Day: May 20, 2026

Bitget Launches “Gold Fast or Go Home Challenge” for Gold CFD Trading

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Bitget Launches “Gold Fast or Go Home Challenge” for Gold CFD Trading

Bitget Launches “Gold Fast or Go Home Challenge” for Gold CFD Trading

VICTORIA, Seychelles, May 20, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bitget, the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), has launched the “Gold Fast or Go Home Challenge,” a global campaign built around faster access to gold CFD trading on the Bitget app. The campaign follows Bitget’s recent product update that moved TradFi products, including gold, forex, commodities, and indices, to a first-level homepage tab, reducing the number of steps required to access these markets directly from the homepage.

The challenge invites users to record themselves by opening the Bitget app, entering the TradFi section, and completing an XAUUSD gold CFD trade as quickly as possible. Participants will publish their attempts across social platforms as part of a global speed-based trading challenge designed around accessibility, execution flow, and real-time market participation. The campaign combines trading culture with short-form social content, turning product speed into a visible user experience.

The campaign reflects Bitget’s broader direction of bringing traditional financial assets closer to crypto-native trading environments through a unified interface. Users can move between crypto assets, tokenized products, forex pairs, commodities, and gold CFD markets from a single account structure without switching across multiple platforms, wallets, or trading systems.

“Users increasingly move between crypto and traditional financial markets within the same trading cycle, especially during periods shaped by macro volatility,” said Gracy Chen, CEO at Bitget. “We have designed the platform to make these markets more directly accessible inside the app. The challenge turns that trading flow into a public and community-driven experience that shows how multi-asset trading behavior is evolving.”

Gold trading activity has continued gaining traction globally as investors monitor interest rate expectations, central bank accumulation trends, inflation risks, and geopolitical uncertainty. Across digital asset platforms, gold CFDs have become one of the most actively monitored TradFi products during periods of elevated volatility, particularly as users look for faster access to macro-sensitive assets without leaving crypto-native trading environments.

The homepage TradFi integration forms part of Bitget’s wider Universal Exchange strategy focused on reducing fragmentation between digital assets and traditional financial markets. As more users diversify across asset classes, trading platforms are increasingly expected to support crypto, commodities, equities, FX, and tokenized assets within a single interface and collateral system. Bitget’s TradFi expansion reflects growing market demand for unified multi-asset access and faster capital movement between trading categories.

The launch also follows Bitget’s continued expansion of its TradFi offering across global markets. The platform currently provides access to crypto markets alongside tokenized stocks, ETFs, commodities, forex pairs, and precious metals such as gold within one trading ecosystem. In 2026, Bitget repositioned its TradFi section to the app homepage as part of a broader effort to simplify market access and improve execution efficiency across multi-asset trading activity.

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About Bitget

Bitget is the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), serving over 125 million users and offering access to over 2M crypto tokens, 100+ tokenized stocks, ETFs, commodities, FX, and precious metals such as gold. The ecosystem is committed to helping users trade smarter with its AI agent, which co-pilots trade execution. Bitget is driving crypto adoption through strategic partnerships with LALIGA and MotoGP™. Aligned with its global impact strategy, Bitget has joined hands with UNICEF to support blockchain education for 1.1 million people by 2027. Bitget currently leads in the tokenized TradFi market, providing the industry’s lowest fees and highest liquidity across 150 regions worldwide.

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Risk Warning: Digital asset prices are subject to fluctuation and may experience significant volatility. Investors are advised to only allocate funds they can afford to lose. The value of any investment may be impacted, and there is a possibility that financial objectives may not be met, nor the principal investment recovered. Independent financial advice should always be sought, and personal financial experience and standing carefully considered. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results. Bitget accepts no liability for any potential losses incurred. Nothing contained herein should be construed as financial advice. For further information, please refer to our Terms of Use.

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Bitget Brings Institutional-Grade Stablecoin Yield to All Users with USDGO, Offering Up to 4.3% APR

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Bitget Brings Institutional-Grade Stablecoin Yield to All Users with USDGO, Offering Up to 4.3% APR
Bitget Brings Institutional-Grade Stablecoin Yield to All Users with USDGO, Offering Up to 4.3% APR

Bitget Brings Institutional-Grade Stablecoin Yield to All Users with USDGO, Offering Up to 4.3% APR

VICTORIA, Seychelles, May 20, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bitget, the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), has launched USDGO, GO Uncapped, a passive earning initiative that allows users to earn up to 4.3% APR simply by holding USDGO in their spot or futures account on the platform, with no staking, no lock-up periods, no manual subscription, and no additional operations required. The holding calculation period runs from May 18, 2026, 4:00 PM (UTC) to June 15, 2026, 4:00 PM (UTC), with rewards distributed daily.

