MSTRpay
MSTRPay Opens Malaysia Expansion Through Licensed Microfinance Partnership
MSTRPay AB has entered advanced negotiations to establish a 50/50 joint venture with Koperasi JN Teguh Berhad, a licensed Malaysian...
Financial insights
African markets open mixed as investors track commodities and global risk sentiment
Africa’s largest stock markets opened with mixed performance on Thursday as investors reacted to movements in global commodity prices, regional...
Arab markets open mixed as oil volatility and regional tensions dominate sentiment
Arab stock markets opened with mixed performance on Thursday as investors responded to ongoing geopolitical tensions in the Middle East...
European markets open cautiously as investors weigh geopolitics and inflation signals
European equity markets opened cautiously on Thursday as investors balanced persistent geopolitical tensions in the Middle East with fresh economic...
China’s consumption slowdown raises concerns over economic momentum
China is facing a sustained slowdown in domestic consumption, raising concerns about the country’s economic momentum and its ability to...
Asian markets open higher as risk appetite returns despite Iran war premium
Asian equities opened stronger on Thursday, March 5, 2026, staging a broad rebound after the prior session’s war-driven sell-off, as...
US politics
Senate votes down resolution to prevent Trump from continuing war with Iran
The United States Senate has rejected a resolution aimed at limiting President Donald Trump’s authority to continue military operations against...
Iran vs US
US kept UK in the dark before strikes on Iran, straining the “special relationship”
The United States did not share operational details with the United Kingdom before launching military strikes against Iran, according to...
US submarine sinks Iranian warship as conflict spreads beyond Middle East
A United States submarine has torpedoed and sunk an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean near Sri Lanka, dramatically widening...
Ukraine
Merz tells Trump Ukraine must not give up more territory
Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz has told US President Donald Trump that Ukraine must not be pressured into surrendering additional territory...
Africa
Private investors eye Africa’s electricity transmission opportunity
Private capital is increasingly targeting Africa’s electricity transmission networks, a sector long dominated by state utilities but now emerging as...
Blockchain
Trump sends pro-Bitcoin Fed chair nomination to the Senate
US President Donald Trump has formally submitted the nomination of Kevin Warsh to become the next chair of the Federal...
AI
AI agents prefer Bitcoin shaping new finance architecture
Artificial intelligence agents are increasingly using Bitcoin as their preferred store of digital value, a development that is beginning to...
Banking
Kraken receives Fed master account in historic breakthrough for crypto industry
Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has secured access to a Federal Reserve master account, marking the first time a crypto-focused institution has...
Banks rewarding products over relationships risk losing customer loyalty
Banks around the world may believe they enjoy strong customer loyalty, but new research suggests that much of that loyalty...
Climate & Energy
Australia records wettest summer in nearly a decade amid rising temperatures
Australia has just experienced its wettest summer in nearly ten years, according to national climate data, while temperatures remained unusually...
On this day
On this day in 1953: Josef Stalin died
Josef Stalin remains one of the most consequential and controversial leaders of the twentieth century. As the dominant figure in...
Business of the week
Dangote Group: from small trading firm to Africa’s industrial powerhouse
Few business stories in Africa illustrate entrepreneurial scale as clearly as the rise of the Dangote Group. What began as...
Newshub long read
Iran and the world: a long history of empire, faith, and geopolitical power
Iran, historically known as Persia, is one of the world’s oldest continuous civilisations, with political and cultural traditions stretching back...
Hidden financial giants
HDFC Bank: India’s hidden financial giant powering a banking revolution
While global attention often focuses on India’s technology sector, one of the country’s most powerful financial institutions has quietly grown...
Hidden giants: The Rabiu family and Nigeria’s quiet financial powerhouse
While Africa’s billionaire class is often associated with headline names and high-profile conglomerates, one family has built a vast financial-industrial...
Hidden Giants in Finance: Euronet and the invisible rails moving US$200bn a year
Every day, trillions of digital signals move quietly between banks, wallets, ATMs, and payment apps — and behind much of...
America’s quietly powerful Pritzker dynasty
Few families shape global capital as discreetly as the Pritzkers. Best known publicly for building the hotel empire behind Hyatt...
Europe’s hidden financial giant: the foundation behind IKEA
Behind one of the world’s most recognisable retail brands sits a little-known Dutch foundation that quietly controls assets worth tens...
The Grosvenor family (Duke of Westminster)
Few fortunes in Britain are as substantial — or as discreet — as that of the Grosvenor family, headed today...
Sweden’s hidden giants: How Wallenberg and Rausing compare on the global ownership stage
Two Swedish industrial spheres — the Wallenberg network and the Rausing family — quietly control capital measured in trillions of...