Block has applied to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for a national trust bank charter, the payments company behind Square and Cash App said on Tuesday.
Builders Bank & Trust would be uninsured and non-depository, taking no deposits and making no loans. Its business would be custody of Bitcoin and other digital ***** ets, executing customer buy and sell orders on a riskless principal basis, and stablecoin settlement.
Block has run digital ***** et services for about eight years under more than 50 state money transmitter and virtual currency licenses, the application says, handling around $10.7 billion in Bitcoin transaction volume in 2025 and serving about two million monthly crypto users through Cash App by the second quarter. A federal charter, Block says, would let it support those activities "through a consistent national framework as the business scales."
Builders Bank would be headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, with no branches. All five proposed directors live elsewhere, and Block has asked the OCC to waive the rule requiring one to live within 100 miles. Lee Woolley, Block's digital ***** et strategy lead and a former Northern Trust and BNY Mellon executive, would chair it and serve as chief executive.
Dorsey himself is not among the organizers, directors or senior executives, and appears in the filing only as Block's co-founder. The business plan and capital figures went in as confidential exhibits, and the bank cannot open unless the OCC approves.

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Stillman Valley High School has announced the Athletic/Activities Hall of Fame Class of 2026, recognizing a coach, former student-athletes, community supporters and championship teams for their achievements and contributions to Cardinal programs.
The inductees will be honored as part of Homecoming festivities Sept. 25, according to a community announcement. The class includes girls basketball coach Bobby Mellon, former student-athletes Michelle ******* er Rogers and Dan Godfread, Friends of Athletics honorees James and Russ Elliot, the 2002-03 Scholastic Bowl Team and the 1989-90 Chess Team.
Mellon has led the Stillman Valley girls basketball program since 2010 and has compiled a 252-105 varsity record. During his tenure, the Cardinals won five regional ******* les, two sectional championships and a Big Northern Conference championship. Mellon also has earned Illinois Basketball Coaches ******* ociation District Coach of the Year honors five times.
Fager Rogers, a member of the Class of 1996, competed in volleyball, basketball and track and field. She helped two girls basketball teams qualify for the state tournament and qualified for the IHSA State Track Meet in the hurdles. Her honors included Girls Track MVP and SVHS Female Athlete of the Year.
Godfread, a graduate from the Class of 1985, became one of the school's most accomplished basketball players before continuing his career at the University of Evansville. He finished his collegiate career with 1,386 points, 737 rebounds and 226 blocked shots while earning first-team all-conference recognition.

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A 4-year-old filly died earlier this week after competing in a stakes race at Saratoga Race Course, after the horse was found to have suffered a fracture that left her unable to put her full weight on her left hind leg.
According to the state Gaming Commission's Equine Death and Breakdown Database, Marvelous Madison, who was trained by Jorge Abreu, was returned to her barn after finishing fifth in the Yaddo Stakes over Saratoga's Mellon turf course on Aug. 30. In the barn, Marvelous Madison became "toe touching lame in the left hind leg," meaning the filly was hesitant to put her full weight on the affected leg.
According to the Gaming Commission database, further evaluation of Marvelous Madison "revealed a displaced fracture." Because of the "poor prognosis," the database states, Marvelous Madison was euthanized.
The 4-year-old Marvelous Madison ran seven times in her career, with four of those races - including both of her career victories - coming at Saratoga. Earlier this summer at Saratoga, she won an allowance race on July 26 in her first race since August 2025.
On the state database, Marvelous Madison's injury and death were listed as "other" in the description of the incident, rather than being specifically racing- or training-related.

