Emirates NBD, a banking group in the Middle East, North Africa, and Türkiye (MENAT) region, has issued a $272 million (AED 1 billion) digital bond utilizing DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). This is the largest public digital bond issued in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The digital bond will be listed on Nasdaq
The new week for Bitcoin (BTC) and altcoins began with US President Donald Trump threatening NATO countries with extensive tariffs over control of Greenland. As this event shook global markets, Trump announced that the US would impose a 10% tariff on goods from the UK, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Finland starting
Despite years of gloomy forecasts, best-selling personal finance author and prominent ‘finfluencer’ Robert Kiyosaki’s favorite assets, gold, silver, and Bitcoin (BTC), are all up in early 2026, meaning a $1,000 investment at the start of the year would already be showing a double-digit gain. To see how his strategy is holding up, we calculated the
First, markets were talking about quantum computing, and then one of Wall Street’s top strategists stopped trusting Bitcoin. Now, a new argument is emerging that even aliens could trigger chaos in financial markets, and Bitcoin may be caught in the middle. Helen McCaw, a former senior analyst at the Bank of England (BoE), is warning
It was a Friday night bombshell that nobody saw coming. Three days before his second inauguration last January, President Donald Trump’s social media accounts lit up with news of the launch of Official Trump (TRUMP), a Solana-based meme coin bearing his name and political brand. The token jumped to a $10 billion market cap within
EverGen secures a $13m Farm Credit Canada loan and extends its private placement to refinance debt, fund working capital, and support its RNG growth strategy into 2026. Summary EverGen’s Fraser Valley Biogas unit locked in a $13m term loan plus a $250k operating line with Farm Credit Canada, pending closing conditions. The company is extending
Key Takeaways Digital asset investment products saw almost $2.2 billion in inflows, marking the strongest week since October 2025. Bitcoin led with over $1.5 billion in inflows; Ethereum and Solana attracted $496 million and $45 million, respectively. Investors poured approximately $2.2 billion into digital asset products last week, marking a peak in weekly inflows not
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is pushing a plan to link central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) across BRICS nations to streamline cross-border trade and tourism while chipping away at the U.S. dollar’s dominance. Sources told Reuters that the RBI urged the government to add the proposal to create an interconnected system of CBDCs to
SEOUL, South Korea – January 2025. In a strategic move poised to redefine the nation’s financial landscape, South Korea’s banking sector is consolidating its position to advocate for the issuance of a government-backed digital currency. Crucially, the banks are pushing for a won stablecoin model that would allow them to pay interest to holders, a