The U.S. regulator floats expanded investor access and simplified financial disclosures. This article appears in the October issue of Global Finance Magazine. The Securities and Exchange Commission is considering a new route for raising capital that does not involve issuing equity or debt, but instead uses crypto assets. In August, the regulator released the aptly…
About the publisher: Founded in 2020, 24.hu is one of Hungary’s most-read news sites. An online-only newspaper with a newsroom of about 70, its coverage focuses heavily on politics while also looking at culture, sports, technology and other areas. 24.hu first launched as an ad-supported news portal, but in 2024 it switched to a freemium…
A software engineer employed by a New York company spends the year working from an apartment in Denver, visits the office for six days in March, and finishes December owing returns to two states that disagree about which of them has the claim. Nothing about that situation is unusual, and none of it is resolved…
The transition to a low-carbon economy relies on more than policy commitment. It requires finance that can move at scale, support new technologies and fund projects whose environmental benefits may take years to emerge. BOC is playing an increasingly significant role in this process, leveraging its leadership in green finance. To meet the needs of…
By Joanna Cummings If your readers already know the score, watched the match and spent the evening dissecting it on WhatsApp, what will persuade them to pay you for more? It is a question Laura Williamson, Editor-in-Chief of The Athletic, comes back to repeatedly. “If you’re an Everton fan, just by the nature of fandom…
Very cool that random() in CSS is coming to Chrome to join Safari who led that feature. It means one of my favorite demos I’ve made when I was first playing with it will work for more people. I just like how little code it is and how it combines some fun modern CSS features….
Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, is a Christian Zionist who believes that Israel is biblically entitled to all of the Holy Land. He’s pretty much the last person you’d expect to condemn Israeli conduct in the West Bank, where settlers have spent decades using a combination of construction, coercion, and outright violence to…
Unitree Robotics’ volatile Shanghai debut has prompted Chinese regulators to slow parts of the humanoid-robot IPO pipeline as they examine whether high valuations and revenue linked to government-backed projects reflect sustainable commercial demand. Unitree became the first mainland-listed humanoid-robot manufacturer when its shares began trading on Shanghai’s STAR Market on 19 August. The company priced…
Home Banking World’s Best Digital Banks 2026 Round 1: The Next Generation of Digital Banking Arrives Digital portals give way to autonomous financial ecosystems. The term “digital transformation” has been a boardroom staple for a decade, often used to describe the transition from physical brick-and-mortar branches to mobile-first applications. Yet as we evaluate the landscape…
The Reserve Bank of Australia has warned that several upside risks to inflation are beginning to materialise, with Governor Michele Bullock pointing to renewed energy-price pressure, the global AI investment boom and persistent domestic capacity constraints ahead of the central bank’s September rate decision. Bullock told the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics on…