The crypto market is looking strong on Sept. 17, with the majority of leading coins moving into positive territory.
It has been revealed that the UK is set to announce a new crypto regulatory agreement with the US after a high-level meeting in London between Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
The partnership will center on stablecoins, capital markets alignment, and digital asset sandboxes.
The move comes as Trump’s pro-crypto policies speed up US adoption, which raises concerns that UK firms could lag behind.
Forward Industries, a Nasdaq-listed company, has filed for an ATM equity offering of up to $4 billion to support its Solana-focused treasury strategy. This program will enable the firm to issue and sell common stock through Cantor Fitzgerald as its sales agent.
The offering falls under an automatic shelf registration with the SEC, which allows large public companies to raise capital efficiently. While the maximum amount is set at $4 billion, Forward emphasized that sales will depend on prevailing market conditions.
After 12 years of dormancy, a Bitcoin whale transferred 1,000 BTC, worth about $116 million at current prices, just before the Fed’s rate decision.
The coins were originally bought for $847 each and held untouched for over a decade.
BitGo announced that its subsidiary, BitGo Europe GmbH, has secured an extension of its license from Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin).
European institutional investors can now access BitGo’s crypto OTC trading desk and high-performance electronic platform for spot trading across thousands of digital assets and stablecoins.
London-based fintech firm LMAX Group has launched leveraged crypto derivatives, introducing perpetual futures contracts linked to Bitcoin and Ether for institutional investors.
The exchange, which handles over $40 billion in daily spot trading across FX and digital assets, said the decision responds to client demand for higher-leverage access to cryptocurrency markets.