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Key PointsYears ago, I knew a woman who’d recently gone through a contentious divorce. There was no “conscious uncoupling.” This couple went scorched-earth during their divorce, doing everything they could to hurt each other.Months later, with the ink on the divorce papers barely dry, the ex-husband died. And because he’d never changed the beneficiary on his life insurance, his ex-wife became a relatively wealthy woman. It was clear that the ex-husband could have used professional estate planning before his passing.Will AI create the world’s first trillionaire? Our team just released a report on the one little-known company, called an “Indispensable…

US mortgage rates hit highest since October as war keeps bond yields up, MBA says

Defence manufacturers are going bust while others have been left in “paralysis” and “bleeding cash” as they wait for a long-delayed UK military spending plan for the next decade, MPs have heard.Industry groups said that a more than six-month delay to the defence investment plan (DIP) has also left the UK behind Germany and the US in attracting cash from global investors.“The ecosystem is not in a great place, it’s what I would call paralysis,” said Samira Braund, defence director of the ADS Group trade body, speaking to the defence select committee on Tuesday. “I don’t think that [the government]…

International trade recovers more quickly than credit flows in the wake of geopolitical shocks, a study by the Bank for International Settlements has found.Using the BIS’s confidential banking statistics from 1977 to 2024, the working paper, published on March 20, analyses how geopolitics influences banking activity during periods of war and peace. The authors – Lorenz Emter, Laura Kuitunen, Peter McQuade, Arnaud Mehl, Swapan Pradhan and Goetz von Peter – analyse bilateral credit dynamics Only users who have a paid subscription or are part of a corporate subscription are able to print or copy content.To access these options, along with all other…

Nasdaq and Talos are wiring legacy infrastructure directly into crypto trading stacks to release $35 billion in stagnant capital. The partnership, announced Monday, integrates Nasdaq’s Calypso risk platform and Trade Surveillance technology with Talos’s institutional liquidity network.This is not a pilot program. It is an industrial-scale attempt to solve the collateral bottleneck slowing institutional adoption employed by major banks. By bridging the gap between digital assets and traditional finance (TradFi), the move targets the inefficiency of capital sitting idle in redundant buffers.Key Takeaways: Deal Mechanics: Nasdaq Calypso and Trade Surveillance now run natively within the Talos institutional trading stack. The…

Tuesday, March 24th, 2026After a nice trading day basking in the green, following President Trump’s assertion that peace talks are going “very well” with Iran (while lacking particulars, and that’s putting it kindly), pre-market futures are down a quarter of a percent at this hour. The Dow is giving back -130 points from the +631 it made yesterday, the S&P 500 is -17 from Monday’s +74, and the Nasdaq is stripping back -66 points from +299 the previous session. Close the Book on Q4 Productivity: +1.8%Nonfarm U.S. Productivity for Q4 of 2025 — the third and final print — dwindled back…

Payment friction is costing small businesses sales. Here’s why seamless credit card acceptance has become a competitive advantage — and what owners can do about it.    The intelligence layer for fintech professionals who think for themselves. Primary source intelligence. Original analysis. Contributed pieces from the people defining the industry. Trusted by professionals at JP Morgan, Coinbase, BlackRock, Klarna and more. Join the FinTech Weekly Clarity Circle →   For years, accepting card payments was treated as a basic requirement. If your business could take a card, you were considered up to date. Today, that baseline has shifted. Customers no…

President Donald Trump claimed talks are underway with Iran, but the US and Israel are still carrying out airstrikes. Iran is also firing missiles at Israel. Kailey Leinz has the latest. (Source: Bloomberg)

Hospice care has grabbed the attention of the federal government, which is vowing to decertify companies that are overbilling, stealing identities or charging for services never provided.

Thomas Fuller | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesPfizer on Monday said it will seek regulatory approval for a Lyme disease vaccine candidate despite the shot failing a late-stage trial. Pfizer said the vaccine missed the trial’s statistical goal because not enough people in the study contracted Lyme disease to be confident in the results. Still, the company said the shot reduced the rate of infection by more than 70% in people who received the vaccine versus placebo, efficacy the company thinks is strong enough to take to regulators. “The efficacy shown in the VALOR study of more than 70% is highly…