Daily brief
October 20, 2026
3 stories curated for this day.
- A Google Cloud failure in the provider's London region on Tuesday morning disrupted Revolut, leaving the fintech's customers unable to use its app or pay by card. A person familiar with the matter told Reuters that Revolut's outage was related to the Google Cloud failure. Sources: thenextweb (opens in a new tab)
- Kraken has launched multi-account trading for Kraken Prop on Kraken Desktop, now live for prop evaluations and funded accounts. A trade placed on a leader account is automatically copied to selected follower accounts at the same quantity or scaled proportionally to each follower's equity, included with Kraken Desktop at no additional cost. Sources: kraken (opens in a new tab)
- Thunes has expanded its Direct Global Network into Venezuela, giving network members including banks, money transfer operators, payment service providers and gig economy platforms real-time payout capabilities to millions of bank accounts via the local Credito Inmediato Interbancario instant interbank platform, as well as to mobile wallets and cash pickup locations across the country. Sources: thunes (opens in a new tab)