LONDON – October 27, 2026 -- Solana Foundation has named 37 additional speakers for Solana Breakpoint 2026, taking place 15-17 November at Olympia London, adding UK political figures and executives from payments, banking and market infrastructure to the program.

MENLO PARK – October 27, 2026 -- Meta Platforms raised the size of its Class A common stock offering to $25.0 billion from $22.5 billion and priced a parallel offering of 6.50% mandatory convertible preferred stock expected to net about $12.5 billion.

European Union – October 27, 2026 -- The EU will switch to T+1 settlement on 11 October 2027, and the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) says the regulatory framework is now complete. ESMA is calling on market participants to finalise technical preparations, assess readiness across their entire ecosystems and start testing across the trading and settlement chain as soon as possible.

European Union – October 27, 2026 -- The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has finalised its revised Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) guidelines on delaying the disclosure of inside information, adding five legitimate interests that issuers can cite to justify a delay.

EU – October 27, 2026 -- The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has defined the conditions that providers and users of post-trade risk reduction (PTRR) services must meet for certain OTC derivative transactions to be exempt from the clearing obligation under EMIR 3.

United States – October 27, 2026 -- Only 14% of organizations using AI say it reduced their total workforce in the past year, down from the 32% that expected cuts a year earlier, according to McKinsey's State of AI 2026. Two-thirds report little or no AI-related change in employment.

Inside finance, Deloitte found that 84% of finance organizations have yet to redesign jobs or the nature of work around AI. AI is therefore landing on finance teams that look much like they did before.

NORTH AMERICA – October 27, 2026 -- Finance leaders now answer for both AI trust and AI spending. In Deloitte's Finance Trends 2027 survey of more than 1,400 finance leaders, 48% oversee AI trust, covering the reliability, accuracy and explainability of AI output, and 48% manage AI spending and cost controls. More than two-thirds of the leaders holding these responsibilities took them on within the past three years.

Miami – October 21, 2026 -- Miami International Holdings (NYSE: MIAX) has launched four physically-settled fertilizer futures contracts on MIAX Futures, giving the agricultural supply chain an exchange-traded tool to manage price risk in imported crop nutrients.

Lincoln – October 19, 2026 -- Ameritas is expanding advisor recruiting and business development through Ameritas Investment Company (AIC) and Ameritas Advisory Services (AAS), which together support more than 550 financial professionals and oversee $22.2 billion in customer assets.

Beijing – October 19, 2026 -- The 2026 Annual Conference of Financial Street Forum opened in Beijing with more than 400 guests from around the world, running four days under the theme of building an open, collaborative and inclusive ecosystem for global financial development.