Stablecoins have become one of the most widely held and traded asset classes in crypto, with the total stablecoin market cap reaching an all-time high of $321 billion in April 2026, yet for most users they remain idle, parked between trades and generating nothing. As stablecoins mature into a recognized layer of global financial infrastructure, the expectation is shifting, where holding should not mean forgoing yield. The campaign is Bitget’s direct response to that shift, turning stablecoin ownership into a more seamless and accessible earning experience for everyday users.

The yield program is built around simplicity. Users who hold USDGO in an eligible spot or futures account automatically activate yield generation from the start of the calculation period. Rewards are distributed daily, and earnings scale with VIP level. Users at the base tier receive a minimum of 3.75% APR, while higher VIP participants earn as much as 4.3% APR. There is no cap on eligible holdings, meaning users at every scale, from retail participants to high-net-worth users, could put the full weight of their balance to work without constraint.

USDGO is a compliance-focused stablecoin issued by Anchorage Digital Bank and operated and distributed by OSL Group. Pegged 1:1 to the U.S. dollar and backed by high-quality liquid assets, it is built with a regulatory framework designed for institutional-grade use cases.

Bitget Brings Institutional-Grade Stablecoin Yield to All Users with USDGO, Offering Up to 4.3% APR
Bitget Brings Institutional-Grade Stablecoin Yield to All Users with USDGO, Offering Up to 4.3% APR

Bitget Brings Institutional-Grade Stablecoin Yield to All Users with USDGO, Offering Up to 4.3% APR

“Stablecoins have always been the most underutilized asset in a trader’s portfolio,” said Gracy Chen, CEO at Bitget. “USDGO, GO Uncapped challenges this equation. We’re giving every user on Bitget a direct and frictionless path to earning on the assets they already hold. This is what the Universal Exchange is built to deliver: financial tools that work harder for users, without asking more of them.”

Users can continue trading, use USDGO as futures margin where applicable, and still earn throughout the campaign period. For those looking to get started, USDGO is available directly via spot trading or through Bitget’s Convert feature, making it straightforward to swap existing assets into USDGO in seconds.

USDGO, GO Uncapped reflects Bitget’s broader commitment to making every asset more accessible and more efficient under a single, unified trading environment. As the UEX vision continues to take shape across crypto, tokenized stocks, commodities, and FX, integrating yield directly into stablecoin holding is a natural next step, positioning the platform as the world’s dominant liquidity and distribution hub for global asset trading.

For more information, please visit here to learn more about the campaign and here about USDGO.

About Bitget

Bitget is the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), serving over 125 million users and offering access to over 2M crypto tokens, 100+ tokenized stocks, ETFs, commodities, FX, and precious metals such as gold. The ecosystem is committed to helping users trade smarter with its AI agent, which co-pilots trade execution. Bitget is driving crypto adoption through strategic partnerships with LALIGA and MotoGP™. Aligned with its global impact strategy, Bitget has joined hands with UNICEF to support blockchain education for 1.1 million people by 2027. Bitget currently leads in the tokenized TradFi market, providing the industry’s lowest fees and highest liquidity across 150 regions worldwide.

For more information, visit: Website | Twitter | Telegram | LinkedIn | Discord

For media inquiries, please contact: [email protected] 

Risk Warning: Digital asset prices are subject to fluctuation and may experience significant volatility. Investors are advised to only allocate funds they can afford to lose. The value of any investment may be impacted, and there is a possibility that financial objectives may not be met, nor the principal investment recovered. Independent financial advice should always be sought, and personal financial experience and standing carefully considered. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results. Bitget accepts no liability for any potential losses incurred. Nothing contained herein should be construed as financial advice. For further information, please refer to our Terms of Use.

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Meltwater Wins 2026 PRWeek Global Award for “Best PR Software or AI Platform”

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The award recognizes Meltwater’s AI-powered innovations that provide actionable intelligence for PR, Communications and Marketing teams

SAN FRANCISCO, May 20, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Meltwater, the global leader in actionable intelligence for PR, Communications and Marketing teams, has been awarded the PRWeek Global Award for Best PR Software or AI Platform, recognizing the company’s leadership in building solutions that turn global media, social and AI signals into actionable intelligence organizations can rely on to make faster, more confident decisions.

The award reflects Meltwater’s continued investment in AI-powered innovations designed to help teams move beyond passive monitoring and toward proactive, intelligence-driven marketing and communications strategies.

