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Blockchain enterprise solutions provider Ripple has partnered with digital asset infrastructure company SettleMint to offer financial institutions solutions for custody, issuance and management of tokenized assets across their full lifecycle.The strategic partnership will integrate Ripple’s institutional digital asset custody infrastructure, Ripple Custody, and SettleMint’s Digital Asset Lifecycle Platform (DALP) to offer institutions a less complex way to secure digital assets, Ripple announced on Tuesday.A day earlier, digital asset service provider Coincheck Group partnered with wallet infrastructure provider DFNS to build digital asset wallet technology and custody services in Japan.DFNS’s wallet-as-a-service offers institutions full transaction lifecycle management, including workflow orchestration and…
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has said the military conducted 7,062 security operations across the country in July and August, neutralising 1,487 terrorists and insurgents and rescuing 777 kidnapped victims. The Director of Defence Information (DDI), Samaila Uba, a Major General, disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja at the Joint Security News Briefing by security and law enforcement agencies. Mr Uba said the operations were conducted through coordinated land, air and maritime efforts targeting terrorism, banditry, kidnapping, arms trafficking, oil theft and other criminal activities. He said troops also arrested 354 suspects, recovered 91 firearms, 1,331 rounds of ammunition and 44…
Britain’s former prime minister Keir Starmer, who stepped down as leader this summer after a tumultuous two years in power, announced Tuesday he would quit parliament to focus on “international affairs”. In a statement on social media, Starmer said it was the “right time” to resign as the MP for the Holborn and St Pancras seat in London after 11 years, triggering a by-election. “It is now time to step aside and focus on other issues: international affairs including defence, security, trade and technology in a fast-changing world,” Starmer said in his statement. His constituency’s local newspaper, the Camden New…
Big J has his work cut out for him. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Executive Summary, Day One 📠Inbox 5:05AMTo: Ternus, John <jternus@apple.com>Reply-to: CEO-transition-team@apple.com Welcome to your first day as CEO! Hopefully you’re finding your new office spacious and comfortable. If you have trouble with any of the doors just ping us – being a Jony Ive design, you won’t find anything as unsightly as a door handle here! Today’s memo includes a summary of the business, broken out by division. The day’s schedule is also attached; please note that the Apple Intelligence team needed to delay…
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The Kogi State Government has commended security forces for rescuing 21 people abducted by suspected kidnappers in the Dekina Local Government Area of the state. The Commissioner for Information and Communications, Kingsley Fanwo, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday, saying the operation demonstrated effective collaboration among security agencies. The victims, comprising eight males and 13 females, were rescued on Monday by troops of the 12 Brigade, Nigerian Army, working with the police, State Security Service (SSS), local hunters and vigilante groups. According to the statement, the operation followed reports that road users had been abducted along the Alloma-Ejule-Itobe road…
The Ogun State Police Command has scheduled a security stakeholders’ workshop ahead of the 2027 general elections in a bid to ensure adequate participation and a credible election process. The meeting, themed ‘Elections, Community Mobilisation, The Law and The Media,’ will be held from September 22-23, 2026. According to a statement signed by the workshop’s Executive Consultant, Dr Bolu Folayan, a copy of which was made available to PUNCH Online on Tuesday, the training will focus on inter-agency respect, cooperation and coordination, community engagement before, during and after elections; professional conduct and accountability by all stakeholders. The statement noted that…
Expectations for Tim Cook were almost impossibly high when he stepped in to replace Apple’s visionary cofounder in 2011. He inherited a company on a blockbuster run, after Steve Jobs returned and revitalized the Mac, launched the iPod, and oversaw the launch of the iPhone.Now, after 15 years in the CEO role, Tim Cook is stepping down. He’s replaced today by hardware leader John Ternus. Over the course of Cook’s tenure, Apple accomplished a lot, with the launch of plenty of new products, features, and services that the company just wouldn’t be the same without. There were plenty of ups…
The London Stock Exchange (LSE) and cryptocurrency exchange Kraken are reportedly launching tokenized stock trading on the stock market operator’s new night-time trading venue.The LSE has partnered with Kraken’s parent company, Payward, to launch access to tokenized stocks tracking the value of leading UK equity products starting in 2027, Payward’s chief commercial officer, Mark Greenberg, told the Financial Times according to a Tuesday report.The tokenized stocks will be listed on LSE’s new night-time trading venue, LSE 24, that will offer 24/5 trading, operating from Mondays to Fridays, the company announced on July 21.The initiative makes the London bourse the latest…
More than a month after exiting the villa, the season 8 stars of Love Island USA sat down for a reunion full of sex confessions, relationship updates and surprising feuds. The reunion was hosted by Ariana Madix and Andy Cohen which reunited “this season’s winners, fan-favorite couples, and this year’s bombshells for an up close and personal look back at their experience in the Villa,” according to a press release. Bryce Alakai, Trinity Tatum, Aniya Harvey, Carl Schmidt, Melanie Moreno, Sincere Rhea, Kayda Bosse and Zach Georgiou were front and center alongside Dylan Wrona, Kenzie Annis, KC Chandler, Tierra Davis,…
