MSTRpay
MSTRPay expands West Africa footprint with Togo partnership talks
MSTRPay AB has received a formal Letter of Intent (LOI) from Togo-based Société Générale de Micro & Méso Finance (SOGEMEF...
Financial insights
Global markets tumble as oil shock rattles Asia and Europe
Global stock markets opened the week sharply lower as surging oil prices and escalating geopolitical tensions triggered widespread investor sell-offs...
Iran war drives oil prices above $100 a barrel for first time since 2022
Global oil prices surged above $100 per barrel on Monday for the first time in more than three years as...
Tokyo markets fall 5,2% – Singapore steady
Singapore’s stock market opened largely steady on Tuesday morning, with financial and banking shares helping stabilise the market as investors...
China markets open mixed as investors assess policy outlook
Chinese stock markets opened with mixed movements on Tuesday as investors evaluated economic policy signals from Beijing while remaining cautious...
Japan markets open cautiously as investors watch global tensions
Japanese markets opened Monday with a cautious tone as investors balanced domestic economic signals with global geopolitical uncertainty and volatile...
Iran
Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei: Succession, ideology and the war ahead
Iran has entered one of the most consequential political transitions since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Following the death of long-time...
On this day
On this day in 1934: Yuri Gagarin, who in 1961 became the first man to travel in space, was born in Russia
On March 9, 1934, Yuri Gagarin was born in the Soviet Union, a man whose name would become permanently linked...
US politics
Pete Hegseth under scrutiny as critics question leadership in Iran war
Pete Hegseth, the former Fox News television host appointed by Donald Trump to lead the Pentagon, has become the public...
Ukraine
Zelenskyy to send Ukrainian drone experts to Middle East amid widening conflict
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced that Ukrainian drone specialists will travel to the Middle East in the coming days...
Zelenskyy offers assistance to Saudi Arabia in countering Iranian drones
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has offered to assist Saudi Arabia in combating Iranian drone threats, proposing that Ukraine share battlefield...
Africa
Nigeria pauses airport cashless policy after travel disruptions
Nigeria’s government has temporarily suspended its new cashless payment policy at several major airports after the system triggered widespread travel...
Blockchain
Orbital data centre company plans to mine Bitcoin in space
A new generation of space-based infrastructure may soon extend beyond satellites and telecommunications, as an orbital data centre company has...
AI
Physical AI is having its moment – and everyone wants a piece of it
Artificial intelligence is entering a new phase as so-called “physical AI” moves from research laboratories into factories, warehouses and homes....
Banking
As neobanks pivot from growth to revenue, competition is set to intensify
Neobanks around the world are entering a new phase of development as the focus shifts from rapid user growth to...
TD eyes $150M in cost reductions – with help from AI
Toronto-Dominion Bank is targeting roughly $150 million in cost reductions through the expanded use of artificial intelligence, as the Canadian...
Climate & Energy
Humanity heating the planet faster than ever, new study finds
Human activity is now heating the planet at the fastest rate ever recorded, according to a new scientific study that...
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...