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View More NewsOpenFX, a fintech startup focused on foreign exchange and remittances, raised $94 million in a Series A funding round to expand its stablecoin-based payments network.The round included Accel, Atomico, Lightspeed Faction, M13, Northzone and Pantera. The company said it plans to use the funds to increase liquidity, enter new markets and expand operations in Southeast Asia and Latin America.“The global FX market processes more than $200 trillion annually, yet the core settlement infrastructure remains largely unchanged from decades ago,” founder Prabhakar Reddy said, adding that he launched OpenFX in 2024 to address what he described as a gap in the…
In brief The proposal implements President Trump’s order last year to expand 401(k) access to alternative assets. Few retirement plans offer alternatives, and even fewer hold them, the Labor Department said. The rule clears a legal path but leaves operational hurdles and unresolved questions about demand, Decrypt was told. The U.S. Department of Labor has released a proposed rule that would give 401(k) fiduciaries a safe harbor when considering alternative investments, including funds that invest in cryptocurrencies and other digital assets.Under the proposal, fiduciaries that undergo review for performance, fees, liquidity, valuation, benchmarking, and complexity would get a safe harbor…
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By now, many readers—even those who don’t know (or care) about Canadian politics—will have seen the excruciating video highlights from this past weekend’s New Democratic Party (NDP) leadership convention in Winnipeg. The NDP is a venerable left-wing political party that once was tightly conjoined with Canada’s blue-collar union movement. But in recent years, it has been spiralling into irrelevance. And the viral footage from the Winnipeg conference—where a silver-spoon socialist and militant anti-Israel activist named Avi Lewis was elected as the party’s next leader—shows why.HAPPENING NOW: There’s surprising amount of disagreement and intellectual diversity at the 2026 NDP leadership convention,…
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from the celebrate-with-some-lemon-pound-cake dept As we wrote just yesterday, the defamation trial brought by seven Adams County, Ohio deputies against rapper Afroman was going…
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New York, March 19, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Azerbaijan to release journalist Ahmad Mammadli and credibly investigate claims that police severely…
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Amman, March 19, 2026 — The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for an investigation into the apparent targeting of Steve Sweeney, a British correspondent…