Banco Central do Brasil (BCB) has banned fintech and payment providers from settling overseas payments in stablecoins or crypto. With Resolution 561, the BCB is implementing new rules regarding its electronic foreign exchange (eFX) policy, which governs how payment institutions and e-money issuers provide cross-border services. Its immediate effects, when the new rules go into…
This is the seventh of seven lessons from Ladina that we are publishing each day leading up to our World News Media Congress. Her first six covered: Lesson #1 Building products is trivial. Running them isn’t. Lesson #2 The living policy. Why AI guidelines are never finished. Lesson #3 Forget the AI mandate. Start with the Time Wasters….
Deutsche Bank and Barclays are among the European banks most exposed to a potential private credit downturn, according to new analysis that is raising fresh concerns about lending conditions as businesses already face higher borrowing costs. New analysis from Bloomberg Intelligence found that four banks — Deutsche Bank, Barclays, BNP Paribas and HSBC — account…
For decades, Taiwan’s passport didn’t say “Taiwan” at all. It said something else: the Republic of China. But if Taiwan has called itself China, who gets to be the “real” China? This video traces the evolution of Taiwan’s identity through one simple object: its passport. From the booting of the Republic of China from the…
Lock in today’s painful prices, or bet that volatility breaks your way? CFOs are being forced to choose. Commodity hedging is no longer a technical exercise buried in the treasury function. As price volatility spreads across energy, metals, and agricultural commodities, CFOs are forced to make explicit, high-stakes bets about the future — locking in…
Seventy percent of websites still fail basic WCAG contrast checks in 2025. After years of design system tooling, accessibility linters, and JavaScript libraries, nothing moved the needle. We didn’t need better libraries. We needed better CSS. contrast-color() is that better CSS. The HTTP Archive Web Almanac has been tracking color contrast failures for years. The…
A key inflation measure favored by new Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh cooled again in April, even as Americans continue dealing with stubbornly high prices and Fed officials grow more divided over whether inflation is actually easing. The Dallas Fed’s trimmed mean inflation gauge showed year-over-year inflation at 2.3% in April, down from 2.4% in…
The 2026 Golden Pen of Freedom, WAN-IFRA’s annual press freedom award, will be awarded to the professional photographers and videographers working in Gaza. “For over two and a half years, journalists in Gaza have recorded death, destruction, and human suffering in unparalleled terms,” reads the award citation. “They are as much victims of the conflict…
Some text effects are relatively hard to pull in CSS, the main reason being we are unable to target individual characters (something many of us want in the form of ::nth-letter(), although we have basis for it with ::first-letter that gives us access to a box element’s first glyph. But maybe there are a few…
This is the sixth of seven lessons from Ladina that we are publishing each day leading up to our World News Media Congress. Her first five covered: Lesson #1 Building products is trivial. Running them isn’t. Lesson #2 The living policy. Why AI guidelines are never finished. Lesson #3 Forget the AI mandate. Start with…