The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

For a hot moment, Daniel Vorcaro seemed to have made it in the tight-knit world of Brazilian finance. Once the host of a gospel show on a regional TV network, he was suddenly hobnobbing with the ...

More than 500 bankers were sacked from Australia’s largest banks and thousands more cautioned over code of conduct breaches in 2025, but the industry has steadily lifted its performance with the ...

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WASHINGTON — Treasury Under Secretary for Domestic Finance Jonathan McKernan said Tuesday that he fears one fundamental building block of the banking system — low-cost deposits — could be under ...

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Getting good at LeetCode Java can feel like a puzzle sometimes, right? You see all these problems, and you’re not sure where ...