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NYC Rent Freeze May Hit Mortgage Bonds

A $506 million bet on thousands of New York rent-stabilized apartments has already soured for bond investors, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani's rent freeze is threatening to make it worse. Ran Eliasaf, Founder & Managing Partner of Northwind Group, discusses the needs in the NYC housing market and the possible impact of the city's recent moves to make it more affordable and levy new taxes.

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Yellow Card CEO on Funding, Stablecoin's Global Foothold

Chris Maurice, CEO of Yellow Card, explained how his company differentiates itself from competitors like Stripe and Wise by building the underlying infrastructure that enables international money movement using stablecoins such as USDC. Yellow Card provides direct liquidity and on/off ramps against local currencies across regions including Africa, Latin America, and Asia, allowing stablecoins to be sent and converted locally without the need to convert back to dollars first. He speaks with Romaine Bostick on "The Close."

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Banks Offload Risk from Leveraged ETFs with 'Crash Puts'

Bloomberg's Yiqin Shen joins Scarlet Fu and Eric Balchunas on "Bloomberg ETF IQ." Leveraged ETFs that offer the tantalizing prospect of doubling or tripling the daily returns of an individual stock are famously risky for investors who buy them. The result has been a quiet surge of activity in an exotic corner of the derivatives market, where investment banks, hedge funds and other institutional investors trade what are often known as "crash puts" and sometimes referred to as cliquets or stability notes.

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