Perpetuals Reports 380% Hypothetical Return in Backtest of AI Engine Powering Risk-Free Trading Platform ‘UpsideOnly’ August 6, 2026 Results provide early evidence that BayesShield can identify potentially profitable trading signals by finding repeatable skill in trader activity 375-day backtest using Perpetuals’s production code generated a hypothetical 380% non-compounded return, a period in which Bitcoin fell 40.2% The strategy achieved a return-to-drawdown ratio of 4.4, a measure comparing its overall return with the largest decline it experienced during the test
Reform’s Richard Tice under parliamentary investigation August 3, 2026 Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice is facing a probe from the parliamentary standards watchdog for failing to declare an interest in a debate. Daniel Greenberg, the parliamentary standards commissioner, confirmed a probe was opened on the 28th July but did not share further details about the scope of the investigation. Tice claimed it relates [...]
FCA crypto crackdown will ‘wipe out’ bad actors, says Coinbase boss August 1, 2026 The financial watchdog’s clampdown on digital assets will remove bad actors and attract more customers, The UK boss of one of the world’s largest crypto platforms has said. Keith Grose, UK chief executive of Coinbase, said the rules outlined by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) earlier this month will “wipe out” firms who do not [...]
LSEG boss hails ‘growing momentum’ of Pisces as profit soars July 30, 2026 The boss of London Stock Exchange operator LSEG has hailed the “growing momentum” of its new Pisces venue as it reported a jump in profit. Chief executive David Schwimmer said the new private markets venue, which recently saw some of its first major transactions, was “opening up significant new market opportunities.” Earlier this month, autonomous [...]
Cristiano Ronaldo on Mars: Where will sport take us in the next five years? July 30, 2026 Tech disruption, athlete power and new formats: sport has changed dramatically since Ed Warner started writing weekly about the industry in 2021. This column – based on my weekly newsletter, Sport Inc. – has just reached its fifth anniversary. The book of the same name is three years older. In this short span of time, [...]
Nexo Reaffirms EU Compliance July 28, 2026 The digital assets wealth platform announces sustained operations across the European Economic Area in the MiCA era
The physical capital paradox: why the best performing asset class is the least owned July 23, 2026 Investors are ignoring the superior performance of commodities despite their critical role in the AI buildout, says Jeff Currie The best performing asset class of this decade is also the most under owned. Since October 2020, when we first called for a decades-long super-cycle in commodities, the broad commodity indices like the S&P GSCI are [...]
Alpaca Launches German Equities Trading via Deutsche Börse Xetra July 21, 2026 Broker partners can offer access to German equities through the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, one of the world’s largest trading venues
London Stock Exchange unveils ‘LSE24’ round-the-clock trading venue July 21, 2026 The London Stock Exchange has unveiled plans to introduce 24-hour trading as it seeks to claw back interest from retail investors lured away by crypto and overseas markets. The stock market’s operator, LSEG, said it will launch the new venue, dubbed LSE24, as soon as next year in order to give “global investors greater flexibility [...]
Elliptic Launches Next-Generation Continuous Monitoring, Giving Crypto Compliance Teams a Live View of Customer Risk Without the Flood of Alerts July 16, 2026 The only monitoring solution on the market that detects the full range of risk-changing events, not just label changes, and lets teams configure alerts to only what matters, cutting manual rescreening and alert triage by up to 75%