Equifax (NYSE: EFX) secured 27 patents in the second half of 2025, bringing the total number of patents secured for the year to 62. Twenty of these patents support the company’s approach to artificial intelligence, complementing its EFX.AI strategy and “helping to accelerate the development of cloud-based, AI-enabled solutions that help to create financial opportunities for consumers.”As of Nov 2025, Equifax has nearly “700 issued or pending patents spanning 15 countries, encompassing distinctive techniques ...

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Key insight: Burke & Herbert in Alexandria, Virginia, would gain its first exposure to Pennsylvania's banking market with a $354 million stock deal for Linkbancorp in Camp Hill. Expert quote: The transaction "appears to be sound and helps provide geographic diversification to Burke & Herbert's footprint," Janney Montgomery Scott Analyst Daniel Cardenas wrote Friday in a research note. Supporting data: Burke & Herbert says its previous deal, a merger with Summit Financial Group in Moorefield, West Virginia, ...

Scott Wilder, a BCG partner and managing director, told Business Insider that a new team, called "forward deployed consultants," is rising through the ranks. It takes inspiration from a software engineering role popularized by Palantir, Wilder said."We're essentially building a tech company inside a consulting firm," said Sylvain Duranton, Global Leader of BCG X. "Our job has always been to help companies transform. But tech has become so critical to transformation that we needed to have a grip on it oursel ...

We end the week on a high. But wow, if we've been riddled with doubts, where is your mind been at. Yeah, it has been a really interesting tape in recent weeks and months.I mean, the debate around I, the return on investment around I, around the quality of the balance sheets, the war on the model front, right between activity and Google's Gemini. And I think moving forward, markets are realising this is going to be less of a competition on just the innovation, although the innovation is really important, but ...

The Trump administration’s investment in a US zinc development has thrust it into the middle of a South Korean proxy fight, an example of how the government’s push for equity stakes in critical industries is facing free-market blowback.The administration announced earlier this week it struck a joint venture with Korea Zinc to back construction of a $7.4 billion smelter project in Tennessee that would bolster US production of key critical minerals. But the reaction has been mixed, with shares fluctuating as ...

As Wall Street increasingly flirts with blockchain rails, tokenization of real-world assets (RWAs) has turned out to be the dominant crypto narrative. In simple words, tokenization is the process of using blockchain technology to digitally represent assets like stocks, bonds, Treasury bills, etc., to offer fractional ownership to prospective investors. Related: What is tokenization? Explained The excitement around tokenization has led prominent leaders like the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (S ...

Alibaba ( BABA ) is far more than an e-commerce giant; it is providing the fundamental digital infrastructure that is necessary for Chinese companies to win in the global AII’m a retail investor based in Sydney with three years of experience focusing on achieving financial independence through strategic investments in AI-driven companies. Although I don’t come from a traditional finance background, I’ve developed a strong passion for understanding how artificial intelligence is transforming the global econo ...

The European Central Bank has confirmed that it will begin allowing blockchain-based transactions to settle in central bank money in 2026, as political attention increasingly shifts to the unresolved privacy questions surrounding the proposed digital euro. In a statement released Friday, ECB executive board member Piero Cipollone said the institution is preparing to make distributed ledger technology settlements possible within its existing monetary infrastructure next year. At the same time, he said th ...

Photographer: Adam Gray/Bloomberg US Treasuries wrapped up the first weekly gain since the end of November after unexpectedly cool inflation numbers and a jump in the jobless rate cemented expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut rates at least twice next year. While yields edged up on Friday, the 10-year Treasury rate declined four basis points in the week, while the policy-sensitive two-year yield fell by a similar amount as markets priced in a more dovish 2026 path. Most Read from Bloomberg ...