Rayner warns Reform’s £72m crypto windfall could be caught by new donor rules September 13, 2026 Angela Rayner has warned Reform UK that its record £72m fundraising haul from two cryptocurrency billionaires could be caught by retrospective rules being pushed through parliament. The housing secretary said new restrictions on political donations from Britons living abroad, or those who have recently returned to the UK, would be backdated as ministers seek to [...]
Agentic Crypto Payments Have Surged by 500%1 in the Last Three Months, Crypto Compliance Must Become Agentic Too September 10, 2026 Elliptic is publishing eight principles for governing agentic on-chain risk: the Elliptic Standard
Why people tired of banks and exchanges are looking at Swiss staking September 9, 2026 You know the pattern. The bank wants one more check. The exchange wants a freeze, a selfie, then another freeze. The coins don’t move. You just spend the week proving you still own them. That is why a certain sort of City reader — the one who already holds crypto, and is bored of being [...]
Donations row ‘reflects problem in Reform UK’, voters say September 9, 2026 The donations row that engulfed Reform UK last week “reflects a real problem” with the party, the majority of voters believe. Nearly two-thirds of people believe the allegations surrounding top Reform figures show there is a problem with the way the party is run and deals with its finances, City AM/Freshwater Strategy polling has revealed. [...]
Has Reform managed to win over the City? September 5, 2026 Reform UK officials hope that its first-ever Business Day paid dividends at its conference. Maurício Alencar reports on a dramatic 72 hours in Birmingham and asks whether industry chiefs are satisfied with what they’ve heard and seen. Asked for an umbrella phrase to describe Reform’s economic philosophy, policy guru Dr James Orr responded that the [...]
Farage: Foreign donations row is ‘loose pub talk’ September 4, 2026 Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has shrugged off concerns over comments made by senior party figures on accepting foreign donations via middle men, describing their behaviour as “loose pub talk”. Reform has faced a gruelling 24 hours after a Channel 4 investigation filmed Farage’s chief of staff Dan Jukes and Reform’s head of policy Dr [...]
Farage vows to call ‘national emergency’ on day one September 3, 2026 Nigel Farage would call a “national emergency” to highlight the country’s woes after successive Tory and Labour governments. Under plans proposed by a Reform government, Farage would make MPs sit in parliament seven days a week to pass bills written by the government, including through the summer. At a speech on Friday at the Reform [...]
Grupo Salinas Selects Integral Digital to Power Coinpro’s Institutional Digital Asset Trading Desk September 3, 2026 COINPRO will use Integral’s technology to aggregate liquidity, automate pricing and support wholesale transactions between digital assets and fiat currencies
NYSE-listed Securitize offer football club shares on blockchain with Socios September 2, 2026 New York-listed tokenised asset firm Securitize is to offer shares in football clubs held on the blockchain in partnership with controversial fan token firm Socios. A “strategic partnership to develop regulated equity offerings involving minority interests in professional sports teams” was announced as the market opened in New York, with Securitize – which has $5bn [...]
‘They want business on board’: How Reform UK is wooing City chiefs at its conference September 1, 2026 Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is on a mission to win over businesses before the next election. Maurício Alencar and Ali Lyon report on how the party’s upcoming conference in Birmingham could determine its political future. By the time Britain’s executives descend on the Reform UK party conference this week, many will already be well-acquainted with [...]