Finance Updates – Page 28 – Finance Updates

2025 Sees Surge in AI & Financial Services M&A: Deal Value, Valuations, Structural Shifts

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Broader 2025 markets show rising M&A and ECM ...

Financial-services deal counts are roughly fl...

Key unknowns include valuation, financing mix...

How Google News’ Auto-Generated Pages & AI Summaries Are Rewriting Media Strategy

Global FYI Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services

Google News has fully shifted to algorithmica...

Google is piloting AI-generated article overv...

Google Discover is increasingly replacing hea...

Publishers worry the new formats reduce custo...

Paula Ip to Lead HKIFA as CEO Amid Retail Fund Surge & MPF Reforms in Hong Kong

Asia FYI Finance and Insurance

Paula Ip, a veteran ex-UBS executive with 30+...

Her mandate comes amid surging Hong Kong reta...

MPF assets have surpassed HK$1.5 trillion wit...

HKIFA is also prioritising investor education...

Why You’re Seeing Bloomberg’s “Unusual Activity” Block: What It Means & How to Fix It

Global FYI Other Information Services

Bloomberg is blocking access because its syst...

Triggers include VPNs or proxies, shared or p...

To regain access, you typically must complete...

If issues persist, changing networks or IPs, ...

US Boosts Semiconductor Edge: $600B Private Investment & CHIPS Stimulus Surge

Americas FYI Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing

The SIA U.S. Semiconductor Ecosystem Map cata...

Since 2020, the CHIPS & Science Act has helpe...

Flagship projects include massive fabs and pa...

These investments aim to boost U.S. supply-ch...

How Smart Stores & Cashless Payments Are Transforming Unattended Retail

Global FYI Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

Unattended retail is shifting from low-value ...

Smart stores and micro-markets drive larger b...

Cashless and especially contactless payments ...

Key challenges and opportunities center on ma...

Why Payments Technology in 2025 Is Your Competitive Edge: Real-Time Pay, Fraud & Trust

Global FYI Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

In 2025, payments tech like automation, virtu...

Real-time, multi-rail payments and mature emb...

Fraud prevention evolved into strategic fraud...

These shifts raise urgent questions around AI...

How Clear Street’s Cloud-Native Infrastructure Is Reinventing Capital Markets Post-Trade

Global FYI Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

Clear Street is a non-bank prime broker found...

Its real-time, event-driven platform targets ...

The firm claims to process about 2.5% of U.S....

Scaling this model faces challenges including...

How FinTech Must Rebuild Trust Amid Rising Breaches, Fraud & Weak Transparency

Global FYI Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

The article proposes a research framework on ...

Rising cybersecurity threats, including costl...

Consumers show a widening trust gap, driven b...

Regulatory developments such as open banking ...

Why Netflix’s Stranger Things Spinoff & Tales From ’85 Signal a Bold Brand Reset

Global FYI Information

Netflix and the Duffer Brothers are launching...

The Duffers will stay creatively involved but...

Separately, the animated prequel Stranger Thi...

This reset strategy aims to refresh the franc...