Asking the internet for advice can be a dicey game: Users can either be helpful or take the chance to make a joke of it all—as the European Central Bank (ECB) has come to find out. The financial institution, which oversees banknotes in the European Union, unveiled on July 23 the new design proposals for…
Eight months ago, BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes argued that traditional exchanges would have to “adapt or die” as perpetual swaps spread beyond crypto. Now BitMEX itself is closing, while the exchanges it once challenged are beginning to adopt its defining product. On 23 September 2026, BitMEX will close the exchange that gave crypto its dominant…
Technology cannot be expected to exercise professional scepticism on the auditor’s behalf. While it can inform their professional judgement, auditors cannot invoke tech tools to explain an inappropriate conclusion, the National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA) said on Friday. In its first paper on “Staff Series on Technology in Audit,” NFRA laid down…
National affordable housing nonprofit Reinvestment Fund is undergoing a leadership shake-up, with two executives departing to pursue independent consulting ventures. Ira Goldstein spent 27 years with the Philadelphia-based nonprofit, most of them as president of policy solutions, before leaving last month to launch IJG Urban Advisors. Ira Goldstein “I felt like the team that I had built, the…
Coldwell Banker’s presence in New York is shrinking under the Compass umbrella. Coldwell Banker Warburg is folding into the Compass brand, The Real Deal has learned. It’s unclear when the transition, which will end Coldwell Banker’s owned brokerage operations in the city after just five years, will take effect. Coldwell Banker Warburg agents learned of…
Munis were steady to slightly firmer in spots Friday, while short-term U.S. Treasuries saw small gains and equities ended mixed. Processing Content With the Federal Reserve meeting next week, there should be “relatively manageable” tax-exempt supply, which should ease the pressure on bids wanteds, which were up 42% this week compared to the five-week average,…
A coalition of governors and attorneys general is suing the Trump administration, arguing that the federal government wants to strongarm Democratic states into complying with some of its most controversial policy changes yet. The lawsuit, filed in a Rhode Island federal court, alleges that the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA are illegally withholding billions…
Alexandria Real Estate: The Uncertainty Is Real, But The Discount Has Gone Too Far
Mortgage Brain has integrated Uinsure into its CRM Brain platform, letting brokers offer insurance quotes automatically as part of the mortgage application process. The integration means that, once a mortgage application has been submitted through CRM Brain, brokers will be prompted to ask their client whether they would like a buildings and contents insurance quote….
How Technical Do You Want to Be? 2 Hours, 53 Min ago How Technical Do You Want to Be? There are always multiple technical lenses through which to view market movement, but the simplest involve trendlines and level lines. Yield movement has largely held inside the same high/low trendlines since October 2025,…