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Thursday, June 11, 2026
Bitget Makes Professional US Stock Market Data Free
VICTORIA, Seychelles, June 12 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bitget, the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), has introduced free Level 2 market data for US stocks, becoming one of the first trading platforms to offer professional-grade market depth information to eligible users at no additional cost.
Level 2 market data has historically been associated with professional trading desks and institutional participants due to the cost of exchange data licensing. By making these tools available to eligible users at no additional cost, Bitget is lowering one of the longstanding barriers between retail and professional market access, while providing deeper visibility into order flow and liquidity conditions.
The feature provides access to Nasdaq TotalView and Blue Ocean market data feeds, offering up to 40 levels of bid and ask depth, depth charts, and real-time trade information across US pre-market, regular trading hours, after-hours, and overnight sessions. Eligible users who qualify for VIP 1 through trading volume or VIP 3 through asset holdings can access the service free of charge, amounting to annual savings of up to $276 compared with traditional market data subscriptions.
The launch follows the announcement of Bitget's Stocks 2.0, which has expanded access to equities, ETFs, stock perpetuals, tokenized assets, and multi-asset trading tools. As the lines between crypto and traditional markets continue to blur, traders increasingly expect the same level of market intelligence and execution tools regardless of asset class.
“Crypto makes financial opportunities more open and accessible,” said Gracy Chen, CEO of Bitget. “In traditional markets, data and insights come at a premium. We’re eradicating that by making professional grade stock market data available to our users, who can now access tools that were once limited to a small segment of the market.”
This further expands Bitget's Universal Exchange vision, where crypto assets and tokenized financial instruments live together, operating within a unified trading environment. By combining professional-grade market infrastructure with multi-asset access, Bitget continues building toward a trading experience where users can navigate global markets from a single platform.
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Bitget is the world's largest Universal Exchange (UEX), serving over 125 million users and offering access to over 2M crypto tokens, 100+ tokenized stocks, ETFs, commodities, FX, and precious metals such as gold. The ecosystem is committed to helping users trade smarter with its AI agent, which co-pilots trade execution. Bitget is driving crypto adoption through strategic partnerships with LALIGA and MotoGP™. Aligned with its global impact strategy, Bitget has joined hands with UNICEF to support blockchain education for 1.1 million people by 2027. Bitget currently leads in the tokenized TradFi market, providing the industry's lowest fees and highest liquidity across 150 regions worldwide.
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SMARTSTREAM CUTS CTSL RECONCILIATION TIME TO UNDER FIVE MINUTES
In a statement, Smartstream said the implementation delivers a fully automated, straight-through reconciliation workflow, enabling CTSL to improve operational efficiency, accuracy and auditability.
“This go-live demonstrates how AI-driven data automation can address complex data structures and file formats, delivering measurable efficiency gains and improved accuracy. We look forward to continuing our partnership with CTSL as their needs evolve,” said Smartstream Regional Director, APAC, Radha Pillay.
Meanwhile, Comrade Trustee Services General Manager Member Services, Freddy Manihoru said moving to Smartstream’s Air had transformed the company's reconciliation processes.
“What was previously a highly manual and complex process is now fully automated, enabling us to accurately manage our members' contributions and ensure that no contributions are missed or inconsistent,” he said.
According to Smartstream, CTSL operates in a complex data environment, reconciling multiple file types, including fixed-length files and PDFs that require advanced matching logic.
CTSL adopted Air for its ability to handle diverse data structures, custom integrations and ETL-based transformations, delivering high automation and match rates while replacing manual data collection and Excel pre-processing.
Smartstream said Air uses AI to automate reconciliations, improve match rates and provide full auditability across complex and high-volume data environments, supporting scalability, control and operational resilience.
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Monday, June 8, 2026
MAVENIR, TEXTNOW WIN BEST MVNO AND INDUSTRY COLLABORATION AWARD
KUALA LUMPUR, June 9 (Bernama) -- Software company Mavenir and TextNow, an ad-supported wireless service provider in the United States (US), have jointly won the Best MVNO and Industry Collaboration award at the MVNOs World Awards in Amsterdam.
According to a statement, the award recognises the companies' collaboration in redefining real-time entitlement control for freemium, ad-supported and paid mobile services operating at scale across the US and Canada.
“This award is a testament to what becomes possible when BSS and Core are truly integrated. TextNow pushed the boundaries of what an MVNO can be, and Mavenir's architecture rose to meet that ambition,” said Mavenir Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Pardeep Kohli.
Meanwhile, TextNow CEO, Derek Ting said Mavenir's integrated platform gave the company real-time control over the customer experience while improving operating efficiency at scale.
Mavenir's integrated Business Support System (BSS), Converged Charging System (CCS), Packet Core and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) were deployed as a unified control plane, enabling real-time enforcement of entitlement changes such as ad engagement, SIM activation, plan upgrades and quota exhaustion.
