From the Microsoft Dynamics GP Blogs: Adding Major Modules; BOMs; Financial Reporting: GP vs BC; Prepping for GP End of...
Microsoft Dynamics GP’s support window closes in September 2029, urging businesses to plan migrations to Business Central. Recent blog posts advise adding major GP modules now to simplify a future ERP switch. They also compare GP and Business Central’s bill‑of‑materials structures, highlighting BC’s flexibility for manufacturers. Finally, the articles examine financial reporting tools, noting Business Central’s Management Reporter outperforms GP’s legacy reporting suite.
Alpha Cognition Inc. Reports Fiscal 2025 Financial Results and Provides Operational Update
Alpha Cognition reported fourth‑quarter 2025 revenue of $2.5 million from its Alzheimer’s drug ZUNVEYL, bringing full‑year revenue to about $10.2 million. The company added a second national PBM contract, expanding coverage to two of the four major long‑term‑care payers, and saw prescriber...
Mastercard Explores Sale of Nets Real-Time Payments Business
Mastercard has engaged investment bankers to explore selling the real‑time payments business it bought from Denmark’s Nets in 2019 for $3.2 billion. The unit, which produces roughly $370 million in revenue and $100 million EBITDA, is expected to fetch a price below its...
QDRO Acquisition Corp. (QADRU) Prices $200M IPO
QDRO Acquisition Corp. priced a $200 million initial public offering, with its units slated to begin trading on Nasdaq under the ticker QADRU on March 27, 2026. The SPAC aims to merge with a target in the U.S. financial‑services sector and may also...
Future Money Acquisition Corporation (FMACU) Prices $100M IPO
Future Money Acquisition Corporation (NASDAQ:FMACU) priced its $100 million initial public offering and will begin trading on Nasdaq on March 27, 2026. The SPAC is targeting a merger with a company operating in artificial intelligence, Web3, or intelligent manufacturing. Sponsor leadership...
March Global Regulatory Brief: Trading and Markets
The International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) released a consultation paper proposing a standalone market‑abuse framework for IFSC securities, replacing reliance on SEBI rules and introducing hybrid principle‑ and rule‑based standards. In Europe, ESMA approved supplementary deferral timelines for sovereign...
March Global Regulatory Brief: Risk, Capital and Financial Stability
Recent financial stress has spurred a wave of regulatory initiatives worldwide. In the United States, the Treasury signaled a possible reset of bank liquidity rules, including a review of the Liquidity Coverage Ratio and discount‑window caps. China’s CSRC introduced a...
March Global Regulatory Brief: Green Finance
Bloomberg’s March Global Regulatory Brief highlights a wave of green‑finance rulemaking across four jurisdictions. Australia’s Treasury is consulting on a sustainable‑product labeling regime with a submission deadline of 13 March, while the EU has published its final sustainability omnibus law, tightening...
The 40% Rule: How to Time Your Entry Into a Spin-Off
Spin‑offs often suffer a predictable sell‑off as institutional and passive investors dump shares they are not mandated to keep. Research shows the worst price pressure lasts about five trading days, after which stocks typically bottom once roughly 40‑50% of outstanding...
OFAC’s TradeStation Enforcement Action: A Case Study in “Set It and Forget It” Compliance Failures
The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) fined TradeStation Securities about $1.1 million after the broker processed 481 trades totaling roughly $4.4 million for users in Iran, Syria and Crimea. Although TradeStation had a layered sanctions‑compliance framework, a 2018 mobile‑app...
Matthew Kirk Takes over as AXIS Chief Financial Officer
AXIS Capital announced that Matthew Kirk will assume the chief financial officer role on March 31, 2026, succeeding Peter J. Vogt after a 16‑year tenure. Kirk, who joined AXIS as a special advisor in October 2025, brings nearly three decades...
How to Finance Your Store’s Transition to Agentic Commerce
Shopify merchants generating $250 K‑$5 M annually are urged to adopt agentic commerce—a AI‑driven model that boosts conversion and average order value—while preserving cash flow. The article outlines a financing framework that leverages equipment‑technology loans, leasing, and vendor‑financing to fund AI infrastructure...
