Retail investors in dozens of countries now have a route into the largest initial public offering in history at the offer price, thanks to a product launch that places crypto exchange infrastructure at the centre of a market traditionally controlled by investment banks. Bybit, the world's second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, launched Bybit IPO Express on 7 June 2026, giving eligible users the ability to subscribe to tokenized representations of SpaceX sha

With a round led by 8VC, the San Francisco startup is targeting the back-office bottleneck that costs financial institutions billions in redundant manual labour, and it already has results to show. Saris, a San Francisco-based agentic workflow platform built for banks and credit unions, raised $28.8 million in Series A financing on 28 May 2026. The round was led by 8VC, the Austin-based venture firm with over $6 billion in assets under management, with co-investment from Auda

Anthropic ships Wall Street-ready AI agents and FIS jumps in. BlackRock files two new tokenized funds. Google warns the quantum clock is ticking faster than the cybersecurity industry expected. This is the week finance's frontier technologies stopped being a 2030 thesis and started becoming a 2026 line item. Anthropic walks into the bank The headline of the week, by a comfortable margin, is Anthropic's full-throttle push into financial services. According to Fortune (5 May, 2

This week, financial services got fresh evidence that the era of "trust but verify" is over. The new motto: verify, verify, then verify again — preferably with a biometric. If 2025 was the year financial services started worrying about AI-enabled fraud, 2026 is the year the worry turned into a line item. As of this week, fresh disclosures, a regulatory rollout from FINRA, and the steady arrival of DORA's enforcement teeth are reshaping how banks, fintechs, and crypto platform