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HSBC’s Stage 2 and Stage 3 loans to non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) surged by $2 billion and $657 million in the first half of 2026, reaching $4.4 billion and $1.1 billion, respectively. The bank’s Stage 2 gross loans and advances to NBFIs at amortised cost rose 81%, while Stage 3 exposures jumped 137%. By comparison,…
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Key insight: As Americans continue to struggle to pay for their schooling, some credit unions are reimbursing employees for their tuition and contributing to their student-loan payments. Supporting data: Of the 70 lenders that made this year’s list of the Best Credit Unions to Work For, five offer student-loan assistance, and 12 offer tuition reimbursement….
Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) tokenized stocks are now on Base using its B20 standard. The group quickly points out that these are “real ownership” and not a “workaround,” as each digital asset represents 1-to-1 shares held by a custodian. The digital asset is not a synthetic product or a wrapper. Coinbase says these are the “real deal,”…
Key insight: A group of bank leaders are attempting to take the future of on-chain finance into their own hands. Expert quote: “We have a lot of senior fraud, and there’s always novel transactions that go through their bank account. Imagine a future where there’s a smart contract which is associated with a transaction, where…
Your parents always told you to eat your vegetables if you want to stay strong and healthy, but this summer, you couldn’t be blamed for avoiding some of them. First, it was the lettuce-linked Cyclosporiasis outbreak that turned people away from the nutritious food group. Now, it’s an outbreak linked to alfalfa sprouts that, if…
Image: Courtesy of Phillips Magic Mountains by Glendon Cordell sold for HK$122,550 at Phillips Modern & Contemporary Art: Online Auction on June 3, 2026 in Hong Kong. Born in Tasmania, Australia, Cordell is an abstract landscape painter who transforms the Australian terrain into vibrant technicolor dreamscapes. He’s developed a distinctive approach that captures the natural…
Less than 300 million barrels left: the engineering limits threatening the American Strategic Petroleum Reserve | Fortune Dr. Siddharth Misra is a Professor at Texas A&M University and the CTO of AlterNature LLC. He specializes in physics-informed deep learning and sensing technologies for the exploration, development, and production of energy and earth resources. Dr. Misra…
The tech sector has been one of the most lucrative places for long-term investors to put their money in recent years. The internet, e-commerce, cloud computing, and, more recently, artificial intelligence have been some of the central innovations fueling growth in the sector. The S&P 500‘s performance has become heavily tied to tech stocks. The…
