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Financial Regulation News 16 December 2025 - 26 December 2025

Visa Stock (NYSE: V) Today: Price Holds Steady in Thin Post‑Christmas Trading as Investors Weigh Holiday Spending Data, Stablecoin Push, and Legal Headlines

Visa Stock (NYSE: V) Today: Price Holds Steady in Thin Post‑Christmas Trading as Investors Weigh Holiday Spending Data, Stablecoin Push, and Legal Headlines

New York time check: It is 3:27 p.m. ET on Friday, December 26, 2025 in New York, and U.S. markets are currently open for regular trading. Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) shares are little changed in late‑afternoon trading, moving with a subdued market that has returned from the Christmas holiday on notably lighter volume. AP News That “quiet tape” doesn’t mean Visa is short on catalysts. Over the past two weeks, headlines have clustered around three big themes that matter for Visa’s fundamentals and valuation: (1) holiday spending and consumer resilience, (2) Visa’s push into stablecoin settlement and AI-driven commerce, and
26 December 2025
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Hong Kong Targets 2026 Licensing Law for Crypto Dealers and Custodians as Insurers Face New Capital Charges

Hong Kong Targets 2026 Licensing Law for Crypto Dealers and Custodians as Insurers Face New Capital Charges

HONG KONG (Dec. 25, 2025) — Hong Kong is accelerating its bid to become a tightly regulated, institution-friendly digital asset hub, outlining a path toward 2026 legislation that would bring virtual asset (VA) dealers and crypto custodians under a mandatory licensing regime. At the same time, the city’s insurance regulator is moving in parallel, weighing a capital framework that would allow insurers to hold crypto—but at a steep cost—while creating incentives for infrastructure allocations that align with government development priorities. The Business Times Taken together, the moves signal a broader Hong Kong strategy: expand the regulatory perimeter beyond licensed trading
25 December 2025
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Wells Fargo (WFC) News on Dec. 25, 2025: Options Clearing Expansion, Investment Banking Push, and 2026 Outlook After Asset Cap Lift

Wells Fargo (WFC) News on Dec. 25, 2025: Options Clearing Expansion, Investment Banking Push, and 2026 Outlook After Asset Cap Lift

As the U.S. banking sector heads into year-end, Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is closing 2025 with a noticeably different narrative than the one investors and regulators have debated for much of the past decade: less about constraint, more about growth levers, fee momentum, and capital flexibility. The shift is being driven by a cluster of late-December developments—most notably a move into options clearing, an investment-banking hiring surge that has lifted the firm’s league-table standing, and a renewed focus on efficiency as CEO Charlie Scharf signals more workforce reductions in 2026. Reuters Layered on top is Wells Fargo Investment
25 December 2025
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Russia’s Crypto Pivot: Retail Trading Limits, Exchange Launch Plans, and Bitcoin Mining’s Ruble Link

Russia’s Crypto Pivot: Retail Trading Limits, Exchange Launch Plans, and Bitcoin Mining’s Ruble Link

Moscow — December 25, 2025. Russia is moving toward the most formal, retail-facing crypto regime it has ever proposed — but with guardrails designed to keep the market tightly supervised, limit household exposure, and preserve the ruble’s monopoly on domestic payments. At the center of the shift is a new concept paper from the Bank of Russia that would allow both retail (“non‑qualified”) and professional (“qualified”) investors to buy crypto through licensed intermediaries, under mandatory testing and strict limits for most citizens. Central Bank of Russia Today’s follow-up reporting (December 25) adds a key operational angle: Russia’s biggest exchanges say
25 December 2025
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Thai Baht Hits Four-Year High as Thailand Weighs Online Gold Tax and Trading Curbs; Ringgit Rallies and Singapore Stocks Break Records (Dec 23, 2025)

Thai Baht Hits Four-Year High as Thailand Weighs Online Gold Tax and Trading Curbs; Ringgit Rallies and Singapore Stocks Break Records (Dec 23, 2025)

