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CASI Casablanca Forum: The Three Agreements That Treat Africa's Climate Finance Gap as a Skills Gap

CASI Casablanca Forum: The Three Agreements That Treat Africa's Climate Finance Gap as a Skills Gap

The CASI forum in Casablanca closed with three agreements on training, certification, and disclosure. Africa's climate finance gap is a skills gap first.

June Jobs Report and AI Layoffs 57,000 New Jobs, Four Months of AI-Led Cuts, One Frozen Labour Market

June Jobs Report and AI Layoffs: 57,000 New Jobs, Four Months of AI-Led Cuts, One Frozen Labour Market

The June jobs report showed 57,000 new jobs one day after AI led all US layoff reasons for a fourth month. The two datasets describe one frozen labour market.

Standard Chartered USDC Launch: The First Systemic Bank in Stablecoins Is Selling Distance From Crypto

Standard Chartered USDC Launch: The First Systemic Bank in Stablecoins Is Selling Distance From Crypto

Standard Chartered is the first G-SIB to offer USDC minting and redemption to institutions. Clients get digital dollars without opening a Circle account.

Intesa Sanpaolo Google Cloud Migration: What Keeping 800 Banking Applications on Italian Soil Actually Secures

Intesa Sanpaolo Google Cloud Migration: What Keeping 800 Banking Applications on Italian Soil Actually Secures

Intesa Sanpaolo moved over 800 core banking applications to Google Cloud regions in Turin and Milan hosted by TIM. Here is what data residency secures.

Fable 5 Export Controls Lifted: Why Anthropic's Model Came Back One Government Decision at a Time

Fable 5 Export Controls Lifted: Why Anthropic's Model Came Back One Government Decision at a Time

Anthropic's Fable 5 returns on 1 July after the US lifted its export controls.

STOKR Wins Luxembourg CASP and Payment Licences Just Before MiCAR's Deadline

STOKR Wins Luxembourg CASP and Payment Licences Just Before MiCAR's Deadline

STOKR secured CASP and Payment Institution licences from Luxembourg's CSSF, closing the payment gap that kept tokenised securities settlement incomplete.

Strike Secures Full MiCA Licence, Joining Roughly One in Five EU Crypto Platforms

Strike Secures Full MiCA Licence, Joining Roughly One in Five EU Crypto Platforms

Strike's European arm won MiCA authorisation from Malta's regulator, passporting Bitcoin services across all 27 EU states ahead of the July 1 deadline.