News•Feb 23, 2026
Securities and Exchange Commission Schedules Roundtable to Discuss “Retailization” Of Private Securities
The SEC will host a Private Markets Roundtable on March 4, 2026 to discuss the retailization of private securities. Currently, non‑accredited investors are limited to Reg A and Reg CF, while most private offerings remain inaccessible. Pending legislation could relax accredited‑investor thresholds, adding a sophistication pathway for qualified individuals. The roundtable will focus on governance, valuation and responsible access for smaller investors.
By Crowdfund Insider
News•Feb 23, 2026
Connecting Revenue and Profitability: Flow Through and Flex Explained
The article introduces Flow Through and Flex as complementary metrics that translate hotel revenue changes into profitability outcomes. Flow Through measures the percentage of incremental revenue that becomes gross operating profit, while Flex gauges how well a property shields profit...
By Hotel News Resource
News•Feb 23, 2026
The Anatomy of Perfect Content: How Marketers Can Reach Consumers in the AI Era
The Expedia Group Advertising "Science of Wanderlust" study surveyed over 7,000 consumers and used eye‑tracking to pinpoint the creative elements that cut through today’s AI‑saturated content stream. It found video drives purchase intent three times more than static images, while...
By Modern Retail
Social•Feb 23, 2026
Health Sites Suffer Core Update; Multiple SEO Factors at Play
Quick update: Some of the biggest health and medical sites on the web got hammered by the December 2025 core update and some have dropped even more with the recent volatility. That said, most that dropped have many moving parts...
By Glenn Gabe
News•Feb 23, 2026
Evercore Sees Microsoft Growing FCF 5% as Hyperscaler Capex Jumps 58%
Evercore ISI projects Microsoft’s free cash flow to grow 5% in 2026 while hyperscaler capital spending jumps 58% to over $700 billion. In contrast, Amazon, Google, Meta and Oracle are expected to see FCF declines, whereas Nvidia and Apple are forecast...
By Yahoo Finance – Top Financial News
News•Feb 23, 2026
AmaWaterways Rolls Out 2027 Solo and Group Booking Incentives
AmaWaterways has launched limited‑time 2027 booking incentives aimed at solo travelers and groups, with a 10% reduced single supplement on over 500 sailings and a doubled group discount of $500 per person. The promotions are available for reservations made through...
By Recommend
Social•Feb 23, 2026
In‑house Shifts Often Raise Costs, Lower Revenue—Keep Agency Insights
One of our brands we've been working with long-term moved to an internal person last month but they kept us on view access of the account(s). Since they took over? CPA is up 48% ncCPA is up 109% Spend is up 32% Revenue is down...
By Kody Nordquist
News•Feb 23, 2026
It’s Personal Stories Launches New Website
It’s Personal Stories, a hospitality leadership podcast founded in 2022, has launched a redesigned website that consolidates nearly 300 interviews with global hospitality leaders. The new platform offers a searchable archive by guest name, title, company, and thematic categories, with...
By Hotel Business
News•Feb 23, 2026
Fintech Focused Banking as a Service Is Reshaping Bank Stability and Consumer Expectations : Analysis
Cornell Law professor Dan Awrey released a working paper titled "Banking, Technology, and Instability" analyzing fintech‑driven Banking‑as‑a‑Service (BaaS). The paper argues BaaS flips traditional outsourcing, with fintechs delegating core banking functions to partner banks, creating regulatory arbitrage. This shift destabilizes...
By Crowdfund Insider
News•Feb 23, 2026
Societe Generale: Capital Decrease and Report on Share Buy-Back
Societe Generale announced a €1 billion capital decrease on 23 February 2026 by cancelling 15,170,791 treasury shares. The move reduces the bank’s share capital to €939.65 million, representing 751.7 million ordinary shares. In parallel, the bank reported that 34.3% of its €1.462 billion 2025‑2026 share‑buy‑back programme...
By Euronext
News•Feb 23, 2026
Transaction in Own Shares
Shell plc announced on 23 February 2026 that it repurchased 1,028,319 of its own shares for cancellation, executing trades on six European venues. The GBP‑denominated purchases (LSE, Chi‑X, BATS) were made at volume‑weighted average prices around £29.54 per share, while...
By Euronext
Social•Feb 23, 2026
Product Improves, CAC Rises: AI Amplifies Growth Dilemma
your product gets better every week, but your CAC gets worse every month Can your product get good enough to generate organic growth before your marketing channels saturate with scale? AI is going to supercharge this conflict. We’ll write even more and...