Thailand’s baht surged to its strongest levels in more than four years on Tuesday, December 23, 2025, prompting an unusually coordinated response from Bangkok’s financial authorities—and putting the spotlight on a force that has quietly become one of Asia’s most influential currency drivers this year: gold. A rally in bullion, amplified by Thailand’s deep and highly active gold-trading ecosystem, has pushed the baht to the top of the region’s currency leaderboard. But the move is now creating headaches for policymakers and exporters at the same time Southeast Asian markets are being buoyed by a softer U.S. dollar, a year-end risk-on
24 December 2025
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Citigroup Stock Hits a Fresh 52-Week High as Regulators Ease Oversight and Wall Street Updates 2026 Outlook

Citigroup Stock Hits a Fresh 52-Week High as Regulators Ease Oversight and Wall Street Updates 2026 Outlook

Dec. 22, 2025 — Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) is ending the year with momentum. In Monday trading, Citigroup stock pushed to a new 52‑week high and traded around $118, extending a powerful 2025 rally that has been driven by a mix of turnaround execution, capital return, and—most recently—regulatory overhang starting to lift. Investing.com+1 For investors trying to separate signal from noise, today’s Citi story is less about a single headline and more about a cluster of developments that collectively support the “simplification + risk-control repair + returns” thesis CEO Jane Fraser has been selling for years—now with outside validation from
22 December 2025
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Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in Focus: ASIC’s $150m Capital Charge, CHESS Replacement Milestones, and the ASX 200 Outlook Into 2026

Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in Focus: ASIC’s $150m Capital Charge, CHESS Replacement Milestones, and the ASX 200 Outlook Into 2026

SYDNEY — 21 December 2025 — Australia’s financial markets are heading into the final trading stretch of the year with the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) under unusually bright floodlights: regulators have imposed a significant additional capital requirement on the ASX operator, demanded sharper governance and accountability across clearing and settlement, and effectively tied future “business as usual” to demonstrable technology resilience. ASIC+2Reuters+2 At the same time, the broader sharemarket — often casually called “the ASX” by investors — is trying to navigate a familiar end‑of‑year cocktail: thinner liquidity, “Santa rally” speculation, global tech volatility, commodity cross‑currents, and an interest‑rate debate
21 December 2025
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Shanghai Stock Exchange Update (Dec. 20, 2025): Shanghai Composite Near 3,900 as Foreign Bond Repo Access, Rumor Crackdown, and 2026 Sector Calls Collide

Shanghai Stock Exchange Update (Dec. 20, 2025): Shanghai Composite Near 3,900 as Foreign Bond Repo Access, Rumor Crackdown, and 2026 Sector Calls Collide

SHANGHAI / BEIJING — December 20, 2025. The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) is heading into the final stretch of 2025 with a familiar China-market cocktail: a consumer-led bounce, policy-driven thematic trades, and a tightening web of market governance—plus a notable step in opening the exchange bond market to overseas institutions. Friday’s onshore session (Dec. 19) delivered the headline that traders love because it’s both simple and symbolic: the Shanghai Composite briefly reclaimed the 3,900 level intraday, before ending the day just under it—still up, still green, and still pulling attention back to “old economy” consumer names after a long tech-led
20 December 2025
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Meta Platforms (META) Stock News Today (Dec. 18, 2025): EU Privacy Ruling, IRS Tax Fight, and Wall Street’s 2026 AI Forecasts

Meta Platforms (META) Stock News Today (Dec. 18, 2025): EU Privacy Ruling, IRS Tax Fight, and Wall Street’s 2026 AI Forecasts

Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: META) is ending Thursday, December 18, 2025, in the middle of a classic “good news / big risk” tug-of-war: the stock is rising with the broader market, while investors digest a potentially precedent-setting European privacy ruling, an escalating U.S. tax dispute, and a fresh round of analyst forecasts tied to Meta’s expensive AI buildout. As of 16:28 UTC, Meta shares were trading around $667, up roughly 2.7% on the session. The move is outperforming broad U.S. market proxies on the day, with the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) up about 1.2% and the Nasdaq-100 ETF (QQQ) up
18 December 2025
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USD Coin (USDC-USD) Price Today and Forecast: USDC Holds Near $1 as New U.S. Rules, Visa Settlement, and Bank Adoption Reshape 2026 Outlook

USD Coin (USDC-USD) Price Today and Forecast: USDC Holds Near $1 as New U.S. Rules, Visa Settlement, and Bank Adoption Reshape 2026 Outlook

