Not sure if you noticed, but this week the U.S. Congress House Committee on Financial Services had a day investigating stablecoins, led by Chairman French Hill. The hearing was entitled ‘Navigating the Digital Payments Ecosystem: Examining a Federal Framework for Payment Stablecoins and Consequences of a U.S. Central Bank Digital Currency’ , and invited various … Read more
GitLab posted updates to its platform following the disclosure of a pair of critical security vulnerabilities.The company said that both the Enterprise and Community Edition platforms should be updated as soon as possible to protect against any potential exploit attempts.“We are committed to ensuring all aspects of GitLab that are exposed to customers or that … Read more
Image from Pixabay Introduction Ever since digital online transactions became ubiquitous from the late 1990s onward, the copyright world has been grappling with metadata problems. Metadata can generally be defined as “data about data”, where for example the musical recording is the central data point, and the song’s title, composer(s), performer(s), etc. are the metadata. … Read more
By Corey Hulen In 2023, victims reported nearly 900,000 cybercrime complaints to the FBI. Altogether, losses eclipsed $12.5 billion — a significant 22% increase from the losses in 2022. Related: Closing the resiliency gap Unsurprisingly, experts predict this trend will continue to grow as we move further into the future. While any business is a … Read more
Discussing the road to a $200 billion insurance-linked securities (ILS) market at the SIFMA ILS 2025 conference in Miami today, speakers stressed that considered deployment of capital at reasonable pricing and terms will be critical to continuing and perhaps accelerating the current growth trajectory.With catastrophe bond issuance on record-setting pace in 2025 so far and … Read more
