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Bitpanda rules out London IPO, eyes Frankfurt or New York
Bitpanda co-founder Eric Demuth announced that the Vienna-based crypto exchange will not pursue a public listing in London. The company is evaluating Frankfurt and New York as potential venues, with New York described by Demuth as the more likely option. 
The UK government is set to convince financial firm Revolut, which also offers cryptocurrency services, to conduct its initial public offering (IPO) in London rather than New York. City Minister Tulip Siddiq plans to meet with company representatives this fall to discuss the proposal. 
Coinbase, Mastercard in talks to buy BVNK for $2.5 billion
Coinbase and Mastercard are in advanced, separate talks to acquire BVNK, a London-based provider of stablecoin infrastructure. Source Fortune says the potential sale would value BVNK between $1.5 billion and $2.5 billion. No agreement has been reached and the talks could end without a deal. 
UK firms eye overseas listings as valuation discounts persist
A large majority of London‑listed companies have considered moving their listing or adding a dual listing in the past 12 months, with Amsterdam emerging as the most popular destination, according to Deutsche Numis. More than 80% of 150 executives and directors said they reviewed their structure; nearly two‑thirds reported pressure from external stakeholders. UK lobbyists call for blockchain in U.S. tech deal
Ahead of Donald Trump's visit to London, representatives of British financial and technological organizations have sent a collective letter to UK Business and Trade Secretary Peter Kyle, urging him to include blockchain technology in future economic agreements with the United States. 
Bloomberg reports that Standard Chartered, a multinational financial corporation, is developing its own platform for trading Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH). This new division will operate as part of the bank's global banking sector, with its management hub based in London. 
British autonomous vehicle manufacturer Wayve Technologies announces the opening of a new research and development hub in Vancouver, Canada, marking its third establishment following London and Mountain View in California. The initiative will be spearheaded by the company's Chief Scientific Officer, Jamie Shotton. 
London's Herodotus, in collaboration with StarkWare, has launched an "on-chain accumulator" tool that lets users read and verify any part of Ethereum's history. This tackles Ethereum's current limitation of validating only the last 256 blockhashes.
The tool uses "storage proofs," a cryptographic method, to confirm the validity of data. This could be a game-changer for creating permissionless account recovery systems and insurance protocols that rely on historical on-chain data.