Meltwater Helps Teams Move From Monitoring to Strategic Decision-Making

As narratives move increasingly fast across news, social and AI systems, teams are under growing pressure to understand and act on these shifts in real time. The award from PRWeek recognized several of Meltwater’s innovations built to help teams uncover insights faster, reduce manual work, and respond with confidence, including:

  • Mira, Meltwater’s AI-powered teammate, enables users to surface instant insights through a conversational interface simplifying complex workflows such as news briefings, media list building, brand monitoring, competitor analysis, consumer intelligence and more.
  • Explore+, Meltwater’s enterprise-grade intelligence platform, unifies media, social and AI signals together into one clear, trusted view of the brand, helping global organizations identify trends, collaborate across regions, and share trusted insights at scale.
  • GenAI Lens, the industry’s first large language model (LLM) monitoring solution, gives brands visibility into how they are represented across major AI assistants including ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and more, helping organizations understand and shape brand perception in AI-generated responses.

As a result, teams using the Meltwater platform – which analyzes 1.3 billion pieces of content every day across news, social and AI signals – reported up to 60% reductions in reporting time, 30–40% faster insight-to-action, and six-figure savings in operational costs, enabling faster decision-making.

“To succeed today, teams need to stay on top of narratives across more channels and formats than ever before,” said John Box, CEO at Meltwater. “At Meltwater, we’re focused on building solutions that turn billions of signals into actionable intelligence that tells you what’s happening across every channel, what it means, and what to do next. We’re proud to see that vision recognized by PRWeek.”

PRWeek Recognition Underscores Meltwater’s Leadership in Actionable Intelligence

The PRWeek Global Awards recognize excellence and innovation across the communications industry worldwide. Meltwater was selected in the Best PR Software or AI Platform category for demonstrating ease of use, creativity, measurable impact, and innovation for communications professionals.

To learn more about Meltwater’s unified intelligence platform, visit meltwater.com.

For more information, please contact:
Kelly Costello
Corporate Communications Director
[email protected]

About Meltwater
Meltwater is the global leader in actionable intelligence for PR, Communications, and Marketing teams. By analyzing 1.3 billion pieces of content daily, Meltwater transforms media, social, and AI signals into intelligence that leaders rely on to make faster, more confident decisions. With 27,000 customers worldwide, Meltwater is the intelligence platform global brands trust to stay ahead.
Meltwater: Intelligence you can act on.
Learn more at meltwater.com.

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FLYR Powers Riyadh Air’s Debut as World’s First Full-Service Airline Built for Modern Retailing

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The world-class Saudi carrier launches with FLYR’s Offer & Order platform that enables a fundamentally new and customer-centric way to shop, book, and manage travel

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Riyadh Air is the first airline to deploy a true shopping cart built on FLYR’s Offer & Order platform, enabling persistent, multi-product shopping across sessions and devices.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, May 20, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — FLYR, the technology company leading the airline industry toward modern commerce, marks a historic milestone today as its partner, Riyadh Air, the world’s newest and only digitally-native airline, becomes the first full-service carrier to launch based exclusively on an Offer & Order framework.

FLYR Offer & Order enables Riyadh Air to deliver a modern retail experience, offering dynamic product and service groupings directly to its guests, with advanced shopping cart functionality that rivals major online retailers and delivers the connected, intuitive experience customers have come to expect from their digital interactions.

Since IATA introduced NDC protocols in 2012, airlines have worked to improve how they merchandise and distribute products and generate revenue, aiming to operate like modern ecommerce businesses, but constrained by legacy systems. Built on ONE Order standards, FLYR demonstrates that this ambition can now be fully realized, with Riyadh Air serving as the industry’s first live, full-scale proof point.

Riyadh Air’s launch on FLYR’s platform showcases the commercial agility and operational advantages of an Offer & Order architecture, including the ability to launch new products and capabilities in minutes, not months, a pervasive challenge across the industry. In collaboration with IBM, the platform brings together multiple technology providers into a single operating environment and shopping experience.

“As a core pillar to building a world-class digital native modern airline, we challenged ourselves to rethink all the hows and whys of the operation of legacy airline systems,” said Tony Douglas, CEO at Riyadh Air. “FLYR has designed and delivered a platform that can quickly adapt and scale to our needs and pushes the boundaries of what airline retailing can be. The platform will be the backbone of our commercial operations for decades to come and creates a path for other carriers to follow.”

The New Way to Book, Manage, and Experience a Trip

Travelers using the Riyadh Air app will experience a reimagined booking journey, including a dynamic shopping cart that lets them save trips and searches, return at their convenience, and receive relevant offers related to their booking. Journeys are managed in a single, real-time order rather than a collection of separate products and services. Guests will also benefit from faster, simpler servicing of any post-booking changes.

Future developments will include collaborative trip planning within the shopping cart, allowing friends and families to create and customize itineraries together. The order management system that unifies flight bookings today is designed to incorporate hotels and other accommodations, ground transportation, and destination experiences, enabling Riyadh Air to offer the full journey, beyond the flight.