Totalis Program Underwriters Acquires Specialist Provider ShoreOne
Totalis Program Underwriters has acquired ShoreOne Insurance Managers, a niche provider of homeowners insurance with integrated flood coverage. The deal terms were undisclosed, and ShoreOne will operate as an independent business unit under Totalis, with Cameron Rhodes taking over as...
On-Chain Rails for Real-World Finance
Modern Treasury has been chosen by the Solana Foundation as a core payments infrastructure partner for the new Solana Developer Platform (SDP). The partnership gives enterprises a single API layer that connects U.S. payment rails—ACH, wire, RTP, FedNow, push‑to‑card—with Solana’s...
More on Vendor AI Risks
Companies are grappling with how to treat AI‑enhanced vendor upgrades under existing shadow‑AI bans. The article argues that such upgrades are fundamentally an IT control issue—un‑tested software entering production—rather than a new compliance violation. It highlights recent high‑profile incidents like...
VivoPower Receives Nasdaq Approval of Ticker “TEMB” For Planned Tembo Listing at a Targeted Valuation of $838 Million
VivoPower PLC announced Nasdaq’s approval of the “TEMB” ticker for the forthcoming Tembo Group N.V., the entity to be created through its merger with Cactus Acquisition Corp. I. The deal values Tembo at an indicative pre‑money equity of about $838 million,...
Crypto’s FATCA: Can CARF Close Tax Loopholes If IRS Can’t Keep Up?
The OECD’s Crypto‑Asset Reporting Framework (CARF) will extend automatic exchange of cryptocurrency data to nearly 50 jurisdictions, aiming to mirror FATCA’s offshore‑account transparency. At the same time, the IRS’s crypto‑focused investigative staff fell 33% in 2025, reaching its lowest level...
Fire, Already
Private credit markets have been under intense pressure for months, grappling with liquidity shortages, redemption demands, and mounting valuation doubts. A former major banking CEO has recently warned that the situation could deteriorate further, signaling heightened risk for the sector....
Henkel to Acquire Olaplex for $1.4 Billion in Cash
Henkel AG announced a cash acquisition of Olaplex Holdings for $1.4 billion, offering $2.06 per share—a 54.9% premium to the prior close. The deal values Olaplex at 13.72 times its EBITDA and is slated to close in the second half of...
Preserving Shareholder Rights Protects Workers, Retirees, and the Integrity of American Capital Markets
Oregon State Treasurer Elizabeth Steiner warned SEC Chair Paul Atkins that proposed rule changes could weaken shareholder rights, jeopardizing pension beneficiaries and market integrity. She highlighted Oregon's $148 billion public‑pension portfolio and its active proxy voting—5,333 meetings covering over 50,305 agenda...
How Do Corporate Managers Invest in AI and Green Technologies Based on Market Feedback?
A new academic paper examines how corporate managers leverage stock‑market feedback when allocating capital to artificial intelligence and green technologies. The study argues that market prices, analyst coverage, and investor sentiment provide forward‑looking signals that reduce uncertainty around these nascent...
The 'Blame Game' In Private Credit Begins
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has opened a formal inquiry into Egan‑Jones, a niche credit‑rating firm that underpins much of the private‑credit market, questioning whether its ratings are produced with integrity. At the same time, a wave of redemption...
Hope Wanes, USD Little Changed While Bonds and Stocks Weaken
The U.S. dollar is trading in a narrow range against G10 currencies while equities and bonds are under pressure. A potential escalation in the Middle East, highlighted by Tehran’s rejection of a U.S. cease‑fire proposal, is dampening risk appetite. Oil...
Hapag-Lloyd Publishes 2025 Annual Report
Hapag‑Lloyd released its 2025 annual report, posting $3.6 billion EBITDA, $1.1 billion EBIT and a $1 billion net profit despite an 8 % decline in freight rates. Volume rose 8 % to 13.5 million TEU, driving liner‑shipping revenue to $20.6 billion, while the Gemini network achieved 90 %...
Trust the Dollar, Not the Treasury
Investors are demanding a higher risk premium on U.S. Treasuries, while confidence in the U.S. dollar remains largely intact. A recent study measuring convenience yields shows a sharp decline for short‑term and 10‑year Treasuries since 2024, but the dollar’s convenience...
