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Stripe and PayPal have spent years expanding across digital commerce from opposite directions. Stripe built its business by selling payments infrastructure to merchants. PayPal built its business by persuading consumers to choose PayPal when they reached checkout. The differences have narrowed over time. Stripe now offers billing, fraud management, embedded financial services and a growing range of commerce software. PayPal has expanded well beyond its branded checkout button through Braintree’s enterprise processing business, Venmo, merchant services and more recently, its PYUSD stablecoin. An acquisition would bring those far-flung parts together. As reported Wednesday (July 15), Stripe and Advent International have…

The EU has hit the African state with a new wave of sanctions aimed at crippling its gold-funded war atrocities. The EU Council has announced a new series of sanctions designed to hit the gold trade in Sudan which has acted as a key driver of its war economy. The Council confirmed its latest wave of sanctions on Tuesday (14 July). Sudanese gold has fuelled the ongoing conflict in the country between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces, with the situation currently identified as the largest international humanitarian crisis by organisations including Oxfam and the International Rescue…

19h05 ▪ 4 min read ▪ by Fenelon L. Summarize this article with:ChatGPTPerplexityGrok Bitcoin now has 32% adoption among major global banks, according to an index published by Strategy. Michael Saylor, founder of the first BTC reserve company, considers this breakthrough promising but still premature. Is the market on the verge of a banking shift? In brief An index published by Strategy measures bitcoin adoption by major banks at 32% overall. Fidelity leads the ranking with a score of 71%, ahead of BNY Mellon (46%) and Goldman Sachs (45%). Strategy increased its cash reserve to 3 billion dollars after a…

Wall Street’s median forecast puts the S&P 500 (^GSPC +0.16%) at 8,988 by July 2027. That implies 20% upside from its current level of 7,518. The driving force will be particularly large gains in the communication services and technology sectors, which are projected to increase 25% and 27%, respectively, over the same period, according to FactSet Research. Put differently, most Wall Street analysts think investors can beat the S&P 500 during the next year if they buy index funds that track those market sectors. Two good options are the Vanguard Communication Services ETF (VOX +1.72%) and Vanguard Information Technology ETF…

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  Economists and business representatives at the forum in Hà Nội on Tuesday. —VNA/VNS Photos HÀ NỘI — Microeconomic reforms are needed to sustain rapid economic expansion and achieve double-digit growth in the coming years, economists and business representatives told a forum in Hà Nội on Tuesday.Lê Văn Lợi, president of the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, said Việt Nam was entering a new stage of development that requires bigger changes to its growth model. Double-digit growth should be seen not merely as a target for economic scale or speed, but as a shift in institutional quality,…

Richland Capital Holdings broke ground on Lakeview Corporate Park, a new 310,000-square-foot logistics space, at 6700 Lakeview Center Drive. The Tampa Bay Business Journal reports the project will redevelop a three-story office building into two rear-load distribution buildings designed to serve a wide range of logistics, manufacturing, distribution and light industrial users seeking immediate access to the region’s transportation network. Lakeview Corporate Park will include a 106,375-square-foot building and a 203,320-square-foot building with a shared truck court featuring 32-foot clear heights. There will also be opportunity for build-to-suit and speculative office options, as well as divided configurations to accommodate a…

Blockchain financial products are no longer merely standing at the edge of banking. They are beginning to reproduce some of its most profitable functions across banking’s own regulated landscape. Japan, for example, on Wednesday (July 15) passed a new parliamentary amendment placing cryptocurrency assets under the regulatory umbrella of “financial assets.” Previously, digital assets were designated as “payment assets,” not financial ones. Meanwhile, London on Monday (July 13) issued a report on accelerating tokenization in wholesale financial markets. The defining question therefore is no longer whether banks will use blockchain. It is whether blockchain-based money will remain an extension of…

This SwingTradingLab review examines the Telegram channel run under the Alex G branding, often associated with the “set and forget” style and the fxalexg username. The channel’s large follower count may look reassuring, but a closer look raises concerns about misleading forex callouts, promotional theatrics, and access being used as the main takeaway rather than verifiable trading process. Telegram Channel Link — https://t.me/alexsetandforget (also associated with “set and forget” and fxalexg). SwingTradingLab frames itself as a swing-style forex signals feed meant for retail traders who want ready-made entries to follow rather than full market breakdowns. When comparing different onboarding models…