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Binance Says It Considers Its EU License Compliant Amid Reports Of Potential Rejection Authored by Turner Wright via CoinTelegraph.com, Cryptocurrency exchange Binance, whose application under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) framework is under consideration, has generally deferred responding to a report that the company’s licensed activities in the region could be at risk. In a Tuesday blog post, Binance said that Greece's Hellenic Capital Market Commission (HCMC), one of the regulators responsible for overseeing MiCA, had completed its review of the crypto exchange’s application and “considered it compliant with MiCA requirements,”...

Central Banks Just Bought Gold At Fastest Pace Since 2024, World Gold Council Says Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times,Central banks continue to add to their gold reserves amid global inflation and geopolitical risks.Total third-quarter central bank demand rose by 42 percent year over year to 321 tons, "eclipsing recent typical quarterly buying levels," according to the World Gold Council, an industry body funded by major gold miners, which publishes widely cited quarterly data on global gold demand.This was the highest quarterly total since the end of 2024...

What Michael Milken Would See In AI Chip Financing Authored by Patrick Feeley via Substack, Very few people in the AI financing debate are reading the deals like a credit trader would. We have had a week of headlines about who is raising what. Amazon is moving $8 billion of chips off its balance sheet. Broadcom is lending $42 billion to its own customer. Nvidia is offering to backstop $125 billion of the debt people use to buy Nvidia. The coverage treats each number as a scoreboard. Hardly anyone asks the...