Corporate America's Great Un-Wokening

businessinsider.com Unilever spent years crafting its image as a corporate goody-two-shoes. The owner of Dove, Vaseline, Hellmann's, and a bunch of other brands axed quarterly reporting and…

Corporate America got woke. Now it's having second thoughts

aol.com Unilever spent years crafting its image as a corporate goody-two-shoes. The owner of Dove, Vaseline, Hellmann's, and a bunch of other brands axed quarterly reporting and…

Mapping the RWA Landscape on Bankless

bankless.com are the talk of the town. Big names like BlackRock are getting into RWAs , Tether is rolling out its , and the numbers are impressive too – RWA tokens reached a record…

JPMorgan and Visa jump into ambitious tokenisation project in bullish sign for digital ledgers

dlnews.com In a major effort to upgrade the backbone of the global financial system, JPMorgan Chase and Visa have joined a project to test the feasibility of tokenising cash and other…

a Mistake?

nytimes.com Still, she worries about her future. Forbus would like to stop working when she is 65. She has no big retirement dreams — she is not planning to move to Florida or to take…

Arbitrum is looking for yield. BlackRock came knocking

dlnews.com The digital cooperatives that run much of the crypto economy tend to hire crypto-native companies when they need a security audit, help managing their finances, and other…

Why BlackRock’s BUIDL Bet is Bullish on Bankless

bankless.com The TradFi Titan's first tokenized fund is a bigger deal than people think. Modern technology has rapidly reshaped society during the 21st century, but many aspects of our…

Why This Cycle Is Cooked on Bankless

bankless.com The EIGEN airdrop has triggered discussion about the rift between private and public markets. The points-based, large private rounds-fueled, high-FDV airdrop meta is…

Cryptos Dump After Robinhood Reveals SEC Wells Notice Related Related To Its Crypto Listings

zerohedge.com Cryptos Dump After Robinhood Reveals SEC Wells Notice Related Related To Its Crypto Listings For all its positives, bitcoin is perhaps the only security that prices in the…

Cardano Founder Defends Altcoins Against Michael Saylor’s Claims

thecryptobasic.com Charles Hoskinson, founder of Cardano, criticizes Michael Saylor’s view that only Bitcoin is a commodity, not other cryptocurrencies like Ethereum, XRP and Cardano. Tensions…

Gen Z will pay dearly for this U.S. blunder on the massive debt that boomers, Gen X, and millennials are dumping on them, former White House economist warns

finance.yahoo.com U.S. debt is soaring to record levels, and the Treasury Department squandered an opportunity to help ease the burden on Gen Z, a former White House economist warned. That's…

Japan Looks to Leave its Lost Decades Behind

thedailyupside.com Sunday marks the final day of Japan’s Ōgon Shūkan, or Golden Week. The celebration commemorates four national holidays including one all about the joy of kids, which is…

Americans ditch suffocating healthcare costs and divisive politics to retire in Italy: 'It's the way they approach life'

businessinsider.com Clavesana in Italy. Eric and Christina Schwendeman Some Americans are choosing to retire abroad because of healthcare costs and divisive politics. Many of them are moving to…

Data Centers Hiding In 'Spy Country' Northern Virginia Will Need Reactor's Worth Of Power

zerohedge.com Data Centers Hiding In 'Spy Country' Northern Virginia Will Need Reactor's Worth Of Power Since the beginning of the digital age, most of the world's internet data has…

Michael Saylor warns these popular cryptocurrencies will be deemed securities

finbold.com Michael Saylor, founder of MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) and a prominent Bitcoin (BTC) advocate, recently stated that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is likely…

'No-hydrocarbon world is dreamland:' AIMCo CEO Evan Siddall on investment opportunities in 2024

financialpost.com Evan Siddall: I’m worried about things going wrong in the world. Geopolitics. I’m worried about the Middle East and Iran being drawn into a proxy war. And how does Israel…

‘Your Fund Is Under Attack’: BlackRock Fights Boaz Weinstein

finance.yahoo.com A few days ago, BlackRock Inc. sent an unusual message to thousands of clients. It contained none of the formulaic language or inscrutable fine print typically packed into…

BlackRock’s BUIDL surged 200% in weeks

dlnews.com After a flying start, inflows into BlackRock’s Ethereum-based tokenised fund are leveling out. BUIDL began with $100 million in funding, and attracted another $160 million…

Bitcoin Maxi Michael Saylor Slams ETH and XRP, Says They Won’t Get Spot ETFs

thecryptobasic.com MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor issues negative predictions for Ethereum (ETH) and other altcoins like XRP and Cardano (ADA), says they will not be wrapped by a spot…

Climate activist investors are learning to play nice with banks

semafor.com The News Wells Fargo shareholders rejected a proposal this week for the bank to report on whether its corporate lobbying conflicts with its net zero targets, following the…

