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Hong Kong-based Qupital, which offers cross-border ecommerce financing to SMEs, raised a $300M Series C led by M Capital as it weighs a possible IPO (FinTech Global)
https://fintech.global/2026/09/15/qupital-eyes-ipo-after-landmark-300m-series-c-round/

Qupital eyes IPO after landmark $300m Series C round
Qupital, an AI-driven trade finance platform focused on cross-border e-commerce, has raised $300m in combined new capital, anchored by a Series C funding round aimed at accelerating its expansion into overseas markets. The financing was led by Asia-based asset manager M Capital, with additional asset-backed securities commitments from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) and Quester […]

Donald Trump is resisting new restrictions on AI
at a moment when his family and some of his closest allies have accumulated financial interests in the infrastructure and defense-technology ecosystem expanding alongside the AI boom,
an overlap that has now drawn scrutiny from Democratic lawmakers, government ethics watchdogs
and, by some accounts, his own senior aides.

As White House shields the AI gold rush, Trump family and other allies strike it rich – with few guardrails
It’s not clear that financial interests are driving White House policy, but they run parallel even as resistance mounts

"Tori Tsui, stood alongside Andy Burnham last year on World Environment Day when the then Greater Manchester Mayor endorsed the Fossil Fuel Non Proliferation Treaty proposal, calling it a “lifeline” to end coal, oil and gas. Today [Friday], her petition was sent to the Prime Minister urging him to stand by that commitment and reject Rosebank."
Stop fanning the flames of the #ClimateCrisis

Stop fanning the flames of the climate crisis, Mr PM!
11,000 campaigners call on the PM to “stop fanning the flames of the climate crisis” in petition stunt outside No. 10 North

Der Einsatz von #KünstlicherIntelligenz spart in Finanzabteilungen Zeit, erfordert aber häufig umfangreiche manuelle Prüfungen der Ergebnisse, die wiederum Zeit verschwenden.
Laut einer Untersuchung gewinnen dabei Transparenz und nachvollziehbare Entscheidungen an Bedeutung. Unternehmen achten zunehmend darauf, dass KI-Systeme ihre Ergebnisse verständlich erklären könne…

Manuelle Kontrollen von KI-Output kosten Finanzteams jede Woche wertvolle Zeit
Laut einer Studie im Auftrag von Sage werden mühsam mit KI gewonnene Effizienzgewinne durch den Aufwand bei der händischen Prüfung häufig wieder aufgefressen.

30 Jahre Krankenhaus-IT: Zwischen Digitalstrategie, Epic-Debatte und Faxgerät
Die Digitalisierung im Gesundheitswesen kämpft mit Komplexität, alten Systemen und Finanzierung. Ein Blick auf Charité, Gematik und Dänemark.

30 Jahre Krankenhaus-IT: Zwischen Digitalstrategie, Epic-Debatte und Faxgerät
Die Digitalisierung im Gesundheitswesen kämpft mit Komplexität, alten Systemen und Finanzierung. Ein Blick auf Charité, Gematik und Dänemark.

Aussie FIRE | Financial Independence Retire Early
The ultimate guide to Financial Independence for Australians. Having started life as an e-book, then an audiobook, it's now reached its final form: a podcast that will keep on giving...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpod…

After months of scandal, Republican Representative Cory Mills is finally under investigation.
MS NOW, citing two anonymous sources, reports that the Department of Justice has launched a criminal probe into the Florida man, who is accused of sexual misconduct, campaign finance violations, financial disclosure violations, accepting inappropriate gifts, and multiple ethics violations.
A third source told MS NOW that the FBI has spoken to at least one person about Mills’s finances an…

Justice Department Secretly Investigating Republican Congressman
Representative Cory Mills appears to be under investigation.

Sources: Polymarket is lobbying regulators in London, Brussels, and across the EU to be governed by financial services laws rather than local gambling rules (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ec52d0ab-3f68-476f-b308-b8e682d9c75b

How the Clarity Act, heavily lobbied by Coinbase's Brian Armstrong and the crypto industry, and opposed by banks over stablecoin yields, collapsed in the Senate (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/cry

Study: 150 Polymarket wallets may have traded on inside US military information, attracting copycat bets and making $8M overall, with a 97.2% average win rate (Douglas Gillison/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/m