“Airlines have long aspired to become retailers but have been largely confined to selling tickets. That’s no longer true,” said Alex Mans, Founder and CEO of FLYR. “Riyadh Air shows that a different approach is now possible, even within an industry shaped by entrenched systems. They are a live case study for a sector that has debated modern retailing for more than a decade.”

An Offer & Order Platform Built for Modern Airline Retailing

FLYR’s Offer & Order platform replaces the static airline “ticket” with a dynamic “order,” enabling Riyadh Air to become the world’s first airline to natively extend its offering beyond flights to include new products and services from partners and third-party travel suppliers.

At the core of FLYR’s platform are Offer and Order Management. Offer Management enables Riyadh Air to create and distribute dynamic and tailored offers across all channels, supporting airline-defined products, flexible bundles, and third-party services without relying on rigid fare structures. Order Management unifies the customer’s journey, including flights, ancillaries, and partner products, into a single order record, simplifying servicing and removing friction from the travel experience.

These elements are supported by FLYR’s modular approach and Legacy Translator technology, which connect the platform to third-party systems, enabling cross-environment compatibility. This connectivity enables FLYR’s Offer and Order solutions to integrate with legacy systems, such as a GDS, or to be used by airlines actively transitioning to new retailing practices.

“Modularity is one of the airline industry’s central challenges, particularly how multiple vendors work together without reverting to legacy monoliths,” said Dee Waddell, Global Head of Consumer, Travel & Transportation Industries at IBM. “Riyadh Air chose partners building for the future while operating in today’s reality. FLYR’s architecture allows those partners to work together most effectively.”

At a time when just 25% of airlines expect to have fully implemented Offer & Order by 2027-28, according to IATA’s Readiness and Roadmap report, FLYR and Riyadh Air are showing that implementing a modern retailing strategy is both realistic and achievable today.

For more information about FLYR and its partnership with Riyadh Air, or to speak with Alex Mans, CEO of FLYR, please contact Vanessa Horwell at [email protected].

About FLYR
FLYR is modernizing airline commerce as the technology leader in Offer and Order retailing. Its open, modular platform and proprietary Legacy Translator technology integrate seamlessly with existing systems, enabling airlines to innovate faster and deliver flexible, customer-centric retail experiences. Trusted by leading carriers worldwide, FLYR powers mission-critical retailing operations that define the future of travel. To learn more about FLYR’s Offer & Order platform, visit FLYR.com.

About Riyadh Air
Riyadh Air is a digitally native airline focused on achieving the Kingdom’s 2030 vision to lead the aviation industry and put Riyadh on the global map as a destination and gateway to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The establishment of Riyadh Air is in line with PIF’s mandate to unlock the capabilities of key sectors locally to drive the diversification of Saudi Arabia’s economy. The airline will also support the Saudi Aviation Strategy’s broader vision, and enable the National Tourism Strategy, unlocking Saudi Arabia’s cultural and natural attractions to international tourists and creating new jobs.

Source
IATA’s Readiness and Roadmap report

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Northern Military Zone Foils Border Infiltration Attempt

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Amman: The Northern Military Zone successfully thwarted an illegal infiltration attempt by two individuals early Wednesday. The incident occurred at one of its border fronts, where vigilant Border Guard forces detected and intercepted the infiltrators.

According to Jordan News Agency, the guards applied the established rules of engagement to manage the situation. The two individuals were subsequently arrested and handed over to the competent authorities to undergo the necessary legal procedures. The swift and effective response by the Border Guard forces underscores their commitment to maintaining security and upholding border integrity.

French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Jordan Elects Board for 2026-2028

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Amman: The French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Jordan (CAFRAJ) held its annual general assembly meeting, attended by French Ambassador to Jordan Franck Gellet and chamber members as part of efforts to strengthen economic ties between Jordan and France.

According to Jordan News Agency, during the meeting, the chamber presented its audited financial report for 2025 and reviewed key achievements and activities carried out over the past year, in addition to discussing future priorities and plans. The assembly elected a new board of directors for the 2026-2028 term by acclamation. The board, chaired by Ahmad Armoush, includes representatives from economic and investment sectors in Jordan and France.

Armoush praised the efforts of the previous board and expressed appreciation for the continued support provided by the French Embassy in Amman toward enhancing bilateral economic cooperation. Ambassador Gellet highlighted CAFRAJ’s role in promoting trade and investment relations between the two countries and attracting new investors, pointing to opportunities linked to Syria’s reconstruction and Jordan’s strategic regional position and stability.

Founded in 1998, CAFRAJ joined the French International Chamber of Commerce and Industry network in 2002 and is now part of a global network of 126 French bilateral chambers operating in 95 countries. The chamber works to support business cooperation and strengthen economic and trade relations between Jordan and France.