Author: Charlotte

Portugal’s golden visa moved from property to private capital. Here’s what changed.For years, Portugal’s golden visa was a property story. Foreign investors bought homes, apartments, or development-linked assets, and Portugal granted residency rights in return. Sales materials looked more like luxury real-estate brochures than immigration filings, and the program quietly became one of Europe’s most popular routes to a Schengen residence card.Then Lisbon pulled the plug on the real estate route. Portugal’s current Residence Permit for Investment Activity, known locally as ARI, still allows non-EU nationals to obtain residency through qualifying investment, but the menu has been rewritten. The current…

Sri Lanka-based global identity and access management (IAM) firm WSO2 is expanding its Agent Fabric platform, introducing a Forward Deployed Engineering model and scaling its delivery partner ecosystem to accelerate the adoption of agentic AI in enterprise. A release from WSO2, which defines itself as an “open-source enterprise middleware company,” details the related initiatives, which were unveiled at its recent North American conference. Together, they aim to strengthen WSO2’s position as an infrastructure layer in a world where AI agents operate autonomously across applications, APIs, workflows, identities and data. “The enterprise challenge today is not simply building AI agents,” says…

Every Eid-ul-Azha, Bangladesh conducts one of the largest concentrated acts of animal sacrifice in the world. In 2024, around 1.04 crore animals were sacrificed in roughly 72 hours, including 47.7 lakh cows, 1.13 lakh buffaloes, 50.6 lakh goats, and 4.7 lakh sheep, according to official livestock data. In 2025, the number fell to 91.36 lakh animals. The headline figure, often described as a Tk 100,000 crore seasonal economy, is widely reported. Far less examined is the uncomfortable truth beneath it: the qurbani (which means sacrifice) economy leaks value at almost every node, and because the leakage is seasonal, scattered and…

Ledger has added native support for the $ADI token, giving holders of the Abu Dhabi-linked Layer 2 network’s utility token access to one of crypto’s most widely used self-custody platforms. The integration covers send and receive functionality, a practical step for a chain that has been quietly building institutional rails in the Middle East. ADI Chain, an Ethereum Layer 2 built by the ADI Foundation, is focused squarely on stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets. It launched on December 9, 2025, and has since assembled a roster of partnerships that reads like a who’s who of both traditional finance and crypto…

Corporate ownership of medical practices is threatening patient care, clinical independence and physician well-being, according to the American College of Physicians (ACP).It’s time for federal and state policymakers to strengthen oversight and rein in private equity investment in health care, ACP said in “Regulatory Framework for Private Equity and Corporatization in Health Care: A Position Paper from the American College of Physicians,” a new position paper published May 26 in Annals of Internal Medicine. ACP published 11 policy recommendations that the College said would improve transparency, close regulatory loopholes and align financial incentives with patient-centered care.“Given the increasing role that private equity plays in the health care…

The crypto market has entered a phase that rewards precision over enthusiasm. Bitcoin is stabilizing between $76,000 and $77,500 after weeks of consolidation, the Altcoin Season Index sits suppressed in the 30-40 range, and Bitcoin dominance holds firm at 58-60%. This is not a market where everything rises together. It is a market where capital rotates surgically into assets with mechanical reasons to perform, and away from anything coasting on borrowed narrative. Against that backdrop, the most interesting opportunity in the presale market right now isn’t a meme coin or a Layer 2 promising to reinvent Bitcoin. It is TURBO,…

KARACHI: Pakistan’s mutual fund industry has expanded nearly 6.8 times since 2019, crossing Rs4 trillion in assets under management (AUM) by late 2025. However, the sector’s heavy concentration in low?risk money market instruments is raising concerns about market depth, investor behaviour and systemic liquidity pressures. According to a post by the Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OICCI) on X, almost half of the industry’s total AUM is parked in money market instruments, while only 14% is allocated to equities. This underscores investors’ overwhelming preference for liquidity and fixed?income products over long?term stock market exposure. “The total liquidity mutual…

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Adam Salamon MTS Health Partners has hired Adam Salamon to strengthen its coverage of private equity sponsors, adding a dedicated senior professional focused on building relationships with financial sponsors across the healthcare investment landscape. Salamon joins the healthcare-focused investment bank from Citizens Financial Group, where he worked in the firm’s healthcare services practice, advising both industry companies and financial sponsors. In his new role at MTS, he will lead efforts to expand the firm’s strategic engagement with private equity firms, a core client base for healthcare dealmaking activity. The appointment reflects continued competition among healthcare investment banks to deepen sponsor…