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How tokenized real-world assets are solving crypto’s counterparty dilemma

Modern derivatives and digital asset markets operate under a persistent drag of operational friction. A recent Nasdaq survey reveals that 70% of global firms experience settlement failures on a daily basis. This structural inefficiency forces institutions to maintain excess overnight collateral buffers, tying up capital that could otherwise generate returns. The inability to mobilize assets […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/FyD8m0d Read full article: The Next Web

Coutts raised its minimum to £3 million. Revolut just set its at £500,000. The mass-affluent gap is the point.

  Revolut is planning to launch a private banking unit in the United Kingdom and parts of Europe as soon as this summer, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The eligibility threshold is 500,000 pounds, roughly 675,000 dollars. Coutts, the private bank owned by NatWest that has served the British establishment since […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/D4w0IUT Read full article: The Next Web

Meta takes Ofcom to the High Court over how the UK calculates Online Safety Act bills

The first invoices arrive in September. Meta wants the basis changed before they do. Meta has filed a judicial review against Ofcom over the way the regulator calculates fees and penalties under the UK’s Online Safety Act, the High Court was told on Thursday. The dispute is narrow on its surface and substantial underneath. Ofcom’s […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/qzui2WA Read full article: The Next Web

Anthropic ships ten financial-services agents and pulls Moody’s inside Claude. The bank-software business is being rewritten.

Tuesday’s New York event added Claude Opus 4.7, a library of ~10 pre-built finance agents, an FIS-built AML investigator going live at BMO and Amalgamated Bank, and a Moody’s native app covering 600 million companies. The day after the $1.5bn Wall Street joint venture, the product side caught up. On Monday, Anthropic announced a $1.5bn […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/05CxQVW Read full article: The Next Web

Hospital websites are still leaking patient data to advertisers, four years after the warnings

A new Bloomberg-Feroot investigation finds that nine of the 10 largest US health companies are still loading advertising trackers on the very pages where patients log in and register. The story keeps repeating because nothing has stopped it. There is, by now, a familiar shape to investigations of online tracking. A reporter or researcher loads […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/6SOWawn Read full article: The Next Web

The question nobody asked Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg’s earnings call on Wednesday was about AI. It was about the $125 billion to $145 billion Meta plans to spend on capital expenditure in 2026. It was about Llama models and recommendation engines and the advertising systems that generate $56 billion in quarterly revenue. It was not about children. No investor asked Zuckerberg […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/2KCwodq Read full article: The Next Web

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