US politics
Epstein witness claims she was abused by Trump in the 1980s when she was between 13 and 15 years old
The US Department of Justice has released previously undisclosed FBI reports connected to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, including documents referring...
Financial insights
Asian markets open cautiously as geopolitical tensions weigh on sentiment
Major Asian stock markets opened Friday with mixed and cautious trading as investors continued to assess the geopolitical and economic...
Iran vs US
How Flightradar24 became the world’s window into aviation crises
When geopolitical crises disrupt global aviation, millions of people now turn to a Swedish digital platform to watch events unfold...
On this day
On this day in 1924: King Tut’s tomb opened
On March 6, 1923, the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun reached a new stage of global prominence as news...
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...
Ukraine
Ukraine offers drone warfare expertise to help counter Iranian UAV threat
Ukraine will assist the United States and its allies in countering Iranian drone technology in the Middle East, President Volodymyr...
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...
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...