Brokerage and financial infrastructure startup Alpaca has raised $135 million in equity and $300 million in debt, as it looks to expand a business that helps investors trade across financial markets using artificial intelligence agents.

Options on SK Hynix Inc.’s American Depository Receipts began trading on US options exchanges Tuesday, giving traders in the world’s largest derivatives market easier access to the volatile South Korean memory chipmaker.

Rabid interest in the World Cup has helped to drive more than $3 billion of wagers on a prediction market backed by Robinhood Markets Inc. and Susquehanna International Group, which launched just a few months ago.

Susquehanna International Group has lined up $500 million to work with institutions that want to use prediction markets to hedge the economic risks associated with various World Cup outcomes.

The higher the rally in technology high-flyers, the louder the anxiety around a new wave of turbulence in the group.

The higher the rally in technology high-flyers, the louder the anxiety around a new wave of turbulence in the group.

Normally, a three-month, 30% rally in the Nasdaq 100 Index would tempt investors to take the money and run. But right now, they’re betting the advance is just getting started.

Cboe Global Markets Inc. is seeking US regulatory approval to list all-or-nothing options tied to corporate earnings results, allowing traders to wager on figures ranging from SpaceX revenue and Nvidia data-center sales to JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s credit-loss provisions.

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. announced Tuesday that it has brought back a type of S&P 500 contract after a hiatus of more than a decade, which in the meantime has become a popular mainstay of prediction market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket.

Turkish financial technologies firm Midas has applied to the central bank for an electronic money institution license as it seeks to launch digital consumer payments products.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. options were among the most heavily traded among US companies on Tuesday, helping to spur an early 17% gain in the rocket maker in its third day of trading.

The cost to fund US equity positions is surging unexpectedly, as a combination of the AI-driven stock rally, the massive growth of leveraged ETFs and SpaceX’s $75 billion public listing tests Wall Street’s market plumbing.

Options contracts on Space Exploration Technologies Corp. will begin trading Tuesday after shares began trading on Friday.

Options contracts on Space Exploration Technologies Corp. will begin trading Tuesday after shares began trading on Friday.

Friday’s sudden equities rout after a months-long rally is renewing concerns that the unwinding of crowded trades could exacerbate market losses.

Crypto finance conglomerate Galaxy Digital Inc. has launched a trading desk to offer large investors better access to prediction markets via over-the-counter derivatives similar to those used in markets from interest rates to commodities.

The dominance of a few technology giants in the benchmark S&P 500 Index is now carrying over into the niche market for dividend futures and options.

The dominance of a few technology giants in the benchmark S&P 500 Index is now carrying over into the niche market for dividend futures and options.

Citadel Securities lost its bid to block IEX Group Inc. from launching a new type of options exchange that intentionally slows orders, after a federal appeals court on Friday rejected the market maker’s challenge.

Architect Financial Technologies, an offshore derivatives exchange operator, has bought a US-regulated trading venue as it seeks to launch a futures market in computing power and other artificial intelligence commodities.