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Blue Owl-managed funds have led $2.4 billion in AI Factory Financing for IREN, providing capital for the purchase of NVIDIA Accelerated Computing Infrastructure for the Mackenzie data centre campus in British Columbia, Canada. The AI Factory Financing consists of a...

U.S. banking regulators are refocusing their supervisory approach, shifting examinations and enforcement actions toward material financial risks rather than minor procedural and documentation concerns. The updated Bank Supervisory Framework, led by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency...

The European Central Bank is advancing plans for an integrated European tokenised finance market, with central bank money positioned as the settlement anchor for tokenised financial assets across the continent. ECB Executive Board member Piero Cipollone has outlined the institution's...

Tokenized Deposits have moved a step closer to broader institutional use after HSBC and Standard Chartered completed what the banks described as the first bank-to-bank transaction of its kind via SWIFT's digital blockchain-backed ledger. The banks reported the completion...

Creatio and Bayanat have entered a partnership aimed at helping financial institutions across the MENA region automate customer operations and banking workflows using AI and no-code technology. The collaboration brings together Creatio's AI-native CRM and workflow platform with Bayanat's...

The decision by FinCEN to exempt domestic U.S. companies from beneficial ownership information reporting carries real consequences for banks, broker-dealers, mutual funds, futures commission merchants, introducing brokers in commodities, and other covered financial institutions. While the filing burden has...

Canada and the African Development Bank Group are consolidating their financial partnership into a single integrated investment framework. The approach brings together development finance, export credit, climate finance and private-sector engagement under one coordinated structure, with the aim of...