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 By MI6 Staff MGM and EON Productions entered the NFT market at its speculative peak, selling digital Bond posters for as much as $107 and taking a royalty from every resale. Five years later, many of those collectibles are worth less than the price of a cinema ticket. In October 2021, as ‘No Time To Die’ arrived in cinemas and the market for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) reached its speculative peak, James Bond entered the digital collectibles business. The official 007 venture was presented as a new form of licensed collecting. MGM and EON Productions supplied the intellectual property, while VeVe…

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Among the new fund launches in July, a considerable number of products have extended their fundraising periods. Wind data shows that based on the initial fund caliber, a total of 161 funds were launched for issuance in July. As of July 31, 30 of them announced extension of the fundraising period at least once, accounting for 18.63%, with a total of 37 extension announcements. If products that started fundraising in June and continued to adjust their fundraising periods in July are included, there were 54 fundraising extension announcements in the month, involving 43 funds. The extended fundraising products cover multiple…

The trend for stablecoin payments is quickly growing. The global annual transaction volume of $33 billion (in 2025) and a 733% year-over-year growth are evident. However, stablecoin payments may still feel complex. It won’t if you are using the right stablecoin payment gateway. CoinRemitter’s crypto payment gateway lets you accept stablecoin payments in 12 minutes. It makes accepting stablecoins so easy that almost all businesses can get started in minutes. Why Stablecoins Are Winning Over Businesses Price volatility has always been the biggest argument against crypto payments. A customer pays you $1,000 in Bitcoin, and by the time you convert it,…

Part-III of a Four-Part Research SeriesIndia’s young are quietly rewiring the watch market. And Tissot’s India numbers suggest that the pivotal moment is not the second or third luxury purchase, but the first serious watch – the upgrade from a budget device or smartwatch to a Swiss mechanical piece that feels permanent.Tissot boutique at Mall of Asia, Bangalore.From notifications to Nivachron: The smartwatch plateauFor most of the past decade, smartwatches were the story. In India, wearable shipments grew rapidly as low-cost devices flooded the market and consumers embraced fitness tracking and notifications on the wrist. That narrative has now shifted.IDC’s…

Speaking with TechGraph, Mahesh Shukla, Founder & CEO of PayMe, discussed how India’s expanding mutual fund investor base is creating demand for lending models that allow customers to access liquidity without redeeming their investments, and how this evolution is broadening the role of asset-backed credit within the country’s retail lending ecosystem. Shukla further discussed how PayMe sees its role in that shift as making secured credit as simple to access as a UPI payment, while educating customers on when borrowing against an asset makes more financial sense than taking on expensive unsecured debt.- Advertisement – Read the interview in detail:…

BlackRock launched two tokenized money market products on Monday: OnChain Shares of the BlackRock Select Treasury Based Liquidity Fund (BSTBL) and a new BlackRock Daily Reinvestment Stablecoin Reserve Vehicle (BRSRV), according to the company’s press release. Both funds’ investment strategies are designed to qualify as eligible reserve assets for permitted U.S. payment stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS Act.BSTBL introduces a tokenized share class, issued on Ethereum, of BlackRock’s existing $6.1 billion Treasury fund, with BNY serving as transfer agent and tokenization provider. The fund was renamed and retooled from the BlackRock Liquid Federal Trust Fund in October 2025 specifically to…

A mind is a terrible thing to lose, especially if the mind in question is president of the United States. But I feel like taking a break from that subject. So let’s talk about something completely different, and probably irrelevant.I’ve had several interviews lately in which I was asked whether capitalism had reached a dead end, and needed to be replaced with something else. I’m never sure what the interviewers have in mind; neither, I suspect, do they. I don’t think they’re talking about central planning, which everyone considers discredited. And I haven’t seen even an implausible proposal for a…

The crisis which has hit Greece, and now even Portugal and Spain, would not have occurred if the European Union would have considered the fundamentals of an economy based on competition (instead of limiting itself to simple monetary and fiscal rules detached from these principles) as it drafted and then enacted the Maastricht Treaty. This crisis which involves the very credibility of the European Monetary Union (even to the point of an excessively negative valuation) would not have happened if a number of countries, such as the above mentioned, had not based their politics on growth through consumer demand, while…

SANTA FE, N.M., Aug. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Thornburg Income Builder Opportunities Trust (the “Trust”) (NASDAQ: TBLD) today announced a monthly distribution of $0.10417 per share on the Trust’s common shares, payable on August 20, 2026, to common shareholders of record as of August 13, 2026. The Trust’s monthly distribution is shown below: Amount Payable Date Ex-Dividend/Record Date Change from Previous Declaration $0.10417 August 20, 2026 August 13, 2026 No Change Distribution rates are not performance and are calculated by summing the Trust’s monthly distribution per share over four quarters and dividing by the net asset value or market price…