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Finance & Economics

FCA Intends to Retire Outdated Guidance to Streamline Regulation

In the United Kingdom, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) plans to retire more than 100 pages of outdated guidance, withdraw hundreds of supervisory publications, and take other actions to reduce the burden on businesses and improve outcomes for consumers.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Affirm Forms BNPL Pact With JPMorgan Payments

Affirm is expanding its pay-later offering through a new agreement with JPMorgan Payments.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Westpac to Enable Consumers to Block Accounts

Westpac, a financial institution operating in Australia and New Zealand, plans to allow its customers to block their accounts.

Blockchain & Crypto

Tabit Insurance Announces Bitcoin-Centric Funding

Tabit Insurance has announced the capitalization of its $40 million insurance facility.

News

World Network Reportedly Plans to Add Visa Card Functionality

The World Network, an organization co-founded by Sam Altman and which is part of the blockchain-based ecosystem that includes Worldcoin, is currently negotiating with Visa to add on-chain card features to the organization’s self-custody cryptocurrency wallet.

Fintech & Ecommerce

RockFi Raises $19 Million

The fintech company RockFi, which is based in Paris and operates in the area of wealth management, announced that it raised new financing for $19 million.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Monzo Debuts New Tool

Fintech industry player Monzo, which is based in the United Kingdom, announced the launch of a new tool that consumers can use to share expenses with friends and family.

Finance & Economics

Genetic Testing Company 23andMe Files for Bankruptcy

Gene testing company 23andMe announced last Sunday, March 23, that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Society & Lifestyle

Tesla Enters Dining Business

Tesla is entering the market in the dining business, preparing to open a drive-in restaurant in Los Angeles.

Finance & Economics

China Urges Global Business to Resist Protectionism

Chinese Premier Li Qiang said at a gathering of global executives that began in Beijing that the Asian country is ready for possible unexpected shocks and called on the meeting participants to resist protectionism and defend globalization.

Finance & Economics

China’s Bond Yields Increase

Economists cited by the media argue that the latest rise in Chinese government bond yields should not be characterized as a sign of reflation, as ongoing deflationary pressures are expected to be a contributing factor to interest rates remaining low.

Science & Technology

China’s Open-Source Embrace Changes Wisdom Around AI

Currently, Chinese technology companies are actively paying attention to open-source artificial intelligence models in the practical plane, launching such digital products at a high-intensity pace, while watchers and insiders claim that the implementation of the appropriate approach contributes to boosting AI adoption and scaling some other innovative functional solutions of the advanced category in the […]

News

DoorDash Launches Flexible Payment Options

Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) options from Klarna will be available for DoorDash orders soon.

Finance & Economics

China’s Property Market Reportedly Approaches to Stabilizing

This week, UBS analysts expressed the hope that the Chinese real estate market, which in recent years has been in the condition of what can be called a deep and, in a sense, fundamental downturn, is gradually approaching a kind of stabilization point.

News

Austan Goolsbee Sees Transitory Inflation From One-Time Tariffs

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee stated that the inflationary impact of tariffs could be transitory if they were limited in scope.

Science & Technology

Perplexity AI Reportedly Plans to Raise Up to $1 Billion

The media, citing an anonymous insider, published information according to which Perplexity AI, a startup building search engine powered by artificial intelligence, is currently in talks to double its valuation to $18 billion as part of a new funding round.