December 18, 2025 — USD Coin (USDC-USD) is doing exactly what a fiat-backed stablecoin was designed to do: hover extremely close to $1.00. But while the price barely moves, the story around USDC is moving fast this week—driven by U.S. regulation, big payment-network integration, and a widening race among banks and fintechs to issue “digital dollars” at scale. fdic.gov+3CoinGecko+3CoinDesk+3 USDC-USD price today: around $1.00, with tiny “micro-wobbles” As of Thursday, December 18, 2025, USDC is trading essentially flat around the peg: Those small dips below $1 (like $0.9998) are normal market “plumbing” effects: liquidity, fees, and localized supply/demand on exchanges.
18 December 2025
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TeraWulf (WULF) Stock News Today (Dec. 17, 2025): AI Data Center Pivot, Bitcoin Volatility, Dilution Fears, and a High-Stakes Zoning Fight

TeraWulf (WULF) Stock News Today (Dec. 17, 2025): AI Data Center Pivot, Bitcoin Volatility, Dilution Fears, and a High-Stakes Zoning Fight

TeraWulf Inc. (NASDAQ: WULF) is back in the spotlight on Wednesday, December 17, 2025—but not for the reasons bulls may prefer. After one of the most explosive rallies in the Bitcoin-miner-turned-AI-infrastructure theme this year, WULF stock is sliding again, caught between near-term crypto sensitivity and a longer-term narrative built around high-performance computing (HPC) and AI data center leasing. As of late trading (18:28 UTC), WULF was at about $11.81, down roughly 9% on the day, with heavy volume and a wide intraday range that underscores how quickly sentiment can swing in this name. At the same time, Bitcoin itself is
17 December 2025
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PayPal Stock (PYPL) News on Dec. 16, 2025: PayPal Seeks a U.S. Bank Charter—What It Means for Investors

PayPal Stock (PYPL) News on Dec. 16, 2025: PayPal Seeks a U.S. Bank Charter—What It Means for Investors

PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL) is in the spotlight on December 16, 2025 after the company disclosed it has submitted applications to create “PayPal Bank,” a proposed Utah‑chartered industrial loan company (ILC)—a move that could reshape how PayPal funds lending, offers savings products, and connects to major card networks. PayPal Newsroom+2Reuters+2 The headline is simple: PayPal wants to become more “bank-like” in the U.S. The investing implications are less simple—because a bank charter can mean new revenue opportunities and operational efficiency, but also tighter oversight, new compliance costs, and credit risk. Below is the full breakdown of today’s news flow,
16 December 2025
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Stock Market Today

Seagate (STX) stock jumps nearly 6% as Citi hikes target — what to watch next week

Seagate (STX) stock jumps nearly 6% as Citi hikes target — what to watch next week

7 February 2026
Seagate shares rose 5.9% to $429.32 Friday after Citigroup raised its price target to $480 and reiterated a buy rating. The gain ended a two-day slide but left the stock 6.6% below its Feb. 3 high. CEO Dave Mosley sold 20,000 shares on Feb. 2 under a pre-arranged plan, SEC filings show. U.S. jobs and inflation data next week are seen as key tests for tech stocks.
Cummins (CMI) stock price rebounds after earnings whipsaw as investors eye data-center power demand

Cummins (CMI) stock price rebounds after earnings whipsaw as investors eye data-center power demand

7 February 2026
Cummins shares jumped 6.8% to $577.73 Friday, recovering from a nearly 9% post-earnings drop the day before. The company reported Q4 revenue up 1% to $8.54 billion, took a $218 million charge tied to its hydrogen business, and guided for 2026 EBITDA of 17–18% of sales. Demand for data center generators offset weakness in North American truck markets. Analyst reaction was mixed; Truist raised its price target.
Corning stock hits first record close since 2000 as jobs, CPI data loom

Corning stock hits first record close since 2000 as jobs, CPI data loom

7 February 2026
Corning shares surged 8.3% to $122.16 Friday, their highest close since the dot-com era, after Meta agreed to buy up to $6 billion in fiber-optic cables. The stock is up 40% since late 2025, fueled by strong first-quarter guidance and AI data-center demand. Insiders sold shares following the rally, SEC filings show. Investors await next week’s U.S. jobs and inflation data for rate signals.
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