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Cross-border payments provider, Send Payments, has appointed Jason McClintock (pictured) to the role of Chief Commercial Officer.McClintock brings more than 25 years’ experience in various senior product and executive enterprise sales roles at Westpac, HSBC, American Express, Convera and most recently Worldpay.Speaking on McClintock’s appointment, Send CEO Matt Barr said adding a commercial leader of Jason’s calibre to the team comes at a pivotal time for the business as it positions for strong growth in 2026 and beyond.“Jason’s enterprise sales experience and understanding of the international payments landscape is unmatched and will be invaluable as we continue to broaden our…

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) delivered its first interest rate hike since November 2023, raising the cash rate by 25 basis points to 3.85% in a unanimous decision that reflected mounting concern over persistent inflation pressures. The decision marked a dramatic reversal from its August 2025 rate cut, with the Board concluding that “the rate was no longer at the right level to get inflation back to target in a reasonable time frame.” The central bank highlighted that inflationary pressures accelerated through the second half of 2025, driven by stronger-than-expected private demand in both consumption and investment, alongside tighter…

Australia’s startup sector pulled in $5.1 billion in venture capital funding in 2025, marking its strongest year since the post-2022 market correction and the third-largest total on record. But there’s a catch. New figures from the State of Australian Startup Funding report, compiled by Cut Through Venture and Folklore Ventures, show overall capital deployed jumped 24% year-on-year, rebounding from $4.1 billion in 2024. On the surface, it looks like a clear return to form. But this uptick in funding was highly concentrated. While more money flowed into Australian startups last year, it wasn’t shared around as much. Total announced deals dropped from…

How it all began I searched for a long time and found the reason why stock indicators don’t work in real trading (I was worried about overtraining and discrepancies between backtest results and real trading). Developed rules for what cannot be used in indicator calculations. Using a new concept, the “ AceTrend ” indicator was created. Based on the indicator, a fully automatic expert “ GoldBaron ” was created. On October 25, 2020, the expert advisor was deposited into a very small real account . Only $95. The main goal: to achieve profitable work on a real account and to…

We have just released FROST v3.0.0-rc.0. The main changes in this release have been changing the cheater detection feature to allow specifying as a function parameter instead of a compile-time feature, a big refactor of the repair share and refresh share functionality, improving our test coverage for serialisation and async, and some significant improvements to our documentation. Feature Configuration Changes The `cheater-detection` feature was removed to simplify the feature matrix and reduce maintenance burden. Since most users want cheater detection enabled, it is now the default behavior. For users who explicitly need to disable it (e.g., for performance in trusted…

The U.S. government has taken full legal ownership of more than $400 million in seized cryptocurrency, cash, and real estate tied to Helix, once one of the most widely used bitcoin mixing services on the darknet. A federal judge in Washington, D.C., entered a final order of forfeiture on Jan. 21, transferring the assets to the government following the conviction of Helix operator Larry Dean Harmon. The forfeiture includes thousands of bitcoin, hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, and an Ohio mansion purchased during the peak of Helix’s operation. Helix functioned as a cryptocurrency mixer, pooling and rerouting bitcoin…

I’ve gone beyond the standard fare of contact center trends articles you’ve surely scrolled past. Instead of rounding up basics like “AI this” and “put customers first,” I’ve reached out to industry analysts, contact center vendors, and frequent contributors and influencers within the market. You won’t want to miss these, especially if you run a contact center or a customer service team. Yes, artificial intelligence (AI) and automation remain high priorities. But the conversation has shifted, and rightly so. Leaders are no longer asking whether to adopt AI, but how to implement it responsibly to optimize outcomes, protect agents, and…

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Node Updates Ergo (ERG) Node Update 6.0.2 In January, the Ergo network released version 6.0.2 of its node software. This was a regular maintenance update focused primarily on stability, indexing reliability, and wallet behavior. The most important fix addressed an issue with a non-versioned tree.template in IndexedContractTemplate, which could previously cause indexers to become stuck. Alongside this fix, several internal improvements and tests were included to improve overall node reliability. Key changes in this release included: Added tests for accepting solutions from previous candidates Updated agent rules logic Fixed duplicate address generation after wallet restoration General cleanup and preparation for…

Binance just turned its emergency insurance fund into a public, auditable pledge. And it reads like a crisis-repair letter in balance sheet form.The exchange announced Jan. 30 that it will convert SAFU’s roughly $1 billion stablecoin reserves into Bitcoin within 30 days, with an explicit promise: if BTC price movements push the fund below $800 million, Binance will replenish it to $1 billion.The move comes wrapped in the language of trust-building: “we hold ourselves to elevated standards,” “we continually improve based on feedback,” and “we’re taking another step forward.”The framing isn’t accidental. Binance’s “open letter to the crypto community” follows…