DUBAI – October 05, 2026 -- Caladan's Dubai entity, CLDN Broker Dealer FZE, has secured In-Principle Approval (IPA) from Dubai's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) for Broker-Dealer Services, under reference IPA/26/09/004, dated September 15, 2026.

New York – – October 05, 2026 -- Solana Foundation launched Solana DvP, an open-source delivery-versus-payment escrow program that compresses securities settlement from one to two days into a single atomic transaction settled in seconds.

New York – October 05, 2026 -- Rain, a stablecoin payments infrastructure provider, has filed an application with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish Rain National Trust Bank (RNTB), a proposed federally supervised trust bank headquartered in New York.

Chicago – – October 05, 2026 -- Cboe Global Markets reported record third-quarter trading volumes across multiple flagship derivatives products, led by zero-days-to-expiry S&P 500 Index (SPX) options, which hit a quarterly average daily volume (ADV) of 3.2 million contracts.

Baltimore – October 05, 2026 -- Transamerica's pooled retirement plan assets climbed nearly 61% over five years, rising from $21.3 billion in 2021 to $34.2 billion in 2025, as the insurer marks its 25th year in the pooled plan market.

New York – October 05, 2026 -- The U.S. 10-year Treasury yield traded close to 5.3% as of 8 a.m. ET on Monday, with investors positioning ahead of Wednesday's Federal Reserve minutes release from the September meeting, according to the New York Stock Exchange's daily pre-market advisory delivered by Ashley Mastronardi from the trading floor.

Paris – October 05, 2026 -- Basware, the global leader in Invoice Lifecycle Management, has completed its acquisition of payment fraud prevention platform Trustpair, finalizing a deal first announced in August 2026.

Singapore – October 05, 2026 -- WasabiCard, a stablecoin-powered global payment infrastructure platform, will host its TOKEN2049 Singapore side event, "STABLECOIN & PAYMENTS: FUNDS FLOW," on October 6 at Raffles Singapore, with Lotus Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: LOT) confirmed as a participant.

SYDNEY – October 04, 2026 -- Payward, the financial infrastructure platform behind Kraken, has partnered with Singapore Gulf Bank (SGB) to enable round-the-clock settlement for institutional digital asset clients in Asia and the Gulf region.

Tokyo – October 04, 2026 -- Bloomberg has completed the first fully automated Japanese Government Bond (JGB) Market-on-Close trade, executed through a new workflow aligned to BB3P (Hikene Trading), the reference rate for JGB closing prices.