Monte dei Paschi to hold board meeting on M&A situation on Monday

IREN (NASDAQ: IREN) has more secured power, while Nebius (NASDAQ: NBIS) has secured some of the industry’s most valuable hyperscaler contracts. This comparison examines whether IREN’s potential upside outweighs its dilution risk and whether Nebius’s execution advantage justifies its demanding valuation. Stock prices used were the market prices of July 14, 2026. The video was…

Key Points The Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, and Nasdaq Composite have consistently generated outsize returns under President Trump. Rate hikes threaten the stock market’s leading catalyst, the artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure build-out. Additionally, history shows that interest rate hikes can adversely impact U.S. M2 money supply, portending trouble for the U.S. economy. 10…

Jakob Harrison said he does not buy the idea that payments executives should spend their days looking over their shoulders. There are too many things to look at. Artificial intelligence is advancing. Agentic commerce is taking shape. Consumer expectations are moving with technology. Competitors are pursuing many of the same customers with products that can…

Consumer protection advocates are speaking out against a provision in Congress’s proposed cryptocurrency legislation, claiming it would allow financial firms to sidestep state oversight of artificial intelligence. In a letter last week to U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-SD) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY), 78 groups urged lawmakers to oppose a proposed “sandbox” provision of the CLARITY…

Former Visa executive Kathleen Pierce-Gilmore is three months into her new role as president of SoFi Technology Solutions. The premise guiding her strategy is that banks, credit unions and software platforms each know their customers in different ways, and SoFi can provide the financial technology to help them act on that knowledge. For example, a…