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TS Imagine’s TradeSmart platform reported a 44% year‑over‑year rise in fixed‑income trading activity for 2025, led by a 76% jump in government‑bond volumes. Portfolio‑trading transactions exploded 607%, while RFQ responses grew 109% and Click‑to‑Trade usage increased 81%, signalling deeper buy‑side and sell‑side engagement. Direct Dealer trades rose 66% and total trade count was up 24%, underscoring broader platform adoption across multiple execution protocols. The data highlights accelerating electronification and a shift toward scalable, balance‑sheet‑aware execution strategies in increasingly complex liquidity environments.
Project mBridge, a China‑backed cross‑border payments platform, has processed 3.48 billion transactions worth $55.49 billion as of November 2025, up from just 160 transactions in October 2022. The digital yuan now accounts for over 95% of settlement volume, reflecting its growing role...
Merciv emerged from stealth with a $14 million seed round led by AI x IA, a partnership between Off Road Capital and Commonwealth Asset Management. Over two years, the startup proved its AI‑native consumer intelligence platform with several Fortune 500 companies, securing enterprise traction...
OpenAI rolled out a memory upgrade for ChatGPT Plus and Pro users, extending the model's recall to conversations from up to a year ago. The new feature indexes past chats, making them searchable and providing direct links via the Sources...
Senator Ron Wyden has sent a letter to BNY Mellon demanding answers about the bank’s handling of wire transfers linked to Jeffrey Epstein. The inquiry highlights that BNY failed to file suspicious activity reports on 18 million‑dollar transfers until 2019,...
Quick loans have surged as a fast‑cash solution for urgent expenses, offering approval within hours. However, they carry higher interest rates and fees compared with traditional bank financing. Borrowers are urged to evaluate the genuine need, scrutinize loan terms, assess...
Private equity firms face complex fund structures and reporting demands, prompting a shift from spreadsheets to specialized software. FundCount offers an integrated platform that combines partnership accounting, portfolio accounting, and reporting, supporting multi‑currency and intricate ownership structures. The solution automates...
A WhatsApp‑delivered phishing campaign targeting high‑profile Gmail and WhatsApp users across the Middle East was uncovered after activist Nariman Gharib shared a malicious link. Researchers traced the attack to DuckDNS‑masked domains such as alex-fabow.online, which harvested credentials, two‑factor codes, and...
Flanks and finReg360 have unveiled EDX, Europe’s first standardized financial data exchange protocol, designed to securely transmit comprehensive position data among custodian banks, wealth managers and advisory firms. The platform tackles Europe’s fragmented data infrastructure by replacing manual reconciliation with...
Swedish trade body IFPI Sweden removed the folk‑pop track “I know, you’re not mine” from the official Sverigetopplistan chart after confirming the artist Jacub is partially AI‑generated. The song, part of the EP Kärleken är Bränd, has amassed over 5 million global...
A University of Alaska Fairbanks student was arrested after tearing down and chewing 57 of the 160 AI‑generated images in a campus art exhibit. The protest targeted fine‑arts student Nick Dwyer's showcase, which explores identity and “AI psychosis.” Police charged...
Zep AI, a 2023 YC W24 startup specializing in agent context engineering, announced multiple senior hires including Staff Engineer, Lead Forward Deployed Engineer, and Developer Relations Lead. Its platform stitches together chat history, business data, and user behavior to deliver...
The article outlines two real‑world LLMOps case studies in healthcare, showing how Boost Medical Group and Sema Therapeutics built AI solutions by beginning with user stories and workflow mapping rather than jumping straight to model selection. At Boost, the team...
An incoming high‑speed solar‑wind stream from a large coronal hole is set to disturb Earth’s magnetosphere, prompting minor to moderate (G1‑G2) geomagnetic storms. NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center forecasts that the aurora may be visible across 15 U.S. states, from...
SpaceX will launch the NRO’s NROL‑105 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Friday night, carrying a batch of classified Starshield satellites into low‑Earth orbit. The Falcon 9 booster B1100, on its second flight, is slated to return to Landing Zone 4,...