By Andrew Chen
News•Feb 23, 2026
Ubicquia Secures $106 Million To Scale AI Infrastructure Solutions
Ubicquia announced a $106 million Series D round led by 67 Capital and Marunouchi Innovation Partners, aimed at scaling its AI‑driven infrastructure portfolio worldwide. The company already serves more than 1,000 utilities, municipalities and commercial clients across the U.S., Latin America, Europe...
By Ventureburn
Social•Feb 23, 2026
Veris Residential Joins Wave of Apartment REIT Liquidations
Another one bites the dust ... Veris Residential becomes the latest apartment REIT sold or liquidated (18+ in the last 15 years vs. ~12 still remaining). Veris (6.6k units) is best known for its wildly high renter incomes ($480k or 10-12%...
By Jay Parsons
Social•Feb 23, 2026
30‑Year Mortgage Falls Below 6%, Boosting Spring Buying
A nice little market selloff creates a flight to safety. And gets the 30-year fixed below that stubborn 6% threshold, finally. The key will be staying sub-6% to allow human psychology to work its magic during the spring home buying...
By The Truth About Mortgage
News•Feb 23, 2026
3 Major Buybacks Just Dropped—Here’s the Signal Investors See
Retail giant Walmart announced a $30 billion share buyback, its largest ever, representing about 3.1% of its $980 billion market value, while reporting 24% YoY e‑commerce growth and a 5% dividend increase. Ride‑hailing firm Lyft unveiled a $1 billion repurchase plan, equal to...
By MarketBeat News
News•Feb 23, 2026
MANDARIN ORIENTAL APPOINTS SIMONE BILES AS THE BRANDS FIRST GLOBAL WELLNESS AMBASSADOR
Mandarin Oriental announced Simone Biles as its first global wellness ambassador, marking a strategic move to embed holistic wellbeing into its luxury hospitality portfolio. Biles will work with the brand’s Wellness Board to shape programs that blend physical, mental and recovery...
By Breaking Travel News
News•Feb 23, 2026
Most US Ferts Cleared Under New Import Policy
The Trump administration announced a 10% import tariff effective Feb 24, but most fertilizers remain exempt, including urea, ammonium nitrate, UAN, DAP, MAP and other key products. The exemption does not cover sulfur, sulfuric acid and ammonia unless they enter through...
By Argus Media – News & analysis
Social•Feb 23, 2026
Solve Real Problems, Don’t Just Chase Ideas
He turned a mall booth with taped signs into a $3B fintech. Matt Oppenheimer built Remitly by falling in love with the problem, not the product. He stood outside a remittance store, asked customers why they said no, and pivoted fast. He raised...
By Ask Dr. Brown
Social•Feb 23, 2026
Duetti Secures $200M to Target Undervalued Music Rights
Duetti just raised $200 million. It built the infrastructure to invest in the music rights that other companies may overlook. My latest episode on Trapital sits down with Duetti CEO @ltibon to discuss. Check out our latest episode: "Follow The Money:...
By Dan Runcie
Blog•Feb 23, 2026
U.S. and Brazil Soybean Competitiveness: Farm-Level Costs and Returns
A recent Purdue Ag Economy Barometer survey shows 80% of U.S. soybean growers are concerned about Brazil’s growing export advantage. Farm‑level data from 2020‑2024 reveal Brazilian soybean operations in Mato Grosso have lower total costs per ton than Iowa farms, despite...
By Farmdoc daily
Social•Feb 23, 2026
Quality Code Costs More than Cheap Code
Agentic coding highlights the age-old truth that "writing code is cheap," while writing good code is extremely expensive. You could always pay someone inexperienced very little to kinda get it done. But real quality had its price. Zero difference when AI is...
By Arvid Kahl
Social•Feb 23, 2026
Own Your Email, Don't Rely on Google Accounts
It’s wild that in a time where Google account are one of the most popular choice for logging into any 3rd-party service, they can be arbitrarily banned like this. Own your email. Own your domain. Don’t delegate. Sucks that this is...
By Arvid Kahl
News•Feb 23, 2026
Merck Reorganizes Human Health Work Into Two New Units
Merck is reorganizing its Human Health division into two distinct units—Oncology and Specialty, Pharma & Infectious Diseases—to sharpen focus as its flagship immuno‑oncology drug Keytruda approaches patent expiry. Jannie Oosthuizen, formerly head of U.S. Human Health, will lead the Oncology...
