Isaac Francis

Daiichi Sankyo and AstraZeneca (NASDAQ:AZN) announced that Enhertu (trastuzumab deruxtecan) has been approved in the European Union as monotherapy for the treatment of adult patients with unresectable or metastatic HER2 positive (IHC 3+) solid tumors who have received prior treatment and who have no satisfactory alternative treatment options.

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) warned that rapid growth in artificial intelligence investment could have significant financial consequences if highly leveraged funding structures unravel during a market downturn.

Loopring (CRYPTO:LRC) has shut down its decentralised exchange and automated market maker after saying weak adoption, limited business development and newer zero-knowledge rollup technologies made the platform no longer viable.

Mercer Super, one of Australia’s largest super funds with about $80 billion in assets and more than one million members, has been ordered by the Federal Court to pay $10.3 million in penalties for systemic failures to report investigations into serious member service issues to ASIC.

Atlas Arteria (ASX:ALX) has lodged a sixth supplementary target’s statement with ASIC and ASX, reiterating its independent directors’ unanimous recommendation that securityholders reject IFM Global Infrastructure Fund’s off‑market cash offer for Atlas Arteria stapled securities.

Coinbase chief executive Brian Armstrong defended users' freedom to choose high-risk financial products while agreeing that trading platforms should avoid aggressively promoting betting-style products to less experienced investors.

Base said a bug in its sequencer block-building logic caused two separate outages on its layer-2 network last week.

Ramelius Resources (ASX:RMS) has entered a binding agreement to sell its Edna May Gold Hub, including the ~2.9Mtpa processing plant and regional satellite tenements, to Forrestania Resources (ASX:FRS) for total consideration of $300 million in cash and shares.

Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) and other risk assets entered the week under pressure after the total cryptocurrency market capitalisation fell to about US$2.06 trillion.

Investors in BlackRock iShares Bitcoin Trust are now facing average paper losses of almost 40% after Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) fell more than 50% from its October 2025 peak of about US$126,000 to around US$60,750.