Regulators across a growing number of European jurisdictions are treating prediction-market platforms as unauthorized gambling services and, in several cases, ordering internet providers to restrict access. Across the Atlantic, the United States has allowed federally regulated exchanges to list event contracts under derivatives law, although......
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The public comment period on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) proposed prediction-market rules closes on 27 July, leaving five days for exchanges, sports leagues, state regulators and traders to influence a framework that will determine which event contracts US platforms can list. The stakes are......
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Oil climbed to a six-week high on Wednesday as a threatened Houthi naval blockade of Saudi Arabia pushed a second Middle East shipping chokepoint into the market’s risk calculation. Brent crude futures rose 4.2% to $94.83 a barrel at 09:38 GMT after touching a session......
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The GENIUS Act gave US regulators one year to turn Congress’s federal stablecoin framework into an operational rulebook. That deadline passed on July 18, 2026, with no final implementing regulations in place. Section 13 of the GENIUS Act directed every primary federal payment stablecoin regulator,......
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