Limited exposure to U.S. commercial real estate (CRE) is giving shareholders hope that Canada’s big banks can weather the storm that has rocked rivals in the United States and Europe. However, investors will be on alert for signs of stress when Canada’s top six banks next week post first quarter …
Read More »Since Big Tech came to Denver, investors can’t buy enough local startups – TechCrunch
As startup funding increases around the world, The Exchange has poked its head into markets as far-flung as Southeast Asia, Europe, Africa, Latin America and elsewhere. Wherever we looked, we’ve found venture capital flowing in record quantities. The story has been largely the same inside the United States, with Boston having …
Read More »Investors say Eindhoven poised to become Netherlands’ No. 2 tech hub – TechCrunch
Eindhoven might not immediately spring to mind as a high-tech hub, but the Netherlands city is keen to position itself as a center for deep tech in Europe. The Technical University of Eindhoven, High Tech Campus Eindhoven, and locally based corporates like ASML and Philips have been eyeing initiatives across …
Read More »Solana, a blockchain platform followed by top crypto investors, says it’s far faster than Ethereum – TechCrunch
Solana isn’t widely known yet outside of the crypto community. But insiders think the blockchain platform is interesting for a wide variety of reasons, beginning with its amiable founder, Anatoly Yakovenko, who spent more than a dozen years as an engineer working on wireless protocols at Qualcomm and who says …
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