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Last update: 8 hours agoWorkplace & Talent: ACES Quality Management was named a 2026 Best Place to Work in Financial Technology for the fourth straight year, highlighting employee engagement and leadership openness. Prediction Markets Go Mainstream: Polymarket teamed with Nasdaq Private Market to let users trade outcomes tied to private-company milestones—valuations, IPO timing, and secondary pricing—turning unicorns into bettable benchmarks. Payments Consolidation: NMI agreed to acquire Dwolla, aiming to strengthen embedded account-to-account and real-time money movement via API-first infrastructure. Crypto Regulation Pressure: Bitcoin ATM operator Bitcoin Depot shut down its 9,000+ network and filed for Chapter 11, blaming tighter state rules and compliance costs. AI Meets Finance: Google launched Gemini 3.5 Flash for coding and autonomous agent work, while Moment raised $78m to automate fixed-income and equity trading for wealth managers and banks. Crypto Market Mood: Bitcoin slipped below key levels amid ETF flow worries, while Zcash surged on fresh bullish technical signals.
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