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Law firm Winckworth Sherwood has appointed Sean Houlihan as partner in its banking and finance team, adding further senior expertise to its growing Manchester office. Sean joins from Pinsent Masons, where he was a legal director leading its social housing finance and real estate finance property practices. He brings more than 25 years of experience across the real estate finance and social housing sectors and is well established in the North West market. His experience includes advising major clearing banks on real estate investment and development funding matters. Rebecca Jason, social and sustainable finance partner at Winckworth Sherwood, said: “Manchester…

Central Bank Governor Nandalal Weerasinghe stated that maintaining adequate foreign exchange reserves is essential for Sri Lanka’s macroeconomic stability.Speaking at the CBSL Reserve Management Conference 2026, he noted that the 2022 economic crisis showed the consequences of inadequate foreign reserves.He stated that low reserves can constrain imports and debt servicing, increase exchange rate and inflationary pressures, and weaken confidence in the economy. Source link

Ripple reportedly considers the corporate treasury space a $13 trillion opportunity for its stablecoin business. Jack McDonald, Ripple’s senior vice president of stablecoins, said in an interview with CoinDesk on Sunday (Sept. 13) that one of the biggest opportunities is Ripple Treasury. That’s the business built around Ripple’s $1 billion purchase of treasury-management software provider GTreasury in 2025. Ripple Treasury has around 1,200 corporate treasurer and CFO clients who move funds across borders, between subsidiaries and domestically, offering Ripple a pool of traditional financial activity it could bring onto blockchain rails, McDonald said. “That customer base hadn’t been on-chain,” he…

Flexi-cap funds can invest across large-, mid- and small-cap stocks without being tied to a particular market-cap segment. But while the category has grown to 46 schemes, a large share of its assets is concentrated in just 3 funds.According to the latest AMFI monthly data, flexi-cap funds had a combined AUM of ₹6,11,390 crore as of 31 August 2026.Of this, Parag Parikh Flexi Cap, HDFC Flexi Cap, and Kotak Flexi Cap together managed ₹3,17,403 crore, or about 51.9% of the category’s total AUM.Here’s how these 3 flexi-cap funds performed and what investors should know.How have the top 3 flexi-cap funds…

Global energy demand is outpacing supply highlighting the need for diversified, reliable energy sources and expanded generation and transmission infrastructure. Energy is a deeply interconnected system and steel is fundamental to every segment of its infrastructure. Global energy demand is outpacing supply highlighting the need for diversified, reliable energy sources and expanded generation and transmission infrastructure. Energy is a deeply interconnected system and steel is fundamental to every segment of its infrastructure. As demand for energy continues to grow, supply chain reliability for constructing energy infrastructure will be essential. Nucor is supporting that expansion with a robust,…

Key PointsMutual funds and exchange-traded funds are both pooled investment vehicles.Exchange-traded funds have important advantages over mutual funds.I plan to use ETFs in 2027 to provide diversification, freeing me to focus on high-conviction individual stocks.I remember when the first exchange-traded fund (ETF) was introduced. The company I worked for at the time was quick to see the benefits the unique structure offered, and created indexes for early ETFs to follow. At this point, you could easily use ETFs to satisfy all of your investing needs. But that’s not how I plan to use ETFs in 2027. Here’s why I still…

During my couple of decades running money for others, I was often asked to share alternative ideas that I had came across, worked up and found interesting. Alternative investments are ideas away from traditional stock and securities markets that nevertheless comprise an investable asset. Typically these assets would not be stock replacements but rather non-correlated with stocks and even bonds. In fact, alternative investment theses would have to be unique, thoroughly researched, and heavily non-correlated to make the inevitable friction of moviing away from publicly-traded securities markets a worthwhile endeavor and a sound investment decision. Now, I can share these…

Diameter Pay has raised $10 million in Series A funding to expand a payments platform built around U.S. dollar accounts, conventional payment rails, and stablecoin on- and off-ramps. CMT Digital and Lightspeed Faction co-led the equity round. SixThirty Ventures, the Stellar Development Foundation, Tech Council Ventures, Onigiri Capital, and BitRock Capital joined as additional investors. The company markets itself as infrastructure for banks, fintechs, and digital-asset exchanges that want dollar access without assembling that stack themselves. Through US banking partners, Diameter Pay issues virtual dollar accounts that overseas platforms can offer their own customers. The same interface supports domestic transfers,…

Reporter: Selvi Mayasari | Editor: Hasbi Maulana ECONOMIC GROWTH – JAKARTA — Business confidence regarding Indonesia’s macroeconomic landscape has deteriorated sharply heading into the late stretch of the year, driven by a convergence of high global interest rates, intensifying inflation risks, and structural currency depreciation. According to the Q3-2026 Banking Survey report released by the Financial Services Authority (OJK), the country’s Macroeconomic Conditions Expectation Index (IKM) collapsed by 24.3%, dropping to a reading of 28 from a solid 37 logged in the previous quarter. This significant drop officially drags corporate sentiment into the pessimistic zone as local and foreign business operators…

A former prominent Sydney banker linked to the collapse of an $833 million hedge fund had previously pitched another foreign exchange trading strategy to investors that projected annual returns of 30 per cent with minimal downside risk.A former business associate said Ashish “Hash” Patel, 53, who spent several years in Merrill Lynch Australia’s investment banking business in Sydney in the early 2000s, had tried to pitch him a strategy called the “Quant Spread System”, described as a “capital protected, long-short FX trading system with consistent monthly returns”.Loading… Source link