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Danske Bank said it is opening access to Bitcoin and Ether ETPs for self-directed clients after years of caution on crypto, citing rising customer demand and clearer EU rules. Danske Bank, the largest bank in Denmark and a major retail bank in Northern Europe with over five million customers, is allowing clients to buy Bitcoin and Ether exchange-traded products (ETPs) from BlackRock and WisdomTree via its eBanking and Mobile Banking platforms for the first time.  The new offering, announced Wednesday, is open to self-directed investors only — customers who trade on the bank’s platform without receiving investment advice — and is explicitly framed as a response to “increasing customer demand” and “improved regulation” in the wake of the European Union’s Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) regime. The bank said customers can initially buy three “carefully selected” ETPs, two tracking Bitcoin (BTC) and one tracking Ether (ETH), offered by BlackRock and WisdomTree and covered by Markets in Financial Instruments Direc...

Elon Musk’s merger of SpaceX and xAI brings together rockets, AI, and social media in a $1.25 trillion bet on space-based data centers. Here’s what the deal means and the challenges ahead.

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Смерть урожденной украинки Натальи Захаренко до сих пор остается одной из главных загадок Голливуда. Кинозвезда, взявшая псевдоним Натали Вуд, погибла, упав с собственной яхты, которую якобы хотела покинуть посреди ночи, пока ее муж Роберт Вагнер спал в своей каюте.

Спутниковый снимок показал активное развертывание военной базы на бывшем военном аэродроме в Беларуси. Журналисты предполагают, что на фото впервые попала техника из состава российского ракетного комплекса "Орешник".

Aptos (APT) dropped 4.1% and Binance Coin (BNB) fell 3.7%, leading the index lower.

Президент Украины Владимир Зеленский рассказал о том, что следующий раунд переговоров по завершению войны состоится на следующей неделе. Во время него планируют обсудить территориальный вопрос о статусе Донецкой области.

Эпоха чат-ботов без монетизации подходит к концу. OpenAI запустила показ рекламы в приложении ChatGPT. Первыми с новшеством столкнутся жители США, использующие бесплатные аккаунты или новый бюджетный тариф Go.

Supervisor of Banks survey finds Leumi leading in branch, phone, and digital service among Israel’s five largest banks in 2025 rankings

Supervisor of Banks survey finds Leumi leading in branch, phone, and digital service among Israel’s five largest banks in 2025 rankings

The South Korean crypto exchange’s CEO Le Jae-won said the lack of proper controls led to the erroneous transfer of bitcoin worth more than $40 billion to customers. Most has been recovered.

В США нашли заброшенное купе Oldsmobile Jetfire 1963 года. Невзрачное ржавое авто является настоящим раритетом, ведь это первая в мире модель с турбомотором.

Чешская инициатива по закупке боеприпасов для Украины пока не имеет достаточного финансирования для реализации полного плана. Из запланированных пяти миллиардов евро удалось собрать лишь 1,4 миллиарда.

ISLAMABAD: Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Wednesday criticised National Assembly (NA) Opposition Leader Mehmood Khan Achakzai over his recent remarks about the army, saying that the “irresponsible” statement was an attempt to “belittle the sacrifices” of security personnel. Asif’s rebuke came during a session of the lower house of Parliament, where he recalled Achakzai’s recent remarks and quoted him as saying that the army was a “force of four districts”. Asif did not elaborate on the context of the remarks attributed to Achakzai. Terming it “highly irresponsible” and a “deliberate attempt to malign” the national institution, Asif asserted that the army was a national force. “It is the force of the federation, with representation from all provinces,” he stressed. “It is the force of the entire country.” During his address, the minister also shared data about the representation of different provinces in the army, reading out statistics from a document. According to the document, seen by Dawn, the province-w...

Data observed across 66 corridors in Africa shows conversion costs from 1.5% to 19% in January, with competition driving pricing gaps. Africa recorded the highest median stablecoin-to-fiat conversion spreads among tracked regions in January, according to data observed by payments infrastructure company Borderless.xyz, covering 66 currency corridors and nearly 94,000 rate observations. The regional median spread was 299 basis points, or about 3%, compared with about 1.3% in Latin America and 0.07% in Asia. In Africa, conversion costs ranged from about 1.5% in South Africa to nearly 19.5% in Botswana.  The data measures “spreads,” or the gap between a provider’s buy and sell rate for a stablecoin-to-fiat pair. Similar to a bid-ask spread in traditional markets, it reflects the execution cost paid when converting stablecoins into local fiat currency.  Read more

Украинский певец Khayat после очередного поражения на Нацотборе на Евровидение заявил, что этот путь уже точно завершен. В комментариях его активно поддержали фанаты.