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2 days ago | crowdfundinsider.com | JD Alois

Venture capital is investing in data centers as part of an infrastructure play targeting the Artificial Intelligence (AI) sector. While private markets ebb and flow with one sector hot today, and cold tomorrow, AI has a pretty huge runway, and private investors are taking advantage of it.

2 days ago | crowdfundinsider.com | JD Alois

As recently reported, Crowd Street is shifting its focus away from its real estate investment platform roots to further leverage its tech stack and provide access to a broader range of alternative private investments. Crowd Street seeks to become the premier self-directed private market investment platform on the market. As public markets have declined and private markets grown, this fact, coupled with technology, has made private securities investing very appealing to all investors.

2 days ago | crowdfundinsider.com | JD Alois

The Securities and Exchange Commission is poised to revise its treatment of foreign private issuers. While recognizing that they do not want to deter foreign issuers from US markets, there seems to be an agreement that the playing field needs to be leveled, as disparities exist between domestic and foreign issuers regarding compliance and disclosure.

2 days ago | crowdfundinsider.com | Omar Faridi

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), an innovator in global payments technology, announced that CIMB Bank, one of ASEAN’s banking groups and Malaysia’s second largest financial services provider, has “chosen ACI’s payment solution to converge all account-to-account transactions—real-time, ACH, RTGS and cross-border—onto a single future-proof payments platform.” As the industry pushes toward ISO 20022 standardization, this new ISO20022-native compliant platform—which serves as “the foundation for...

2 days ago | crowdfundinsider.com | Omar Faridi

The rise of stablecoins, digital currencies pegged to assets like the U.S. dollar, is significantly increasing demand for U.S. Treasury bills while solidifying the dollar’s position as the world’s leading reserve currency, according to a recent report by Citigroup. The report highlights how stablecoins, such as Tether (USDT) and USD Coin (USDC), are reshaping financial markets by driving investment in short-term U.S. Treasuries and reinforcing the dollar’s global dominance.