A couple building a high-end contemporary house close to the Potomac River near Washington, D.C., had distinct ideas about what it should be. One person favored a Moroccan courtyard-style design; the other wanted a sustainable and well-built home. It would be up to the architects to make it work—and they did, spectacularly. Sliding mesh screens
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The public finance industry has put the cart before the horse when it comes to environmental, social and governance (ESG) and impact investment practices. Labels, proprietary investor modeling and data platforms behind paywalls obfuscate the real problem: the data and its contextualization for the public (and investors) to understand the intent behind municipal securities is
Sony Groups SONY Network Communication department has formed a joint venture with Singapore-based Startale Labs to develop a blockchain that will be an integral part of the global web3 infrastructure. The JV company will be formed in September and will be named Sony Network Communications Labs Pte. Ltd. The new partnership will target to provide
US retailers will hire the lowest number of seasonal workers for this holiday season since the final quarter of 2008, due to increased labor costs and shaky consumer confidence, according to a report by Challenger, Gray & Christmas shared exclusively with Reuters. Retailers are expected to add just 410,000 seasonal jobs this season, according to
baby steps, baby steps — Telling AI model to take a deep breath causes math scores to soar in study DeepMind used AI models to optimize their own prompts, with surprising results. Benj Edwards – Sep 19, 2023 9:38 pm UTC EnlargeGetty Images reader comments 54 with Google DeepMind researchers recently developed a technique to
As Apple Inc AAPL and Alphabet GOOG GOOGL -owned Google penetrated into financial service and realized significant gains with mobile wallets, Americas biggest banks have joined their efforts to defend their turf. Namely, JPMorgan Chase & Co. JPM , Bank of America Corporation BAC and Wells Fargo & Company WFC , among others, will be
One person’s analog trash is another person’s vintage treasure. If you have a pile of VHS tapes that haven’t been touched since the dawn of digital media, you might be able to make a fortune on them. Blockbuster video cassettes are obviously a relic of yesteryear, with technology moving from VHS to DVDs and Blu-Ray
In less than a week after Deutsche Bank DB and HSBC HSBC partnered with other companies for digital asset custody, Citigroup IncC has now turned to the digital asset space to launch tokenized digital assets using its own wallet and blockchain. Citi's Token Service will provide cross-border paymentsand liquidity all around the clock. Read More:
On-chain data suggests that Bitcoin (BTC) holders are accumulating BTC with exchange holdings down to yearly lows and the percentage of inactive BTC supply at all time highs. According to Glassnode’s Bitcoin supply last active chart, inactive BTC that has not moved from an address for more than 1, 3 and 5 year time frames
Balancer, an Ethereum-based decentralized finance protocol has confirmed its user interface is currently “under an attack.” The platform notified its community on Sept. 19 at 11:49 pm UTC, urging users to not interact with Balancer’s protocol until further notice. The balancer frontend is under an attack. The issue is currently under investigation. Please do NOT
Municipals were weaker Tuesday as triple-A yields rose in sympathy with U.S. Treasuries. Equities ended the session down ahead of the close of the Federal Open Markets Committee meeting Wednesday. Triple-A yields were cut two to seven basis points, depending on the scale, while UST yields rose four to six basis points, pushing the two-,
An empty parking lot is pictured in front of a Planet Fitness gym and fitness club in Alhambra, California, on May 12, 2020, after stay-at-home orders in Los Angeles County were extended until July amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading.
Receive free Cboe Global Markets updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Cboe Global Markets news every morning. The chief executive of Cboe Global Markets has resigned after failing to disclose personal relationships with colleagues. Edward Tilly, who has been at Cboe for 35 years, “did not disclose personal
Our weekly roundup of news from East Asia curates the industry’s most important developments. Token 2049, one of the largest crypto conferences of the year, attracted a record 10,000 attendees, 300 speakers and 5,000 companies during the two-day event in Singapore. From Sept. 13–14, attendees entering the majestic Marina Bay Sands Convention Expo and Center
An Iowa state law adopted this year means local governments and school districts will face a new hurdle in issuing municipal bonds. House File 718, which Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law in May, decreased the options for municipalities and school districts to hold bond elections. Until now, cities and school districts in Iowa had
Share on Pinterest Jasmin Merdan/Getty ImagesA new report from the CDC finds that the flu shot was over 50% effective at preventing illness during the flu season in the southern hemisphere. The report sheds light on what might happen during the upcoming flu season in the U.S.The seasonal flu is linked to tens of thousands
Digital payments behemothVisa V invested in London-based payments platformForm3 through a commercial partnership. This will enable Visa clients to minimize fraudwhile sending and receiving real-time account-to-account payments with the help of Form3's fraud-detection tools and Visa's AI and risk-scoring features. This association will be built on Form3s single API connectivity. Separately, Form3 will provide Visas
Good news — More than half of Americans plan to get updated COVID shot There’s a sharp partisan divide, but interest blows away uptake of the last booster. Beth Mole – Sep 18, 2023 10:17 pm UTC Enlarge / A vial of the updated 2023-2024 formula of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine at a CVS Pharmacy in
TradeZero USAhas completed its acquisition of Koonce Securities.Koonce will now clear securities trades for TradeZeros group of broker-dealers. Context: Established in 2015, TradeZero and its U.S., Bahamas, and Canadian subsidiaries offer commission-free stock trading and direct market center access for U.S. equities and equity optionstrading. The firms robust short-selling capabilities, extended trading hours, round-the-clock live
SPRYSOCKS — Chinese hackers have unleashed a never-before-seen Linux backdoor SprySOCKS borrows from open source Windows malware and adds new tricks. Dan Goodin – Sep 18, 2023 11:25 pm UTC Enlarge reader comments 24 with Researchers have discovered a never-before-seen backdoor for Linux thats being used by a threat actor linked to the Chinese government.