Big news for the UK finance industry this morning, with the Schroder family selling its eponymous asset management business to Nuveen. From mainFT’s Mary McDougall: Schroders has agreed to a £9.9bn takeover by US asset manager Nuveen in a deal that would end the independence of one of the City of London’s most historic names. … Read more
It can be easy to romanticize the past—especially when you are looking at beautiful images featuring enchanting garments. Such is the case with the paintings of Thomas Gainsborough. The portraits of this 18th-century British painter have been collected for the first time in “Gainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture,” an exhibition opening at the Frick Collection … Read more
CPH:DOX, the world-renowned Copenhagen-based documentary festival, announced its lineup across six competition sections today, including the flagship DOX:AWARD category, which comes with a €10,000 prize. The competition slate boasts 53 world premieres, 17 international premieres and 4 European premieres. A dozen films, all world premieres, will compete for the DOX:AWARD. Among them are A Song … Read more
For the traveler whose idea of “roughing it” is foregoing an espresso machine: This is a property with every luxury amenity you could think of, and a few you may not have even known you wanted. It sleeps six, with stunning views of the gardens, lake, and mountains; in the summer, take advantage of a … Read more
The live feed for the opening jury press conference of the Berlin Film Festival went down on Thursday as a journalist in the room asked a contentious question on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Jury president Wim Wenders was joined on stage by jury members Nepalese director Min Bahadur Bham, Korean actor Bae Doona, Indian archivist Shivendra … Read more
Download a transcript. Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. Once the fervor around Charli XCX’s 2024 album “brat” had cooled, the singer was approached to make a documentary about the tour—a practice that’s been embraced by the likes of Taylor Swift and Beyoncé. … Read more
Securitize is launching a stablecoin backed by tokenized private credit assets in partnership with Hamilton Lane, OKX Ventures and stablecoin infrastructure firm STBL, expanding efforts to bring institutional real-world asset yield onto blockchain rails. Securitize has partnered with stablecoin infrastructure provider STBL, Nasdaq-listed private markets investment management firm Hamilton Lane and crypto exchange OKX’s investment … Read more
How did she get it right? Again, I think she was always true to herself. I think she was always aware of where she was going, how she needed to present. It didn’t run her life. There wasn’t a team of people getting it together. It was complex, but for her, a bit effortless, very … Read more
Minneapolis was not the war zone I expected to find. Depending on who you are and where you live, things can seem, for a few fleeting moments, almost normal, like a few blocks or neighborhoods over people aren’t being tear gassed or rounded up by ICE or, in two tragic cases, being gunned down by … Read more
On Feb. 11, Uniswap announced that BlackRock’s $2.2 billion USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) would trade on UniswapX via a partnership with Securitize. The integration enables BUIDL holders to swap into USDC via an on-chain request-for-quote system that settles atomically with quotes from allowlisted market makers, including Flowdesk, Tokka Labs, and Wintermute. Additionally, BlackRock … Read more