Reported by Laz Pieper (Summary shared below. To see full report, go to: https://www.coindesk.com/opinion/2026/09/09/kyc-data-is-an-irresistible-honeypot-for-hackers-and-we-must-change-how-it-is-collected) The article argues that the way financial institutions and other businesses collect identity information may be creating a security problem of its own. Recent reports of a dark-web service offering more than 153 million U.S. and Canadian driver’s-license records, along with […]

Reported by Martin Arnold and Stephanie Stacey (Excerpt shared below. To read full report, go to: https://www.ft.com/content/58e9a70f-29c2-4f44-8531-00fc399ebbe0?syn-25a6b1a6=1) Prediction markets are “rife with insider trading” and expose investors to serious risks of losses and exploitation by more sophisticated players, according to the EU’s main market watchdog, in a warning that reveals a growing divergence with the US. The […]