The deployment increased eSIM activations from two per cent to 94 per cent of all new activations within six months, while the number of paid wireless subscribers more than doubled year on year.
In addition, the deployment, built on a 5G-first, active-active geo-redundant design, delivers 99.999 per cent availability for carrier-grade operations.
A no-code and low-code configuration model has accelerated time-to-market by decoupling offer creation from engineering cycles, while direct SIM ownership enabled wider eSIM adoption and improved the customer activation process.
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NORTH ATLANTIC FRANCE TO LAUNCH TENDER OFFER FOR REMAINING NORTH ATLANTIC ENERGIES SHARES
KUALA LUMPUR, June 8 (Bernama) -- North Atlantic France announced its plans to launch a simplified mandatory tender offer for the remaining shares of North Atlantic Energies that it does not already own, offering 28.93 euros per share. (1 Euro = RM4.66)
The announcement follows North Atlantic France's acquisition of an 82.89 per cent stake in the company, formerly known as Esso S.A.F., which was completed on Nov 28, 2025, at a price of 26.19 euros per share.
In a statement, the company said it will not seek to implement a squeeze-out procedure as part of the offer, allowing remaining shareholders to retain their holdings if they choose not to tender their shares.
North Atlantic France said the offer will be filed with the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) after the completion of an independent expert's review.
Offer documentation, including the independent expert's fairness opinion on the financial terms of the transaction, will be submitted to the AMF for approval. The offer will open only after the AMF issues its compliance decision.
North Atlantic France is part of Canada-based North Atlantic, an energy and fuel distribution company with operations spanning fuel retail, wholesale distribution and marine bunkering services.
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Thursday, June 4, 2026
Cloudflare Acquires VoidZero to Build the Future of the AI-Native Web
- Acquisition brings Vite, the world’s leading JavaScript build tool, and its core open source team to Cloudflare
- Cloudflare commits $1 million to an independent Vite ecosystem fund to support open source maintainers and contributors
SAN FRANCISCO, June 5 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today announced it has acquired VoidZero, the open source-first company behind the next-generation JavaScript tooling ecosystem Vite. The acquisition will unify VoidZero’s high-performance tooling — including the Vite build tool, Vitest test runner, Rust-based Rolldown bundler and Oxc toolchain — natively into the Cloudflare ecosystem. By merging Cloudflare’s global edge network and Workers developer platform with the modern web's industry-standard toolchain, Cloudflare is creating a frictionless, one-click deployment stack from local code straight to Cloudflare’s global network.
Application development is undergoing a fundamental shift. The rise of autonomous AI coding agents has ushered in an era of rapid application scaffolding where speed and local-to-production predictability are paramount. VoidZero’s toolchain, anchored by Vite, has emerged as the shared substrate for the web ecosystem, capturing over 130 million weekly downloads. The Cloudflare Vite plugin has reached 13.9 million weekly downloads — equivalent to more than 10% of Vite’s entire weekly volume — proving that developers are already choosing this combined stack for AI-coded applications.
"The best engineers I know are shipping more code than ever, and writing less of it by hand. AI is doing more of the typing — so everything around it has to keep up,” said Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare. "Evan and his team built Vite from scratch with the same philosophy we used to build Cloudflare: strip out the bloat and make it fast. Bringing them on board gives millions of developers, and the AI agents working alongside them, the fastest path from local code to our global network.”
VoidZero’s team of open source creators and Rust optimization specialists, led by widely recognized Vue.js and Vite creator Evan You, will join Cloudflare’s Emerging Technology and Incubation (ETI) organization. The team will continue to advance VoidZero's open source roadmap while accelerating deep integration with the Cloudflare Workers developer platform.
"Our mission at VoidZero has always been to eliminate the fragmentation and performance bottlenecks of the modern web stack," said Evan You, founder and CEO of VoidZero. "Cloudflare shares our obsession with speed and architectural purity. Joining forces allows us to keep the Vite ecosystem neutral, open, and vendor-agnostic, while giving us the resources and global infrastructure to supercharge the developer experience for millions of engineers worldwide."
By integrating VoidZero’s hyper-performant, Rust-based tooling directly into Cloudflare’s Workers developer platform, Cloudflare will unify the entire software development lifecycle. Developers and autonomous AI agents alike will be able to move from an idea to global production instantly via a native, pluggable vite deploy ecosystem. Through this acquisition, Cloudflare plans to drive a project-centric development paradigm, focusing on three core initiatives:
- Unify the Developer Pipeline: Align the Cloudflare CLI natively with the seamless Vite workflow developers already love, bringing a frictionless end-to-end experience to every creator.
- Enable Intent-Based Infrastructure: Evolve toward a workflow where a single Vite deploy command handles everything. If application logic declares a need for a database or an object store, a Vite application with Cloudflare integration will automatically detect that intent and natively provision Cloudflare resources like D1 or R2 — with no manual dashboard intervention required.
