Tuesday, October 27: Ripple gets its bank charter. Meta's $95B raise pulls in Nvidia. Russia keeps selling gold.
The Triple Tape for Tuesday, October 27, 2026: crypto, stocks, and metals in one quick morning pass. Crypto: OCC gives Ripple final approval for a national trust bank; Strategy pauses bitcoin buys and buys back $205M of STRC; Canada drafts stablecoin rules with a yield ban; the NBA signs a CFTC prediction-market pact; Ethereum merges a Glamsterdam deposit fix. Tape: Quant, Aave, Arbitrum. Stocks: Meta plans a $95B raise with Nvidia investing $3B; Anthropic makes its IPO filing public; Microsoft offers buyouts to about 60,000 employees; the FTC and 20 states sue Dollar General; China's…
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