The U.S. Senate will resume discussions this week on the CLARITY bill, a digital asset market-structure measure. The biggest variable is expected to be ethics provisions addressing conflicts of interest for elected officials involved in crypto, rather than the bill’s regulatory content. Democrats say they may withhold support without such language, while some Republicans want the issue handled separately. Banks also object to parts of the text, adding uncertainty to prospects for passage.

IBK Industrial Bank of Korea is introducing an AI-based system to check for potential misselling risks that may arise after investment products are sold. The bank aims to raise the level of financial consumer protection by automating its post-sale management process, which had relied mainly on manual work. The system analyses post-sale product data, customers\' investment experience and abnormal transaction patterns to automatically identify potential risk factors.