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QRIS Cross-Border is now used for payments between Indonesia and Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, and China. Indonesian travellers can use participating domestic payment applications to scan partner-country QR codes, while visitors from partner countries can pay Indonesian merchants through supported QRIS connectivity.The expansion means that travellers do not always need to rely on physical cards or exchange cash before leaving Indonesia. A user can enter the transaction amoun

Overview Meta shares rallied on Monday, October 12. The Motley Fool's intraday record shows the stock up as much as 4.7% before settling at roughly $742.96, a gain of 3.38% at 2:56 p.m. Eastern, for a market capitalization near $1.9 trillion and a price close to the top of a 52-week range running from $520.26 to $779.82. The catalyst was specific: Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full that morning. What repriced was not a product launch so much as a question that has hung over the stock

Overview Solana completed its most closely watched parameter change of the year on October 9. According to Solana's official upgrade page, the final step of SIMD-0525 took effect on mainnet at epoch 1053, around 14:35 UTC, cutting the target slot time from 400ms to 200ms. The network now has roughly five block production opportunities per second instead of about 2.5, and produces twice as many blocks per day. The reflexive reading is that Solana just doubled its throughput. That reading is wrong

Overview TSMC holds its third-quarter earnings call on October 15, but revenue is no longer the question. The company's 2026 monthly revenue disclosures show July, August and September sales of NT$467.58 billion, NT$514.81 billion and NT$511.86 billion, for a quarterly total near NT$1.494 trillion. Against the same three months of 2025, which totaled roughly NT$989.9 billion, that is growth of about 50.9%. Revenue for the first nine months stands at NT$3.899 trillion, up 41.1%. With the top line

Overview The US consumer price index for September lands on October 14 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time, which is 8:30 p.m. in Singapore. The print matters more than the past several releases, not because of the number itself but because of where it sits in the policy calendar. The Federal Reserve delivered its first hike in more than three years on September 16, the next meeting falls on October 27 and 28, and whether a second hike arrives in December remains an open trade. Current pricing is split in

Overview A supply chain report knocked Apple shares lower on October 9. Citing its own sources, Nikkei Asia said Apple asked some suppliers to reduce October component orders for the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max by at least 15% from the original request, with some accounts putting the range at 15% to 20%. Reuters relayed the report the same day, attributing every detail to Nikkei without independent confirmation, and Apple has not commented. Benzinga's intraday record shows AAPL down 2.47% at $332

Overview The selloff that began late on October 8 and ran into the early hours of October 9 wiped out roughly $1.19 billion of leveraged crypto positions in 24 hours. According to CoinDesk's account of the flush, Ethereum positions accounted for about $356 million against Bitcoin's $298 million, even though ether's market value is less than a fifth of bitcoin's. Adjusted for market capitalization, roughly $1.2 million was liquidated per $1 billion of ether's market value, against about $180,000

Overview Six of the largest US banks report third-quarter results across two days next week. According to Reuters' October 8 preview, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Wells Fargo report on October 13, with Bank of America and Morgan Stanley following on October 14. Wells Fargo's own earnings calendar notice confirms results at approximately 7:00 a.m. Eastern time with a 10:00 a.m. call. What makes this reporting week worth front-running is the gap between estimates and share prices. The sa

Overview US equities closed October 8 with the Nasdaq Composite at 27,193.34, down 1.25%, and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index off 3.4%. The damage was concentrated well below the index level, in the companies whose forward revenue depends most heavily on a single customer. Broadcom closed at $360.14, down about 4.4% after trading 5.1% lower intraday. Oracle fell 5.58%, Nvidia lost 2.9%, AMD dropped close to 4%, Arm, Intel and Marvell each fell more than 6%, and Micron slid more than 5%. The

Overview Securitize went live with Securitize Stocks on October 8, putting Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia and other US equities onchain. According to Crypto Briefing's report, the tokens are issued as Convertible Entitlement Tokens, each backed one-for-one by a real share held at Securitize's regulated brokerage, trading on Solana and settling in USDC. The reason this matters is not that onchain equity exposure is new. Offshore synthetic tokens, stock perpetual futures and event contracts have all bee