SEC will classify ETH as security and reject spot Ethereum ETFs, says Michael Saylor

cryptobriefing.com Michael Saylor believes that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will label Ethereum as a security this summer and consequently deny all spot Ethereum ETF…

There’s No Evidence of a Retirement Crisis

morningstar.com Last month, The New York Times printed an article about BlackRock BLK CEO Larry Fink, bearing the headline “He Wants to Address the Retirement Crisis Looming in the U.S.”…

BlackRock Sees Sovereign Wealth Funds, Pensions Dive into Bitcoin ETFs

coingape.com Institutional investors are increasingly eyeing spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs), as observed by BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager. Robert Mitchnick,…

The full list of major US companies slashing staff this year, from Tesla to Google and Apple

aol.com May 2, 2024 at 10:04 AM • None Last year's job cuts weren't the end of layoffs. Further reductions have begun in 2024. • None Companies like Tesla, Google, Microsoft, Nike,…

What is weighing on CEOs’ minds this earnings season?

economist.com Schumpeter likes to write—and receive—handwritten letters. When he got out his pen last year and wrote to Larry Fink, boss of BlackRock, he explained to the…

BlackRock: Sovereign Wealth, Pension Funds Considering Bitcoin ETFs

bitcoinmagazine.com Asset management giant BlackRock says it is seeing growing interest in Bitcoin ETFs from institutional players like sovereign wealth funds and pension funds. This comes…

BlackRock Leads Funding Round for US Firm Focused on Tokenization of Real-World Assets

dailyhodl.com Asset management titan BlackRock is leading a new fundraising round for Securitize, a US company geared towards the tokenization of real-world assets. According to a new…

Bitcoin ETF Leader BlackRock Leads $47M Funding Round in Securitize

decrypt.co Tokenization firm Securitize just closed a $47 million strategic funding round led by none other than BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager and operator of the most…

BlackRock leads $47 million round for Securitize: ‘Another step in the evolution of our digital assets strategy’

aol.com As crypto markets recover from their tumultuous collapse, traditional financial firms have begun their long-anticipated venture into the blockchain sector, with the…

BlackRock doubles down on tokenization via investment in Securitize

blockworks.co The world’s largest asset manager appears poised to move deeper into the tokenization space after injecting capital into a tokenization firm it has worked with before.…

BlackRock Sets New Standard in Tokenization of Real World Assets With BUIDL’s Success

beincrypto.com BlackRock’s USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) has become the world’s largest treasury fund tokenized on a blockchain. This achievement follows its surpassing…

Blackrock's Larry Fink Jumps On "Next AI Trade", Warning World Will Be "Short Power"

zerohedge.com Blackrock's Larry Fink Jumps On "Next AI Trade", Warning World Will Be "Short Power" At the start of April, we penned a lengthy report for premium subs discussing why…

Bitcoin Price Tumbles Below $60,000 as ETF/Macro Headwinds Mount

cryptonews.com price has tumbled more than 5% on Tuesday to below $60,000 following a disappointing first day of spot Bitcoin ETF trade in Hong Kong, and following fresh US economic data…

Backed Finance raises $9.5 million in Series A funding round to accelerate tokenization for institutional clients

cryptobriefing.com Backed Finance AG, a prominent issuer of tokenized real-world assets, has completed a $9.5 million Series A funding round. The company plans to use the funds to enhance its…

Annuities are key to American retirement. So why are so few Americans buying them?

finance.yahoo.com Annuities are an essential component of the American retirement system, starting with Social Security. Why, then, do so few Americans understand them? Most of us, it seems,…

Global debt hasn’t been this bad since the Napoleonic Wars, says World Economic Forum president

finance.yahoo.com The massive volumes of debt piling up around the globe forced the president of the World Economic Forum to reach back more than 200 years for a comparable period. In an…

Global debt hasn't been this bad since the Napoleonic Wars, says World Economic Forum president

fortune.com The massive volumes of debt piling up around the globe forced the president of the World Economic Forum to reach back more than 200 years for a comparable period. In an…

Franklin Templeton’s $380m BENJI token upgrade is just for institutional investors

dlnews.com The tokenisation push is heating up. Asset manager Franklin Templeton on Thursday enabled peer-to-peer transfer of BENJI, its yield-bearing, dollar-pegged token. Still, the…

Bitcoin's Record Month on Bankless

bankless.com It was a historic March for Bitcoin, ETH on the other hand... Barring an unlikely 10%+ collapse today, Bitcoin will close March at its highest level ever! BTC captivated…

Bitcoin Price Chops Either Side of $64,000 Following Latest US Inflation Report

cryptonews.com price chopped either side of the $64,000 level on Friday in the wake of the latest US inflation data report, which showed the Core PCE index rising 0.3% MoM in March, in…