Proprietary trading gets a lot of attention because, on the surface, the model sounds direct: a firm trades for its own account rather than handling client money. That part is easy to say. The harder part is building a structure that can support the way proprietary trading actually behaves once real market pressure starts to…
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: The US-Iran “ceasefire,” such as it is, is breaking down. What’s happening? After Iran downed a US helicopter earlier this week, violence between…
Findings from an exploratory user research study highlighting the unique insights and practical UX recommendations shared by participants with cognitive disabilities. In the summer of 2024, I became co-chair of a working group of expert researchers who came together to determine how best to perform accessibility testing with people with cognitive disabilities. This was work…
“We are deliberately putting more focus on loyalty and less on acquisition volume for its own sake,” Coralie Vrancken, CEO of the Le Soir Division within Belgium’s Groupe Rossel, told participants at our World News Media Congress in Marseille. (Vrancken also became a WAN-IFRA Board Member last week). The Brussels-based publisher is currently experimenting with…
When a business changes hands, a patent gets licensed, or an investment portfolio gets stress-tested, one question surfaces almost immediately: what is this actually worth? The answer is rarely a single number pulled from a formula. Instead, experts estimate fair value by triangulating multiple valuation models, each examining the subject from a different angle. The…
Comoros, an island nation of less than a million people, more than 3,000 miles away from Iran, might not seem to have much at stake, politically, from the current conflict in the Middle East. Donald Trump has never publicly mentioned it. It is neither an ally nor a target of the Iranian regime. But as…
President Donald Trump’s warning that the United States “must respond” after a U.S. Army Apache helicopter was shot down near the Strait of Hormuz is reviving concerns that oil prices, shipping expenses and inflation could move higher again. The incident has sharpened attention on one of the world’s most important energy corridors at a time…
For years, recurring revenue was the foundation of the private equity investment case for software companies. Subscription contracts, predictable cash flows and high customer retention rates helped justify rich valuations and substantial leverage. That formula is now under pressure. The sharp slowdown in software buyouts during 2026 is more than a temporary pause in dealmaking….
I’ve said one and meant another, and I’ve used one when I needed another. Please bear with me as I note the high-level similarities and differences between scroll-driven animations, scroll-triggered animations, container query scroll states, and view transitions for my future self. A scroll-driven animation is an animation that responds to, yeah, scrolling. Specifically, there’s…
Every spring, the same thing happens. Retirees who spent the winter in Naples, Sarasota, or Fort Myers start packing up, and somewhere on the to-do list sits a question that catches a lot of people off guard: what to do with the second car. Driving 1,200 miles back isn’t appealing when you’ve already booked the…