Finance & Banking — Strategy Pauses Bitcoin Buys Ahead of Earnings; Bank Signals Adoption Timeline

Finance & Banking · 2026-05-04

TODAY'S SIGNAL — Five threads converge for Finance & Banking professionals today. First, the institutional crypto infrastructure story advances on two fronts: Strategy's pre-earnings bitcoin purchase pause exposes the fragility of its preferred-stock funding machine just as Morgan Stanley's Amy Oldenburg publicly maps the regulatory and balance-sheet hurdles banks must clear before holding…