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Today, massive put option trading in Bank of NY Mellon (BNY) shows that some investors are earning a 3.33% 150-day short-put yield. That could imply investors are shorting these puts to establish a potential lower buy-in point for BNY stock ahead of its upcoming earnings, especially if BNY dips.
BNY is at $163.44 in midday trading, and the strike price of this huge volume of BNY puts is $150.00, expiring on Jan. 15, 2027. The chart below shows that BNY stock has been on a 3-month upward trek.
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The U.S. Steel Community Field at Hazelwood Green hosted its inaugural football games, featuring athletes from the Hazelwood Cobras youth league.
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The venue features a full-size athletic field with seating for approximately 3,000 spectators. It will serve as the permanent home of the Central Catholic High School Vikings football team, which is scheduled to play its first stadium game against Pine Richland High School on Sept. 11.
The facility was created through a collaboration among the Richard King Mellon Foundation, Tishman Speyer, Hazelwood Green Youth Sports Charities, Steelers Charities, U. S. Steel, Central Catholic High School and the NFL Foundation.
Managed by The Sports Facilities Companies, the complex includes a press box, a concession stand and a renovated 10,000-square-foot building.

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Suri Noelle knows what she wants. After years of speculation about the future of her career and creative pursuits, the 20-year-old daughter of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise made her acting debut in Scotland. It proves that she's following in her parents' footsteps and is pursuing acting at Carnegie Mellon University.
Suri Cruise made her acting debut in Edinburgh (Camera Press/The Grosby Group)
Photos shared this week show Suri on the production of "Midsummer!" her school's adaptation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," which is currently touring Scotland, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
The images show Suri in period costume, wearing a purple skirt, a darker purple vest, and a yellow long-sleeved shirt. Her look was completed with her hair in a bun and a hat. Suri is seen on the stage, saying her lines as she appears to be smiling.
She is playing the characters of Helena, Mustardseed, Flute, and Thisbe throughout the show's runtime, which will run from August 6th to the 19th.

#Scotland #midsummer #show

Adrian E. Allison, chief relationship officer at the Pro Football Hall of Fame, is a proud graduate of the Canton City School District. He would later become the youngest superintendent and the first African American to serve in that role.
Allison, 54, and his family now reside in Jackson Township. He has been married for 28 years to his college sweetheart, Krista. They have two daughters, both of whom are McKinley High School and The Ohio State University graduates: Averi (who also earned her master's degree from Carnegie Mellon University) and Anastasia.
He graduated from Baldwin-Wallace University and then followed his girlfriend (now his wife) to law school at Case Western Reserve University. Allison began his career as an Ohio ******* istant attorney general, then served as an executive at the Ohio Department of Education and eventually joined the Canton City School District before becoming superintendent in 2013. He joined the Hall of Fame in 2019.
"No matter where I travel in this country, I proudly wear Hall of Fame apparel," Allison said. "In every community I visit, people immediately recognize the iconic logo and know exactly where it belongs: Canton, Ohio. That recognition is something I never take for granted. I am honored to be ******* ociated with an institution that has become synonymous with excellence. And the link to Stark County can never be separated.
"Working for the Hall is especially meaningful because I have the privilege of representing our community, my community, which has embraced and sustained the Hall for more than six decades."

#ohio #school

While the Nasdaq composite slides below its 50-day moving average and the S&P 500 remains below that benchmark, Raymond James Financial (RJF) has popped onto the Investor's Business Daily Breakout Stocks Index. The financial services and ******* et management firm joins nine other companies in the broad banking and financial sectors.
Bank Of America (BAC), Goldman Sachs (GS), U.S. Bancorp (USB), UBS (UBS) and Bank Of New York Mellon (BNY) also made the list. In a sign of where the big Wall Street money is flowing, 10 out of the 25 names on the latest weekly update of the IBD Breakout Stocks Index hail from the banking and financial sectors.
An A+ Accumulation/Distribution Rating clearly shows institutional demand for shares of Raymond James. The score shows heavy buying of the stock by mutual funds and other large players over the last 13 weeks.
After posting single-digit top- and bottom-line growth in 2025, a projected return to double-digit earnings and sales growth this year and next provides one catalyst.
In the second quarter, Raymond James generated a 16% rise in revenue to $3.288 billion. Earnings spiked 44% to $3.14 per share. For the full year, Wall Street forecasts 12% sales growth to $15.7 billion and a 14% jump in earnings to $12.15 a share.

