Finance & Investment

New York – September 24, 2026 -- Paxos Labs has launched PAXGy, a gold-backed token that accrues value in gold terms by routing reserves into the multi-billion dollar institutional gold leasing market that has set bullion lending rates for four decades.

PAXGy deploys PAXG reserves into a market previously closed to retail holders

Holders deposit PAXG or swap accepted stablecoins for PAXGy, which is redeemable for PAXG at any time. The underlying gold is deployed to a network of vetted institutional borrowers -- refiners, jewelry manufacturers, miners and bullion banks -- through the same leasing market that has priced bullion lease rates for decades. As reserves are deployed, value accrues to the PAXGy exchange rate, meaning each token becomes worth more PAXG over time and holders can exit with more notional ounces than their principal.

Washington – September 24, 2026 -- The Block and The Hill will launch Capitol Crypto Forum, a new event series pairing Washington policy access with digital asset industry expertise, debuting November 19 in Washington, D.C.

Debut event follows midterm elections to catch new Congress

The inaugural gathering, Capitol Crypto Forum: First Look, is an invitation-only, half-day event scheduled shortly after the 2026 midterm elections, timed to reach lawmakers as a new Congress takes shape.

Event to convene regulators and industry executives on market structure, stablecoins

The forum will bring together lawmakers, regulators, policymakers and senior executives from digital asset and financial services firms for keynote conversations, roundtables and smaller discussions. Topics will include digital asset market structure, stablecoins, tokenization, financial innovation and blockchain's role in the financial system.

Miami – – September 24, 2026 -- Miami International Holdings, Inc. (MIAX) announced that its futures commission merchant, Dorman Trading, has become a clearing member of The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC), the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization.

MIAX injects $40 million into its FCM, lifting adjusted net capital to $68 million

The capital increase, effective as of August 31, 2026, raises Dorman Trading's adjusted net capital to approximately $68 million. MIAX said the additional funding is intended to accelerate the FCM's growth strategy and expand its capacity to serve a broader client base.

NEW YORK – September 24, 2026 -- XDI (Cross Dependency Initiative) and Veridion have launched a partnership that merges engineering-based climate risk modeling with corporate site intelligence covering roughly 600 million companies and more than two billion buildings worldwide.

XDI's climate models now draw on Veridion's global building and company database

The tie-up combines XDI's Multiple Company Intelligence (MCI) platform, which already assesses physical climate risk across more than 40,000 companies and subsidiaries, with Veridion's site-level data on operational activity, scale and status. XDI CEO Dr Karl Mallon said Veridion's data lets analysts understand what happens at each site and how critical it is to the wider business, enabling more sophisticated risk and resilience questions.

New York – – September 24, 2026 -- More than 750 business leaders, investors and policymakers concluded the UN Global Compact's 2026 Leaders Summit in New York, pressing companies to convert sustainability commitments into measurable capital, operational and supply-chain decisions amid geopolitical uncertainty and economic volatility.

Global Compact plans shared infrastructure by 2027 to de-risk sustainable investment

The two-day summit, held during UN General Assembly high-level week, focused on Driving Sustainable Growth and Resilience. The Global Compact announced plans to build shared infrastructure by 2027 spanning climate, living wages, gender equality and sustainable finance, aimed at aggregating demand, de-risking investments and scaling solutions across global value chains.

San Francisco – September 23, 2026 -- None of the 15 major institutions interviewed by Bitwise Asset Management reduced their crypto allocations during a roughly 50% market drawdown between Q4 2025 and Q2 2026, with several increasing positions instead, according to the firm's new Institutional Crypto Adoption report.

Bitwise, a crypto asset manager overseeing $9 billion in client assets, conducted in-depth interviews with senior investment professionals at endowments, foundations, public pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, multi-family offices, investment consultants, and public companies to determine what institutions hold, why, and what would trigger a sale.

Waltham, Mass. – September 23, 2026 -- Veralto Corporation (NYSE: VLTO) has approved a quarterly cash dividend of $0.13 per share of common stock, the company announced.

Veralto sets October 30 payout date for shareholders of record

The dividend will be paid on October 30, 2026 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on September 30, 2026. Veralto, a global provider of water and product quality solutions, reports annual sales of approximately $5.5 billion.

Board decision reflects routine capital return to investors

The Waltham, Massachusetts-headquartered company employs approximately 17,000 associates globally. Veralto's board authorized the payout as part of its ongoing quarterly dividend program.

San Francisco – September 23, 2026 -- Juniper Square, which operates as the technology and fund administration partner for more than 2,300 private markets general partners (GPs) worldwide, has launched Capital Intelligence, a new CRM product that embeds Nasdaq eVestment Market Lens institutional data directly into GPs' existing investor relations workflows.

Product taps a database of 30,000+ institutional firms and 70,000+ mandates

Capital Intelligence is built on Nasdaq eVestment Market Lens, which covers more than 30,000 institutional firms, 70,000-plus mandates, and 100,000-plus investment professionals. The tool automatically refreshes investor and consultant records inside Juniper Square's CRM, combining structured relationship data with qualitative signals such as pacing plans, consultant sentiment, and allocation trends.

Manama – September 23, 2026 -- Mo Gawdat, former Chief Business Officer of Google X, has joined the speaker lineup for Fintech Forward 2026, set to take place 7-8 October 2026 at Exhibition World Bahrain under the theme 'Finance in the Age of Intelligent Infrastructure'.

Gawdat brings 27 years of tech leadership to the financial services debate

Gawdat's career spans IBM, NCR, Microsoft and Google, where he helped launch nearly half of Google's global operations before leading business at Google X, the lab behind self-driving cars, Project Loon and Makani. He is also founder of the One Billion Happy movement, host of the Slo Mo podcast, and author of bestsellers including Solve for Happy, Scary Smart and Unstressable.

Trenton – September 22, 2026 -- New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill has signed bipartisan legislation (A5016/S4218) creating an Employee Ownership Transition Program and a revolving loan fund at the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) to finance conversions of businesses into employee-owned firms.

NJEDA revives a financing model that returned ninefold on its original loan

The new Employee Ownership Revolving Loan Fund reactivates a mechanism NJEDA first used 50 years ago to finance the employee buyout of the Okonite Company in Passaic County. That original loan was fully repaid and revolved nine times over; Okonite remains 100% employee-owned today and has distributed more than $300 million in ESOP payouts to workers. The fund can draw capital from state appropriations, federal sources including U.S. Economic Development Administration grants, and philanthropic capital.