Roughly ten days ago, the credit agency Moody’s Investors Service downgraded the U.S. banking sector from “stable” to “negative.” In a recent update on Thursday, the company stated that there is still a risk to the U.S. economy. The managing director of credit strategy at Moody’s explained that the country “will be unable to curtail
A nearly 13,000-square-foot villa in North Rome bears a decidedly modernist imprimatur: the Gucci family name. Built by Aldo Gucci―son of Gucci dynasty founder, Guccio Gucci―the 1951 home is priced at €15 million ($15.885 million) and being sold by two of Aldo Gucci’s grandsons, the owners. The seven-bedroom property has six carved marble fireplaces, a
Deutsche Bank shares plunged on Friday, along with the stocks of other European banks, amid investor concerns over the stability of the global banking sector. The drop comes in the aftermath of the recent emergency rescue of Credit Suisse and follows losses in U.S. banks on Thursday. Deutsche Bank Credit Default Swaps Jump to 4-Year
Britain’s oil and gas companies are next week expected to be offered the prospect of windfall tax relief, as prime minister Rishi Sunak looks to boost investment and improve the country’s energy security. Ministers have been discussing with the sector a promise that the 35 per cent windfall levy on profits would cease to apply
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has raised concerns over Rokos Capital Management after the hedge fund was forced to hand over large amounts of cash to its banks as collateral when an outsized bet on US government bonds backfired earlier this month. SEC chair Gary Gensler brought up the hedge fund during calls with
On March 23, Bitcoin (BTC) price recovered the $28,000 support after a brief correction below $27,000. The movement closely tracked the traditional financial sector, particularly the tech-heavy Nasdaq Index, which gained 2.1% as Bitcoin surpassed the $28,000 threshold. On March 22, the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate by 0.25%, but hinted that it
Take, for example, the recent issues that Circle-issued USD Coin (USDC) faced when it depegged from the U.S. dollar following Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse. Two weeks later, Mastercard boldly integrated the stablecoin into its infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region, allowing users to spend USDC through its network. It’s happening, folks! And let’s not forget about
EY’s global chair told its 13,000 partners around the world they have a “right” to vote on the plan to split the firm, in a memo sent just hours after the firm’s US boss declared it “premature” to say if the deal could be salvaged. The competing messages highlighted tensions between the accounting giant’s global
George Gatch, chief executive of JPMorgan Asset Management, offered a bracing assessment last Tuesday of his approach to global markets. Investors were reeling from the previous weekend’s emergency rescue of Credit Suisse. The bank’s shotgun wedding with historic arch rival UBS had been announced on Swiss television on Sunday evening with all the joy and
Deutsche WertpapierService Bank (dwpbank), which offers securities processing to around 1,200 banks in Germany, is creating a new platform, wpNex, that will offer Bitcoin (BTC) to all of its affiliates’ retail customers in the second half of this year. The new service will feature crypto accounts alongside bank customers’ other accounts and will not require
MakerDAO, the decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) that governs the DAI stablecoin, has voted overwhelmingly to keep USD Coin (USDC) as the primary collateral for DAI. An alternative proposal to “diversify” collateral into Gemini U.S. Dollar (GUSD) and U.S. Dollar Paxos (USDP) has been rejected in a 20% to 79% vote, according to the proposal’s official
The European stock markets fell on March 24 on renewed fears that the banking crisis could rear its ugly head once again. The latest selling was triggered after Deutsche Bank’s credit default swaps, which offer protection to the buyer against specific risks, soared on March 23 without any known catalyst. That pulled down the shares
Lawmakers in Maine hoping to avoid a government shutdown at the turn of the fiscal year are working to cleave Gov. Janet Mills’ $10.3 billion biennial budget proposal in two. The state Senate’s Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee announced on Thursday a plan to partition the governor’s proposal for fiscal years 2024 and 2025 into
Municipals finished out a nerve-wracking week on a strong note, with yields falling by as much as nine basis points on the short end while U.S. Treasuries strengthened and equities came under pressure. As holders of bank stocks headed for the exits and muni investors looked on nervously from the sidelines as the Federal Open
According to a report published by AFP, Do Kwon, CEO of Terraform Labs, has been charged with document forgery in Montenegro. Kwon was arrested at the Podgorica airport while traveling with fake documentation. South Korean prosecutors have said the Terra co-founder faces extradition to South Korea. Montenegro Police’s Account of the Falsified Travel Documents Found
Bitcoin NFT inscription activity has remained strong with consistency in the daily number of NFTs inscribed on Bitcoin. At the same time, the infrastructure to foster Bitcoin trading is finally coming together with the development of wallets and marketplaces supporting Ordinals. NFT marketplaces, Gamma and Magic Eden, added support for Bitcoin NFTs this week. While
The banking crisis could be the spark that will kick off the next crypto bull run, in which Bitcoin (BTC) is likely to outperform all other cryptos, according to Mike McGlone, the senior commodity strategist at Bloomberg Intelligence. Following the collapse of major banks such as Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse, confidence in traditional
When he was running for Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, a son of Harlem and onetime Black student leader, spoke of his dream of “transforming” what is arguably the nation’s premier law enforcement office “to deliver safety and justice for all”. In the event, Bragg will almost certainly be remembered for Donald Trump. A little
The Chinese president’s trip to Moscow this month has made the world safer, reducing the chance that Vladimir Putin will use nuclear weapons, according to the EU’s foreign policy chief. Josep Borrell told reporters that President Xi Jinping had made it “very, very clear” to the Russian leader that he should not deploy nuclear weapons,
“Nobody hates bad cops more than good cops”, I heard a Seattle police chief say at a police reform event a few years ago. That line stuck with me. But what happens when the bad cops are ruling the roost, and have poisoned the whole organisation? Of all the dreadful findings of Baroness Louise Casey’s
More than three-quarters of Swiss voters want the combined mega bank created by UBS’s emergency takeover of rival Credit Suisse to be split up by new legislation. A poll published on Friday evening by the country’s biggest pollster, GfsBern, adds momentum to calls in Switzerland for a review of the deal, its possible reversal, and