- Maintain Open Source Steward Neutrality: Vite, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vitest will remain open source, vendor-agnostic and community-driven. Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+ will remain strictly open source under MIT licenses. Cloudflare is committing $1 million to a new independent Vite ecosystem fund to support community maintainers and contributors who are independent of both VoidZero and Cloudflare.
To learn more, please check out the resources below:
- Cloudflare Blog: VoidZero is joining Cloudflare
Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) is the leading connectivity cloud company. It empowers organizations to make their employees, applications and networks faster and more secure everywhere, while reducing complexity and cost. Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud delivers the most full-featured, unified platform of cloud-native products and developer tools, so any organization can gain the control they need to work, develop, and accelerate their business.
Powered by one of the world’s largest and most interconnected networks, Cloudflare blocks billions of threats online for its customers every day. It is trusted by millions of organizations – from the largest brands to entrepreneurs and small businesses to nonprofits, humanitarian groups, and governments across the globe.
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Azerbaijan’s Bank ABB launches AI Conversational Banking assistants AI-nur and AI-khan
Since becoming available to customers, AI-nur and AI-khan have demonstrated strong adoption and engagement. More than 230k users have already used the service, generating over 2.5 million interactions through the AI-powered banking assistants.
As banking continues to evolve, conversational interfaces powered by AI, including voice, are becoming an integral part of future banking models, enhancing accessibility, speed, and personalization across digital channels.
Developed as part of Bank’s strategy to build the banking ecosystem of the future, AI-nur and AI-khan enable customers to interact with banking services using natural voice commands. Customers can transfer funds between their cards and accounts or send money to others using a mobile phone number. By simply stating the recipient’s name, the AI system identifies the contact and processes the transfer, provided the number is saved in the sender’s phone contacts. Additionally, the assistants can handle essential security functions, such as blocking or reactivating cards, offering a quick response in critical situations.
According to Bank ABB, the launch of AI-nur and AI-khan demonstrates the bank’s commitment to advancing AI-driven digital banking services in Azerbaijan and the wider South Caucasus region. By integrating conversational artificial intelligence into its digital ecosystem, the bank aims to make everyday banking more intuitive, faster, and more convenient for customers.
The number of generative and predictive models applied in various directions has now reached 180, generating more than 35 million AZN in positive financial impact for the bank.
Security remains a top priority in the development of the new AI assistants. All operations performed through AI-nur and AI-khan are conducted within Bank ABB’s secure digital infrastructure, ensuring that customer data and financial transactions are protected according to the highest banking and cybersecurity standards.
Bank ABB plans to continue expanding the capabilities of AI-nur and AI-khan in the near future, introducing additional features that will allow customers to access more banking services through AI-powered interaction.
More information about Bank ABB’s modern products and services is available on the official website, and via Bank ABB’s official social media pages.
SOURCE: Bank ABB - International Bank of Azerbaijan
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Wednesday, June 3, 2026
EXPEREO REPORT: FIRMS RUSH INTO AI INVESTMENT AMID ROI CONCERNS
According to the latest IDC InfoBrief commissioned by Expereo, about 70 per cent of organisations are investing in AI, driven by its potential and concerns about falling behind competitors, although many continue to lag in disciplined return on investment (ROI) evaluation.
In a statement, Expereo said one in five organisations (20 per cent) admitted they were investing aggressively in AI with limited evaluation, largely due to fears of being left behind.
Based on a survey of 800 technology leaders across Europe, the United States and Asia Pacific (APAC), the report found that AI has become one of the world's top technology investment priorities, with 51 per cent of organisations saying they plan to prioritise AI or machine learning over the next 12 months.
However, returns have yet to match expectations. Only 19 per cent of organisations surveyed said their AI implementations had exceeded expectations, while just five per cent reported significantly exceeding them.
The most frequently cited reasons for underperformance were inadequate or poor-quality training data (51 per cent), higher-than-expected costs or failure to achieve ROI (47 per cent), and AI systems not performing as expected (46 per cent).
The report also highlighted a network and infrastructure readiness gap. Among organisations whose AI implementations failed to meet expectations, 26 per cent cited inadequate network or connectivity performance as a contributing factor. Looking ahead, 54 per cent said they would require more flexible and scalable networks to thrive in an AI-driven environment.
The pressure to invest is most pronounced in APAC, where 37 per cent of organisations admitted investing aggressively in AI due to fears of being left behind, nearly double the global average and significantly higher than the United States (10 per cent) and Europe (13 per cent).
APAC also leads in AI adoption, with 35 per cent of organisations reporting extensive AI use across their operations, compared with a global average of 25 per cent.
The survey also found growing concerns over the long-term risks of AI investment. Some 54 per cent of technology leaders cited new security risks as a significant future threat, while 39 per cent expressed concern about losing visibility over AI-related costs and ROI once the technology becomes embedded across the business.
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