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Solana Mobile posted on platform X that its third-party marketing email service provider Brevo experienced a security incident affecting some customer accounts, including Solana Mobile. The team discovered unauthorized access to its Brevo account, has disabled the account, and is working with Brevo to understand the extent of the accessed information.Solana Mobile stated that, as far as they know, no emails have been sent from their account, but they are continuing to verify. They also remind users that Solana Mobile will not ask for mnemonic phrases, private keys, or wallet recovery information.

According to Bloomberg, citing informed sources, Italy's second-largest bank, UniCredit, is considering expanding its digital asset services, including cryptocurrency custody. Headquartered in Milan, UniCredit is selecting technology providers to build the infrastructure needed to hold digital assets and support their buying and selling.The report states that tokenized investment products, fixed-income securities, the use of stablecoins, and exposure to cryptocurrencies are all under consideration. Meanwhile, other banks in Europe are also expanding their crypto services: Spain's BBVA has launched Bitcoin trading and custody for all customers through its app, and Santander's Openbank has also introduced trading services; Germany's Deutsche Bank is collaborating with Bitpanda's technology department to build a custody business.The EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) provides a legal definition, regulatory bodies, and a familiar obligation framework for banks to launch crypto services. Additionally, UniCredit is one of 37 banks from 15 European countries that are jointly creating a company called Qivalis, aimed at issuing a euro stablecoin. Last year, the bank also offered structured products linked to the BlackRock iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF to professional clients, providing full loss protection.

Nick Timiraos, the "Fed Whisperer," stated that in the August CPI, core services inflation excluding housing rose by 0.51% month-over-month, the highest level since January, and increased by 3% year-over-year. Core goods inflation rose by 0.11% month-over-month and increased by 0.7% year-over-year. Housing inflation rose by 0.26% month-over-month and increased by 3% year-over-year.

According to Bloomberg, Italian bank UniCredit SpA is considering expanding its digital asset-related services, including the early-stage development of digital asset custody and brokerage capabilities.Insiders say the bank is screening technology providers to build infrastructure for holding digital assets and supporting buy and sell transactions.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Financial Services on September 10, 2026, which is a ChatGPT Work experience tailored for financial services, combining built-in financial data with the reasoning capabilities of GPT-6 Astra to assist teams in conducting research, financial modeling, and customizing client materials. The product was shaped through design collaborations with Morgan Stanley and Evercore.The product includes data from providers such as Daloopa, PitchBook, LSEG News, and Crunchbase, covering information such as earnings call transcripts, financial statements, company fundamentals, and private companies, indexed and hosted by OpenAI with support for granular citations. The product natively offers models like GPT-6 Astra, supporting enterprise security and governance controls, allowing administrators to publish Excel, Word, and PowerPoint templates. Data is not used for training models by default and supports encryption, SSO, SCIM, and more. The product initially focuses on investment banking and equity research, available to eligible financial institutions.

The Bank of Italy (Banca d'Italia) issued a notice requiring payment service providers (PSPs) and crypto asset service providers (CASPs) to continuously use procedures related to the travel rule to review financial transactions, without setting a minimum amount threshold.Relevant institutions must verify the names of the initiator and beneficiary when establishing customer relationships, when the European Council makes decisions, and at the time of each transaction, and compare them with the lists of sanctioned individuals and entities. Automated systems must not set a minimum amount threshold for transaction reviews, and transfer delays may be accepted if necessary to enhance sanctions screening.

The UK Ministry of Defence has spent nearly $40 million on SpaceX's Starshield and Starlink satellite services.

