Author: Charlotte

During the comment period, which closed Tuesday (Aug. 4), banks’ responses showed broad support for regulated stablecoin issuance. They also exposed unresolved questions about transaction visibility, redemption, third-party oversight and the division of compliance responsibilities across the payments ecosystem. The FDIC’s proposal centers on Bank Secrecy Act and sanctions compliance standards for permitted payment stablecoin issuers (PPSIs) it supervises. It would place Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) requirements inside the FDIC’s supervisory and enforcement framework for stablecoin issuers affiliated with state nonmember banks and state savings associations, and require the FDIC to notify…

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Synopsis: Although national residential property prices remain below both their 2020 baseline and year-earlier levels, the May rebound suggests the market is stabilising after a prolonged slowdown.Residential property prices in Cambodia rose 1.19 percent in May from the previous month, signalling a modest recovery after months of decline, according to the latest Residential Property Price Index (RPPI) released by the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) on July 31.The overall RPPI increased to 99.32 (2020-100), driven mainly by stronger prices in Phnom Penh. Despite the monthly gain, the index remained 1.32 percent lower than in May 2025 and slightly below its…

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“The stars at night are big and bright, deep in the heart of Texas.”  So goes the unofficial state anthem, written in 1941 by June Hershey and famously performed by country music legend Willie Nelson.   But Nelson, 93, now worries those stars may become harder to see in his hometown of Abbott, Texas. In a recent social media post, he warned that a proposed “loud, water thieving, light polluting data center” threatens his rural community. Download the Straight Arrow app today to get the stories that matter free from manipulation, bias or agenda.™ Point phone camera here Nelson looked up…

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Bitcoin (BTC) rose above $64,000, while several major altcoins also posted gains. The broader market benefited from stronger institutional demand, easing geopolitical tensions, and continued inflows into U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs.At the time of writing, the total cryptocurrency market was valued at around $2.19 trillion, up nearly 0.8% over the past 24 hours.Bitcoin Price Climbs Above $64,000Bitcoin gained around 0.6% during the day and traded near $64,000.The move comes as U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded another day of positive inflows. According to SoSoValue data, Bitcoin ETFs have attracted more than $381 million so far this week.The steady inflows suggest that…

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If you’re buying an index fund or exchange-traded fund (ETF) that tracks a particular index, there are two main options you can choose.An equal-weighted index fund is exactly that – a fund where all components (shares or bonds) are the same size.Conversely, a market cap-weighted index fund allocates proportionately, so the larger companies’ stock or bonds make up a higher share of the index and the smaller companies’ stock or bonds comprise a smaller amount. Try 6 free issues of MoneyWeek today Get unparalleled financial insight, analysis and expert opinion you can profit from. Start your trial Sign up to…

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The last six months were characterised by a shift in central bank policy from accommodative to restrictive, divergence in economic performance across countries and sectors, and energy commodity price volatility resulting from the US-Iran and Russia-Ukraine conflicts. Corporate deal volume was high and driven by large transactions. The public equity market was volatile but remains priced near all-time heights, absorbing several large initial offerings. Private capital fundraising was concentrated among large established managers with higher allocations from institutional investors and wealth funds, but with an exit market that remains muted.For the remainder of the year, the market consensus is that central…

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00:00 Speaker A Just going back to what I, uh, what I talked about in our earnings call, which is we definitively operate the largest regulated stablecoin network in the world, and we’ve built extraordinary moats in liquidity, in our global footprint, in the technical infrastructure, and then critically, in the partnerships. 00:26 Speaker A I think one of the things that we talked about is, uh, you know, we have several thousand companies that are already operating and building on the network, over 150 companies that we have distribution relationships with that are economic in nature, where they’re incentivized…

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This is part of the appeal: highly valuable art that can be bought in shares and made accessible to the broader collecting public. Buyers are often able to access better deals on NFTs than art sold at auction or in galleries, because artists can cut out the middleman and sell directly online. Unlike a traditional painting or sculpture, the blockchain code within each NFT holds an unchangeable record of its transaction history, so its provenance is much easier to trace than other artworks.These benefits may be why NFT sales have not completely disappeared after the post-COVID bubble. In fact, some galleries are…

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