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Financial Services Roundup: Market Talk
The latest Market Talks covering Financial Services. Exclusively on Dow Jones Newswires at 4:20 ET, 12:20 ET and 16:50 ET. 0758 GMT – UniCredit shares should perform well on Monday as the Italian bank reports solid third-quarter trends…
The Cost Of Familiarity: Why 'Good Enough' Is Holding Finance Back
Alok Ajmera is the CEO of Prophix. I was talking to a CFO recently about why his organization was still relying on Excel, despite knowing its problems. He compared his situation to being a parent with a toddler and a newborn. You're…
The System Of Record Alone Can't Take Finance Any Further
Felipe Pardo is CFO at Simetrik, an AI-Native financial control infrastructure trusted by 180+ enterprises. As companies expand into new markets, their finance teams tend to grow with them. Every new processor, partner or country brings…
Turning foundations into everyday finance
Stacey Japhta, Associate Director: Head of Growth at Sybrin. With more than 130 million people, Ethiopia is Africa's second most populous country after Nigeria, and its financial sector has grown to match that scale. With an established banking…
Beware the Influence of Financial Giants
When Philadelphia National Bank was blocked from buying a local rival in the 1960s, the Supreme Court's opinion contained a seminal insight about finance: If too few firms control the supply of funding for business, they will reshape the rest of…
Weekend trading of Nvidia scandal shines light on new financial products
Perpetual futures emerge as first input for Nvidia investors over the weekend. Prediction markets and premarket options trading offer glimpse of growing need for more market access. Perpetual futures on Nvidia started moving lower Sunday as news of…
AI chip financing hits a wall
The AI bet is rapidly turning sideways. After rushing to lend gobs of money for the data-center buildout, now some investors can't dump it fast enough. We're hearing about whole portfolios of loans that are being shopped at steep discounts, with…
Blue Owl Technology Finance Stock: The Best Value In The BDC Space (NYSE:OTF)
Roberts Berzins, CFA 16.57K Followers Blue Owl Technology Finance trades at a steep discount to NAV, driven more by sentiment than by fundamentals. A look at the losses the share price implies shows the market expects something far worse than…
Accounting as the pillar of HK as an international financial hub: Frederick Ma at AFRC Forum 2026
The Accounting and Financial Reporting Council (AFRC) will continue strengthening, playing the pivotal role of a super connector and a super value adder, Hong Kong Trade Development Council chairman Frederick Ma Si-hang said at the AFRC Regional…
Nikkei Rises 1.7%, Led by Machinery, Financial Stocks
0027 GMT — Japanese stocks rise, rebounding from Friday's selloff, following solid U.S. jobs data. Machinery and financial stocks are leading gains. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries gains 6.3% and Mizuho Financial Group is 5.2% higher. The dollar…
Financing the foundations of stability
The costs are already substantial. In the UK, we are particularly susceptible to flooding, and this year proved that we are not immune to heatwaves and drought. Flooding costs the UK an estimated £2.3 billion annually, while the five…
Houthi attack damages Aramco building in Riyadh's financial district
Windows were blown out across several floors of Saudi oil giant Aramco's corporate office in the heart of the financial district of the capital Riyadh on Sunday by what the energy ministry said was debris from an attempt to attack the building.
Gold can finance development but cannot define the limits of our economic future - The Ghanaian Chronicle
We are richly endowed with natural resources, including gold, cocoa, crude oil, bauxite, manganese, timber and fertile agricultural land. Among these resources, gold has become one of our most important sources of foreign exchange and government…
School closures are accelerating in US, but more financial pain lies ahead
Minutes before first bell, Penny Núñez-Brandão scanned the crowd outside Glen Cove Elementary School, looking for familiar faces. “I don't see any,” the fifth grader told her mom one morning in August.
Insurers have not learnt from the financial crisis
Long-term consequences: water is dropped by helicopter on the advancing Palisades Fire neighbourhood in Los Angeles in January 2025 (Photograph by Etienne Laurent/AP) “You might not believe in climate change, but your insurance company…
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