Wahid Pessarlay

The International Capital Market Association (ICMA), representing financial institutions active in the international capital market, has released a report probing the risk factors associated with digital bond offerings.

The future of CBDC transactions is on the horizon as more banks onboard China's digital yuan pilot, exploring various use cases that aim to improve the payments industry and cross-border transactions.

Video game publisher Ubisoft NASDAQ: UBSFF ) has signaled a re-entry into non-fungible tokens (NFTs) following a new partnership with Immutable , a blockchain-based game developer.

Dubbed Amazon Q, the AI-powered assistant offers users a wide range of functionalities, including the ability to hold conversations, offer solutions to complex problems, generate content, and streamline tasks.

Italy's central bank, Banca d'Italia, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with its South Korean counterpart to explore the prospects of a central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) collaboration.

AstraZeneca is teaming up with Absci for AI-driven cancer antibody research, promising to reshape oncology treatments through generative AI and synthetic biology collaboration.

The roadmap comes on the heels of the launch of the IBM Condor, a 1,121 qubit quantum processor, leveraging IBM's proprietary cross-resonance gate technology. IBM Condor's release has been described as an “innovation milestone” as it marks the first time

The cities of Basel and Zurich became the first metropolises in Switzerland to settle a tokenized bond using a wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) issued by the Swiss National Bank (SNB).

While Bitcoin (BTC) largely catalyzed this impressive run with its push above $44,500, assets such as Jito (JTO), Solana (SOL) and Avalanche (AVAX) also made their unique contributions.

Today's weekly recap looks at the U.S. ETF race, as BlackRock and VanEck amend their filings. Also, Montenegro's authorities are considering extraditing Terra's founder, while the crypto scene sees sustained regulatory developments.