A new Federal Reserve study is challenging one of the biggest assumptions behind the multi-billion-dollar digital money industry: that safer reserves automatically make digital money safer. Researchers say digital currencies could still face run-like behaviour even when backed by perfectly safe assets, raising fresh questions about the infrastructure supporting stablecoins, tokenized deposits and future central…
That structural change ranges from building sustainable revenue and getting paid in the AI ecosystem, to redesigning newsrooms for a fundamentally different production model. Drawing on global cases across five chapters, Juan Senor presented the strategic moves that matter most right now, focused primarily on AI’s impact on publishers. WAN-IFRA and FIPP members can download…
The Hindu has a discovery problem. Like many long-established publishers now operating in crowded digital markets, the 148-year-old Indian news organisation produces far more journalism than most readers will ever encounter. More than 600 stories are published across its titles every day, yet even its most engaged users typically see only a fraction of that…
With the 2026 World Cup around the corner, the sports finance sector is heating up — and few advisers are at the center of more high-stakes talks than Laurie Pinto. From cross-border M&A and private equity-style ownership structures to discreet football club deals, Pinto has spent decades navigating the intersection of finance and sport. Through…
As global concern about an Ebola outbreak in central Africa grows, hundreds of Kenyans have taken to the streets to protest a plan by the Trump administration to send American citizens who have been exposed to the virus to Kenya, rather than bringing them back to the US. Two people have been shot and killed…
Aliko Dangote’s net worth is estimated by Finance Monthly at around $28.5 billion in 2026, making him Africa’s richest person and placing him at No. 86 in our current Top 100 richest people in the world. Dangote appears in the Top 100 under Dangote Cement because the cement business remains the clearest publicly valued anchor…
After all, who would pay for anything they can already get for free? Well, today, millions of donors and tens of millions of pounds and dollars later, there’s no doubting that decision. There are also some other publishers, like South Africa’s Daily Maverick and just recently, The Salt Lake Tribune in the United States, that…
As SpaceX and Anthropic eye public listings, index providers brace for major market dislocations. When mega-cap companies go public, index providers and investors will see it as dropping battleships into the old fishing pond. The resulting waves are going to soak everyone. Privately held artificial intelligence (AI) vendor Anthropic announced its filing of a draft…
“Dutch youth is suffering from news poverty – and not in the sense that there’s too little news. There’s actually an overload of information. The poverty is that overall information doesn’t land with that generation.” When Christopher Kenis, publisher of Spilnews, opened his session at our ongoing World News Media Congress in Marseille, he wasn’t…
Just a few years ago, Ben Shapiro was the defining voice of right-wing media. His podcast sat near the top of the charts. Posts from the Daily Wire, his media company, routinely dominated the competition on Facebook. His team was even coming for Hollywood, putting out “anti-woke” comedies and an epic fantasy series that cost…