By BioSpace
Social•Feb 23, 2026
AI Forces Preseed Focus on Demos, Not Ideas
AI moves the goalposts for raising preseed capital: less “tell me your product idea” more “show me what you built and how customers react” In the 1990s people raised $5m+ just to build the v1 of their website. In 2000s that...
By Andrew Chen
Social•Feb 23, 2026
Influencers Drove Gymshark’s $128M Growth, Not Ads
Gymshark went from $0 to $128M in 6 years using influencer marketing. No TV ads. No billboards. Just athletes who genuinely wore the brand. Meanwhile you're running cold Facebook ads with zero social proof. That's the gap.
By Kamil Sattar
News•Feb 23, 2026
Sanctions, Seizures, and the Limits of Maritime Visibility
In late 2025 and early 2026 the U.S. Coast Guard and allied forces seized three oil tankers—M/T Skipper, M/T Centuries and Bella 1—after months of multi‑source intelligence proved they were moving sanctioned cargo. The operation underscores a new enforcement paradigm: governments...
By gCaptain
Social•Feb 23, 2026
Mortgage Rates
5-handle The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate today: 5.99% Same day last year: 6.89% ---------------------- 10-year treasury yield today: 4.03% Spread today: 196 bps
By Lance Lambert
Social•Feb 23, 2026
Enel Adds 830 MW US Solar‑wind Portfolio
Enel acquires 830MW US PV and wind portfolio, ups renewables investment #energysky -- via pv-tech: https://t.co/3AfV5Qymhs
By Tor “SolarFred” Valenza
Blog•Feb 23, 2026
Cayman Reinsurance Assets Surpass $100bn, Says Cayman Finance
Cayman Finance reports that the Cayman Islands’ reinsurance sector has surged, with licensed companies increasing from 58 to 113 and total assets exceeding $101 billion at the end of 2025. Premiums written grew from $9.3 bn in 2020 to $30.2 bn, driven largely...
By Reinsurance News
Social•Feb 23, 2026
AI Panic Ignored as Markets Remain Near Peaks
It's kind of amazing there is so much worry about AI doom with the S&P 500 w/in 2% of all-time highs and the unemployment rate at 4.3% Have we ever had an enormous risk like this play out with everyone worried...
By Ben Carlson
Social•Feb 23, 2026
Tariff Shifts Offer Rule‑of‑law Gains, Little Immediate Relief
The economic impact of tariff changes. Me on @cnni with @jimsciutto - a bit of good news on rule of law, not much immediate relief. See @PIIE for more analysis https://t.co/bbkP6I3455
By Adam Posen
News•Feb 23, 2026
Waterloo Sparkling Water Names Dentsu Creative Social AOR as Brand Expands
Waterloo Sparkling Water has appointed Dentsu Creative as its social agency of record, coinciding with the rollout of new flavors Banana Berry Bliss, Melon Medley and a year‑round Lemon Italian Ice. The partnership is timed to the opening of the...
By Marketing Dive
Social•Feb 23, 2026
Framer Keeps Entire Project Organized in One Place
Having the whole project in @Framer made it easy to stay organized: assets, sections, layouts all together. https://t.co/SQ2a2X0Nqz
By Femke
Social•Feb 23, 2026
Apple’s Cash Return Beats Rivals’ AI Spending, Shows Strategic Restraint
Apple returned $106.1 billion to shareholders. While its competitors collectively committed $500 billion+ to AI infrastructure. Sometimes the most strategic AI decision is knowing when not to build. Source: https://t.co/KNtNLIRTOQ
By Yves Mulkers
News•Feb 23, 2026
Researchers Baked 3x Inference Speedups Directly Into LLM Weights — without Speculative Decoding
Researchers from Maryland, Livermore Lab, Columbia and TogetherAI introduced a multi‑token prediction (MTP) technique that embeds a special token into existing LLM weights, eliminating the need for separate drafting models. The method uses a self‑distillation student‑teacher training loop to...
By VentureBeat
News•Feb 23, 2026
A New Index Wants to Prepare African Startups for London IPOs
In January, African investors and executives launched the Africa Tech 50 Index (AT50) at the London Stock Exchange to benchmark how prepared African startups are for public listings. The index uses a six‑pillar framework covering valuation momentum, revenue strength, liquidity,...
