🚨 UPDATE: Hackers claiming to be behind a Revolut data breach are demanding a $3 million ransom in Monero within 24 hours, threatening to sell customers' confidential records, FT reports.

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🇷🇺 BIG: Russia's largest exchange, the Moscow Exchange, will launch perpetual futures on BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP and TRX indices on September 22, available only to qualified investors.

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🇬🇧 JUST IN: The Bank of England held interest rates at 3.75%.

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🔥 JUST IN: S&P Global agrees to acquire smart contract security firm OpenZeppelin.

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🇺🇸 BREAKING: SEC approves a temporary exemption allowing limited trading of tokenized US stocks on regulated onchain venues.

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🇺🇸 NEW: SEC Chair Paul Atkins says the agency is moving ahead with its “Innovation Exemption” after CLARITY stalled.

Key Exemptions:
• TSVs exempt from “exchange” definition
• Certain liquidity providers exempt from “dealer” definition
• Permissioned access only
• No synthetic tokenized stocks
• Issuers can object to trading

Anti-fraud and anti-manipulation rules still fully apply.

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🇺🇸 JUST IN: US markets are set to expand to 23-hour weekday trading on Dec. 6, with the SEC signaling that 24/7 trading could follow.

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🇺🇸 HUGE: The average US 30-year mortgage rate rose to a 19-month high of 7.24%

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🇺🇸 INSIGHT: The CLARITY Act isn’t dead after failing a key Senate vote 49-50, with Sen. Thom Tillis’ motion to reconsider leaving the door open for another vote this session.

Seven Democrats who voted against advancing the bill say they remain committed to crypto market structure legislation.

But with ethics provisions still a major sticking point and the Senate heading into recess Oct. 2, the window for a 2026 deal is narrowing.

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