Accelerating yield hikes fuel capital repatriation, threatening to drive up USD debt issuance costs. Japan’s rapidly rising interest rates are providing another significant variable for corporate treasurers with upcoming bond offerings or refinancings to monitor. While the deluge of debt issued by so-called hyperscalers has yet to increase other companies’ borrowing costs, it’s critical for…
By Branko Brkic, Founder Project Kontinuum Most of us in media work harder and risk much to produce or support journalism that matters. At the same time, trust in our institutions and people is woeful. Propaganda, noise and open attacks make the truth more difficult to find and so much easier to ignore. We keep…
Rideshare services are a convenient part of life in Las Vegas, but passengers who are harmed during a ride have rights, including the option to pursue a civil claim. Survivors of assault in a rideshare can seek accountability from the person responsible and, in some cases, from the company whose failures enabled the harm. What…
Stephen and Chris hop on to talk about the couple of weeks post 2.0 launch. Things are certainly different in 2.0! Literally the location of certain buttons is in a new place, and that requires folks to poke around a bit and figure it out. Some people just do that and it’s a non-issue. Some…
Since January, many Cubans have lived a life of near-constant darkness. The Trump administration’s oil blockades have led the country into a worsening energy crisis, collapsing what was already an eroding national power grid. Daily blackouts have plunged the Cuban nationalized, universal health system, once the pride of the country, into a humanitarian crisis. For…
Home Technology HSBC, Standard Chartered Test Interbank Tokenized Deposits On SWIFT Banks clear major milestone toward real-time, cross-border tokenized deposits. Tokenized deposits are a step closer to broader institutional use as HSBC Holdings PLC and Standard Chartered PLC completed the first bank-to-bank transaction via the banking messaging consortium SWIFT’s digital blockchain-backed ledger, the banks reported…
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: President Donald Trump’s planned Canada tariffs are off — for now. What happened? Trump had previously threatened 50-percent tariffs on about $20 billion…
US employers typically monitor the spend on rewards and recognition in Q2-end vs utilization to date in the year. Underspending now is a common story and generationally a common planning question, not so much a generational savings issue. Because unspent recognition budgets seldom roll forward and seldom reduce the next year’s budget ask, the default…
Can President Donald Trump pen a new chapter in his love story with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un? In Trump’s first term, the two leaders, in Trump’s words, “fell in love” after exchanging letters and held three historic meetings, but failed to make much progress toward the goal of denuclearizing the heavily armed hermit state….
The global securities and investment landscape is rapidly being reshaped. Among the challenging market conditions of recent years, institutional investors have turned to resilience-building as their central driver of growth. “The way our clients seek to build resilience varies across businesses, segments, and markets,” says Ee Fong Soh, Group Head of Financial Institutions, Securities & Fiduciary Services, Global Transaction Services, DBS Bank. “Yet we see a common dual objective across the board: the pursuit…