In developing economies, it is easy for banks to focus on wealthier customers in cities, working in the formal sector and forget about the bulk of the population. Mexican Banco Azteca is a prominent example of a lender that has taken a different route, providing much smaller loans to a wider proportion of the population […]
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Apple surpassed Nvidia in market value on Friday to reclaim its spot as the world’s most valuable company. Shares of Nvidia dropped more than 3% and its market value dipped to $4.84 trillion in early morning trading. Apple last traded at a $4.88 trillion market value. The two companies have had very different fortunes in […]
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[PRESS RELEASE – London, United Kingdom, July 17th, 2026] ether.fi, the leading onchain neobank for digital asset management, has selected Nexus Mutual to provide crypto’s largest-ever ETH Slashing Cover. The cover protects ether.fi‘s validators against up to 15,000 ETH worth of slashing penalties. As ether.fi continues to see rapid adoption from both retail and institutional […]
Mortgage interest rates crossed the 6.5% threshold again today. July’s rates have been elevated beyond what we saw in June, trending above last month’s average (6.34%) for 16 days straight. The average interest rate on a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage rose to 6.51% APR, according to rates provided to NerdWallet by Zillow. This is two basis […]
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Can gold still hedge risk at current prices? In Dragosits view, those four drivers are a wider erosion of trust in institutions and central banks, the ongoing de-dollarization and gold stockpiling by non-Western central banks, ongoing geopolitical uncertainty, and high levels of fiscal debt in the developed world. Put simply, as people lose trust in […]
Santander is Latin America’s best investment bank given the consistency and scope of its execution across a diverse and often challenging regional landscape. In 2025, the bank demonstrated a clear competitive advantage through its integrated model, combining advisory, capital markets, financing and markets capabilities into a single, coordinated platform. At the core of Santander’s success […]
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