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WISeKey (NASDAQ: WKEY) announced that subsidiary WISe.ART is positioned as the first hardware-authenticated art platform, supported by a newly granted European patent for SEALSQ’s ‘Back-to-Physical’ NFT technology.The patent embeds NFTs into secure chips, enabling silicon-level provenance, post-quantum security, and Digital Product Passports for a $65 billion art market. Loading… Loading translation… AI-generated analysis. Not financial advice. Positive European Patent Office grants SEALSQ divisional patent for ‘Back-to-Physical’ NFT technology WISe.ART uses hardware-anchored NFTs tied to SEALSQ secure microcontrollers for provenance Technology leverages WISeKey trust infrastructure used by over 2.6 billion devices …

A senior partner at a mid-market private equity firm recently told me they had stopped reading the ESG sections of their portfolio companies’ quarterly reports. The numbers had stopped meaning anything. Every score was generated by a vendor’s AI system, and every score moved a few points each quarter for reasons no one in the firm could explain.  Across private equity, AI-generated ESG outputs are flowing into LP reports, fundraising decks and regulatory filings with little scrutiny. AI models scrape public data, run sentiment analysis and output aggregate scores that are then reported unchecked. GPs who fix this before the…

TSX-V and Nasdaq-listed uranium developer Anfield Energy has filed an updated combined preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its planned US operations. The PEA incorporates the Utah-based Velvet-Wood uranium and vanadium project, the Colorado-based Slick Rock uranium and vanadium project and six of the nine mines that comprise the West Slope complex. Together, these eight projects are located within the prolific Uravan Mineral Belt and are within close distance of the company’s Shootaring Canyon Mill, which will act as a centralised processing facility. The updated PEA indicates an after-tax net present value of $533-million and an internal rate of return of…

🏆 Commercial: The biggest commercial sale to hit records was in Brooklyn, where a nearly 38,000-square-foot commercial condo at 18 Warsoff Place sold along with a nearly 70,000-square-foot warehouse at 39 Walworth Street and vacant lot sold for $50 million. All properties take up most of a block in Williamsburg. The sellers were companies managed by Abraham Follman, and the buyer was Norworth Holdings LLC.🏆 Residential: The top home sale recorded in the Big Apple was in Lincoln Square, where attorney Jason Hegt purchased a sponsor unit at Centurion Real Estate Partners’ 212 West 72nd Street for just under $7…

XAU/USDGold bounced back above 4300/4310 to hit the next target of 4318/22, but reversed from 4329.I thought we could resume the bull trend but that clearly is not the case at this stage.The failure to hold above 4290 triggered further losses as predicted to my targets of 4284/82,  4273/70 &  4250/45.We broke  support at 4245/40 to hit 4165 over night.I see only 1 level of support worth noting today at 4170/4160, but it’s only minor and I think Longs could be risky in this 2 month bear trend.If you want to take the risk then place a stop below 4150.A…

Solana’s price reflects network usage, developer growth, staking demand, and real-world adoption across its ecosystem.Written by Matthew KayserThe Solana price can serve as a clear signal of how well crypto is performing. It is watched by traders. It is watched by developers. Even people who only use crypto once in a while pay attention because the value of SOL often shows what is going on in the ecosystem right now. The price usually goes up when there is more activity on the network. People get excited again when new apps or big updates come out. This means that Solana’s price…

The National Stock Exchange (NSE) has warned that regulatory changes, technology failures, cyberattacks and AI-related risks, coupled with its significant dependence on derivatives trading revenues, could materially affect its financial performance and business operations.In its draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) filed on Wednesday, the country’s largest stock exchange said transaction charges accounted for 78.65 per cent of its operating revenue in FY26, with options trading alone contributing 60.22 per cent of total revenue from operations.The exchange said recent regulatory measures introduced by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) to strengthen the equity derivatives framework have already led to…

Gold and silver futures witnessed sharp declines on Friday as investors dumped precious metals amid uncertainty over the implementation of the US-Iran peace agreement, a stronger US dollar and a broader selloff in global markets. On the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX), gold contracts for August delivery fell Rs 3,392, or 2.27 per cent, to Rs 1,45,917 per 10 grams in a business turnover of 9,099 lots, extending losses for a second consecutive session. Silver contracts for July delivery slumped Rs 8,766, or 4 per cent, to Rs 2,28,806 per kilogram in a business turnover of 11,080 lots. The white metal…

Fidelity Investments launched the Fidelity Reserves Digital Fund on June 18, a money market fund built for stablecoin issuers who need somewhere safe, compliant, and boring to park their reserves. The fund targets a net asset value of $1.00 per share and carries a net expense ratio of 0.18%, which positions it competitively against similar products from rivals like BlackRock, State Street, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan. What’s actually in the fund The Fidelity Reserves Digital Fund invests in short-term US Treasury bills, notes, and bonds with maturities of 93 days or less, along with cash, overnight Treasury-backed repurchase agreements, and…

Consumer loan requests are randomly assigned to gender-balanced real borrowers, who subsequently submit them to a representative sample of loan officers from Chilean banks, whose gender preferences are elicited prior to the experiment. The approval rate among women is 18% lower relative to men, primarily attributed to taste-based discrimination from officers with pro-male preferences. Then a debiasing intervention is tested, wherein officers receive information on official statistics indicating that women exhibit higher repayment rates than men. Biased officers update their beliefs, but discrimination remains unchanged, meaning inaccurate statistical discrimination is unlikely to contribute to explaining gender discrimination in consumer lending.…