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coindesk.com - Olivier Acuna - Gate challenges fintech giants with multi-asset spending and round-the-clock conversions
Gate challenges fintech giants with multi-asset spending and round-the-clock conversions
CoinDesk –

Gate is joining a growing push by crypto exchanges to become all-in-one finance apps, as rivals including Coinbase, Binance, Bybit and Robinhood expand beyond digital-asset trading. The exchange's new Gate Money app will let users hold and convert…

forbes.com - Rory Holland - Why AI Can't Deliver The Quality We Crave
Why AI Can't Deliver The Quality We Crave
Forbes –

​Rory Holland, a pioneer in fintech and financial services marketing, and Founder & CEO of CSTMR Fintech Marketing Agency. In my last article, I claimed that AI can be a useful tool, but that it erodes trust when companies use it without…

fortune.com - Melissa Hancock - Inside the Gulf's Emerging Secondaries Market: A New Route to Liquidity
Inside the Gulf's Emerging Secondaries Market: A New Route to Liquidity
Fortune –

In recent years, the Gulf's secondaries market has started transitioning from a niche area of finance to an increasingly important allocation channel for capital. With traditional exit pathways, such as IPOs, seeing a notable slowdown, secondaries…

thestandard.com.hk - The Standard 英文虎報 - HKMA, Malaysian central bank to strengthen cooperation, including cross-border stablecoin use
HKMA, Malaysian central bank to strengthen cooperation, including cross-border stablecoin use
The Standard –

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority and the Bank Negara Malaysia have agreed to strengthen bilateral collaborations, following a high-level meeting in Hong Kong last week. SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The two central banking institutions exchanged…

technewsdaily.com - Technewsdaily - The biggest trends in October 2026's Temporal 1.26 release - TechNewsDaily - Technology News & Reviews
The biggest trends in October 2026's Temporal 1.26 release - TechNewsDaily - Technology News & Reviews
TechNewsDaily - Technology News & Reviews –

The 'happy path' in a distributed system remains easy to code, but the 'failure path' consumes engineering hours. When a microservice fails mid-transaction or a third-party API times out, developers traditionally rely on a complex web of retries…

seekingalpha.com - Pau Galindo Ortigosa - Vertiv: A Major AI Infrastructure Winner, But Valuation Leaves Little Room For Error (VRT)
Vertiv: A Major AI Infrastructure Winner, But Valuation Leaves Little Room For Error (VRT)
Seeking Alpha –

Vertiv Holdings excels in AI-driven data center infrastructure, delivering double-digit organic growth, expanding margins, and a $15 billion backlog. Despite strong fundamentals, VRT trades at a steep premium, currently 38x 2026 earnings, prompting…

u.today - Gamza Khanzadaev - We Made It 300x Faster': Metallicus CEO Delivers on Elon Musk's Dogecoin Vision
We Made It 300x Faster': Metallicus CEO Delivers on Elon Musk's Dogecoin Vision
U.Today –

Fintech company Metallicus has deployed an alpha version of the DogecoinVM payment layer on mainnet, which makes Dogecoin transactions 300 times faster. 'We made it 300x faster,' said company CEO and Dogecoin Foundation board member Marshall…

thehindubusinessline.com - Manufacturing, tech drive recovery in India's flexi-staffing market in Q1
Manufacturing, tech drive recovery in India's flexi-staffing market in Q1
BusinessLine –

India's flexi-staffing sector demonstrated a steady recovery in the first quarter of 2026–27, with net employment rising 2.6 per cent quarter-on-quarter and 7.5 per cent year-on-year, even as the broader formal employment market showed signs…

seekingalpha.com - S&P Global Market Intelligence - Most U.S. Bank Stocks Trade Lower In September
Most U.S. Bank Stocks Trade Lower In September
Seeking Alpha –

US bank stocks diverged from the broader market following the Federal Reserve's interest rate increase on Sept. 16, which brought down sector valuations. The market cap-weighted S&P US BMI Banks index returned 0.1% from Aug. 31 to Sept. 15…

ndtv.com - Rajnish Kumar Singh - Late-Night Sabarmati Rides, 9 am Classes: IIM Ahmedabad Gold Medallist Shares Campus Life
Late-Night Sabarmati Rides, 9 am Classes: IIM Ahmedabad Gold Medallist Shares Campus Life
NDTV –

Prior to joining IIM Ahmedabad, Agarwal worked in risk management at Capital One. IIM Ahmedabad Topper: Winning a gold medal from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad is a significant achievement in itself. However, the story of an…

thepaypers.com - Claudia Pincovski - Lumber, Branch partner on earned wage access
Lumber, Branch partner on earned wage access
The Paypers –

Maple Finance selects IRACE Digital Bank for fiat banking and settlement 07 Oct 2026 / 5 min read / Fintech Lumber adds Branch-powered earned wage access for construction crews 07 Oct 2026 / 5 min read / Fintech Fipto partners with Spiko to offer…

techcrunch.com - Julie Bort - Silicon Valley's AI wunderkind launches Underdog, the most private Instinct/Muse competitor yet
Silicon Valley's AI wunderkind launches Underdog, the most private Instinct/Muse competitor yet
TechCrunch –

When self-taught coder Sigil Wen was 17, he moved to Silicon Valley and lived in an AI hacker house with famed AI researcher Andrej Karpathy. While there, he hacked and coded alongside other people who would become the biggest names in AI, like…

fool.com - Eric Volkman - Why Grab Holdings Stock Slumped by 12% in September
Why Grab Holdings Stock Slumped by 12% in September
The Motley Fool –

Delivery and ridesharing services provider Grab Holdings (GRAB -3.15%) didn't provide its investors with much of a lift in September. The company struggled with labor discontent in one of its major Southeast Asian markets and, on the financial…

cnbc.com - Leonie Kidd - CNBC Daily Open: AI rally defies bond market rout
CNBC Daily Open: AI rally defies bond market rout
CNBC –

The S&P 500 closes above 7,800 for the first time. The gains are driven almost entirely by AI-related stocks. Minutes from the Federal Reserve will shed light on the September decision to hike rates. India raises interest rates for the first time…

iafrica.com - Sean Whitehead - 1,057 Applications, 15 Places: Google Names Its 2026 South African Accelerator Cohort
1,057 Applications, 15 Places: Google Names Its 2026 South African Accelerator Cohort
iAfrica.com –

Google received 1,057 applications for 15 places in its 2026 South African accelerator — its largest pool to date, and a ratio of roughly 70 to one. All 15 selected companies are South African-led and revenue-generating. Each receives up to…

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