On Tuesday, derivatives marketplace CME Group announced plans to launch Sorghum basis futures, with trading expected to begin on 24 August 2026, pending regulatory review. Sorghum is a versatile commodity positioned to meet demand from the domestic feed industry, international export markets and, increasingly, biofuels. The new basis contract reflects the price difference between sorghum…
J.P. Morgan’s latest pool of prime mortgages is set to raise $336.5 million in residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) through a deal set to close by the end of the month. Processing Content The asset pool for J.P. Morgan Mortgage Trust, 2026-6 (JPMMT 2026-6), is composed of 264 fixed-rate, qualified mortgages entirely, and all the underlying…
Hunneman said Wednesday that Jon Pezzoni has joined the firm’s Leasing & Advisory team as an SVP and Principal. He brings more than a decade of experience across Greater Boston’s office, R&D and industrial markets. Pezzoni was most recently an SVP at Avison Young. Since 2014, Pezzoni has been advising tenants, landlords, and developers throughout the Metro…
Increasingly, Santander is leveraging global scale by focusing on and investing in global businesses – including those in retail banking. Latin America has been central to these efforts and it has seen the benefit. It was a pivotal year for Gravity, the bank’s in-house core banking cloud technology enabling post-mainframe migration. Starting with Chile, the…
Small-cap investing is often associated with higher return potential, but it also comes with much sharper and more frequent declines than large-cap investing. A new study by DSP Mutual Fund highlights this trade-off, showing that steep corrections have been a recurring feature of the Nifty Smallcap 250 Total Return Index (TRI) as compared to the…
The race is on to secure alternative routes for both Gulf fossil fuels and clean energy. This article appears in the July/August 2026 issue of Global Finance Magazine. More than 30 years after the first Gulf War, it seemed unlikely, if not unthinkable, that images of burning oil facilities would once again make headlines in…
House price growth in the UK decelerated in May 2026, according to the latest Land Registry House Price Index, with monthly growth dropping to 0.3% from 0.5% in April. Annual price growth slowed to 2.7% in May, down from 3.9% the previous month, though this figure may be affected by comparisons with last year’s stamp…
NEXA Lending boss Mike Kortas is now the sole owner of his company after settling a bad breakup with his co-founder. Processing Content Kortas reached a global settlement with Mat Grella last month, according to an Arizona state court docket and a NEXA announcement Monday. The resolution ends litigation which arose following Grella’s exit from…
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) offer investors a way to build diversified portfolios with the flexibility of buying and selling them like shares. However, as ETF unit prices rise, it becomes harder for people with limited budgets to invest because they must buy at least one unit. To address this, some mutual fund houses have conducted ETF…
Clean homes with high-end filtration systems for air and water is among the top three most important features sought by home hunters in America. That’s according to a new survey commissioned by Redfin that noted more than one-third (36%) of U.S. house hunters say a “clean” home, one with high-end filtration systems for air, water,…