Ex-UiPath GCC Tax Leader Walked Away From ₹50lacs+ Salary. Why?
Manish Aggarwal, a former UiPath regional tax leader, left a ₹50 lakh‑plus (≈$60,000) package to launch his own offshore tax advisory firm. While Indian GCCs handle complex multi‑jurisdiction compliance, most CPA offshoring remains low‑margin, high‑volume work. Aggarwal identified a market gap...
Cisco, Kioxia, Sandisk, Solidigm Invest $2.5B in Nanya
Cisco, Kioxia, Sandisk and Solidigm have collectively invested about $2.5 billion in Taiwan’s Nanya Technology through a private‑placement share offering. The capital will fund expansion of Nanya’s DRAM fabrication capacity, addressing a global memory shortage. Each investor also signed separate DRAM...
The Curious Case of Warner’s Eleventh-Hour Bidder
Paramount's pending acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery faced a surprise eleventh‑hour bid from Singapore‑registered Nobelis Capital, offering $32.50 per share in cash. The proposal lacked disclosed financing or a definitive agreement, prompting Warner’s board to label it a likely non‑serious...
The Mechanics of Positional Decoupling: The Architecture of Liquidity Reallocation
The article outlines a "positional decoupling" regime where institutional crowding in high‑growth large‑cap stocks creates a liquidity window for exits, overriding traditional macro signals. A March 26 2026 case study shows declining U.S. 10‑year yields and VIX prompted investors to shift from...
Canadian Regulator Secretly Threatens Banks Over Risky Mortgages Ahead of 2027
Canada’s banking regulator OSFI has moved from informal concerns to formal legal warnings that major banks may be breaching the Bank Act by using stale, blanket appraisals for pre‑construction mortgages. The watchdog cites rising default risk as new‑home prices are...
$125M and a Cap Table That Reads Like a Who’s Who of Healthcare VC: What Qualified Health’s Series B Actually...
Qualified Health announced a $125 million Series B round, bringing its total funding to $155 million and led by NEA alongside a slate of top health‑tech investors. The company offers an enterprise‑wide AI infrastructure platform that replaces fragmented point‑solution approaches. Early adopters such...
VaR Is Hell
The article argues that current market volatility may be overstated in risk metrics like Value‑at‑Risk (VaR), noting that deleveraging can occur even when volatility isn’t rising because trailing realized volatility is still “averaging up” after a multi‑year low‑vol period. It...
How to Communicate Risk to the C-Suite and Board
The NC State ERM Initiative released a practical guide for enterprise risk management leaders on how to communicate risk to the C‑suite and board. It outlines four pillars—focusing the message, structuring the process, designing concise materials, and ensuring messages are...
EVENT NEAR CAPACITY, REGISTER NOW: CFTC Enforcement Director David Miller to Announce Enforcement Priorities and Discuss Insider Trading in the...
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Enforcement Director, David Miller, will announce the agency’s 2026 enforcement priorities and discuss insider trading risks in prediction markets at a Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement (PCCE) event on March 31, 2026. The fireside...
The Consolidation Cycle Is Beginning
Higher education is entering an early consolidation cycle as asset‑focused acquisitions give way to broader institutional combinations. Federal officials are signaling a move to streamline merger approvals by 2027, while demographic decline and persistent operating deficits tighten financial pressures. Credit...
Singapore’s Central Bank Pilots XRP Ledger for Cross-Border Trade
Singapore’s Monetary Authority has invited Ripple to join its Borderless, Liquid, Open, Online, Multicurrency initiative, using the XRP Ledger and Ripple’s USD‑linked stablecoin (RLUSD) to settle cross‑border trade. The pilot automates payment release the moment a shipment is verified, eliminating...
Baby Bond Target Updates
Throughout 2025, the research team issued a series of baby bond and preferred share target updates, adding new securities such as CIMP, AGNCZ, RITM‑E, NYMTH, TWOD, NYMTI, NYMTG, MITN, and MITP. The updates were released on June 11, July 9, September 30, and...
