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After considerable investment in AI, firms are seeking ROIs sooner rather than later. Credit: via Shutterstock. Artificial intelligence (AI) faces pressure to justify its growing bill. Cybersecurity demands investment as threats become harder to contain. Quantum computing offers substantial long-term promise but a more immediate security concern. Augmented reality (AR), meanwhile, is finding a practical…

EU banks shrug off mooted minimum reserves increase – Risk.net Skip to main content End of drawer navigation content Doubling of unremunerated reserves would curb Eurosystem losses, but banks doubt it will pass The European Central Bank is weighing an increase in the minimum reserves eurozone banks must hold at their national central banks –…

There are few companies in the artificial intelligence (AI) space that can be considered to “do it all.” Some focus on making hardware, like Nvidia (NVDA -1.51%) (although it has stepped into the large language model game as well); others develop large language models like OpenAI; some create AI applications; and others host AI workloads….

For listed private equity funds, discounts to net asset value (NAV) widened sharply when bond yields rose in 2022. Investors were anticipating that the valuations of private equity investments would follow share prices down after the customary lag. Boards responded with share buyback programmes in an attempt to add value and close the discounts. Yet…