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ZenaTech's acquisition of a 17-state land surveyor accelerates its drone roll-up into utility-scale solar and rail infrastructure.

Two capital markets tech firms combine to offer banks a lower-risk exit from legacy market data systems.

Newly Nasdaq-listed Stewards pursues two luxury apartment deals as it builds a private credit and real assets platform.

A Pentagon economic unit commits $450m to the only US-owned vertically integrated tungsten producer, shielding defence programmes from Chinese supply risk.

DCG subsidiary Yuma crosses $200m in staked assets on the Bittensor network, backing AI subnets now landing real enterprise clients.

Canada's sovereign capital vehicles back a $1.3bn critical minerals project as Ottawa bets on domestic supply-chain resilience.

A Canadian crypto miner's British Columbia facility conversion signals the broader capital reallocation from blockchain to AI compute infrastructure.

The US nuclear triad's ground leg edges toward operational readiness as Sentinel completes vertical integration at Vandenberg Space Force Base.

A sensor-fusion platform integrates counter-UAS and base defence data into one dashboard, with five more US military installations in the pipeline.

Quick Custom Intelligence cuts industry data lag from six weeks to one day, giving casino operators a faster loop for floor optimisation.

Take one card payment apart: interchange to the issuer, scheme fees to Visa or Mastercard, margin to the acquirer, and why the new rails are aimed at all three.

A tokenised deposit is a bank's own money on a shared ledger. Here is how it differs from a stablecoin, who has one live, and why the two will coexist.

Follow a payment from Manchester to Lagos to see where the stablecoin removes the correspondent banks, what it costs, and why the last mile is still hard.

What a stablecoin is, what backs the dollar, why $300bn now sits in them, and how the US, EU and UK rules written in the last two years change the picture.

Ramp's reported $1B raise at a $60B valuation caps a week of nine-figure fintech rounds spanning payments, wealthtech and cross-sector VC.

A Fresno BPO outfit says MD-level billers cut denial rates below 3%, as US practices carry growing regulatory staffing overhead.

IGEN president Ryan Padget on the financial services firm that lost a $2.5 million refund when one tax analyst left, and why tax belongs on the risk register.

KPC Private Funds chief executive Dean Rubino on why onboarding for alternatives stayed manual, what PRISM 2.0 standardises, and what the industry must fix.

Futures trader Amir Naser Hojati argues that when an AI agent analyses, recommends and executes in one step, firms must decide in advance who owns the trade.

Womble Bond Dickinson partner Louis Froelich on the SEC's 2026 agenda, why privacy is a harder problem than custody, and where tokenisation will concentrate.