How Poor Credit Can Quietly Limit Your Ecommerce Business Growth
E‑commerce founders earning $50 K‑$2 M annually often discover that personal credit scores dictate financing, supplier terms, and payment‑processor fees. Collections, high utilization, and missed payments can trigger loan rejections, higher interest rates, and loss of trade credit, throttling inventory purchases and...
The Cycle
Canada’s 5‑year government bond yield surged from 2.6% to 3.2% within weeks, while the 30‑year benchmark climbed to 4%, reflecting heightened inflation fears tied to the Ukraine war, soaring energy costs and lingering tariff pressures. The yield jump has already...
Citrea - Building the Bitcoin Application Layer
Citrea, a Bitcoin‑focused rollup built by Chainway Labs, launched its mainnet in January 2026, introducing the native asset cBTC and the dollar‑pegged stablecoin ctUSD. The platform uses the Clementine bridge to lock native BTC and zk‑proof batching to settle DeFi transactions...
Easing Capital, Reviving Risk: The Quiet Return of Too Big to Fail
The U.S. regulator’s latest proposal to ease capital adequacy rules for the nation’s largest banks marks a reversal of post‑2008 reforms aimed at curbing systemic risk. Critics argue the move weakens loss‑absorbing buffers, reviving the “too‑big‑to‑fail” dynamic that forces taxpayers...
6 Criteria for Smarter, High-Impact Portfolio Investment Decisions
The article argues that effective portfolio investment decisions start with clearly defined, shared evaluation criteria rather than jumping straight to ranking. It outlines six essential dimensions—strategic alignment, financial impact, customer and market value, risk and compliance, delivery feasibility, and portfolio...
Cabral Gold Announces $20 Million Bought Deal Financing
Cabral Gold Inc. announced a bought‑deal financing of 21.055 million common shares at C$0.95 each, generating C$20 million (≈ $14.8 million USD) in gross proceeds. An over‑allotment option could add up to 3.16 million shares, potentially raising total proceeds to about C$23 million (≈ $17 million USD). The...
The Best Defense: What 222 Years of Data Reveals About Protecting Your Portfolio
Over two centuries, the classic 60% stock/40% bond mix delivered roughly 7% annual returns but suffered drawdowns exceeding 71%. A new study covering 1800‑2021 evaluated dozens of defensive tactics and identified Defensive Absolute Return (DAR4020) and multi‑asset trend‑following as the...
A Busy Month at the SEC: What Compliance Teams Need to Do Now
Over the past month the SEC overhauled its enforcement manual for the first time in nearly ten years, announced the resignation of its enforcement chief, and signed a memorandum of understanding with the CFTC. It also hinted at a rule...
Can Prediction Markets Predict?
Prediction markets such as Kalshi are gaining prominence as alternative forecasters of macroeconomic variables. A recent academic study finds Kalshi's inflation and Fed Funds Rate forecasts are statistically more accurate than traditional Fed Funds Futures and on par with the...
A New Milestone: Crossing Into Investment-Grade Citadel’s Expansion: New Debt & BBB Rating:
Citadel Securities secured two senior secured debt issuances rated BBB- by S&P Global, marking its entry into investment‑grade financing. The rating opens the firm to pension funds, insurers and other institutional investors, lowering its cost of capital. Issued amid heightened...
The Smarter Way To Bet On Anthropic And OpenAI
Investors are flocking to VCX, the Fundrise Growth Tech Fund, paying roughly 15 times its net asset value solely for exposure to Anthropic. The author argues that this premium is unjustified given the availability of superior, lower‑cost avenues to invest in...
Syneos Health Expands China Operations with Bestudy CRO Acquisition
Syneos Health completed the acquisition of Shanghai‑based Bestudy Medical Technology on March 20, 2026, adding a fast‑growing Chinese CRO to its global network. Financial terms were not disclosed, and Bestudy will continue operating independently under its own brand. The deal...
New Study Finds More Synergy Between Internal Audit and Risk Management
A new report by the Internal Audit Foundation, Baker Tilly and Wolters Kluwer TeamMate finds growing synergy between internal audit and risk management. Survey data show 32% of audit leaders now participate in second‑line activities, with ERM involvement rising to...