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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.
On November 10, Binance stopped processing any transactions related to MEXC and 12 of its other legal entities. A day earlier, the platforms were only slowing down such transfers; now it is a ban. The reason was a FinCEN order (the financial intelligence unit of the US Treasury), which linked $16 billion in suspicious transactions to MEXC.
The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC, the federal bank regulator) upgraded the trust status of the largest American crypto exchange from conditional to full. Now Coinbase conducts cryptocurrency custody and payments under federal supervision, rather than only under individual state licenses.
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.
On November 6, FinCEN (the US Treasury's financial crimes unit) banned American banks from making any transfers to or from the MEXC Global crypto exchange. The exchange was named a "primary source of money laundering threat," with claims totaling $16 billion in transactions over five years.
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.
Beth Hammack, head of the Cleveland Fed, on Thursday called gradual rate increases the best path for US monetary policy. Inflation, she said, is too high and moving in the wrong direction, so policy must become restrictive.
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.
Google signed agreements to provide credit support for the TeraWulf project - an American company that used to mine Bitcoin and now builds data centers. Under a 20-year contract with Anthropic worth about $19 billion, it will become easier for it to borrow money from banks.
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 Eurozone consumer price report is due on November 4 - forecast at 4.0% year-on-year versus 3.8% a month earlier. The US session adds ADP employment data and the ISM services business activity index, while in the US Democrats have taken both the House and the Senate.
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 November 3, Arab TV channels reported progress on the Iranian dossier: Washington approved a draft memorandum of understanding with Tehran, and the parties are discussing how to announce a temporary agreement. For oil, this is the most sensitive geopolitical topic of the year.
The Reserve Bank of Australia at 06:30 MSK raised the rate by 25 basis points, to 4.85% from 4.60%. This is the fifth hike since February and the highest rate level in 18 years, but the Australian dollar moved down, not up, on the decision.
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.
On the morning of November 2, the head of the Bank of Japan once again signaled readiness to raise the key rate. No specific dates or figures were announced, but for the market this is not the first such hint in recent months.
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.
