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Key insight: The Supreme Court’s Monday decision to end removal protections for independent agencies is expected to make bank regulation more political and less stable, according to several banking and legal scholars. Expert quote: “If I were a bank today I would be very worried about the staying power of any regulatory policy not specifically…

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has a new sheriff in town – and he’s rewriting the rulebook. In conversation with Risk.net, the CFTC’s new director of enforcement, David Miller, repeatedly signposts an end to “the era of regulation by enforcement”. “The age of trying to exact a tax on an industry through various types of…

A group led by billionaire Vinod Khosla agreed to buy the 2026 Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks for $9.6 billion, a record price for an NFL franchise, according to ESPN. Here’s the rub: Khosla also owns part of the San Francisco 49ers franchise, so he will have to give up his stake in that team…

Binance said agentic payments now support x402 payment flows on BNB Chain for AI agents It lets AI agents and apps pay for online services automatically, without needing a human to approve each transaction. B402 is built on x402, a payment protocol that uses the HTTP “402 Payment Required” code. It allows businesses to charge…

The second quarter (Q2) of 2026 saw increased enthusiasm from British investors, and they appear to be positioning their assets strategically in order to capitalise on looming challenges for the artificial intelligence (AI) boom. Data from investment platform eToro shows that their its investors predominantly bought semiconductor stocks, particularly the makers of memory chips, during…