Crypto giant Binance has been granted three separate licenses from Abu Dhabi’s financial regulator, providing a green light to operate its exchange, clearing house and broker-dealer services under the Financial Services Regulatory Authority’s (FSRA) regulatory framework.  The FSRA, an independent financial regulator of the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), a financial free zone in Abu Dhabi, has approved licenses for…

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Philippines digital bank GoTyme, which has 6.5 million customers, has rolled out crypto services in the Philippines following a partnership with US fintech firm Alpaca. A total of 11 crypto assets can now be bought and stored in GoTyme’s banking app via an auto conversion from the Philippine peso to USD, including Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), Solana (

Thailand has launched airstrikes along its disputed border with Cambodia, after both countries accused one another of breaching a ceasefire deal brokered by Donald Trump. Thailand’s military said airstrikes were launched after at least one of its soldiers was killed and four others wounded in clashes along the countries’ tense border on Monday morning. Thailand’s air force said it was using aircraft to strike military targets in several areas, accusing Cambodia of mobilising heavy weaponry and repositioning combat units.

Bitcoin is currently hovering at a critical technical level that needs to be defended to prevent major losses, according to crypto analyst Daan Crypto Trades. He was referring to the 0.382 Fibonacci retracement zone, which serves as a key area of support and resistance during market cycles.   “I think this is a key area for the bulls to defend,” he…

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From encrypted chats to decentralized messaging Encrypted messengers are having a second wave. Apps like WhatsApp, iMessage and Signal made end-to-end encryption (E2EE) a default expectation. But most still hinge on phone numbers, centralized servers and a lot of metadata, such as who you talk to, when, from which IP and on which device. That is what Vitalik Buterin is aiming at in his recent…

It was completely unforeseen, a shocker: Marjorie Taylor Greene resigning. The warrior congresswoman, so dogged and fierce, leaving the field of battle, her alliance with President Trump shattered. Her video resignation statement last month — that she'll be leaving Congress a year before her term expires — came after President Trump said he would throw his support to someone else for her seat.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who voted with President Trump 98% of the time before her relationship with him fractured, accused the president in a recent interview with 60 Minutes of forsaking his base. The Georgia representative has recently split with the president on a number of issues, including affordability and foreign affairs. She said she believes he's failed to keep domestic  policy as his top priority.

A video of a US military strike on an alleged drug boat that killed two survivors of the initial attack has said he would not oppose its public release if the Pentagon were to declassify it, adding that it shows “nothing remarkable.” Democrats are pushing the Trump administration to release the video of the second strike on the boat which was incapacitated in the Caribbean, amid accusations the attack was unlawful.

Historic border questions lead to worst violence in monthspublished at 05:09 GMT 05:09 GMT Jonathan HeadBBC South East Asia correspondent This is the most serious confrontation between Thailand and Cambodia since they signed a ceasefire in July, following five days of fighting which killed dozens of soldiers and civilians. The South East Asian neighbours agreed to the ceasefire after pressure from US President Donald Trump, who claimed he ended the conflict.

ZKsync Lite, the first-ever zero-knowledge (ZK) rollup network to launch on Ethereum, will be deprecated next year, its team says, as it has fulfilled its purpose. “In 2026, we plan to deprecate ZKsync Lite (aka ZKsync 1.0), the original ZK-rollup we launched on Ethereum,” ZKsync wrote to X on Sunday. “This is a planned, orderly sunset for a system that has served its purpose and does not affect any other ZKsync systems.”

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Deutsche Bank is seeking to increase the pay of its supervisory board chair by more than 40 per cent, despite Alexander Wynaendts already being the highest-paid chair of Germany’s blue-chip Dax companies. The country’s largest lender plans to ask shareholders at its 2026 annual meeting to approve an increase in Wynaendts’ total supervisory board…

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Sir Keir Starmer is set to host Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his French and German counterparts as European powers seek to rally support for Kyiv at a time of growing US pressure to agree a peace deal with Russia.

Spoiler Alert: This podcast and article contain details about Episode 7 of HBO‘s It: Welcome to Derry, “The Black Spot” Tonight, we learned more about the origins of Pennywise (Bill Skarsgard) and his daughter, who yearns to be a clown alongside her father on the big stage, Periwinkle (Madeleine Stowe). She had the most innocent of intentions to entertain.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Thailand has launched air strikes on Cambodia after border clashes that killed one Thai soldier, marking the collapse of a Donald Trump-brokered peace deal between the south-east Asian neighbours. The Thai army said on Monday it had retaliated after Cambodian troops opened fire at the border of Ubon Ratchathani province.

Ethan Hawke recalled being cognizant of Dead Poets Society co-star Robin Williams‘ mental health struggles, saying the actor’s “end of his life does not define his life to me.” In an extended interview with CBS Sunday Morning‘s Tracy Smith, the Reality Bites star was asked if his viewing of the inimitable 1989 Peter Weir-directed boarding school drama has changed since Williams’ …

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Chinese trade myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. China’s trade surplus in goods has surpassed $1tn for the first time, highlighting a boom in the country’s exports despite US President Donald Trump’s tariff war. In the year to the end of November, China’s trade surplus in dollar terms was $1.076tn, according to data released by China’s customs administration, which covers goods but not services.

Crypto and stock trading platform Robinhood is set to tap into Indonesia’s burgeoning cryptocurrency trading market after an agreement to acquire two local fintech companies. In an announcement on Sunday, Robinhood said it has entered into agreements to acquire Buana Capital, an Indonesian brokerage, and PT Pedagang Aset Kripto, a licensed Indonesian digital financial asset trader, “marking our entry into one of Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing markets.”

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon has denied debanking customers based on their religious or political affiliation and stated that he has actually been working to change the rules surrounding debanking for over a decade.  During an interview with Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” on Sunday, Dimon said his bank has cut off services to people from all walks of life, but political affiliations have never been a factor.

Unidentified flying objects and Area 51 are conspiracy theories no more. Director Dan Farah interviewed 34 government officials who validate the existence of visitors from space in The Age of Disclosure. He told Deadline’s Matt Carey at Contenders Documentary event that it no longer is just about confirming their existence of UFOs, now described as “unidentified aerial phenomena.” “Elements of the U.S.

The Trump administration did not mention cryptocurrency or blockchain in its latest national security strategy, despite the industry’s growing ties to the financial system and President Donald Trump’s claim of increased competition from overseas. Trump’s national security strategy, outlining his administration’s priorities, released on Friday, instead said the “core, vital national interests” of the US revolved around artificial intelligence and quantum computing.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday claimed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “isn’t ready” to sign off on a U.S-authored peace proposal aimed at ending the Russia-Ukraine war. Trump was critical of Zelenskyy after U.S. and Ukrainian negotiators completed three days of talks on Saturday aimed at trying to narrow differences on the U.S. administration’s proposal. But in an exchange with reporters on Sunday night, Trump suggested that the Ukrainian leader is holding up the talks from moving forward.

Officials at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, on Sunday confirmed that a large collection of historically important books had been damaged in November as a result of a water leak. The leak affected the Mollien Wing of the museum, where the Department of Egyptian Antiquities is located. What do we know about the Louvre water leak? Deputy Administrator Francis Steinbock downplayed the leak, discovered on November 26, saying that "300 to 400 works" from the late 19th and early 20th centuries had been damaged.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has floated the idea for an onchain futures market for gas, which could give users certainty over transaction fees as the network becomes more widely adopted. In a post on X on Saturday, Buterin argued that the market needs a “good trustless onchain gas futures market,” as people have been questioning him over the certainty of low gas fees via current price reduction methods in…