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A group of major banks invested about $270 million in the Faro project - the issuance of its own stablecoin (a coin with an exchange rate pegged to the dollar). The money will cover five years of operation for the issuing company, and the coin's launch itself is stated for the first half of 2027.
The developer of Claude has named its IPO price for the first time. On Nasdaq under the ticker ANT, 825 million Class A shares are being sold: at the upper bound, that's up to $64.4 billion raised and a company valuation of up to $1.4 trillion.
Anthropic (developer of the Claude AI assistant) has begun its roadshow ahead of going public with a range of $70-78 per share. Google announced a $10B investment, with its stake to be acquired at the same price that offering participants will pay for shares.
The People's Bank of China extended its streak of gold purchases for reserves to two years without a break and noticeably increased the volume of purchases precisely during the price pullback.
Since Monday, November 2, American banks have been receiving questions from two supervisory agencies: whether they had any unusual activity or service disruptions. The trigger was the $6.34 billion theft from Binance - there is no formal case, but banks' crypto risks are being examined in connection with this episode for the first time.
Ante Zigman, a member of the ECB Governing Council (the body that actually decides on the rate), said in comments to Bloomberg that the chance of another hike at the December meeting is high. The euro barely reacted to this: EUR/USD traded around 1.1220, slightly below the day's levels.
The funding rate for Bitcoin perpetual futures on Binance rose to 0.01 — the highest in more than two months. Over the past 24 hours, positions worth over $430M were forcibly closed on the market, mostly longs.
The bank became one of the first users of the new tokenization service from DTCC, the clearing center through which US securities transactions pass. US stocks and Treasury bonds have been converted into tokenized form.
The World Gold Council (an industry organization that tracks global demand for the metal) reported on Q3 2026: governments bought gold more actively than at any time since late 2024, and exchange-traded funds pushed their holdings to a record 4256 tonnes. The price, meanwhile, lost more than 6% in October.
On Tuesday morning BTC lost about 2% and is trading just below $77,000, erasing Monday's rebound. The trigger was a sell-off in the US tech sector: the Nasdaq 100 index dropped 10% from its recent high, meaning it entered a correction.
From November 2 to 6, the market will get four reasons to move at once: the US midterm congressional elections, decisions from four central banks and the US employment report on Friday. The dollar enters this week after two weeks of decline and, for the first time in a long while, at its 200-week moving average.
Long-term holders (those who haven't moved coins for more than 155 days) hold roughly 4M BTC bought in the $85,000-$118,000 range, mostly in 2025. At the current price that's about $326 billion, and more than half of these coins are at a loss.
The European Central Bank on 29 October at 16:15 MSK kept its key rate at 2.65% - exactly as the market expected and as at the previous meeting. No changes to any of the three rates.
Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank, has told staff that she plans to leave her post on February 7. This concerns the person who sets the rate for the entire eurozone, that is, directly influences the EUR/USD exchange rate.
The European Central Bank will announce its rate decision today at 16:15 MSK, and at 16:45 MSK the press conference of ECB President Christine Lagarde will begin. The euro approaches the event at 1.1110 - this is the lowest level of the EUR/USD pair since May 2025.
The decision was made by a vote of 10 to 2: Governor Lisa Cook and Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack insisted on an immediate 0.25 percentage point increase. Six weeks earlier, the committee had made the same decision unanimously.
Galaxy Research analyzed the filings of major managers: nine hedge funds and banks cut their positions in U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs by 68,000 BTC - about $5.4 billion. The reason is not a bet against the market, but that the arbitrage scheme has almost stopped generating income.
On October 28 at 16:45 MSK, the Bank of Canada raised its key rate from 2.25% to 2.5% - exactly what the market expected. The main surprise was not the move itself, but the signal: the regulator allowed that another hike may be needed.
The Bank of Canada announces its rate decision midday, the Fed in the evening. USD/CAD is rising for a second day and has already bounced from 1.3970-1.3965, the low since September 16, climbing above 1.4000 - a new weekly high.
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (the country's central bank) unexpectedly did not raise the key rate overnight on October 28, although almost everyone expected it to: the decision was made by a 4-3 vote. The New Zealand dollar moved lower in the first minutes after the publication.
Four new refusals have been added to the OKXICE project - a joint venture between the OKX crypto exchange and Intercontinental Exchange (the owner of the New York Stock Exchange). Now 26 issuers from the original list of 62 companies have spoken out against trading tokenized versions of their shares.
The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC, the regulator of national banks) has granted Ripple final approval to launch Ripple National Trust Bank. Now the $2.5 billion in RLUSD stablecoin reserves will be managed under federal oversight.
Meta (recognized as extremist and banned in Russia) announced the placement of new securities worth $35B. The money will go toward capital expenditures in artificial intelligence - this is one of the largest amounts raised of this kind among technology companies.
From October 28 to 30, four central banks issue rate decisions, and on the 29th US GDP and PCE come out at the same time. The market has already priced in rates staying unchanged, so it will be the wording, not the numbers themselves, that moves the instruments.
