Unlocked so far: 44.29% of the cap
24h volume: $4.73M
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The Jakarta Composite closed up 0.31%. The BI-Rate hold case still needs 157 points.
Close: 5,282.31
Base 5,439.26, bull 5,863.78, bear 5,185.10
View ends below 4,996.61
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Zafin is paying a nine-figure sum for Naehas. Part of it is borrowed.
Equity plus cash, cash partly on a credit line
First major deal since Nordic Capital's 2024 stake
Close targeted for Q4 2026
Approvals past year-end keep both firms apart.
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Google Cloud grew 103% to $30.7B and its margin went up. $GOOG still missed.
The miss isn't Cloud. It's cash.
EPS $2.12 vs $3.01 expected
Capex $51.4B in one quarter
Free cash flow -$9.1B
The AI build is now outrunning the cash that pays for it.
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Harlem Children's Zone bought fintech Goalsetter. Goalsetter holds no accounts.
It closed them all in February. HCZ bought a curriculum.
39 states require a finance course
36% of users opened a bank account
The deposit lands elsewhere.
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Utah sued Kalshi. The CFTC sued Utah.
The fight is over who owns the word "swap".
7 USC 1a(47)(A)
30 contract markets
Nine more states sued
A pending rule would call event contracts swaps.
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Datavault AI sold $150M of stock for bitcoin. It can't withdraw the bitcoin.
1,309.04 BTC credited off-chain
491.431 sold back for $40.5M
$DVLT -49.55% to $0.067
The asset is now a receivable.
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Turkey cut rates 100bp. The BIST 100 fell 5.48% in five sessions.
The real rate is still 6.27 points.
Repo 36% vs CPI 29.73%
Close 11,151.03
Base case 11,577.12 by Nov 12
The Inflation Report decides it, not the cut.
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The FCA's CP26/38 rewrites the Financial Crime Guide. Para 1.5: no new requirement.
Departing from it isn't, of itself, a breach.
Closes 24 Dec
Fraud cases +26%, losses +40%
Crypto authorisation from Oct 2027
It sets the bar without being the rule.
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Aviva tokenised a class of its £22bn Sterling Liquidity Fund. The tokenised money is £50m.
The headline is the fund, not the token.
Aviva's stake: £50m
Both tokenised classes: >£86m
130+ validators
The assets stay at BNY Mellon.
theindustryspread.com/aviva-…
Mercury Payroll is free until 1 January 2027.
Switchers can't run payroll on it before then anyway.
Then $100/month for the platform
Plus $50 per person paid
W-2, 1099, benefits, 401(k), 50 states
The free period ends the day migration starts.
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