The 26th China International Investment and Trade Fair recently opened in Xiamen. Under the guidance of the People's Bank of China, Bank of Communications officially released a cross-border trade service plan based on the "Digital Currency Bridge" (CBETS) blockchain infrastructure, focusing on cross-border trade settlement and compliance needs, enhancing the collaborative efficiency of capital flow, information flow, and document flow through on-chain rights confirmation, smart contracts, and other means.The plan relies on Digital Currency Bridge to support multi-party participation and data sharing, providing services such as cross-border payment and trade background verification for import and export enterprises, financial institutions, and regulatory departments, aiming to reduce compliance costs, shorten settlement cycles, and reserve expansion space for the digital renminbi and cross-border financial infrastructure integration.

According to a report by AML Intelligence, the European Commission has passed an authorization bill to expand the "Central Contact Point" (CCP) framework to include Crypto Asset Service Providers (CASP), granting regulatory authorities in member states the power to require local contact persons to be designated by institutions such as cryptocurrency exchanges operating in their countries.This framework previously only applied to electronic money institutions and payment institutions. After the revision, it will include crypto service providers in the anti-money laundering and compliance regulatory network, allowing regulatory authorities to have a fixed contact window domestically and enhance information sharing and law enforcement collaboration.

According to a notice from the U.S. Department of Justice, the Department's Fraud Center Strike Force, in coordination with the Department of the Treasury, took coordinated law enforcement action against Xinbi Guarantee, seizing and restricting the disposal of over 52 million dollars in cryptocurrency in a single day, bringing the total assets restricted by the task force to approximately 938 million dollars. Tether provided proactive assistance in this investigation.The Department of Justice alleges that Xinbi is an illegal scam service market primarily operating through Telegram, providing customized investment scam websites, money laundering services, and recruiting victims of human trafficking to work in scam parks in Southeast Asia. Law enforcement has seized its Telegram channel and two cryptocurrency wallets holding approximately 12 million dollars, and restricted the disposal of an additional 47 related wallets.At the same time, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Xinbi as a significant transnational criminal organization and sanctioned two additional entities that support it. The task force also assisted Madagascar in shutting down 13 scam parks operated by Chinese criminal groups, processing over 3,200 electronic devices, and local authorities arrested nearly 400 people.

According to CoinDesk, Citibank will launch an international transfer service based on tokenized deposits for Japanese companies by the end of the year, enabling 24/7 instant cross-border payments between five countries, becoming the first foreign bank to offer this service in Japan.

Bitcoin News posted on the X platform that CoinCorner has partnered with AnchorWatch to launch Vault, providing multi-institution Bitcoin custody services for UK customers, insured by Lloyd's of London.CoinCorner and AnchorWatch each hold keys, and neither party can independently transfer customers' Bitcoin. All Bitcoin deposits are insured.

According to CryptoBriefing, the Bitcoin wallet Xverse has launched a joint Bitcoin staking service, allowing users to pair sBTC with STX tokens to participate in the Stacks PoX-5 locking period. During the staking period, Bitcoin remains on the Bitcoin mainnet and is controlled by the users, without the need for cross-chain or wrapping. This feature requires an upgrade to the Xverse v2.9 version wallet.Registration will close on September 9 or when the quota is used up. Staking rewards are expected to be distributed starting September 10 (Bitcoin block 966350, corresponding to Stacks' 143rd period). Institutions such as UTXO (a subsidiary of Nakamoto Inc.), HashKey Cloud, and 21shares have joined as anchor participants. Previously, Xverse managed approximately 152 million STX in non-custodial staking.

According to CoinDesk, a 22-year-old man from Singapore will plead guilty in one of the largest cryptocurrency thefts in the United States.The scammer posed as customer service representatives from Google and Gemini, tricking an investor into handing over Bitcoin worth $240 million.

