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The FCA's CP26/38 rewrites the Financial Crime Guide. Para 1.5: no new requirement.
Departing from it isn't, of itself, a breach.
Closes 24 Dec
Fraud cases +26%, losses +40%
Crypto authorisation from Oct 2027
It sets the bar without being the rule.
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Aviva tokenised a class of its £22bn Sterling Liquidity Fund. The tokenised money is £50m.
The headline is the fund, not the token.
Aviva's stake: £50m
Both tokenised classes: >£86m
130+ validators
The assets stay at BNY Mellon.
theindustryspread.com/aviva-…
Mercury Payroll is free until 1 January 2027.
Switchers can't run payroll on it before then anyway.
Then $100/month for the platform
Plus $50 per person paid
W-2, 1099, benefits, 401(k), 50 states
The free period ends the day migration starts.
theindustryspread.com/mercur…
OMXS30 bounced 1.57% to 3,225.43 on Monday. October's lowest close sits 62.65 points below.
The Riksbank hasn't moved.
Policy rate: 1.75%
Q4 average path: 1.85%
October range: 3,148.54 to 3,306.18
The rate path still leans higher.
theindustryspread.com/omxs30…
The OCC's final stablecoin rule deleted the escape hatch from its draft.
The automatic 7-day redemption extension is gone.
Redeem within 2 business days
24h notice if requests top 10% of issuance
$5M de novo capital floor
Effective Jan 18, 2027.
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ScribeUp announced a $13M Series A. Not all of it is equity.
$3M is a venture debt facility.
$10M equity + $3M debt
60+ banks, credit unions and neobanks
Tracks ~200,000 subscription billers
Rocket Money sells direct. ScribeUp sells to your bank.
theindustryspread.com/scribe…
Spout Finance raised $2M to lend USDC against tokenised stocks at "0%" on $SOL.
It isn't on mainnet, and its own pages disagree on where it is.
Oct 15 release: Devnet beta
Aug 24 page: live on Testnet
Beta site: blocked
Two clusters, one claim.
theindustryspread.com/spout-…
December soybean meal sits at $346.10 while the USDA's own season-average says $340.
The futures carry a premium the official number doesn't.
Base $340 by the Nov 10 WASDE
Bull $360, bear $320
Invalidation: close above $368.80
The anchor hasn't moved.
theindustryspread.com/soybea…
BOB AI Holdings raised $5.5M to build an AI finance employee for small business.
Then it said it will give the agent away free.
Seed: $5.5M, announced 23 October
Private beta: September 2026
Base: Miami
The seed buys onboarding, not revenue.
theindustryspread.com/bob-ai…
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Paris rapeseed has two prices for the same seed on the same afternoon.
The gap isn't a shortage signal.
Nov 2026: €511.75/t, 677 lots
Feb 2027: €549.50/t, 9,214 lots
Ukraine: 44.7% of EU imports since July
The €37.75 is carry, not panic.
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Easy read: $SPCX rose Friday because it is becoming a fourth US carrier.
The 80,000-site figure isn't in the call.
Close $147.49, +1.89%
Thursday -9.14%, Wednesday +7.79%
To 6 Nov: bull $178.37, bear $122.60
Friday won back 18.8% of one bad day.
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Papertrade runs 1,000x leverage on Bitcoin and Ethereum, but won't let its own PAPER token trade.
Its founders say why: a PAPER perp is "a leveraged bet on bankroll solvency."
Fee: 2%, half to stakers
Reward cap: $5M, paid in USDC
Supply at launch: zero
theindustryspread.com/papert…
US rough rice futures sit above $16.00/cwt, the highest since July 2024.
The farm price hasn't followed.
Season-average farm price $15.20/cwt
Mid-South cash $14.75-$15.00
Crop 157.7M cwt vs 206.7M, stocks -31.5%
The smaller crop moved stocks, not use.
theindustryspread.com/rough-…
The FCA and PRA call CP26/37 the biggest senior-managers reform since 2016.
The PRA's slice of the saving is small.
Joint: ~£2B over 10 years
PRA cost £24.8M to £11.5M a year
Pre-approvals -43% vs a 40% pledge
Responses due 22 January 2027.
theindustryspread.com/cp26-3…
The HKMA just retired its 2019 AI principles.
The new rule isn't about models. It's about who owns each one.
Circular B1/15C: 9 expectations
Accountability, resilience, trust
60%+ of sandbox cases now AI agents
The FSB's 12 practices stay non-binding.
theindustryspread.com/why-hk…
Hedera mainnet is on v0.78.1. Its AI agent service stayed behind.
The MCP server is still testnet-only.
40+ tools for Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT
~180-second wallet approval window
Contract calls aren't wallet-verifiable
Partner validation: Q4 2026.
theindustryspread.com/hedera…
EUR/DKK fixed at 7.4748 again. Two ECB meetings won't move it.
The peg isn't the story. The policy spread is.
0.193% above the 7.46038 ERM II central rate
Danmarks Nationalbank 2.10% vs ECB 2.50%
Band: +/-2.25%
Base case for 29 Oct and 17 Dec: 7.4748.
theindustryspread.com/eur-dk…
Fintel paid £38.4M for the rest of Mortgage Brain. It bought 5.8% in 2024 for £1.5M.
The pitch says 98% of the market. That's a lender panel, not usage.
~40% of UK applications via its users
£28.9M cash now, £9.5M deferred 18 months
Accretive in FY2027
theindustryspread.com/fintel…
LSEG floated ~$3.5B for Octus on 13 October. Nine days later it signed at $3.535B.
The price barely moved. The certainty did.
Under 11.8x expected 2026 revenue
~40% EBITDA margin, 900+ staff
Close expected H1 2027
LSEG's biggest deal since Refinitiv.
theindustryspread.com/octus-…
SGD/JPY base case: 122.45 by the 30 October BOJ outlook.
The yen moved. The Singapore dollar barely did.
MAS-implied cross 123.61 to 122.83 in October
USD/SGD 1.2792 to 1.2775
Invalidation 123.89
Half the October gap, taken off the latest fix.
theindustryspread.com/sgd-jp…
