UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy vows to grant the BBC's demand for a permanent charter, replacing the 10-year cycle, to protect it from "culture war" attacks (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar
Stripe's stablecoin firm Bridge wins conditional approval from the US OCC to form a national trust bank, which would allow it to issue and manage stablecoins (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/02/
Today, the @… has announced the recharter of the Social Web Working Group: https://www.w3.org/2026/01/social-web-wg-charter.html
Trump has sent letters of invitation to various heads of government to join a new "Board of Peace",
which he will chair.
The organization was envisioned as part of the United Nations–backed effort for the reconstruction and transitional governance of Gaza.
But the new board’s charter, details of which have not been previously reported, appears to give the board a global remit, according to a copy we reviewed.
And the price of a permanent position on the…
TIL Journey's "Open Arms" & "Who's Crying Now" charted higher in 1983 than the legendary "Don't Stop Believin'".
▶️ "Test of Time" - Top 10 All-time Streamed Songs of 1983 (Professor of Rock)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=B_o0kUEpiJ
Wenn man den Nordatlantikvertrag¹ (aka NATO) so liest, wird schnell klar, daß angefangen von Artikel 1 ganz vieles darin Trump nicht gefallen kann – und vor allem aber nicht nur die USA sich nie wirklich daran gehalten haben…
__
¹https://www.
Oklahoma, where a Catholic charter school tried to get public money...
Drummond Sues State Board Over Handling of Jewish Charter School Application - Oklahoma Watch
https://oklahomawatch.org/2026/03/11/drummond-sues-state-board-over-handling-of-jewish-charter-school-application/
Some good news in #Oklahoma.
Oklahoma rejects proposed religious charter school. Supporters already plan to sue.
https://open.substack.com/pub/…
Sources: Anchorage Digital, the first federally chartered US digital asset bank, is seeking to raise $200M to $400M, ahead of a possible IPO in 2027 (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-16/a…
Sources: HSBC and Standard Chartered are set to be among the first licensed stablecoin issuers in Hong Kong, as the city pushes to become a crypto hub (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-13/hsbc-standa…