It protects liquidity, manages risk and ensures that businesses can continue to operate through periods of uncertainty. Yet the past 12 months have underscored how quickly the risk landscape can change. Treasurers have had to navigate shifting tariff regimes, conflicts in the Middle East that have disrupted key shipping routes, continued supply chain reconfiguration away…
Post-trade market infrastructure company DTCC began advancing tokenization from concept to live production Wednesday (July 15). In a series of live updates posted on its website, DTCC shared news of clients that began using live trading environments to demonstrate and transact tokenized assets. “Today marks a significant milestone in the evolution of global financial markets,”…
Mortgage loan production volume at three of the nation’s largest banks came in above expectations for the second quarter, which a pair of nonbank analysts believe is a positive for the segment. Processing Content JPMorgan Chase reported origination volume of $17.2 billion for the quarter, compared with $13.7 billion in the first quarter (26% higher)…
Key insights: Stripe and Advent International have reportedly offered to buy PayPal for $53 billion. What’s at stake: For Stripe, the acquisition would give it an important avenue into enterprise payments. Expert quote: “While this valuation would represent a meaningful nearly 30% premium to other traditional merchant processors, we do not think PayPal’s new CEO…
Every country is home to crime and conflict, but as indicated by the Institute for Economics & Peace’s 2026 Global Peace Index (GPI), the extent of that violence and instability varies widely. Business Insider recently compiled a list of the world’s most peaceful countries, based on the GPI. The report, released in June, evaluated 163…
The Bank of Canada held its overnight rate at 2.25% on Wednesday, July 15, its sixth consecutive pause since the cutting cycle ended in October 2025. As economists broadly anticipated another hold, reaction arrived quickly, with commentary dividing between cautious optimism on the growth outlook and sharper urgency around fixed-rate mortgages. …
Investor demand for AI chip manufacturers has surged this year. The industry is expected to reach revenues of $1.3 trillion in 2026, according to Yahoo Finance, driven by a global AI infrastructure buildout and a bottleneck for AI semiconductors and hardware. REX Shares aims to capture this demand with the firm filing for the REX…
WASHINGTON, July 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The tokenization of securities has evolved greatly over the past year, and a new paper from the Investment Company Institute (ICI), Tokenization: An Asset Management Perspective, examines the issue specifically through an asset management lens. The paper focuses on the implications and opportunities for registered funds and their investors. ICI supports…
SpaceX shares slide below IPO price for the first time as blistering rally unravels
Major market indexes have been surging lately, with the S&P 500 (^GSPC +0.09%) and Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC +0.24%) up by 22% and 28%, respectively, over the past 12 months. However, that growth could potentially slow going forward, as Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh recently suggested that the central bank may be poised to raise interest…