Digital Sovereignty

Beam Global's $24m ScoutDI deal creates a vertically integrated US drone maker targeting defence procurement and global industrial inspection.

A small Bitcoin miner's early move onto TVA's new data centre tariff reveals how energy policy is quietly redrawing US compute geography.

The Nasdaq-listed defence-tech firm secures its second counter-drone order, spotlighting domestic manufacturing's role in US aerial-threat response.

Meridian's first in-orbit payload test marks a push to let governments and firms own LEO networks outright, rather than lease capacity.

Salesforce's Agentforce portfolio targets UAE and Saudi boardrooms demanding ROI from AI, not just experimentation.

Ares Secondaries doubles down on US hyperscale infrastructure as AI and cloud demand drives a 737 MW expansion pipeline to 2033.

A Lloyds survey of 100 senior UK finance leaders finds tokenisation moving from experiment to strategic infrastructure priority.

DeepSeek and Huawei are open-sourcing developer tools that mimic Nvidia's CUDA layer, testing whether chip-export controls can hold.

A Namibian High Court freezes 200 million Trustco shares, halting a US fund's third attempt at board control in 2026.

The Euronext-listed group is converting bitcoin mining sites into AI infrastructure, targeting 90% digital-asset exposure by 2027.

A record Electron contract for Tokyo's SAR constellation builder signals dedicated small-lift launch as the dominant constellation scaling route.

The French industrial IoT group beats its own forecasts as defence electronics and water network digitalisation converge to push EBITDA margins to record highs.

A Tokyo-San Francisco three-way joint venture targets Japan's newly permissive digital asset rules to build unified crypto payments infrastructure.

Broadridge's new international tokenized product head will extend its $350bn-a-day DLR platform into funds and capital markets worldwide.

The deal targets end-to-end digitisation of proxy voting for international investors holding Korean equities.

Volt's ASIC licence unifies real-time A2A payments under direct regulatory authority across three of the world's most advanced payment markets.

Finastra's new SCF platform connects trade, lending and working capital in one API-first ecosystem for banks worldwide.

Circle and Volante are embedding USDC stablecoin workflows directly into the payments platforms used by most of the world's top banks.

UiPath's platform update puts a unified control plane around autonomous agents, robots, and people across regulated enterprise environments.

Checkout.com integrates the UAE's sovereign card scheme, giving merchants local routing and built-in regulatory compliance in one platform.