Shaquille O’Neal’s automotive history is coming full circle as a 2004 Rolls-Royce Phantom, originally purchased as part of a famous $1.3 million “spite-buy,” heads to the auction block. The silver luxury sedan, which O’Neal owned until 2018, is currently listed for auction on Bring a Trailer, with bidding scheduled to conclude on November 3, 2026….
Soaring costs of political violence insurance in the DRC reveal a broader capacity crisis for African mining. This article appears in the November issue of Global Finance Magazine. Political violence insurance premiums for some mining risks in the Democratic Republic of Congo jumped as much as tenfold last year, turning insurance from a routine operating…
WAN-IFRA, the World Association of News Publishers, condemns the criminalisation of journalism in Russia and has called on Russian authorities to immediately release Japanese journalist, Yuki Imai, detained on allegations of espionage. Imai, an accredited Japanese correspondent for Hokkaido Shimbun, was arrested on 13 October on Sakhalin Island, in Russia’s Far East, just north of…
The float property in CSS is old school. CSS developers used to have to think about it all the time, because it was one of the mechanisms we had for building actual layouts like side-by-side columns and stuff. Those days are gone, but it doesn’t mean float as a property is entirely dead. It remains…
Before a company sells or closes, its records may qualify for an AI data license. Advisers who make the introduction can earn a referral fee, on clear conditions. Every wind-down has a spreadsheet. Receivables are chased, leases surrendered, equipment listed for sale, subscriptions cancelled one by one. The CFO knows the date the last payroll…
The dust is beginning to settle a week after Israel’s first national election since Hamas’s attack on October 7, 2023, and the war Israel waged on Gaza in response. Neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor his opponents won the 61 parliamentary seats needed to govern. Now the fate of the next government hinges on a…
On November 4, 2026, Wendy’s officially released its first full-scale JRPG, WendyQuest: Legend of the Four Corner Stones, across Steam, iOS, and Android. Developed by the British Columbia-based independent studio 81monkeys, the free-to-play title arrives at a critical juncture for the fast-food chain, launching just 24 hours before the company is scheduled to report its…
A major push by DTCC could accelerate adoption, but costs and technical hurdles remain. Tokenization of real-world assets, such as treasury bonds, commodities, or equities, is still in its infancy but is growing rapidly. The value of these tokenized assets globally is roughly $400 billion today, but it could explode to $5.5 trillion by 2030,…
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the US would soon cut off military aid to Israel. During an Election Day interview with Fox & Friends, Trump said of Israel, “We were giving them $4 billion but it’s cut off at the end of the year.” When asked to explain this position, Trump said that Israel…
Most buyers of regulated financial businesses start from the same piece of arithmetic. A fresh payment institution or investment firm authorisation can take a year or more in many European jurisdictions, so buying a company that already holds one looks like a way to skip the queue. Sometimes it is. More often the queue just…