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Bank of Tanzania Governor Emmanuel Tutuba announced this week a new regulatory framework for digital assets during a visit to the Bank of Tanzania pavilion at the 50th Dar es Salaam International Trade Fair. The regulations will govern stablecoins and cryptocurrencies like bitcoin to protect

Bloomberg reported on July 16 that the bank handling the Anthropic stock IPO has arranged meetings between investors and company executives to pave the way for subsequent formal roadshows. The report said Anthropic could hit public markets as early as October. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan are all among the three major Wall Street investment banks participating in this IPO underwriting plan. IPO Process Update: Investor Meetings and Secret S-1 Filing According to Bloomberg, the inf

PayPal Holdings Inc. (PYPL) retail traders revealed sky-high valuation targets following reports that Stripe and Advent International are offering $60.50 per share to acquire the payments company. A Stocktwits poll of 8,200 investors found 35% believe PayPal Stocks should be valued over $100, with a

Shares of SpaceX (SPCX), International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), and Boston Scientific Corp. (BSX) slumped to 52-week lows on Wednesday. SPCX closed 0.6% lower, IBM fell 2.7%, and BSX dropped to an annual low before recovering to close up about 1%. The declines stemmed from profit-taking in SPC

The BOK officially announced on July 16 that it would raise interest rates by 1 step (0.25 percentage point), increasing the benchmark rate from 2.5% to 2.75%. This is the first rate hike in more than three years and meets market expectations. BOK Governor Shin Hyun-soo cited four key risks—inflation, growth, the exchange rate, and financial stability—as pressing factors pointing in the same direction. A hot AI chip cycle is boosting semiconductor demand; inflation remains sticky and is pushing

Electrovaya Inc. (ELVA) stocks closed 49% higher on Wednesday after the lithium-ion battery developer announced a commercial agreement and warrant transaction with Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN). The surge marked ELVA's best single-day performance since January 2013. Roth Capital analyst Craig Irwin

AST SpaceMobile (ASTS) shares dropped nearly 13% in after-hours trading on Wednesday after the company announced plans to raise $1 billion through a private offering of convertible senior notes due February 1, 2034. The capital raise triggered dilution concerns among existing shareholders, as the of

AtaiBeckley, Inc. (ATAI) stock surged nearly 60% overnight late Wednesday following reports that Eli Lilly is in takeover talks with the psychedelic medicine company. The surge came after Magnus Sigurdsson, co-founder of Systematic Ventures and partner at Iron Pine Ventures, estimated a likely

Zhipu, MiniMax, and DeepSeek’s leaders of three Chinese AI companies have successively announced major plans around July. Their stock and valuation trends have diverged. As the head of “the world’s first publicly listed large-model company,” Zhipu Tang Jie announced the “Touch High” plan via an internal email after listing for half a year, asking the team to ease pressure from commercial monetization over the next two years and to focus resources on long-range missions, autonomous agents, and se

China’s National Cyberspace Administration announced on July 15 that the key regulatory hurdle involving Apple’s (AAPL-US) China business has been cleared. Apple Intelligence has completed registration for its generative AI services, removing the regulatory prerequisite for this service to enter the world’s largest smartphone market. Alibaba’s official announcement said that its Tongyi Qianwen (Qwen) will be integrated into the Apple Intelligence experience for users in China. China’s National C

According to Reuters, on July 15, ChangXin Storage (CXMT) set the stock IPO issue price at RMB 8.66 per share, valuing the deal at RMB 579.18 billion. This is the largest IPO in Asia so far this year and the largest public offering by a Chinese chipmaker in history. ChangXin Storage is currently the world’s fourth-largest DRAM manufacturer, behind SK hynix, Samsung Electronics, and Micron. ChangXin Storage IPO Size and Subscription Timeline Based on Reuters’ July 15, 2026 report, the key IPO dat

Major financial institutions issued divergent US dollar forecasts following June consumer price index (CPI) and producer price index (PPI) releases that came in below market expectations. ING Bank, Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH), and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) presented contrasting views o

In January, Claude Code became popular and sparked debates about the end of SaaS, with software-related stocks erasing about $300 billion in a single day. Tech writer Joan Westenberg then responded with the bread paradox: Americans buy about 10 million pre-baked bread loaves every day—despite bread machines costing less than $100 and recipes having been around for thousands of years—because the hidden costs of making it at home determine that demand for external purchases continues, and enterpri

ING Bank forecasts inflation will slow through 2027 for four reasons, according to a statement on May 15 (local time). The bank cited potential oil price declines if US-Iran negotiations resume, housing cost deceleration showing sub-1% year-over-year growth, labor market rebalancing from 2022's

South Korea's Financial Services Commission designated 5 new innovative financial services on the 15th, including Phase 2 implementation of Project Hangang utilizing central bank digital currency and deposit tokens. The FSC newly designated Gyeongnam Bank and IM Bank as innovative financial service

South Korea's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT Bae Kyung-hoon announced on July 16 that the government has secured 35,000 advanced GPUs and elevated the nation's AI models to world's 3rd-ranked status, as the country intensifies efforts to build irreplaceable technological

Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) Governor Lee Chan-jin directed monitoring of securities firms' credit financing and margin trading trends on the 16th, citing concerns that retail investor losses could expand amid stock market volatility following a 25 basis point base rate hike. The directive

Kwon Dae-young, Vice Chairman of South Korea's Financial Services Commission (FSC), met with Nguyen Duc Chi, Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Finance, on the 16th at the government complex to discuss strengthening cooperation in the

Pi Network released an announcement on July 15 outlining three updates: the v25 protocol upgrade is scheduled to be executed on July 22. The main additions include the BN254 cryptography module and the Poseidon hashing algorithm, enabling developers to build privacy-preserving applications supporting zero-knowledge proofs on the Pi Chain. The v26 upgrade has also been added to the subsequent schedule; the exact timeline will follow Pi Network’s official announcement. Pi Network Protocol v25 Upgr