Well, that’s a wrap. No, not a flex-wrap, but rather today marks a new day, week, month, season, aaaand new edition of What’s !important (#18), bringing you the best content that CSS developers have produced over the last couple of weeks or so. Abhishek Jakhar explained why tooltips should be delayed then instant (basically, so…
Responding to Trump’s tariff barrage, Canada pivots from continental nostalgia to global dealmaking. This article appears in the September 2026 issue of Global Finance Magazine. Following President Donald Trump’s reelection in 2024, something extraordinary occurred, not seen since the War of 1812. The president not only took aim at Canada as a potential annexation target,…
OpenAI, WAN-IFRA and the Association of Independent Regional Press Publishers of Ukraine (AIRPPU) have announced a new initiative to support and strengthen Ukrainian news publishers by building practical artificial intelligence capabilities and accelerating innovation across their organisations. During a time of continued conflict and unrest, the new initiative – developed by AIRPPU in partnership with…
Fintech founders rarely ignore regulation outright. The more common pattern is subtler: they treat regulatory exposure as a moving boundary that can be managed later, once product-market fit, transaction volume, or geographic reach justifies the cost. For a while, that judgment can look rational. The company launches, partners sign, customers arrive, and no regulator objects….
Revolut gets an OCC thumbs up to launch a US bank, but lending ambitions are another issue. Technically, financial technology company Revolut is already a bank across several regions—it holds licenses in the U.K., France, Mexico and Australia. Now, in the U.S. market, it is one step closer to bankhood. The London-based startup announced Thursday…
There is a stretch of about ten days after somebody dies that almost no household has planned for. Not emotionally, which is understandable, but financially, which is fixable. It works like this. Someone dies on a Tuesday. By Thursday the family is expected to make decisions that carry a five figure price tag. By the…
America is betting on stablecoins while other nations favor safer digital currencies. This article appears in the September 2026 issue of Global Finance Magazine. CFOs and corporate treasurers face a dilemma when selecting which digital currencies to use. Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are backed by the issuing central bank’s balance sheet and the full…
Gradients can look super different depending on what color space you have them interpolate in. It’s sRGB by default, and there is a decent chance you’ve never even thought about it. But it’s a small syntax change to change that, as Keith Grant documents. One of those is not better than the other. Maybe it’s…
Freelancing is becoming a larger part of the skilled workforce. Upwork’s Future Workforce Index found that skilled freelancing grew from 28% of skilled knowledge workers in 2025 to 38% in 2026. As more people take on independent work, more freelancers are signing client contracts without a legal background. The right contract can protect your pay,…
August employment report brings mixed blessings for the U.S. economy. U.S. employers added a robust 162,000 jobs in August, signaling an employment rebound, even as finance-sector jobs declined, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest Employment Situation Summary. The sectors with the most job growth were leisure/hospitality (62,000 jobs), government (35,000 jobs), private education/health services…