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Aimed at regulated brokers and funds, the new Visual Edge features provide advanced portfolio analytics, historical Value at Risk (VaR), Conditional Value at Risk (CVaR), Monte Carlo planning simulations, stress testing and Negative Balance Protection (NBP) analysis, enabling brokers to make informed risk decisions based on real-time exposure data.

Historical VaR and CVaR Analysis: The platform calculates portfolio-level Value at Risk (VaR) and Conditional Value at Risk (CVaR) using configurable lookback periods and confidence levels. Financial institutions can analyse risk using multiple historical windows to better understand potential losses under varying market conditions.

Stress Testing: Financial institutions can model the impact of significant market events across portfolios and client accounts, using both historical and user-defined stress scenarios. Risk managers can evaluate how extreme price movements would affect exposures, profitability and capital requirements.

Negative Balance Protection Analytics: Financial institutions can gain an understanding of potential exposure arising from client accounts entering negative equity. The metrics – including the number of clients projected to have negative balances, total negative balance exposure and the number of clients falling below predefined equity thresholds - help firms identify concentrations of risk and assess the potential financial impact of severe market movements.

Tom Higgins, CEO, Gold said: “As market volatility continues to increase, FX and digital asset brokers face growing pressure to understand not only their current exposure but also how extreme market events could impact client accounts and broker capital.  Our new Visual Edge risk features help with scenario planning, providing a comprehensive framework for measuring portfolio risk across individual clients, client groups and business-wide portfolios.

"Brokers need timely, accurate and actionable risk analytics to protect their business and their clients. By combining VaR, CVaR, stress testing and Negative Balance Protection analytics within our existing risk management tool, we are providing clients with a comprehensive view of both client risk and broker exposure, including the ability to identify vulnerabilities before they become real-world problems.”

Visual Edge, which is easily integrated with MT4/MT5, DXtrade and other trading platforms, provides an unparalleled understanding of clients’ trading performance, enabling multi-asset brokers to manage risk, maximise the efficiency of their trading operations and increase profitability. It stands out for its powerful visual analysis capabilities, its scalper detection feature, and ability to provides a complete real-time oversight of a broker’s trading operations, including exposure and P&L. This empowers them to make informed decisions about which clients to A-Book and which to B-Book.

The technology provides a very clear view of which clients are making profits and which clients are making losses, while also allowing brokers to identify if profits or losses are specific to certain types of trades or groups and how consistent these trends are over time.

Visual Edge transforms complex market and portfolio data into clear, actionable risk metrics that support risk management teams, dealing desks, compliance functions, senior management and board-level reporting. These metrics can also help regulated entities to meet their regulatory requirements. The platform supports thousands of accounts while delivering rapid risk calculations suitable for both operational monitoring and management reporting. For further information, please visit www.gold-i.com

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About Gold-i

Headquartered in the UK, Gold-i is a global market leader in trading technology for the FX and cryptocurrency industries. The company is trusted by brokers, fund managers, prop firms, liquidity providers, exchanges and crypto institutions worldwide to manage liquidity, connectivity, pricing and risk across a broad range of trading platforms.

At the core of Gold-i’s offering is MatrixNET, a sophisticated multi-asset liquidity bridge providing seamless access to deep FX and crypto liquidity, with a multitude of routing and aggregation methods. Integrated with over 80 liquidity providers and 35 leading crypto exchanges, MatrixNET delivers ultra-low latency performance of sub 2 milliseconds, enabling clients to achieve optimal execution, manage flow efficiently and scale their trading operations.  MatrixNET also enables prop firms to simulate real market trading conditions.

Gold-i’s product suite includes a range of MetaTrader tools, advanced risk management products and bridging technology, all designed to improve control, reduce risk and support business growth.

Founded in 2008, Gold-i has a strong reputation for innovation, reliability and exceptional 24/7 customer support. For further information, visit www.gold-i.com or follow Gold-i on LinkedIn

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Newsweek reported on a "cigarette renaissance" among Gen Z, a trend that makes me upset and confused, and is hard not to take personally.

I never had even the slightest desire to participate, because, for me, cigarettes represented something far more sinister — death. And I was too afraid to ever try one.

I grew up watching celebrities smoke in movies

Growing up, my mother, who was obsessed with old black-and-white movies from her youth, admired the glamorous film stars, many of whom smoked cigarettes.

When I was young, we watched her favorite movies together on our oversize sofa. I, too, was mesmerized by gorgeous women like Rita Hayworth, dressed in Gilda's flowing gowns, as she used cigarettes to seduce and wield power over the men around her, or Audrey Hepburn in "Breakfast at Tiffany's," carrying the now-iconic cigarette holder as she window-shopped for jewels. Both women seemed so different from anyone I'd ever met, embodying the height of elegance and sophistication.

While I quickly adopted my mom's love for Hollywood's Golden Age, I have never smoked a cigarette, even though most of my friends did as teens. They were the "Breakfast Club" kids who rebelled against conformity and thought that if they smoked, in addition to wearing too much black, they'd appear more mysterious and desirably misunderstood.

My dad had lung cancer

One of my earliest memories is of my dad puffing away on his cigarette while I played in my playpen. He contracted lung cancer when I was 4, and the sight of the black, spidery stitches that crept up his back after surgery made me afraid to hug him. I was always terrified he would get sick again.