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff announced that the company’s engineering headcount has stayed mostly flat over the past year as internal AI tools dramatically boost developer productivity. He said the firm now has about 15,000 engineers who are "more productive than...
Gold‑backed financing lets borrowers pledge physical bullion, coins or bars as collateral to secure loans without selling the asset. Lenders typically extend 60‑80% of the gold’s market value, offering lower interest rates and faster approvals than unsecured credit. The structure...
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory researchers have introduced a tri‑coincident system that synchronizes a scanning electron microscope, an ion‑beam mill, and an optical microscope to guide cryogenic electron tomography (cryo‑ET) sample preparation. By exploiting interference patterns in fluorescent light emitted from...
European real‑estate is at a crossroads as land scarcity and abundant household savings drive investors toward income‑generating assets. InRento CEO Gustas Germanavicius identifies three 2026 trends—sustainability mandates, building conversions, and fractional ownership—that will reshape the market. Stricter ESG rules are...
Fincite’s CIOS platform has introduced over 70 new features in 2026, targeting the core pain points of wealth‑management advisers. The Strategic Asset Allocation tool uses algorithms to auto‑optimise client portfolios and visualise changes instantly. An ad‑hoc instrument creation module lets...
Vedanta Biosciences announced a major headcount reduction, cutting roughly half of its workforce to preserve cash for a Phase III trial of its oral C. difficile candidate VE303. The layoffs follow earlier cuts after a failed Phase II study of VE202 and reflect...
The Martech Zone tool lets users input a URL and optionally POST data to capture the complete HTTP request‑response cycle, including every redirect and header. It categorises headers—general, request, response, and entity—so users can quickly identify content type, caching policies,...
Enterprises are racing to meet soaring customer‑experience expectations, with over 80% of firms planning to compete primarily on CX, according to Gartner. Legacy CRM systems act as static records, preventing proactive issue resolution, while AI‑powered autonomous CRM platforms promise to...
Astronomers using the new WEAVE spectrograph on the Herschel Telescope in Chile have identified a narrow bar of ionised iron (Fe V and Fe VI) crossing the inner cavity of the Ring Nebula (M57). The structure stretches roughly 500 times the orbital...
Data centers are outpacing the broader commercial‑real‑estate market as hyperscalers and emerging neo‑clouds lock in record leasing and absorption levels across the U.S. and Europe. Power availability, not tenant appetite, is the primary bottleneck, steering new builds toward regions with...
A new study reveals that microglial Fcγ receptors (FcγR) actively drive the loss of dopaminergic neurons, a hallmark of Parkinson's disease. Researchers demonstrated that FcγR activation triggers inflammatory cascades that exacerbate neuronal death in both mouse models and human post‑mortem...
Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson told a podcast that current AI coding assistants still fall short of the output produced by most junior developers. At 37 Signals, 95% of the code for their Kanban product Fizzy was written by...
ImmunityBio reported encouraging early data from its off‑the‑shelf cell‑therapy platform in a Phase 1 trial (QUILT) targeting a rare form of lymphoma. The small study demonstrated a favorable safety profile and preliminary efficacy signals, including objective responses in several patients. The...
The European Space Agency (ESA) disclosed a December‑era hack that it described as limited, but new reports reveal a far larger breach. Security researchers say attackers gained initial access in September via an unpatched public CVE and exfiltrated roughly 500 GB...
Enterprises are racing to embed AI while still relying on legacy applications that run core operations. A recent MIT‑NANDA study shows only 5% of AI pilots transition to production with measurable value, largely because they sit on top of disconnected...
PetSmart has introduced a virtual veterinary support service powered by Vetster in select U.S. stores, giving associates real‑time access to licensed vets for a range of pet health issues. Petco, meanwhile, has teamed with regional carrier JSX to roll out...
President Trump and governors of key Northeastern states are pushing an emergency wholesale electricity auction that would obligate major tech firms to fund new power plants through 15‑year contracts. The plan aims to secure roughly $15 billion of generation capacity for...