By TechCabal
News•Feb 23, 2026
Mortgage Investors Expect Early Challenges With New Credit Score Models
Mortgage investors are bracing for short‑term disruption as major credit bureaus roll out next‑generation scoring models that incorporate alternative data and machine‑learning algorithms. The new frameworks promise finer risk granularity but also introduce uncertainty around model validation, regulatory approval, and...
By Inside Mortgage Finance
Blog•Feb 23, 2026
CIOB Innovation Vice-Chair Mordue Appointed to APS Board
Stefan Mordue, CIOB innovation panel vice‑chair and senior manager at Bentley Systems, has been appointed to the board of the Association for Project Safety (APS). He joins fellow appointee Stewart McArthur, a veteran construction assessor from Bureau Veritas, bringing digital construction...
By BIM+ (Construction Computing)
News•Feb 23, 2026
Risks Seen in Potential Shift From Tri-Merge Process
Industry analysts warn that moving away from the established tri‑merge securitization framework could introduce significant operational and liquidity risks for mortgage lenders. The tri‑merge process, which bundles GSE‑eligible loans from multiple originators, has underpinned stable funding flows for years. A...
By Inside Mortgage Finance
News•Feb 23, 2026
Short Takes: Expanded-Credit MBS From Redwood / MSRs on Offer / Rate Launches Crypto Option / Sales of New Homes...
Redwood introduced an expanded‑credit mortgage‑backed security, widening the pool of agency‑eligible assets as banks see their residential MBS holdings dip in Q4. Mortgage servicing rights (MSRs) are now being offered directly, reflecting heightened M&A activity that is reshaping the conventional...
By Inside Mortgage Finance
Social•Feb 23, 2026
Base Case Unlikely
Helpful thought-experiment, but undersells: 1) competition & demand elasticity for cheaper code, 2) how fast monetary & fiscal pol move at 10% U3, & 3) wealth effects/reinvestment bolstering productivity & offsetting wage loss. Tail risk yes. Base case no. https://t.co/BDbOcr4sHF
By Ernie Tedeschi
Social•Feb 23, 2026
China Swapped US Treasuries for Commodities via BRI
How China largely sold out of their net UST exposure yrs ago AND cornered critical minerals without ever impacting UST or commodity markets: Lend USDs along Belt & Road (BRI), repayable in either USD, CNY, or physical commodities This amounted to swapping...
By Luke Gromen
News•Feb 23, 2026
Spotify Rolls Out AI-Powered Prompted Playlists to the UK and Other Markets
Spotify is extending its AI‑powered Prompted Playlists to Premium users in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and Sweden after earlier tests in New Zealand, the U.S. and Canada. The feature lets listeners generate custom playlists by typing natural‑language prompts that describe...
By TechCrunch (Main)
Social•Feb 23, 2026
OKRs Can Accelerate College Students' Career Momentum
Do okrs change the game for college students and recent grads? @cwodtke @andrewconstabl9 @Kellblog @erikstarck @TheAmericanCEO @RogerLMartin @WhatMattersOKRs https://t.co/8MQivbe5dz
By Ben Lamorte
Social•Feb 23, 2026
Presidential Remarks Won’t Sway DOJ Approval, but May Affect Sale
The president's comments about Netflix/Susan Rice shouldn't have bearing over the approval of any WBD deal — a decision to sue to block would be made by the DOJ which would face an indp judge in court — BUT his...
By Sara Fischer
News•Feb 23, 2026
Ubicquia Secures $106 Million in Series D Funding
Ubicquia, a provider of intelligent infrastructure solutions, closed a $106 million Series D round. The financing was led by 67 Capital and Marunouchi Innovation Partners, with participation from Hamilton Lane, ClearSky, GMS and strategic partner Sercomm. The capital will accelerate AI development for...
By VC News Daily
News•Feb 23, 2026
Why Geo-Blocking Is the Essential Next Step for Every Job Board
Job boards are increasingly adopting geo‑blocking to limit traffic to target markets. A recent case study of UK healthcare portal Nurses.co.uk shows that blocking foreign visitors eliminated 82% of global users, raising domestic traffic share to 98%. The move was...
By HRTechFeed
News•Feb 23, 2026
IHOP Goes Analog to Celebrate National Pancake Day
IHOP announced its first National Pancake Day on March 3, offering a free short stack of buttermilk pancakes at participating locations from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. The event includes an in‑person appearance by social‑media influencer Mr. Fantasy at the Hollywood restaurant. IHOP...
By Nation’s Restaurant News (NRN)