Mastodawn

For now, 5 #banks are expected to work on the offering — #BankOfAmerica, #Citigroup, #GoldmanSachs, #JPMorganChase & #MorganStanley. The #LawFirms #GibsonDunn & #DavisPolk are also advising on the deal.

Musk’s agreement with banks is a big score for #SpaceX, which merged with #xAI in February & whose #Grok is a distant 4th in the #AI race behind #OpenAI’s #ChatGPT, #Claude & #Google’s #Gemini.

#Musk #tech #business #law #SEC #antitrust

Dragofix 3h ago

Brazilian banks to verify satellite deforestation data for rural credit https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/04/brazilian-banks-to-verify-satellite-deforestation-data-for-rural-credit/

#Brazil #environment #forest #deforestation #banks #satellite

Brazilian banks to verify satellite deforestation data for rural credit

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s banks will be required to verify official satellite deforestation data before approving rural credit beginning on Wednesday in the South American country. Under the new rule, financial institutions must check whether a property appears in a government registry of areas with potential illegal deforestation after July 31, 2019. The database, maintained […]

Conservation news

The Japan Times 10h ago

The Cabinet approved amendments to a law that will give police in Japan stronger ammunition to crack down on money laundering by scammers by allowing them to set up dummy bank accounts. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/03/japan/scam-laundering-amendments/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sanaetakaichi #fraud #banks

The Japan Times 15h ago

The world's central bankers might be attempting the impossible in trying to get business executives, labor unions and households to understand how they are navigating their finances through yet another energy shock. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/04/03/economy/central-banks-mood-puzzle/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #banks #inflation #iran #economicindicators

Central banks' inflation mood puzzle: more judgment than science

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, central banks have ‌developed new tools to fill gaps in data about behavior, but measuring expectations remains more an art than an exact science.

The Japan Times

sweet_gyokuro 16h ago

In 1998, Tokyo built a wall between banks and industry. On 31 March 2026, the FSA started taking it down. Nobody has connected this to the cross-shareholding unwind running in the opposite direction. Keiretsu with extra steps.

https://gyokuro.dev/en/posts/keiretsu-with-extra-steps-en/

#Japan #banks #MUFG #SMFG #FSA #MandA #BOJ #macro