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Fintech September 25, 2026FinTech Lending May Help Banks, Not Replace Them
FinTech and BigTech lenders are usually portrayed as competitors to established banks. International evidence suggests the relationship is more complicated, with digital credit capable of expanding...
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Artificial Intelligence September 25, 2026Why Excel Could Decide the Future of AI in Accounting
New research suggests that the biggest obstacle to artificial intelligence in accounting may not be distrust of AI itself. It may be the comfort, flexibility, and...
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Energy September 24, 2026Why Distributed Energy Is Forcing the Grid to Evolve
Solar panels, batteries, electric vehicles, and microgrids are changing electricity from a one-way delivery business into a real-time coordination problem. The companies that solve that problem...
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Artificial Intelligence September 24, 2026The Enterprise AI Opportunity Is Augmentation, Not Replacement
Generative artificial intelligence can produce a plausible vision of the future in seconds. That does not mean businesses should build their strategies around it. A newly...
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Fintech September 23, 2026Fintech Could Give Smaller Companies a Wage Advantage
Fintech is usually discussed in terms of convenience: faster payments, easier account opening, automated lending, and financial services delivered through a phone. A new study suggests...
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Digital Assets September 22, 2026Will Blockchain Make Corporate Education Funding More Accountable?
Blockchain could make corporate education funding easier to trace and evaluate. New research suggests, however, that the technology matters less than whether companies align it with...
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Energy September 21, 2026Retired EV Batteries to Power the Next Microgrid Boom?
An electric vehicle battery does not become useless when it can no longer deliver the range and power expected by a driver. In many cases, it...
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Bonds September 18, 2026How Systemic Banks Can Quietly Influence Interest Rates
Central banks try to prevent financial instability while controlling inflation. New research suggests those goals can conflict in a surprising way: protecting banks from rate shocks...
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Regulation September 18, 2026Tax Transparency Only Works When Companies Show the Numbers
Corporate sustainability reports have become longer, more detailed, and more common. Yet the volume of information a company publishes does not necessarily tell investors whether its...
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Cybersecurity September 17, 2026How Blockchain Is Being Rebuilt for the Quantum Era
Blockchain networks were originally designed around a deceptively simple idea: distribute a ledger across many computers, link its records cryptographically, and make unauthorized changes prohibitively difficult....
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Artificial Intelligence September 16, 2026What 122,788 Reviews Reveal About Robo-Advisors
Robo-advisors were supposed to make investing almost invisible. A user would answer several questions, deposit money, and allow an algorithm to construct and maintain a diversified...
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Commodities September 16, 2026Is Platinum a Better Inflation Hedge Than Gold?
Gold is usually the first asset investors associate with inflation, currency weakness, and economic uncertainty. Its limited supply and long history as a store of value...
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Augmented and Virtual Reality September 16, 2026The Race to Make Consciousness Programmable
Computers have spent decades becoming better at presenting information. The next frontier may involve changing how that information is perceived, felt, and remembered. A new study...
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Energy September 15, 2026Renewable Energy Growth Depends on More Than GDP
The global energy transition is frequently framed as a question of money. Wealthier economies can theoretically afford more wind farms, solar facilities, transmission lines, and energy-storage...
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Investing in Stocks September 14, 2026Trademarks May Be Worth More Than Investors Realize
Patents receive much of the attention when investors evaluate corporate innovation. They are tangible evidence that a company has developed a new technology, process, or design....
