Coinbase is cutting around 700 jobs, roughly 14% of its workforce, as the crypto exchange tries to cut costs and reshape itself for the “AI era.” The company expects $50mn to $60mn in restructuring charges, mostly from severance, but the larger signal is for the whole tech sector: AI is now part of the financial…
“I suggested a little bit of a ceasefire, and I think he might do that,” President Donald Trump told reporters this week after a conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “There’s so many people being killed, it’s so ridiculous.” Putin has proposed “little” ceasefires before, but more than four years since its full-scale invasion, he…
Banks, broker-dealers, and clearing agencies could soon reduce capital buffers as Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) moves closer to operationalizing tokenization through its subsidiary, Depository Trust Company (DTC). The DTC—which provides book-entry custody for more than $114 trillion in assets, such as municipal bonds, corporate bonds, corporate stocks, and money market instruments from the…
Source The US Open never really waits for the calendar to catch up. By the time the tournament arrives, the storylines are already in motion, quietly forming in spring events that don’t always get the level of scrutiny that accompanies this tournament. That’s part of what makes this one different: it rewards consistency over heroics…
What would you do if you could decode a bank merger announcement in just a few minutes? Financial news can feel overwhelming, but the secret is that most merger releases follow a predictable structure that’s easier to understand than it appears. Once you know what each section is trying to tell you, the details fall…
WAN-IFRA is proud to announce the European winners of the Digital Media Awards. The laureate projects reveal a continued shift in the industry, where AI is no longer just an editorial experiment but also a driver of revenue growth, hyper-personalisation, and high-value B2B opportunities. They also highlight the growing importance of engaging audiences as active…
Across the Middle East and its diaspora, this year’s winning projects reflect journalism shaped by pressure, constraint and complexity. A common thread runs among the laureates: the meaningful use of audience participation, where citizen-generated content is not only collected but verified, structured and turned into editorial output. Technology is applied with purpose, responding to real…
Perfectionist? So how can you tell when your perfectionist traits, which in many ways have aided your creative prowess, have gone too far? If you’re prone to obsession, especially when it comes to work, there’s always a way to justify why it’s worth the agony. But, as Siqi, renald and Pablo attest, getting bogged down…
ENBD secures a $3 billion RBL Bank deal, marking the United Arab Emirates’ largest foreign banking investment in India to date. Dubai’s Emirates NBD Bank PJSC (ENBD), the second-largest bank in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is about to make the largest foreign direct investment in India’s banking sector in history, with the acquisition of…
WAN-IFRA is proud to congratulate the esteemed winners of this year’s 11th edition of the Digital Media Africa Awards. We commend the news media organisations across Africa for their creativity and dedication shown in these groundbreaking projects. Our sincere appreciation to the publishers who shared their work, as well as our distinguished jury for their…