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Fintech company Reap announced a strategic partnership with Visa, planning to leverage Reap's card-issuing infrastructure to launch a Visa credit card program linked to stablecoins across more than 100 markets globally, and to expand its business from Asia and Latin America to regions including Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Reap will also use stablecoins to directly settle payment obligations through Visa's Asia Pacific stablecoin settlement program. The two parties will subsequently explore payment models such as agent commerce, and Reap also plans to introduce card features that support multi-currency stablecoin financing and settlement.
据彭博社报道，由 Blue Owl Capital 旗下关联机构支持的一家数据中心开发商宣布发债募资 11 亿美元押注 AI 算力，为弗吉尼亚州里士满附近 Digital Drive 数据中心项目提供资金，该数据中心拥有 76 兆瓦 IT 容量，将由 CoreWeave 以15 年、29.4 亿美元的合同全部租赁，预计 2027 年至 2028 年投入运营。
Odaily News: Cantor Fitzgerald has initiated coverage of digital asset securitization company Securitize with an Overweight rating and a price target of $21.2. Securitize shares rose 12% yesterday to $14.57, hitting an all-time high. Cantor Fitzgerald stated that tokenization represents one of the largest overhauls of financial infrastructure in the past century, and believes the stock's current valuation is attractive.
According to Bloomberg, AI inference platform startups Modal Labs and Baseten are in talks for a new round of financing. Modal Labs is valued at approximately $15 billion, roughly triple its valuation four months ago; Baseten's valuation could reach $26 billion, double its $13 billion valuation in June. As enterprises accelerate AI adoption and compute-intensive tools such as agents develop, market demand for model inference services and related compute infrastructure continues to grow.
Odaily News: The AI boom has once again gained market funding support. Investors who had previously questioned AI investment returns and worried about excessively high tech stock valuations are now readjusting their views.As major tech companies continue to increase AI infrastructure spending and related companies maintain resilient performance, the market is beginning to search for the next stage of growth pathways in the AI industry.Over the past year, debates surrounding artificial intelligence have persisted. On one hand, companies such as Nvidia (NVDA), Microsoft (MSFT), Amazon (AMZN), and Google (GOOGL) have continued to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in building AI computing infrastructure, driving demand growth in chips, cloud computing, and data centers; on the other hand, some investors believe that while AI capital expenditure is enormous, actual commercial returns for enterprises still need time to be verified, and tech stock valuations have already priced in excessive optimism.Recent market performance shows that capital is flowing back into AI-related assets. Investors who had previously bet that the AI rally was overdone and that tech stocks would face a correction are now reducing their bearish positions, with some traders beginning to look for new upside potential. (WSJ)
Odaily News: Trader @nft_hu posted on X platform that their reasons for buying RKLB include continued bullishness on fundamentals, a price pullback to an appropriate level, and the completion of ATM financing. Rocket Lab's Q2 revenue hit a record $234 million, up 62% year-over-year; backlog reached $2.36 billion. Electron completed its 96th mission on September 19, also its 17th mission this year. The trader also stated that Rocket Lab's funding for the $8 billion Iridium acquisition is essentially secured, and on September 15 it completed ATM financing, raising approximately $1.9 billion. The risks mentioned include the narrowing first-flight window for its medium-lift rocket this year.
According to an official announcement from Bullish, Bullish (NYSE: BLSH) and diversified global financial services platform Marex Group Limited (NASDAQ: MRX) have announced a partnership. Marex will officially gain access to the Bullish platform, covering multiple product categories including spot, options, perpetual futures, and term futures. The firm will arrange block trades via electronic and voice execution to provide liquidity support for its OTC derivatives and structured products businesses. Marex currently serves over 3,400 active clients, with operations spanning crypto-backed financing, OTC trading, market making and clearing, wealth management, and structured investments. This collaboration integrates Marex's global infrastructure with Bullish's regulated market infrastructure to meet the growing demand from institutional investors for digital asset trading solutions that comply with traditional finance standards. Bullish's trading volume in the first half of 2026 has surpassed $300 billion, with open interest reaching a record high of over $6 billion.
Odaily News: AI agent startup Ema has completed a $77 million Series B funding round led by Creaegis, with existing investors Accel, Section 32, and Prosus also participating. To date, the company's total funding has reached $140 million, with its valuation more than tripling compared to its previous funding round in 2024. Ema was founded in 2023 by former Google and Coinbase executive Surojit Chatterjee and former Okta executive Souvik Sen. The company deploys technology called "AI employees," which are systems capable of coordinating multiple AI agents to help enterprises execute multi-step business processes within existing applications, rather than handling only a single task at a time. It is reported that most of the new funding will be used to expand market operations, as the company previously focused primarily on product development. (TechCrunch)
Odaily News: Nasdaq-listed Solana treasury company Forward Industries announced that it has signed a securities purchase agreement with an institutional investor to issue 3.125 million shares of common stock at $8 per share, with expected gross proceeds of approximately $25 million. The offering is expected to close on or about September 24. Forward Industries stated that the net proceeds after deducting related fees will be used to purchase more SOL to expand the scale of its SOL treasury, while also increasing the amount of SOL corresponding to each fully diluted share. A.G.P./Alliance Global Partners is acting as the sole placement agent for this offering. (Globenewswire)
Odaily reports: U.S. President Trump recently once again advocated cutting U.S. interest rates to 1% or even lower, arguing that lower financing costs can boost corporate investment, reduce government debt costs, and enhance U.S. economic competitiveness. Meanwhile, on September 16, the Federal Reserve raised the target range for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to 3.75%-4.00%, the first rate hike since July 2023. Boston Fed President Collins subsequently expressed support for the hike, saying that inflation risks remain above the Fed's 2% target and that monetary policy needs to remain somewhat restrictive to bring inflation down sustainably. (Reuters)
According to the official FATF website, the FATF published Turkey's 2026 Mutual Evaluation Report on September 23. The report indicates that Turkey has made progress in the use of financial intelligence and international cooperation, but continues to exhibit clear deficiencies in money laundering investigations involving high-risk predicate offenses (such as drug smuggling and illegal gambling), the recovery of overseas assets, and suspicious transaction reporting. Turkey received a "Partially Compliant" rating for both targeted financial sanctions related to the financing of proliferation (R.7) and the regulation of non-profit organizations (R.8), and was ultimately placed on the Enhanced Follow-Up List. It is required to complete key remedial actions within three years and report on its progress regularly.