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Suri Cruise, the daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, has legally dropped her father's last name and chosen a surname that honors her mother instead, according to a Page Six report.
Rather than adopting Holmes as her last name, Suri opted for Noelle, her mother's middle name. While it's unclear when she officially changed her last name, Page Six reported that she registered to vote in Allegheny County, Pa., under the name Suri Noelle during her freshman year at Carnegie Mellon University in October 2024. She first made headlines in June 2024, when she graduated from New York City's LaGuardia High School and was listed as Suri Noelle in the ceremony pamphlet.
The reported name change comes after years of estrangement from Cruise. Following her parents' divorce in 2012, Suri moved from Los Angeles to New York City with Holmes, who was granted full custody, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The Mission: Impossible star was ordered to pay $400,000 annually in child support, plus medical, dental, education and insurance expenses, until Suri turned 18, the outlet reported.
Before moving to Pittsburgh, Pa., Suri, who has often been described as the spitting image of her mother, was frequently spotted out and about in New York City.
"We are committed to working together as parents to accomplish what is in our daughter Suri's best interests," read a joint statement from Holmes and Cruise following their divorce in 2012. "We want to keep matters affecting our family private and express our respect for each other's commitment to each of our respective beliefs and support each other's roles as parents."

#name #cruise #noelle

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' daughter Suri has dropped her famous last name, according to Page Six.
State voter records show a "Suri Noelle" with the same age and birth date as the former Suri Cruise in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, the location of Carnegie Mellon University, which the 20-year-old is widely reported to be attending.
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Noelle is Holmes' middle name. It was not immediately clear when the name change occurred.
People reported in 2024 that Holmes and Cruise's daughter used the last name "Noelle" at her high school graduation that summer.

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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' daughter has legally changed her name from Suri Cruise to Suri Noelle.
Voter-registration records obtained by People show that the 20-year-old registered in Pennsylvania under the new name during her freshman year at Carnegie Mellon University. Noelle is Holmes' middle name.
Suri had already begun using the name publicly before starting college. She was identified as Suri Noelle in the program for her June 2024 graduation from New York City's LaGuardia High School and in an earlier school-theater production.
The location and date of the formal name-change process have not been disclosed.
Suri registered to vote in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, in October 2024, shortly after beginning her first year at Carnegie Mellon. The registration lists her as Suri Noelle, according to People.

#suri #year #cruise #mellon

Original author: Joe Starkey: Sept. 19, 2006
The moment that Pittsburgh Penguins fans feared would never happen took place Sept. 5 in a packed Mellon Arena media room, when Mario Lemieux stepped to the podium and presented 20-year-old Russian hockey star Evgeni Malkin with a No. 71 Penguins jersey.
Malkin, the team's first round draft pick (second overall) in 2004, could not contain his smile as he draped the jersey over his ******* on-down shirt.
"I am really happy to be here today," he said through his interpreter, Olga McQueen. "It was my dream to come here and play for the Pittsburgh Penguins."
The Penguins' new marketing slogan – "Experience the Evolution" – might have to be changed to "Experience the Russian Evolution" in the wake of Malkin's incredible odyssey. In early August, he abandoned his hometown team, Metallurg Magnitogorsk, at the Helsinki Airport. He'd just signed a one-year deal with the club, but said he did so under extreme pressure from team management. He quickly realized his mistake.

#penguins #russian #experience #here

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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks ticked higher Wednesday following strong profit reports from BlackRock and other big companies. The tentative gains came as oil prices swung to their highest levels in a month because of the war with Iran.
The S&P 500 rose 0.4% after flipping between modest gains and losses through the day, and it's back within 0.5% of its all-time high set last month. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 150 points, or 0.3%, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 0.6%.
BlackRock helped lead the market with a rise of 6.6% after the company behind some of the most popular investment funds reported stronger profit and revenue for the latest quarter than **** ysts expected. CEO Laurence Fink said its iShares funds topped $6 trillion in **** ets under management during the quarter, roughly doubling in three years.
Bank of New York Mellon rose 5.1% after adding to the spate of strong earnings reports from many of the biggest U.S. banks a day earlier. Cintas climbed 4.4% after the provider of office uniforms, restroom supplies and other products likewise delivered a better profit for the latest quarter than **** ysts forecast.
They helped offset a drop for Elevance Health, which fell 8.5% even though it reported stronger profit and revenue than **** ysts expected.