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WASHINGTON—The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today reported the key issues facing the federal banking system in the Semiannual Risk Perspective for Spring 2026. Bank earnings improved in 2025, supported by loan growth and a decline in funding costs. Balance sheets remain strong and credit risk within the federal banking system remains manageable. Earnings releases for the first quarter of 2026 indicate that these trends have generally persisted. The OCC highlighted credit, market, operational, and compliance risks, as key risk themes in the report. The report also discussed innovation. Highlights from the report include: Credit conditions and…

Make CryptoSlate preferred on The CLARITY Act is finally moving toward a long-awaited Senate Banking Committee markup next week, but its path is being complicated by a fight over whether Congress should impose new ethics restrictions on federal officials and elected leaders involved with the crypto industry.On May 7, crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett reported that the draft text of the crypto market structure bill had circulated among industry participants ahead of a potential committee vote.According to her, the language is still being revised, with Democratic priorities expected to shape additional changes before the panel acts.This move marks the clearest sign…

has spent years building toward a moment like this. On May 7, the company reported its fiscal Q1 2026 results after the bell, and the numbers were exceptional across every meaningful metric. Record revenue. Record gross margin. Record backlog. Record new contracts. And Q2 guidance that blew past analyst expectations by a wide margin. For a company that has been one of the most closely watched names in the space sector this year, this was the kind of quarter that validates the entire thesis. A Clean Sweep Across Every Metric Q1 2026 revenue came in at $200.3 million, up 63.5%…

The following is the fintech, digital and wider economic development overview of the Caribbean nation of Cuba in 2026. Cuba, an island nation shaped by revolution, state control, and decades of geopolitical tension, occupies a singular place in the global digital economy. Its troubled modern history, from post-revolution centralisation to the long shadow of the US embargo, has profoundly influenced the way its financial system has evolved. Historically, Cuba’s fintech ecosystem is not constrained by lack of need, but by structural isolation. By 2026, that reality still holds, though signs of cautious progress are increasingly visible. History, pressure and economic…

Apollo Global Management Inc. and Blackstone Inc. are among private credit lenders involved in talks with chipmaker Broadcom Inc. over a roughly $35 billion financing, the latest indication that companies are mobilizing all sources of capital to fund the AI build-out.

A logo of Cloudflare sits outside the company’s house on the opening day of the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 20, 2025.Yves Herman | ReutersCloudflare reported first-quarter earnings Thursday that beat analysts’ expectations, but the company announced a 20% reduction in its workforce. Shares sank 24% Friday.Here’s how the cloud company did versus LSEG estimates:Earnings per share: 25 cents vs. 23 cents expectedRevenue: $640 million vs. $622 million expectedIn a blog post, the company announced that it is cutting over 1,100 employees, writing that agentic artificial intelligence has “fundamentally changed” the company’s work.”This…

The bulk of interest-rate cuts in Brazil is likely to come only after October elections, according to former Central Bank director Bruno Serra.

Check out the companies making the biggest moves midday: Planet Fitness — Shares fell nearly 33% after the gym operator lowered its full-year earnings outlook. The company now sees its bottom line growing about 4% year on year. That’s down from a forecast that called for an expansion of 9% to 10%. Vital Farms — The egg producer’s stock dropped 20% on a surprise loss for the first quarter. Vital Farms lost 3 cents per share, excluding certain items. Analysts polled by FactSet expected a profit of 6 cents per share. The company also cut its full-year earnings outlook. Datadog…

Shiba Inu’s total holder base is inching toward 1.6 million. The team behind Shiba Inu unveiled certain ecosystem updates that may favor the bulls. Despite the progress, the token has underperformed lately and is no longer the second-largest meme coin. The New Record Earlier this week, Shibarium’s X account revealed that the total number of SHIB holders has surged by 1,100 in a single day, reaching a new all-time high of 1,585,022. This jump is generally seen as positive for the meme coin because a growing holder base often reflects rising interest and confidence in the project. More investors…

Companies such as Copa Holdings and Nova reporting earnings next week have a track record of beating Wall Street’s expectations. After the frenzy of the past two weeks, earnings season will take a breath in the next few days. Just eight stocks in the S & P 500 and one component in the Dow Jones Industrial Average are due to post results. The first-quarter earnings season has been very strong so far. Of the more than 420 S & P 500 companies that have reported, nearly 85% have posted earnings beats, FactSet data shows. Around 78% have released revenues that…