Natural, a year-old company that is building a foundational payment stack for artificial intelligence agents, raised $30 million in a Series A funding round. The round brings Natural’s total funding to more than $40 million, the company said in a Monday (July 20) press release. The firm announced about 10 months ago, in September 2025, […]
BDSwiss appears to have shuttered its offshore operations. Its global website, registered with the Seychelles regulator, is no longer working and is redirecting traffic to a login dashboard page. The broker is also not allowing new account creation, displaying the message “cannot create account.”The branding on the login dashboard page is also different as BDS […]
A joint venture consisting of PGIM, Tribeca Investment Group and Meadow Partners has landed a $228.9 million loan to refinance a newly-renovated 19-story office tower in Manhattan’s Midtown South neighborhood. Rialto Capital Management, as part of a joint venture partnership with Hines, supplied the floating-rate, interest-only bridge debt for the sponsorship’s 295 Fifth Avenue property […]
“Clueless” star Alicia Silverstone is known as one of Hollywood‘s most prominent eco warriors—regularly touting the benefits of her vegan diet and her desire to ensure that her son, Bear, enjoys the healthiest lifestyle possible. And nowhere is that ethos more apparent than inside the Los Angeles home that the 49-year-old actress purchased at the […]
US banks expanded their commercial real estate (CRE) portfolios by 3% in the first quarter, the fastest rate of growth in the asset in nearly three years. Across 4,336 US banks, total CRE exposure stood at $2.61 trillion as of March 31, up $74.9 billion from three months earlier. It was the largest proportional increase […]
Munis were little changed on Monday, as U.S. Treasuries cheapened and equities ended lower. Processing Content Muni yields increased by up to three basis points, depending on scale. USTs cheapened by four to five basis points. The war in Iran is weighing on most risk assets, according to James Pruskowski, managing director at Hennion & […]
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The European Securities and Markets Authority has published a statement setting out key deadlines and action points for the European Union’s transition to a T+1 settlement cycle in financial markets. ESMA’s latest statement follows the publication last year of its final settlement discipline rules supporting the EU’s move to T+1. The package introduced same-day allocations, […]
Last week ended on a promising note with Friday’s rates falling just barely below the previous Friday’s levels. This was a relief after the top-tier 30yr fixed rate matched 11-month highs for the average lender earlier in the week. Unfortunately, rates are starting the new week by heading back toward those highs. Our 30yr fixed […]
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 could encourage a surge in enterprise workloads and provide a long-term tailwind to chip demand.