Investment

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sovereign and private capital unite behind a UAE fleet telematics consolidator as Gulf regulatory tailwinds reshape transport infrastructure.

Partech leads a Series A for a Cairo-Abu Dhabi fintech building sovereign AI credit infrastructure across MEA and Latin America.

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.

The merger of two leading climate-software firms creates a transatlantic carbon data platform targeting one billion tonnes of CO₂ managed by 2030.

Addepar chief revenue officer Peter O'Brien on $1.4 trillion of family office data: 48 per cent in alternatives, heirs already at the table and AI for advisers.

BSA LAW's Michael Kortbawi and Nadia El Tannir on Cabinet Decision 94/2026: doubled deadlines, trustee-free settlements and priority financing for UAE debtors.

FBX Capital Group partner Alex Fenton on 54 per cent growth, £143 million arranged for UK SMEs, and why slow bank decisions matter more than higher rates.

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.

OORI co-founder Naif Alajmi on the CMA licence, why Saudi private markets stayed hard to reach, and the plan for GCC-wide private market infrastructure.

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.

Two market data specialists are offering banks and trading firms an incremental escape route from ageing, vendor-locked data infrastructure.

P101-led funding and a bolt-on acquisition target Italy's fragmented food-compliance market, where digitisation sits at just 3%.

Checkout.com's US processing volume is on track to exceed $100bn this year, as the firm launches direct acquiring and issuing capabilities.