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Digital assets and traditional finance: Can two parallel lanes converge?

The TRADE

As the introduction of digital assets become increasingly common, their influence on traditional finance is becoming more notable, blurring the line between two seemingly separate, and arguably parallel, financial instruments. In traditional finance, we’ve moved to shorter and shorter settlement times.

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Commodity Hedge Funds: The Most Lucrative “Hidden Gem” in Finance?

Mergers and Inquisitions

If you want to work in the most cyclical role in the finance industry, it’s hard to beat commodity hedge funds. Commodity trading and investing are appealing for many of the same reasons global macro strategies are appealing: inflation protection, diversification, and potentially higher returns when financial assets perform poorly.

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Swiss National Bank exploring ways to tokenise financial assets

Global Banking & Finance

Swiss National Bank exploring ways to tokenise financial assets ZURICH (Reuters) – The Swiss National Bank is examining the best way that financial assets can be digitally tokenised as a way of making payments more secure and efficient, Chairman Thomas Jordan said on Monday.

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Cryptocurrency Comes of Age as a Mainstream Financial Asset

Global Banking & Finance

Despite the high ROI of many alternative assets in the crypto space, the conservative criticism of cryptocurrency persists in many financial circles. Cryptocurrency is enjoying another bumper year, with Bitcoin more than doubling in value over the past four quarters and several other cryptos including Solana exceeding this performance.

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Mediobanca shares slide 8% following revenue miss, NII guidance lowered

Global Banking & Finance

For the current fiscal year, the bank now sees flat net interest income (NII) as it prioritizes growing total financial assets by attracting […]

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Mediobanca shares slide 7% following revenue miss

Global Banking & Finance

For the current fiscal year, the bank now sees flat net interest income (NII) as it prioritizes growing total financial assets by attracting deposits, taking advantage […]

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Convertible Securities

Wall Street Mojo

So the problem can be solved with the following steps: Worth of common shares that the investor will get = $3,000 / 50 = $ 1,500 Advantages and Disadvantages There are pros and cons to the use of convertible security for financing. read more. I; i nvestors should consider what the issue means from a corporate standpoint before buying in.