A proposed regulatory framework would allow short synthetic DNA fragments to bypass mandatory synthesis screening, aiming to streamline research and reduce costs. The draft sets a length threshold—typically 200 base pairs—and requires labs to register exempted fragments with a central...
rater8 has introduced AI Insights, a conversational AI feature within its raVE platform, allowing healthcare providers to query patient feedback data using natural language and receive real‑time insights. The tool surfaces sentiment trends, operational risks, performance gaps, and marketing‑ready testimonials...
Researchers at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have successfully synthesized a magnetic honeycomb lattice of potassium cobalt arsenate and performed the most detailed characterization to date. The distorted honeycomb structure leads to strong coupling of cobalt spins, placing the material...
Researchers Desai et al. identify persistent barriers that prevent medication‑assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid use disorder from being fully integrated into specialty programs. Stigma toward patients and providers, restrictive regulations, and insufficient clinician training limit the use of proven drugs such...
UC San Diego, backed by a $25.8 million ARPA‑H grant, is developing a 3‑D bioprinting platform to create patient‑specific, functional human livers. The multidisciplinary team combines rapid light‑based printing with AI‑driven vascular design to fabricate complex, multi‑cellular tissue in seconds. Partnering...
Researchers from the University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon and the Allen Institute for AI found that a wide range of large‑language models produce nearly identical responses to open‑ended prompts, a phenomenon they label the “Artificial Hivemind.” In tests with 25...
Galactic Energy successfully placed four additional satellites into its Tianqi internet‑of‑things constellation using a Ceres‑1 solid‑fuel rocket launched from a sea platform off China’s northeast coast. The mission marks the sixth launch for Tianqi, bringing the total to 41 satellites,...
Google introduced the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open‑source standard that lets retailers, marketplaces and payment providers speak a common language for real‑time inventory, pricing and checkout within conversational interfaces. Salesforce rolled out the redesigned Slackbot, an out‑of‑the‑box AI agent...
Protagonist Therapeutics faces a pivotal choice on its rusfertide partnership with Takeda. The company is leaning toward opting out of the 50‑50 co‑development deal, which would trigger a $400 million opt‑out payment and tiered royalties up to 29% on sales exceeding...
Merchants are hitting conversion walls because legacy checkout systems can’t keep up with mobile traffic and buy‑now‑pay‑later demand. Adobe’s Payment Services, built into Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source, offers a unified payments layer that simplifies adding digital wallets and...
Deposition Sciences, a Lockheed Martin subsidiary, announced that its Sunshade® thermal‑control material can survive atomic oxygen (AO) fluences above 1 × 10²² atoms cm⁻², equivalent to eight years in very low‑Earth orbit. The material, available as free‑film or adhesive tape, showed negligible performance loss from...
Establishing a secure supply chain now starts with early, cross‑functional purchasing controls. Development, quality, and procurement teams must collaborate to define requirements, qualify suppliers, and create quality agreements before scale‑up. The Parenteral Drug Association’s upcoming ANSI/PDA Standard 001‑2020 formalizes these expectations...
The UK aims to become an AI superpower but faces a widening skills gap. Seventy‑three percent of workers have no formal AI training, even though two‑thirds use AI daily. The government has pledged £187 million for a national AI skills programme,...
Microsoft launched Elevate for Educators, a suite of free AI tools, professional development, and limited-time premium software for teachers and students. The program adds AI-powered features to Microsoft 365 Copilot, including the Teach assistant for lesson creation and the Learning...
At Pharmapack Europe 2026, SÜDPACK Medica introduced its next‑generation PharmaGuard blister line, a mono‑material polypropylene solution that replaces multi‑layer composites with a recyclable, phthalate‑free film, now available in an opaque white version for better dosage readability. The company also launched...
Liber & Co., founded in 2011 by three Texas friends, has grown from a single pot of syrup to multiple 1,500‑gallon tanks supplying premium non‑alcoholic cocktail syrups worldwide. The company’s DIY ethos drives in‑house manufacturing, warehousing, marketing and global sales,...
The European Space Agency unveiled the European Enhanced Exploration Exercise Device (E4D), a compact, multi‑mode workout system designed for long‑duration microgravity missions. E4D combines resistive training, cycling, rowing and rope pulling, delivering up to 270 kg of load and more than...
