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Visible Oil Stocks Face Record Decline Global visible oil stores are set to drop to record lows even if traffic through the Strait of Hormuz restarts by the end of April, according to analysts quoted in reporting from April 24, 2026. Visible stocks—the oil in audited tanks and tracked

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has censured Sapia and required the firm to pay £19.6 million to clients of WealthTek following an investigation into inadequate client money safeguards. The payment, comprising £19.1 million to WealthTek's administrators and £500,000 to the Financial Services C

The Canadian Securities Administrators has adopted final amendments to trading fee caps, lowering the maximum fee charged by marketplaces for executing trades in inter-listed equities, according to the CSA announcement. The changes apply to securities priced at CAD $1.00 or more that are listed on b

Commonwealth Bank of Australia announced it will cut approximately 120 jobs as the nation's largest bank reviews roles and expands its use of artificial intelligence, according to Bloomberg. The cuts include 43 roles at Bankwest in Western Australia, with six positions affected by automation. This a

Brazil has enacted a sweeping ban on prediction markets and betting platforms, including the leading platforms Polymarket and Kalshi, according to local media and government filings. The Banco Central do Brasil issued a resolution citing non-compliance with local derivatives trading regulations and

3F, a vault protocol built on Morpho, has raised $4 million in funding to offer leveraged exposure to tokenized real-world assets, according to The Block. The funding includes a $750,000 pre-seed round that ran from July 2025 to

On April 24, the Hong Kong High Court’s seven-member jury, by a majority vote, found not guilty of allegations against Chen Bo-liang, a former senior manager of cryptocurrency exchange Huobi (now renamed HTX), concerning accusations that he used a pseudonymous personal account in 2020 to trade on Huobi’s platform dark pool. The court also ruled not guilty on all charges, including six counts of accessing a computer with criminal or dishonest intent and one count of money laundering. The amount involved relates to 5 million Tether (USDT) tokens.

The Taichung District Prosecutors’ Office (Taichung District Prosecutors’ Office) formally indicted the head of Wanli Development Company, Hong Yuepeng, and six branch managers from Taichung Bank on April 23, for a total of seven people. The alleged offenses include violations of the Banking Act (aggravated special breach of trust), the Anti–Money Laundering Act (the crime of large-amount money laundering), and related offenses under the Organized Crime Prevention Act. According to the indictment referenced by the United News Network from the Taichung District Prosecutors’ Office, the case involves illegal funds flows totaling NT$3.64 billion.

DBS announced on April 24 the expansion of its Spark GenAI program, developed in partnership with Enterprise Singapore and the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), to support local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in adopting artificial intelligence. The program uses a three-tier

According to the latest statistics provided by the Securities and Futures Bureau of the Financial Supervisory Commission, as of the end of March 2026, a total of 14 securities firms in Taiwan have launched virtual asset ETF cross-border/overseas custody (futures commission) re-delegation business, with cumulative trading exceeding NT$9.9B. Huang Zhonghao, Deputy Director of the Securities and Futures Bureau of Taiwan, stated that the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) has required the securities firms’ association to submit an assessment report on the performance of the virtual asset ETF cross-border/overseas custody (futures commission) re-delegation business over the past year, and that the assessment will expand eligibility to retail investors.

SHIB shows the first bullish MACD signal since February near key resistance levels. Price presses Bollinger Band resistance while burn activity drops and stays inconsistent. Weak volume and declining open interest signal cautious market participation overall. Shiba Inu is flashing its fi

American independent senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont posted on the X platform on April 24, citing a report published in the January issue of The New Yorker, listing a breakdown of the income allegedly earned by the Trump family through cryptocurrency, Gulf transactions, and other sources, with an estimated total of $4.05 billion.

According to an official press release issued by Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul on April 23, Wisconsin has sued Kalshi in Dane County, alleging that the platform’s prediction market business, which operates in the form of “event contracts,” falls within the legal definition of gambling under Wisconsin law and constitutes an unlicensed gambling activity.

According to data released by SoSoValue on April 24, as of April 23 in U.S. Eastern Time, the total net inflow for U.S.-listed spot Bitcoin ETFs on a single day reached $223 million, marking the seventh consecutive day of net inflows. On the same day, spot Ethereum ETFs recorded a total net outflow of $75.9360 million.

South Korea's Judicial Institute Urges Civil Law Amendment for Digital Asset Recognition The Judicial Policy Research Institute, a think tank under South Korea's Supreme Court, has recommended amending the civil law to recognize digital assets (virtual assets) as legal "things" (물건) under