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The FinTech sector enjoyed another modest week in funding, with a total of $757m raised across 14 deals. It was an almost identical week to the previous, with the same number of deals and just $80m separating the two. A total of $677m was raised across last week’s 14 deals. Another similarity between the two was that the lion share of funding came from just three deals that exceeded $100m. The largest deal of the week was a Series D round raised by Mercury, a provider of financial infrastructure. The $200m investment brought Mercury’s valuation to $5.2bn.The second largest deal of the…

BELIZE CITY, Belize, May 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — BC.GAME has released an updated version of its $BC white paper, providing further details on the role of $BC as the platform’s native token, as well as its utility, BC Engine integration and burn mechanism. The updated white paper positions $BC as a utility token within the BC.GAME ecosystem, designed to support platform rewards, staking activity and broader user participation. It also outlines the token’s economic structure, including a fixed total supply of 10 billion $BC and an allocation framework covering liquidity mining, community airdrops, LDP, advisors and marketing. The latest $BC white…

When Jeff Bezos said that one breakthrough technology would shape Amazon’s destiny, even Wall Street’s biggest analysts were caught off guard. Fast forward a year and Amazon’s new CEO Andy Jassy described generative AI as a “once-in-a-lifetime” technology that is already being used across Amazon to reinvent customer experiences. At the 8th Future Investment Initiative conference, Elon Musk predicted that by 2040 there would be at least 10 billion humanoid robots, with each priced between $20,000 and $25,000. Do the math. According to Musk, this technology could be worth $250 trillion by 2040. Put another way, that’s roughly equal to:…

New York state and New England have optimal conditions for grass-fed beef production – with an abundance of pasturelands and forage – but higher production costs have made farmers wary of expanding operations. In a new analysis, published in Agricultural Systems on March 25, researchers find that grass-fed beef can compete with grain-fed beef in the region, even given those higher costs and prices for consumers – particularly if operations are scaled up, either through larger farms or farm cooperatives, which could drop production costs and prices by 24%. The study comes as the demand for grass-fed beef is on the…

NEW YORK, NY, May 22, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AriseAlpha, a pioneering developer of automated financial technology solutions, today announced the official launch of its highly anticipated AI-driven cryptocurrency quantitative trading platform. Designed to eliminate the execution bottlenecks and emotional biases that frequently hinder retail and passive investors, the platform leverages sophisticated machine learning models to provide accessible, systematic investment strategies across major digital asset classes.As digital macroeconomics evolve rapidly in 2026, the launch positions AriseAlpha at the forefront of automated wealth management by transforming complex high-frequency algorithms into user-friendly, structured financial products.Real-Time Market Data Analysis: The 2026 Liquidity LandscapeThe…

(Kitco News) – Abaxx Technologies announced Friday that trading has officially commenced in its Silver Singapore (SSP) futures contract, marking the latest step in the company’s effort to position Singapore as a major global hub for precious metals trading and price discovery.The new contract is designed to bridge what Abaxx describes as a growing disconnect between traditional global silver benchmarks and the evolving physical requirements of industrial users across Asia.SSP is a U.S. dollar-denominated, 1,000-troy-ounce physically deliverable silver futures product with a purity of 99.99%, with delivery into approved Singapore vaults.Abaxx said its new contract is specifically aimed at supporting…

developed and emerging markets), which may have varying interest rates, terms, duration and credit exposure. The Underlying Funds categorized as alternative strategies include those that employ a variety of investment strategies, techniques and practices, generally intended to have a low correlation to the performance of the broad equity and fixed income markets over a complete market cycle including but not limited to absolute (positive) return strategies. Subject to the 20% Sleeve limitation described above, the Fund may also invest directly in equity securities, fixed income securities and derivative instruments, including forward foreign currency contracts and futures (including currency, equity, fixed…

Ripple, a fintech company specializing in blockchain-based money transfers, is often associated with the XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) token. However, several of Ripple’s founders and other developers launched XRP in 2012, before Ripple (then known as OpenCoin) was founded. Ripple subsequently used XRP as a “bridge currency” to accelerate fiat transactions on its platform. By converting both fiat currencies to XRP before swapping them, Ripple processed cross-border money transfers faster and more cheaply than conventional SWIFT transfers. XRP’s supporters expect a growing number of money transfers, along with Ripple’s evolution from a digital payments platform into a full digital bank, to…

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