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Key insight: Standard Chartered and BNY now let institutional clients mint and redeem Circle’s USDC through the bank instead of a direct Circle account. What’s at stake: Handling stablecoins directly gives banks a new custody-and-fee business, but it also risks client cash shifting out of deposits into stablecoins and tokenized funds. Forward look: Standard Chartered…

As the United States prepares to celebrate the 250th anniversary of its founding on July 4, it is a moment not just for reflection, but for a deeper appreciation of what has been built and how it has endured and adapted over 2 1/2 centuries. Being American can be exhilarating and exasperating. That is because,…

Ryan Nauman hosts Zephyr’s Adjusted for Risk podcast and speaks with Eden Ovadia, co-founder and CEO of FINNY AI, about why organic growth is a major challenge for financial advisors and why reliance on M&A has made firms complacent and increasingly capital-inefficient as multiples rise. Ovadia explains that referrals still drive most industry growth but…

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Employees of Central Autonomous Bodies (CABs) covered under the National Pension System (NPS) will now be able to choose from two additional investment options that were previously available only to union government employees. The move expands investment flexibility for thousands of NPS subscribers working in autonomous institutions and allows them to select a pension strategy…