Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that dollar-linked stablecoins could hit $2 trillion or even more as he reiterated the potential for these digital assets to strengthen the greenback’s position in the global financial system.

US regulators have asked Wall Street firms racing to launch Solana exchange-traded funds to revise their paperwork, a sign that the novel crypto investment products may be available to investors soon.

The Senate advanced bipartisan stablecoin legislation supported by the crypto industry and President Donald Trump, with final passage of the measure likely next week.

Two men accused of kidnapping and torturing an Italian tourist in an attempt to force him to turn over access to his cryptocurrency accounts pleaded not guilty to an indictment charging them with first-degree kidnapping.

The Supreme Court of Spain upheld an appeal by Deloitte, overturning a 10.4 million euro ($12 million) fine against the Big Four accounting firm for its audit work for Spanish lender Bankia in 2011 ahead of an initial public offering.

Stripe Inc. agreed to acquire crypto wallet provider Privy, building on the payment company’s recent acquisition of stablecoin infrastructure firm Bridge.

An AstraZeneca Plc affiliate suffered a greater than $180 million court loss Wednesday over its lackluster efforts to commercialize a drug connected to an acquisition priced at up to $1.2 billion.

As the pace of wealthy individuals leaving London quickens, the numbers are starting to stack up: Labour’s flagship “tax the rich” policy risks becoming a net drain on the UK economy.

As Congress weighs the future of auditor oversight, SEC staff are being pressed to take up standard setting and inspections—two key functions currently handled by the US audit regulator.

The Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board resigned en masse to protest what it called unprecedented interference after the Trump administration denied a significant number of US academics from receiving the prestigious awards.

The fate of President Donald Trump’s trade war lies in the hands of the courts as a legal battle plays out over his use of emergency powers to impose tariffs.

Solving the global fertility crisis would require creating conditions that support parenting instead of pushing economic incentives, according to a new UN report.

Any legislative approach to kids safety also needs to weigh privacy principles such as data minimization, tech lobbyists argued Wednesday at an event in Washington, D.C.

A former Google LLC software engineer accused of stealing the company’s artificial intelligence trade secrets and bringing them to the People’s Republic of China failed to escape his federal criminal indictment.

The US Supreme Court is pausing automated email notifications for court actions after it accidentally sent alerts in pending cases three days early last week.

Google LLC’s $62 million privacy class action settlement, which likely would have provided millions of class members just a few cents each, left a panel of federal appeals court judges wrestling with the fairness of allocating the funds to advocacy groups instead.

A former SogoTrade investor is suing the online brokerage firm, blaming poor data security practices for a data breach that went undiscovered for nearly a year.

The impending bankruptcy sale of genetic analysis company 23andMe should be conditioned on the ultimate purchaser’s commitment to maintain a policy of licensing customer data for health research and non-exclusive drug development, a group of academics argued.

The Federal Circuit took the rare procedural step of electing to hear a case challenging President Donald Trump’s tariff program as a full court from the outset, rather than starting with the traditional three-judge panel.

A developer appealing a denied tax beak “ignores the facts and the law, but also common sense” in arguing it could’ve quadrupled the height of a Cleveland building, the government told the Sixth Circuit Wednesday.

The head of the Justice Department policy office with a key role in judicial nominations is stepping down after less than three months on the job.

A federal appeals court dismissed a case that sought to revive a Biden-era rule limiting the use of indemnity insurance after the Trump administration asked to drop its appeal of a lower court’s decision that nixed the regulation.

The US Supreme Court is pausing automated email notifications for court actions after it accidentally sent alerts in pending cases three days early last week.

A US House panel advanced bipartisan legislation that would restrict the size of newly constructed federal courthouses as part of broader efforts to clamp down on federal spending.