Brazilian banks are expanding their cryptocurrency services for customers. According to Folha de S.Paulo, Brazil's largest asset management bank, Itaú, now offers 15 types of cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the US dollar stablecoin USDC, through its investment app. Brazil's largest fintech company, Nubank, has listed 28 types, and Banco do Brasil, the most profitable state-owned bank in Brazil, has seen transaction volumes exceed 11 million reais (approximately 2.1 million USD) since launching direct purchase services for Bitcoin and Ethereum in January of this year.However, customer cryptocurrency transactions have not entered the banks' balance sheets. A document from the central bank dated March 2026 shows that Brazilian banks hold zero virtual assets on their books. Over the past year, Itaú, Bradesco, Santander, Banco do Brasil, and Nubank have all expanded their cryptocurrency product lines, while the Brazilian cryptocurrency market has also reached record sizes. According to data from the Brazilian Federal Revenue Service, Receita Federal, Brazilians transferred 505.5 billion reais (approximately 98.7 billion USD) through cryptocurrencies in 2025, more than five times that of 2020, with corporate transactions accounting for 98.3%.This move by banks coincides with the implementation of regulations. In 2022, Brazil passed the "Virtual Asset Legal Framework," granting regulatory authority to the central bank. Three resolutions issued in November 2025 require any institution allowing customers to trade, hold, or send cryptocurrencies to obtain a license, meet minimum capital requirements, and segregate customer accounts, with a compliance deadline of October 30, 2026.

According to Digital Asset, the National Tax Service of South Korea has issued regulations stating that even if overseas virtual asset (digital asset) exchanges go bankrupt, individuals with accounts at those exchanges must declare those accounts as overseas financial accounts. The National Tax Service stated on the 28th of last month: "Residents who open accounts with overseas virtual asset operators for the purpose of trading digital assets must declare those accounts as overseas financial accounts, even if the operators go bankrupt."In addition, it is expected that the scale of digital assets included in the overseas financial account declaration will reach 105 trillion Korean won by 2026, a decrease of 5.4% compared to 2025.

South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb announced the launch of its artificial intelligence service "Bithumb AI," which analyzes market trends through artificial intelligence and provides users with personalized information. The service includes four features: AI coin signals, AI coin analysis, AI market trends, and AI recommendations. Currently, its artificial intelligence service covers the top 200 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization in the Korean won market.

Blockchain-native fintech startup OpenReserve has received preliminary conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish a full-service national bank in Salt Lake City, Utah. The approval process took less than five months, with OpenReserve submitting its application on April 13.OpenReserve must raise at least $210 million in initial paid-in capital within 12 months and maintain a leverage ratio of at least 12% for three years after opening; it must also commence operations within 18 months, or the approval will become invalid. The relevant deadlines are September 2027 and March 2028, respectively. OpenReserve plans to offer tokenized deposits, fund management, foreign agency services, and banking-as-a-service for institutional clients. The full-service national bank license will allow for deposit-taking and lending activities once final approval is granted.OpenReserve previously completed a $25 million seed round financing, led by a16z crypto, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Jump Capital, and Wintermute Ventures. The company intends to establish a wholly-owned subsidiary to issue and redeem dollar-denominated, reserve-backed stablecoins, but this subsidiary has not yet submitted an application to the OCC.

According to Digital Asset, the South Korean Financial Services Commission has announced plans to advance a tokenization model for listed stocks centered around the Korea Exchange (KRX), referencing pilot programs from the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. Non-listed stocks will be advanced for tokenization through a trust method.The Financial Services Commission has released a three-phase roadmap for the tokenization of standardized assets. The first phase will launch in February 2027 when the token securities law is implemented, targeting tokenization of private money market funds, private corporate bonds, and non-listed stocks, limited to institutional investors. The second phase will expand the scope to public offerings. The third phase will promote "on-chain settlement," meaning that both securities and settlement methods will complete payments and settlements on the blockchain. The Financial Services Commission stated that on-chain settlement will be officially advanced after stablecoin legislation.

The cryptocurrency exchange Bitget officially launches C2C trading services. The first batch of merchants has adopted a selective and targeted invitation mechanism, all of whom are certified merchants from other mainstream platforms and have over 180 days of relevant industry experience.Previously, Bitget has covered diverse trading scenarios including crypto assets, US stocks, and CFDs.