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The appeal of prop trading starts with a genuine problem around access to capital. 45% of people who don’t invest said they simply did not have enough money to do so. Talented traders lack enough capital to turn skill into returns. Proprietary firms are an alternative. They give capable traders the opportunity to manage substantially […]
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Choosing a crypto wallet used to come down to a few basic questions: Which networks does it support? Is it secure? And how easily can users send, receive and store assets? In 2026, the answer is becoming more complicated. Wallets are increasingly integrating swaps, perpetual futures, DeFi, yield products and cross-chain transactions directly into their […]
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Ant International, Mastercard and Visa have begun working together on a shared Know-Your-Agent framework. It covers AI agents that make purchases on behalf of users. The three companies announced the collaboration on Thursday, Singapore time. Reuters and CNBC also reported it. According to the announcement, the framework is meant to help card networks, digital wallets, […]
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Ramp, the corporate card and spend management company, is in early talks to raise new funding at a valuation of roughly $60bn. That would put it $16bn above the valuation it reached just three months ago. Rebecca Torrence and Natasha Mascarenhas of Bloomberg reported the talks on 8 September, citing people familiar with the efforts. […]
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Shipt and Instacart both launched AI assistants that build a grocery cart from a prompt or a photo on 9 September. Instacart said orders placed through its assistant contain more items than a typical order and exceed its $115 average basket, while Shipt’s announcement gives no equivalent figure and frames the product as relief from […]
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Gamification has a bad name in finance, and rightfully so. Trading apps fired confetti when you bought options. Meme stocks turned rent money into casino chips. Say “gamified finance” today and people picture slot machines packaged as financial products. The gamification itself was not the problem. The problem was the mechanisms powering these experiences: leveraged […]
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the gamification of finance Read More »
Ashok Kumar, Staff Software Engineer at Walmart Global Tech, has built his career around making large-scale ecommerce systems faster, more reliable, and more economical. His work spans web performance, marketplace fulfillment, cloud cost optimization, and a patented distributed-cloud performance control system. Every online shopper is running an invisible stopwatch, whether they realize it or not. […]
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Chime is buying the bank that has held its customers’ money for seven years. The company announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire Stride Bank of Enid, Oklahoma, for $590m in cash. Stride will become Chime Bank and operate as a wholly owned subsidiary. Closing should follow in the first half of 2027. […]
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Robinhood has won its first IPO underwriting role, ranking last among 18 banks on Oura’s offering. The bigger shift is in retail distribution: SpaceX reserved about 20% of its deal for individuals and Fidelity cut its minimum order from $500,000 to $2,000. That channel is being completed just before the AI listings arrive Robinhood has […]
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The Federal Trade Commission and 22 states sued Amazon in Seattle on 31 August, alleging it inflated auction prices for Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands and Sponsored Display, and generated more than $20bn in additional advertising costs since 2019. As CNBC reported, regulators say 1.2 million advertisers were affected, including more than 500,000 small and medium businesses. […]
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Nobody can predict Amazon’s ad reserve prices, including Amazon. That is the defence. Read More »