Maybe There’s a Use for Crypto After All – New York Times
One of the most frequent questions asked by crypto skeptics is: What can you actually do with crypto, besides financial speculation and crimes?...
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UK-based financial tech firms won sevenfold funding rise last year to $37bn – The Guardian
Investment in financial tech firms in the UK grew sevenfold last year to $37.3bn (£27.5bn), according to KPMG, with London attracting more fintech funding than the rest...
Omicron Absences Fail to Dent Job Growth – WSJ
The U.S. labor market recovery continued in January amid a surge in Omicron infections, even though millions of workers stayed home sick or were idled...
EU Proposes a Joint Cyber Incident Coordination Framework – DataBreachToday
The European Systemic Risk Board has proposed a new systemic cyber incident coordination framework called EU-SCICF. This framework will be specifically designed to counter any...
Global Tightening amid Raging Inflation: February Update – Wolf Street
The Bank of England today, February 3, started QT (Quantitative Tightening, the opposite of QE) and raised its policy rate by 25 basis points, to 0.50%,...
How America’s talent wars are reshaping business – The Economist
DCL logistics, like so many American firms, had a problem last year. Its business, fulfilling orders of goods sold online, faced surging demand. But competition...
America’s economic recovery is about to go into reverse – CNN
The Omicron variant put a massive speed bump in the road to America’s recovery this winter. The first signs of trouble could show up in...
Lagarde Pivots on ECB Hikes as Switch in Guidance Seen Soon – Bloomberg
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde is no longer ruling out an interest-rate hike this year, a pivot toward the tightening stance of global peers...
Bank of England raises interest rate to 0.5% in effort to tame inflation – The Financial Times
The Bank of England has intensified the squeeze on household finances with its first back-to-back interest rate rise since 2004 as the central bank forecast...
Facebook: Daily active users fall for first time in 18-year history – BBC News
Social media giant Facebook has seen its daily active users (DAUs) drop for the first time in its 18-year history. Facebook’s parent company Meta Networks...