The Hidden Cost of B2B Payments Is Manual Work, Not Fees

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The cost of getting paid in B2B commerce is often hiding in plain sight. Finance teams continue to measure payment cost through the most visible inputs: transaction fees, bank charges, interchange, processing costs and the price of specific rails. But for many suppliers and small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), the more consequential expense begins after […]

Elon Musk Has Never Sold His Tesla Vision. Should You Buy the Dip Before July 22?

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Key Points Tesla’s long-term investment case still revolves around Elon Musk’s willingness to keep investing aggressively in autonomous driving, robotics, and AI, but those ambitious bets require investors to be comfortable with years of uncertainty. While the recent pullback may look attractive, buying solely ahead of Tesla’s July 22 earnings report is a high-risk move, […]

Garage upstart turns Polymarket bets into benchmarks

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Garage upstart turns Polymarket bets into benchmarks – Risk.net Skip to main content End of drawer navigation content Belief Systems launches 13 prediction indexes, but faces adoption hurdles An embryonic start-up is attempting to turn binary yes/no bets into the kind of rules-based benchmarks that made equity markets easier to invest in more than a […]

U.S. companies have received $71 billion in tariff refunds but now must combat Iran war inflation

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American companies are finally getting relief from tariff refunds—only it’s just in time for a new wave of inflationary economic factors. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued $49.2 billion in refunds in June, according to the U.S. Treasury’s monthly statement, bringing total tariff refunds to about $71 billion, or more than 60% of the […]

Oil rises as U.S.-Iran hostilities threaten Strait of Hormuz supplies

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Oil tankers and cargo vessels remain anchored off Port Sultan Qaboos on June 21, 2026 in Muscat, Oman. Elke Scholiers | Getty Images Oil prices rose Friday as investors weighed escalating tensions between the U.S. and Iran after Tehran vowed to target regional infrastructure if President Donald Trump followed through on threats to strike the […]

GCEX's Dubai Unit Adds Mohammed Mulla to the Board

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GC Exchange FZE, the Dubai-based entity of GCEX Group, has appointed Mohammed A. Mulla as a board member, who recently left Finalto after his over 16-year stint. The Dubai unit operates as a Virtual Asset Service Provider regulated by Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) and is authorised as a broker-dealer. GCEX Group provides institutional […]

Personal Loan Rates Are Back to 2024 Highs. Here’s How You Can Shop for a Better Deal.

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Key Takeaways Interest rates on personal loans rose 50 basis points to 11.86% in May, up from 11.36% in the first quarter of 2026, per Federal Reserve data. The interest rate you get on a personal loan depends on your credit history and debt-to-income ratio, as well as the loan amount and repayment terms. You […]

Claude Code’s Creator Has Better Way to Measure AI Success Than Tokens

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Claude Code’s creator addressed one of the biggest enterprise questions of the day: how companies can track the returns on their AI spend. Boris Cherny, the maker of Anthropic’s biggest coding tool, outlined a four-step framework for enterprise AI adoption in a series of X posts on Thursday. In the third step, Cherny talked about […]

Bitcoin’s anti-spam fight gets a 'DOG Mode' reply

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While BIP 110 wants to restrict data through a consensus change and has almost no miner support, a new DOG Mode client wants the opposite and requires no vote at all.

Ordinals Advocate Proposes New Bitcoin Client: ‘$DOG Mode’

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Bitcoin Ordinals advocate Leonidas has proposed developing a new open-source Bitcoin client, aimed at removing restrictions affecting Runes and Ordinals transactions.  In a post to X on Friday, Leonidas called the proposed client “Bitcoin $DOG Mode,” which would lift the maximum individual transaction size to 3.9 million weight units (WU), compared to Bitcoin Core’s 400,000 […]