Daily brief

June 11, 2026

4 stories curated for this day.

Starling Group achieved record pricing for its debut £150m Tier 2 bond, the first rated public sale by a European neobank, after investors oversubscribed the offering. Sources: starlingbank (opens in a new tab)
Binance launches bStocks, tokenized securities backed 1:1 by underlying assets with 24/7 trading. Sources: binance (opens in a new tab)
Kraken was recognized on Fortune's inaugural Crypto 100 list for its role in building global financial infrastructure. Sources: kraken (opens in a new tab)
Paymentology CTO Tim Joslyn argued that agentic commerce's key challenge is identity, delegated authority, and AI-native fraud controls—not payment rails, which can already process agent transactions. Sources: pymnts (opens in a new tab)