Would you take out a mortgage backed by bitcoin?

US officials are encouraging the use of crypto holdings as home-loan collateral

Posted on Thursday October 22, 2026

Barclays stands out from the crowd for the wrong reasons

By trying to do everything, the bank risks pleasing nobody

Posted on Thursday October 22, 2026

Blackstone cuts property valuations as higher rates hit returns

Group’s president Jonathan Gray says rising market volatility stalled a quick return of cash to investors through IPOs

Posted on Thursday October 22, 2026

Europe’s underrated digital trailblazing

At the frontier of public digital money, the EU is slowly developing a geopolitical monetary strategy

Posted on Thursday October 22, 2026

London credit hedge fund Arini’s losses mount

Master fund sheds estimated 7% in October, taking decline for the year to more than 21%

Posted on Thursday October 22, 2026

Global stocks tumble as oil prices rise

Crude prices jump 3% while Eurozone bond sell-off deepens

Posted on Thursday October 22, 2026

The tentative return of the old politics

Burnham is clawing back the lost Labour vote while Badenoch appears to have seen off Reform’s talk of destroying the Tories

Posted on Thursday October 22, 2026

Blackstone cuts property valuations as higher rates hit returns

Group’s president Jonathan Gray says rising market volatility stalled a quick return of cash to investors through IPOs

Posted on Thursday October 22, 2026

Websites taken offline in race to patch PHP security flaw

Government security agencies warn companies to take immediate action after AI uncovers widespread vulnerabilities

Posted on Thursday October 22, 2026

Europe’s bracing reality on US bond yields

The region cannot just hope for a fall in borrowing costs across the Atlantic - it must tackle its own problems

Posted on Thursday October 22, 2026