Pancreatic cancer is one of the most lethal adversaries in medicine — rarely detected until it is too late. But in April of this year, the Mayo Clinic showed how AI can change that prognosis. Its AI model identified 73 per cent of pre-diagnostic pancreatic cancers up to three years before diagnosis — turning a...Read More
Background: From the reporting period ending 30 June 2025, Cyprus Investment Firms (“CIFs”) must submit IFR prudential reports exclusively in XBRL via CySEC’s portal. The Excel-based option used during the transition was discontinued after the 11 August 2025 deadline, and CIFs now need software that can generate and validate compliant XBRL files. So, the old...Read More
AI compute refers to the specialized hardware resources—primarily GPUs, TPUs, and custom accelerators—and supporting infrastructure required to train, tune, and run artificial intelligence models. The Core Components are Hardware Accelerators, Storage & Networking, Data Center Power. Hardware Accelerators: Chips like Nvidia GPUs or Google TPUs designed for massively parallel mathematical processing. Storage & Networking: High-speed, low-latency infrastructure that moves massive...Read More
High concentration in stock markets and national security concerns send SWFs to private credit and infrastructure Surging levels of concentration in equity markets are pushing cash-laden sovereign wealth funds into unlisted assets such as private equity, private credit and infrastructure. The switch is the latest demonstration of how the rapid expansion of AI is reshaping financial markets,...Read More
Ireland believes it can secure a deal to deepen Europe’s capital markets by the year-end, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has told the FT, overcoming decade-old EU divisions in an attempt to mobilise trillions of euros in savings into productive investments. The so-called savings and investment union has been pitched as a groundbreaking overhaul to integrate the...Read More
It is hard to get back into a market just after a mauling — as cryptocurrencies suffered last week, led by bitcoin’s 15 per cent tumble. It can be harder still to jump into the products — perpetual futures — that are believed to have produced the crash. So-called perps, though, are about to go...Read More
Central banks around the world are lowering borrowing costs as global inflation eases from the multi-decade highs reached in many countries in recent years. The FT global inflation and interest rates tracker provides a regularly updated visual narrative of consumer price inflation and central bank policy rates around the world. This page covers the factors...Read More
The UK financial watchdog has filed a lawsuit against the crypto exchange linked to Justin Sun, a Chinese-born billionaire who has invested millions of dollars in US President Donald Trump’s digital asset ventures. The Financial Conduct Authority said that it had filed the lawsuit against HTX in the High Court this week “for unlawfully promoting...Read More
For those concerned about the threats to the world from climate change, some of the signals this year from institutional investors and investment banks are alarming. However, there are still reasons to be hopeful about the resilience of efforts to tackle environmental issues at the corporate level. It is true that there has been a...Read More
