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1 month ago | 
ffnews.com | Lauren Towner |Nick Baker
Allica Bank today announced the expansion of its commercial mortgage proposition. The challenger bank is entering the specialist Buy-to-Let residential market in response to extensive broker feedback and the growing demand for specialist property finance, setting an ambitious target of £100 million in specialist Buy-to-Let mortgage offers before the end of the year.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
research-live.com | Mark Fisher |Gerry Farkova |Cristina de Balanzo |Nick Baker
A milestone year for the wrong reasons: 2024 officially became the first year to pass the 1.5 degrees global warming limit. Anyone saying ‘the time for action is now’ is already too late. Arguments about who should carry the weight of the blame are a waste of time. We all have a part to play in exiting what UN secretary António Guterres has called a ‘road to ruin’.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
hwlebsworth.com.au | Nick Baker
HWL Ebsworth Lawyers has announced the promotion of 43 lawyers nationally including 12 Special Counsel, 13 Senior Associates and 18 Associates. Chief Executive Officer Kris Hopkins commented “Each of our team members have demonstrated their alignment and commitment to the firm, and I look forward to seeing their ongoing growth and contribution in the coming years.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
sg.finance.yahoo.com | Nick Baker
Howard Lutnick's firm, Cantor Fitzgerald, is a prominent Wall Street bond broker and a member of an exclusive club: It's a primary dealer that gets to trade directly with the Federal Reserve. So when Lutnick — Tether's U.S. Treasuries dealer — said this year that Tether actually has the money it says is backing its huge USDT stablecoin, that put a final nail in the coffin of conspiracy theories claiming otherwise.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
sg.finance.yahoo.com | Nick Baker
Eric Balchunas and James Seyffart sit on one of the most traditional finance (TradFi if you're hip to the lingo) perches out there: Mike Bloomberg's gazillion-dollar news, data and analysis business. Yet, as all of crypto anxiously awaited word in early 2024 on whether U.S. regulators would approve bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs), the Bloomberg analysts were must-listen-to experts in crypto. Their day jobs entail examining all things ETF.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
sg.finance.yahoo.com | Nick Baker
Nick Baker Tue, 10 December 2024 at 8:33 am GMT-6 1 min read In this article: Michael Saylor's decades-old software development firm MicroStrategy blazed the path for corporate bitcoin purchases beginning in 2020. Through massive securities sales, he's managed to fund the purchase of billions of dollars worth of bitcoin for his company. Tesla and Block dabbled in the strategy in years past.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
hwlebsworth.com.au | Nick Baker
Not to be outdone by very recent changes to Commonwealth privacy laws, the WA Parliament has passed entirely new privacy legislation. For the first time, WA Ministers, Parliamentary Secretaries and public entities will be subject to privacy obligations, as will contracted service providers to those public entities. This new regime has been introduced by way of the Privacy and Responsible Information Sharing Bill 2024 (PRIS Bill), and has been foreshadowed by the WA Government for several years.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
sg.finance.yahoo.com | Nick Baker
Bitcoin's (BTC) price plunged below $94,000 late Thursday in rapid retreat from its newfound all-time high around $100,000. There was no immediately obvious reason for the drop. CoinDesk Indices data, which incorporates prices from several sources, shows bitcoin dropped as low as $93,468.34. Meanwhile, it got to about $90,500 on Binance and $92,000 on Coinbase. The selling did not spread across the rest of crypto — which is unusual. While bitcoin went into freefall, other tokens didn't really budge.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Nick Baker |Sarah Allely
Few drinks have a reputation like absinthe. Banned in some countries for almost a century, the drink was supposedly a source of madness and crime, even blamed for artist Vincent van Gogh chopping off his ear. Author and absinthe aficionado Evan Rail says there's a lot of bluster around the drink, but that doesn't make its history any less interesting.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
coindesk.com | Jesse Hamilton |Nick Baker
U.S. sanctions against Tornado Cash, a service that anonymizes crypto transactions, must be abandoned, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The decision answers a controversial privacy debate on whether the government — via a sanctions list maintained by the U.S. Treasury Department — has a right to target the technology because it's associated with criminals.
