Acumen at Cantor Fitzgerald conference: sabirnetug, brain-shuttle push

A brutal summer stretch for the U.S. Treasury market risks getting worse come September, right as many of the world’s largest companies plan to unleash a new wave of bond issuance.

With a new Federal Reserve chairman in place and interest rates likely to stay constant, many clients are likely asking you what the next rate decision means for their mortgage, their bond ladder, their equity allocation and their retirement. While most advisors have the federal funds rate at their fingertips, I’ve found very few who…

Euroclear has appointed James Chang as Chief Executive Officer, Asia Pacific, effective 1 December 2026, following an onboarding period that begins this September, the financial market infrastructure group announced on 7 September 2026. Based in Hong Kong, Chang will oversee Euroclear’s strategy across the Asia Pacific region, a market the company has described as a…

The financial services industry has long treated compliance as a capacity problem, as there simply aren’t enough hours in the day to review every single file, so we review a sample, typically around 10%, and call it a ‘risk-based approach’. Let’s be honest, nobody ever sat down and determined that 10% was the mathematically…

PayPal Holdings is in talks with a group that includes Stripe and Advent International, negotiating to sell itself at a price potentially higher than the one the companies offered in July, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Friday (Aug. 14), citing unnamed sources. The two sides have been negotiating since July, when Stripe and Advent…