This week in finance's tech frontiers: IBM's $10 billion quantum bet earns a Wall Street upgrade, BlackRock adds two more tokenised funds, Anthropic hands banks purpose-built agents, and Uniswap flips the fee switch. The pilots are over. There is a moment, in every technology cycle, when the punditry stops and the earnings calls start. As of this week, several of finance's most-hyped frontier technologies have quietly crossed that line at once. Quantum computing has a $10 bil

The clearest evidence yet that the Bullish-Equiniti tokenisation thesis works in practice is not a pilot or a roadmap slide. It is a dividend cheque paid in gold tokens. On or about 15 July 2026, Equiniti and Bullish completed a quarterly dividend distribution for Elemental Royalty Corporation (TSXV: ELE; NASDAQ: ELE) in which eligible registered shareholders could elect to take their payout as Tether Gold (XAU₮), a token backed one-to-one by physical bullion, rather than cas

Oxbow Partners, the London-based management consultancy that works exclusively with the insurance industry, has told commercial and specialty (re)insurance chief executives that AI will only build lasting advantage where it sharpens judgement on complex risks, not where it simply automates tasks or multiplies proof-of-concept pilots. The argument sits at the centre of the firm's latest CEO Agenda report, Compounding advantage with AI in commercial and specialty (re)insurance,

Ethereum builds a nonprofit front door for banks. JPMorgan sics autonomous AI agents on its trading desks. The GENIUS Act finalises stablecoin rules. Quantum lands in fraud detection.