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Big Tech Has Signed US$725 Billion of Leases That Are Not on the Balance Sheet
Five hyperscalers have disclosed about US$1.2 trillion of lease obligations, of which US$725 billion has not yet commenc...
Nvidia Now Owns Large Stakes in Two of Its Biggest Customers
A disclosure on Friday put 122.8 million SpaceX shares worth about US$21 billion, and roughly US$30 billion of Intel, on...
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Workday Jumped a Fifth on a Report, Which Says Something About Its Price
Reuters reported Silver Lake has been in talks for months to take Workday private. The shares rose 19.9 per cent and wer...
Intel Asked for US$15 Billion. The Orders Came to US$100 Billion.
Intel planned a US$15 billion raise, took orders above US$100 billion, and priced US$20 billion at US$95 a share. Three...
Anthropic Gave Its Revenue a Number. Its Profit Got an Adjective.
Preliminary second-quarter revenue of more than US$11.5 billion, a fourteen-fold rise, and the first quarter of positive...
Databricks Raised $5 Billion. Its CEO Says AGI Arrived and Changed Nothing.
A US$190 billion valuation on a US$7 billion run-rate, and a chief executive arguing that AGI has been reached, that it...
Anthropic Paid $9.1 Billion for Electricity, Not Computers
A 20-year, US$9.1 billion lease for 191 megawatts at a Texas bitcoin mining campus. The transaction prices what is actua...
The Card Networks Just Agreed to Run Nodes on a Blockchain
Visa, Mastercard, DTCC, ICE and BlackRock are among eleven founding validators on Circle's Arc. Fees are paid in USDC, w...
Google Will Hold Your Child's Money. It Is Not a Bank Account.
A stored balance for under-18s, controlled through Family Link, with real-time visibility of every transaction. What it...
OpenAI Bought $7bn of Its Own Shares at a Valuation That Has Not Moved
OpenAI bought back $7 billion of employee stock using its own balance sheet, at the same $852 billion valuation as March...
MAS Wants a 21-Day Path for Complex Funds. In May It Dropped the Advice Requirement.
MAS has proposed an Alternative Funds Appendix that would let a derivative-heavy or undiversified retail fund be authori...
GIC Says It Chose a Lower Return. Its Twenty-Year Number Fell to 3.4 Per Cent
Asked why the rolling twenty-year real return dropped from 3.8 to 3.4 per cent, the Finance Ministry pointed to a delibe...
MAS Was Asked When AI-Agent Rules Become Mandatory. It Confirmed the Scope, Not the Date
A written reply on 5 August confirmed that agentic AI sits inside guidelines MAS has not yet issued. It gave no timeline...
In February the BSP Said 70% Was Not Doable. In July It Said It Was Likely
The Philippine central bank's outlook on its 2028 digital payments target reversed in five months. The measurement under...
Indonesia's Crypto Market Now Answers to the Regulator That Supervises Banks
On 1 July the governance and reporting duties of a financial-sector business took effect for Indonesian crypto platforms...
MAS Tightened Again and Most Economists Missed It. What "Steepening the Slope" Actually Means
Singapore does not set an interest rate. It steers a currency band, and on 27 July it steered harder — against the expec...
Four Companies Spent $166 Billion on Capital Projects in One Quarter. The Market Rewarded Two of Them
Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta reported within nine days. Combined capital spending nearly doubled year on year, a...
Bank Indonesia Held at 5.75% — the Corridor and the Credit Number Say More Than the Decision
The hold was the least informative line in the release. The rate corridor is asymmetric, credit is running 0.67 points a...
Klarna Applies to Become a US Bank — Not Act Like One — With a Utah Charter Bid
Klarna filed on 6 July for a Utah industrial bank charter to bring its US banking in-house and reduce its reliance on pa...
Honeywell Spin-off Solstice to Buy Element Solutions for $14.5B, Betting on the Materials Layer of the AI Boom
Solstice Advanced Materials, the specialty-chemicals business spun off from Honeywell in October 2025, has agreed to acq...
The FCA's Mills Review: No New AI Rulebook for Finance — but Targeted New Powers, Including Over the Vendors
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority published the Mills Review on 6 July 2026 — the first regulator-led review of its k...
OpenAI Files Confidentially for an IPO — What Is Actually Confirmed, and What Is Still Just a Target
OpenAI has confirmed it submitted a confidential draft IPO registration to the SEC. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are...
Stablecoins Are Becoming Settlement Plumbing — and Singapore's Rulebook Is About to Matter
Early-June moves by Mastercard and Visa show stablecoins shifting from speculative asset to back-end settlement rail. As...
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