March 21, 2025
Operating Assets

Shropshire law firm strengthens commercial property team

David Ramsbottom and Hannah Johnson have both joined Lanyon Bowdler’s Shrewsbury office and are already assisting clients with a variety of agricultural and commercial property matters. David, who relocated from Bristol to move to Shrewsbury, specialises in the sale and purchase of agricultural land and commercial premises, agricultural tenancies, commercial leases and secured lending. David’s

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Financial Assets

Asset servicing news and commentary

Industry DTCC joins ERC3643 Association 20 March 2025 US Reporter: Carmella Haswell The ERC3643 token standard is an open-source suite of smart contracts that enable the issuance, management, and transfer of permissioned tokens Industry Liberis and Teya extend collaboration 20 March 2025 Czech Republic Reporter: Clelia Frondaroli This new addition to the partnership will expand

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Financial Assets

How much money Tennessee receives

Is this the end of the Department of Education? Recent moves by the Trump administration effectively signal his fulfillment of a campaign promise to end ED. President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order Thursday afternoon aimed at dismantling the U.S. Department of Education. According to the order, the department aims to “return

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Tangible Assets

Labour ‘seeking to block’ Elon Musk giving Reform UK a huge $100m cash injection with ministers ‘drawing up plans to restrict foreign donors’

Labour are hoping to block Elon Musk from handing Reform UK a huge $100million cash injection by drawing up new rules to restrict foreign donors, it has emerged. Mr Musk, the billionaire tech mogul, met with Reform leader Nigel Farage in December amid speculation he is poised to significantly bolster the party’s coffers. As a

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Operating Assets

Army’s explosives disposal team called after ‘suspicious items’ found at property in Birmingham

Officers discovered the items during a pre-planned warrant at an address on Hastings Road near Perry Common on Thursday (March 20) morning. A police cordon was put in place and nearby residents were evacuated from their homes. The cordon was lifted after the Army’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal team confirmed there was no risk to the

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Financial Assets

Bitcoin Hoarder Metaplanet Issues Fresh Bonds To Increase Holdings to 3,200 BTC

The Japanese hotel and investment firm Metaplanet has issued fresh bonds and accumulated an additional 150 Bitcoin (BTC). The new Bitcoin acquisition brings the investment firm’s total holdings to 3,200 BTC. With Bitcoin trading at $81,383 at time of writing, that means Metaplanet currently owns more than $260.4 million worth of the top crypto asset.

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Intangible Assets

Appeals court rejects copyrights for AI-generated art lacking ‘human’ creator

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday affirmed that a work of art generated by artificial intelligence without human input cannot be copyrighted under U.S. law. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit agreed with the U.S. Copyright Office that an image created by Stephen Thaler’s AI

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Tangible Assets

What’s in a name – trademarks in 2025

Photo: Allen & Unwin Trademark applications can be denied if they’re deemed to cause offense, but in 2025, what causes offense looks a bit different. When journalist Paddy Gower attempted to trademark his brand and news entity “This is the F***ing News” a year ago, his application stalled at the Intellectual Property of New Zealand

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Financial Assets

Elon Musk reveals DOGE has found 14 ‘magic money computers’ that create cash ‘out of thin air’

Elon Musk said that one of the wilder discoveries his Department of Government Efficiency has made is 14 ‘magic money computers’ that can send payments from thin air. Musk’s DOGE has already slashed staffing at several federal agencies, cut federal spending and in an unprecedented move emailed federal employees asking ‘what they got done last week’.  Ted Cruz hosted the

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Financial Assets

Stock market today: Wall Street rises again

NEW YORK–U.S. stocks climbed again on Monday as Wall Street’s wild roller-coaster ride veers back upward. The S&P 500 rose 0.6% for a second straight gain after it fell 10% below its record late last week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 353 points, or 0.9%, and the Nasdaq composite added 0.3%. More big swings could be ahead, with a decision by the Federal

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