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CHICAGO, IL / Vincere Trading, a fintech trading firm focused on algorithmic futures strategies, has announced continued expansion of its retail-accessible trading infrastructure as demand grows for institutional-style market tools powered by automation and artificial intelligence. The company says a broader transformation is taking place across the financial industry as technologies once limited to hedge funds and large trading desks become increasingly available to self-directed investors using standard cash accounts. The announcement comes during a period of accelerating adoption of AI and quantitative systems across global finance. While much public attention surrounding artificial intelligence has centered on consumer technology and…

Listen to this article A proposed hyperscale data center project at the Western New York Science and Technology Advanced Manufacturing Park (STAMP) is drawing renewed scrutiny after a third-party analysis questioned the economic benefits touted by developer STREAM US Data Centers and its financial backer, Apollo Global Management.  The report, prepared by the Applied Economics Clinic on behalf of opponents including the Tonawanda Seneca Nation and the Sierra Club, raises concerns about the scale of public incentives and the reliability of the project’s projected benefits.  At issue is STREAM’s request for approximately $1.46 billion in sales tax and mortgage recording tax abatements…

Lous Vervuurt and Gijs De Haan, financial regulation experts at Pinsent Masons, were commenting following the AIFMD II Update 4 (fourth edition), which they described as an important moment of change to the national private placement regime for non-EU AIFMs. The changes come from the ongoing implementation of the EU’s revised Alternative Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD II). The update includes tightened rules on which non-EU AIFMs can market their alternative investment funds in the Netherlands. AIFMD II creates an EU-wide harmonised regime for management of loan originating funds. The directive not only defines activities that fall within the scope…

Deel is adding stablecoin salary payouts for full-time employees, pushing one of crypto’s clearest payment use cases deeper into global payroll. The global people platform said eligible workers can now direct part of their net salary into dollar- or euro-backed stablecoins, while the rest continues to land in a traditional bank account. Employers still fund payroll in fiat, keeping the company-side workflow close to the system they already use. The option is available for selected EOR and Direct Employee Payroll workers with USD or EUR contracts in supported countries. Deel’s support page lists USDC (CRYPTO: $USDC), EURC and USDT (CRYPTO:…

Amid geopolitical tensions and volatile markets, Anand Radhakrishnan, Managing Director of Sundaram Asset Management Company, recommends investors stay disciplined, gradually increase equity exposure, rebalance portfolios periodically, and avoid emotional decisions while maintaining diversification across asset classes and geographies. Edited excerpts on a chat with Anand Radhakrishnan on strategy, investment themes, and asset allocation amid volatile markets.How are you viewing the current market setup amid global uncertainty and geopolitical tensions?Anand Radhakrishnan: Geopolitics has clouded near-term visibility on the macro, but the internals of corporate earnings indicate reasonably healthy trends so far. The government has absorbed a large part of the energy…

JPMorgan looks to offload exposure to $4 billion in private equity-linked loans, FT reports By Reuters Investing.com Source link

Franklin Templeton has partnered with Singapore based DigiFT to distribute its BENJI tokenized money market funds to accredited and institutional investors across Asia. DigiFT holds Capital Markets Services and Recognised Market Operator licenses from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). The BENJI platform is Franklin Templeton’s anchor blockchain offering, with a market capitalization exceeding $800 million. The asset manager launched its first blockchain based mutual fund in 2021 and has since issued tokenized money market funds across the US, Luxembourg, Hong Kong and Singapore. DigiFT will serve as a distribution partner for the funds, which feature an intraday yield mechanism…

Moroccan real estate player Aradei Capital has reported recent portfolio developments and funding measures, offering fresh insights into its growth strategy and income profile for investors watching international real estate stocks. Moroccan real estate company Aradei Capital has remained active in recent months with new development projects, financing measures and portfolio updates that shape its outlook as a diversified landlord in North Africa. These moves provide additional context for investors in global real estate and income-focused stocks, according to company disclosures and regional market reports published in 2024 and early 2025, including documents on the company’s investor relations website and…

Homepage > News > Business > GorillaPool turns Bitcoin blocks into collectible art NFTs for miners BSV mining pool GorillaPool has begun minting unique, collectible NFTs from every block it mines—deterministic generative art pieces created entirely from on-chain data and distributed to pool members. The BSV-focused pool, which also began mining Teranode blocks on mainnet in December 2025, calls its first collection “Gorilla Canopy.” Each piece is a fractal tree whose shape, color, and style are derived from the block itself. This includes its hash, nonce, merkle root, transaction count, difficulty, timestamp, and even the mining effort required to find…

The latest mid-2026 economic update from the United Nations (UN) shows that the global outlook remains strong, despite higher energy prices.The UN expects world economic output to grow by 2.5% in 2026 and 2.8% in 2027. That is down from the January forecasts of 2.7% and 2.9%, pointing to still strong global expansion despite the effects of the Iran war.For the major Western economies, the picture is also sound. The United States is forecast to grow by 2.0% in 2026, unchanged from the January forecast. The European Union is forecast to grow by 1.1% in 2026, down from 1.3% in…