Despite quitting, his cancer came back eight years later. I was 12. It turned out his lungs were just too damaged to heal. From then on, an oxygen tank accompanied us everywhere he went; every breath was a struggle. His last two years were agony. As a teenager constantly visiting him in the hospital, I vowed to myself never to smoke. My friends told me I was too uptight. When I'd fruitlessly suggested they stop, they accused me of being preachy.

Some years later, as a 23-year-old actor in NYC, I landed a role in a short film that required my character to smoke. I only had a few lines holding the cigarette and pretending to inhale. I awkwardly fumbled with it between my fingers, hands shaking, trying in vain to imitate classic film stars I grew up with and how they held theirs.

Embarrassingly, holding a cigarette was far harder than keeping my balance in the stiletto heels I was wearing. After several takes, the assistant director took the cigarette from my hand, "This is how you do it," and with enviable flair executed a perfect smoke circle into the air.

I apologized, explaining that I had never even tried a cigarette before. He looked at me with exasperation, shaking his head. Suddenly, I became flooded by traumatic memories of my dad coughing up blood. It was then that I began to realize how much cigarettes were a trigger for me. I even wondered — was it wrong for me to accept a role that compromised my own personal values? So, when all these years later, cigarettes again began flooding the TV, not only was I surprised, but it also brought all those same memories back.

Cigarettes robbed me of time with my dad

Now cigarettes are considered "cool" again. I'm saddened and annoyed at how quickly so many people are willing to forget what smoking does to their health. It feels very selfish to be stripping not just lungs but years away from families of loved ones.

Lung cancer stole my dad, but really, cigarettes robbed us of healthy and happier years together. The ones we did have were full of his anger and frustration due to the suffering he knew he couldn't escape from, and my own fear and anxiety over losing him were overwhelming.

So, despite this resurrection of smoking as it nears Ozempic-level "it" factor, I'm not lighting up anytime soon and hope others who find this latest fad cool will come to their senses. We owe it to ourselves and those we love to do better.

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Many scientists have assumed that NSC storage strategies reflect current environmental conditions. However, a new global study led by Yan Zhengbing of the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences emphasizes that evolutionary history plays a stronger role than contemporary environmental conditions in shaping NSC storage.

The study was published in Nature Ecology & Evolution.

A global map of stored carbon

The researchers compiled a global NSC database containing 29,386 field measurements during the growing season from 2,041 species across 1,016 sites. They then made the first global assessment of organ-specific NSC distribution, using current environmental data such as water availability, temperature and solar radiation, as well as phylogenetic information. They found pronounced organ-specific NSC variability associated with latitudinal changes in environmental conditions: Leaf NSCs increased toward higher latitudes, whereas stem and root NSCs declined.

On the other hand, analysis of phylogenetic data demonstrated that closely related species shared similar NSC storage strategies. For example, along long-term evolutionary trajectories, more recently diverged taxa exhibited lower NSC concentrations in leaves but stored higher NSC concentrations in stems and roots.

Evolution outweighs current conditions

The researchers concluded that plant evolutionary history, including both phylogenetic relatedness and species identity, accounted for 55.9–77.1% of global NSC variability, substantially exceeding the effect of contemporary environmental conditions, which explained only 2.4–9.2% of the variance. This suggests that plant NSC storage is not merely a passive response to environmental change but is deeply rooted in evolutionary history, providing a benefit through diverse carbon storage strategies.

This study has important implications for understanding vegetation responses to climate change. While prevailing vegetation models view plant NSCs as a passive storage pool in response to climate, the researchers argued that evolutionary history must be incorporated into models of plant NSC storage and allocation.

Publication details

Wei-Ying Xu et al, Evolutionary history drives organ-specific variability in plant non-structural carbohydrates, Nature Ecology & Evolution (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41559-026-03129-8

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"The IWGB has a proud record bringing together workers in the video games sector - launched by the Game Workers Unite international and lately having achieved the first recognition agreement in the sector at ZA/UM," reads the letter. "Workers at Rockstar have chosen the IWGB for their union, and it is only right that Rockstar respects their choice and agrees to bargain with them. Every worker, including those at Rockstair, deserves to be and should be part of a union."

NEW 🚨| 22 trade union leaders, representing more than 1.3 million workers, are calling on @rockstargames.com to stop playing games with workers' rights and recognise the @gameworkers.co.uk . Read and share the letter below 👇 #Solidarity #StrikeMap

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— Strike Map (@strikemap.org) July 14, 2026 at 7:16 AM

The union leader signees come from a wide range of trade backgrounds, including Artists' Union England, the British Medical Association, the National Education Union, Social Workers Union, and United Tech and Allied Workers (CWU). Across the 22 trade unions, more than 1.3 million workers are represented from a range of backgrounds. The union leaders 'involvement in signing this letter certainly appears to mark a strong understanding of the significance that a formally recognised union at Rockstar would have.

This follows a recent report which saw three current Rockstar employees in the UK claiming that Rockstar effectively bakes in crunch into their contracts, alongside overseeing a widening gender pay gap, as well as weaponising bonuses to make workers more compliant. The IWGB is currently helping workers fired from Rockstar (which they allege was an act of union busting) in October of last year by challenging the dismissals through an employment tribunal. A final hearing is currently scheduled to begin in September, and during this a decision will be made as to whether these workers were unlawfully fired for union activity. %!s()