According to FinTech Global, Chicago-based AI startup Go.AI has completed an $85 million Series A funding round led by Updata Partners, with existing investors GFT Ventures and LAUNCH participating, bringing the company's total funding to $90 million. The company provides on-premise, auditable AI infrastructure for regulated entities such as banks. The new capital will be used to expand the engineering team and increase marketing efforts, driving the company's expansion from its core regulated industries to a broader range of compliance-oriented institutions.
According to Chaoxiang Research, Bernstein’s research report dated September 22, 2026 states that upward revisions to the SOX index’s year-to-date forward earnings reached 113%, while valuations were revised down by approximately 18%. During a 15% pullback from its June peak, earnings estimates were still revised upward by approximately 25%. Semiconductor revenue grew 144% year-over-year in June and 131% year-over-year in July, with memory sales surging 452% year-over-year in July and non-memory sales rising 35% year-over-year. The valuation premium of the semiconductor sector relative to the S&P 500 decreased from approximately 62% last quarter to about 17%.
Atum has announced the end of its stealth phase and completed a $13.5 million funding round backed by investors including Variant, PayPal Ventures, and Abstract Ventures. Atum connects payment companies, developers, and enterprises through a unified coordination layer, responsible for payment authorization, routing, and confirmation, but does not issue currency, operate a blockchain, or hold customer funds. Its network supports cross-chain and stablecoin settlements and is compatible with agent payment protocols such as x402 and MPP.
Cryptocurrency venture capital firm Hashed has become the anchor investor in Thoro Capital Management’s newly launched digital asset private credit fund. Targeting $300 million, the fund will settle USD-denominated loans via stablecoins and utilize a “covenant-based” underwriting model evaluated against borrowers’ financials, cash flows, and operational performance to provide financing to digital asset institutions.
Odaily News: The fund was founded by Abu Dhabi-based investor and Further Ventures co-founder Mohamed Hamdy, with Thoro Capital Management serving as the manager and Mohamed Hamdy as Managing Partner. Thoro Capital Management will settle in USD via stablecoins and lend directly to digital asset institutions, with Hashed as the anchor investor. The fund employs a covenant-based underwriting approach, assessing borrowers' financial condition, cash flow, and management performance, aiming to alleviate the financing issues caused by traditional banks' regulated capital requirements and crypto lenders' reliance on asset-collateralized underwriting. Tokenized private credit has become the largest real-world asset (RWA) category by cumulative on-chain lending volume, with total loans exceeding $14 billion, while the traditional private credit market exceeds $3 trillion. Previously, Hashed obtained a financial services permission from the Abu Dhabi Global Market and signed a memorandum of understanding with the Abu Dhabi Investment Office.
Odaily News: This acquisition will enhance Bookit's ability to provide crypto institutions with native travel and experience booking platform access services, and strengthen the tokenization capabilities of on-chain points and interoperable rewards. As part of the acquisition of Spree.Finance, Animoca Brands will become a strategic investor and shareholder of Superlogic, and its Chief Operating Officer Minh Do will join the Superlogic advisory board. Following the completion of the acquisition, the Bookit ecosystem will add 27 white-label partners including Kraken, MetaMask, and EtherFi, and open a travel, retail, and VIP experience network covering over 2 million merchants to partners and end users.
Odaily News: The fund's investors include FalconX, Hutt Capital, Arrington Capital, as well as Nic Carter, Rob Hadick, and Jake Brukhman. The fund will primarily invest in Day Zero, Pre-Seed, and Seed stage crypto startups, with individual investments ranging from $250,000 to $750,000, focusing on open financial infrastructure and decentralized AI, and plans to deploy over the next 3 to 4 years.
"White-Haired Stock Guru" Serenity posted on X platform, stating that traditional value investing appears to have entered a "hibernation period." In the past, investors would look for companies with P/E ratios of 10 to 12 times, slow growth but able to compound value through cash flow buybacks and dividends. Now the market has even seen companies with a P/E ratio of just 1.8 times and revenue growing 605.24% year-over-year, and the main thing investors need to discuss is how long the growth can last. In addition, Sumitomo of Japan has a P/E ratio of only 16.2 times, but it has a large number of long-term agreements with hyperscale cloud service providers in its AI-related businesses, from optical fiber to lasers.Serenity believes that AI has created a greater valuation mispricing in the medium term, gradually shifting "value investing" toward high-growth "deep value" companies.