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Gold's Trust Model Is Being Rebuilt Around Infrastructure, SMX Is Writing the Blueprint
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 23, 2025 / For much of the modern gold trade, trust has been delegated to individual companies. Refiners certified their suppliers. Traders vouched for counterparties. Documentation followed the metal, often across borders and jurisdictions that applied standards unevenly.
EVCS Appoints Eric Danner as Chief Executive Officer; Gustavo Occhiuzzo Named Executive Chairman & Chief Strategy Officer
LOS ANGELES, CA / ACCESS Newswire / December 23, 2025 / EVCS, the largest, privately held electric vehicle fast-charging network on the West Coast, today announced the appointment of Eric Danner as Chief Executive Officer, effective January 1, 2026. Danner succeeds Founder Gustavo Occhiuzzo, who will transition into the role of Executive Chairman & Chief Strategy Officer, where he will continue to guide the company's long-term vision and strategic growth initiatives.
SMX Expands Precious Metals Strategy Through New Identity Infrastructure Partnerships
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 23, 2025 / The digital revolution promised transparency for commodities. Gold proved that the endpoint was more difficult to reach through pure ambition.
QS Energy Positions AOT 3.0 for Full‑Pipeline, Global Deployment
Shareholder‑Backed Investments Drive Commercial Readiness, Temple Partnership, and High‑Impact Economics for Customers
Vero Technologies Celebrates Five Years Leading Asset Finance Innovation
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / December 23, 2025 / Vero Technologies, a financial technology platform built for asset and wholesale finance, marked its five-year anniversary in October and a period of sustained growth across its software and services business. Founded in 2020 by Co-Founders John Mizzi and Isaac Zafarani, Vero set out to replace fragmented legacy systems and manual workflows with a unified operating system for wholesale and inventory finance.
Trump admin halts US offshore wind projects citing 'national security'
The US Interior Department on Monday said it had paused all leases for offshore wind projects over unspecified national security risks, casting new doubt over the future of an industry detested by President Donald Trump.
Fuming Denmark summons US ambassador over Greenland envoy
Denmark said Monday it would summon the US ambassador after President Donald Trump appointed a special envoy to Greenland who immediately vowed to make the Danish autonomous territory "a part of the US".
Outcry follows CBS pulling program on prison key to Trump deportations
The leadership of CBS News was facing accusations of political meddling on Monday over a last-minute decision to not air a report on the notorious Salvadoran prison where US President Donald Trump has sent deported migrants.
Billionaire Ellison offers personal guarantee for son's bid for Warner Bros
Oracle tech tycoon Larry Ellison is offering a $40.4 billion personal guarantee to back Paramount's hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, deepening a bidding war with Netflix, a statement said on Monday.
Tech stocks lead Wall Street higher, gold hits fresh record
Wall Street and Asian stock markets advanced on Monday, with tech stocks leading the way.
Telefonica to shed around 5,500 jobs in Spain
Telefonica will cut up to 5,500 jobs in Spain under a voluntary departure plan agreed with trade unions last week, the debt-laden telecoms firm said in a statement on Monday.
EU slams China dairy duties as 'unjustified'
Brussels hit back Monday at China slapping duties of up to 42.7 percent on some dairy products from the European Union, calling the move "unjustified".
Stocks diverge as rate hopes rise, AI fears ease
Stock markets diverged Monday and gold hit a record high as the latest round of US data boosted hopes for more interest rate cuts and concerns over AI spending subsided.
Swiss court to hear landmark climate case against cement giant
A Swiss court has decided to hear a landmark climate case pitting residents of a tiny Indonesian island being swallowed by rising sea levels against cement giant Holcim, NGOs helping the islanders said Monday.
Asian markets rally with Wall St as rate hopes rise, AI fears ease
Asian markets rallied Monday and gold hit a record high as the latest round of US data boosted hopes for more interest rate cuts, while worries over AI spending also subsided.
As US battles China on AI, some companies choose Chinese
Even as the United States is embarked on a bitter rivalry with China over the deployment of artificial intelligence, Chinese technology is quietly making inroads into the US market.
AI resurrections of dead celebrities amuse and rankle
In a parallel reality, Queen Elizabeth II gushes over cheese puffs, a gun-toting Saddam Hussein struts into a wrestling ring, and Pope John Paul II attempts skateboarding.
TGI Group Unveils the Future of Self-Sustaining Energy Hubs
TGI Transforms Environmental Liabilities into Strategic Mineral and Energy Assets
Inaugural "Investing in the HEART of Our Community" Gala Raises Funds for Texas Children's Heart Center
New Braunfels-based Mundorf Wealth Management hosts charitable event benefiting the nation's leading pediatric cardiovascular program.
SMX and Partners Push Gold Compliance Out of the Back Office and Into the Supply Chain
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 22, 2025 / For much of its history, compliance in the gold industry lived at the end of the process. Gold was sourced, refined, and traded first. Documentation followed. Audits came later. Trust was assumed unless challenged.
SMX Mission To Provide Gold Verified Identity Advances With Two New Industry Alliances
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 22, 2025 / For centuries, gold's value rested on weight, purity, and trust. In modern markets, those attributes are no longer sufficient on their own. Gold is increasingly being treated not just as a commodity, but as a regulated data asset, one whose market acceptance depends as much on verifiable provenance, custody, and compliance as on chemical composition.
SMX Strikes Joint Initiative with FinGo & Bougainville Refinery Ltd to Deliver Verifiable Identification for Trillion Dollar Gold Market
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / December 22, 2025 / For years, transparency in the global gold market advanced in theory faster than in practice. Standards evolved. Guidance tightened. And, expectations rose. Yet the most important part, implementation, lagged, constrained by fragmented systems that verified paperwork more easily than reality. That gap is now closing, and it is closing quickly.
Switching Payroll Providers Won't Fix Past IRS Errors - Clear Start Tax Warns Business Owners About Lingering Liability
Tax professionals say changing payroll services may stop future mistakes, but it does not erase unpaid taxes or filing errors already on record with the IRS.
New Joint Initiative to Tackle Core Identity Challenge For The Global Precious Metals Industry
SMX, FinGo & Bougainville Refinery Ltd to Deliver Verifiable Identification for Gold
Best Western Plus Lamplighter Inn & Conference Centre recognized with 2026 Consumer Choice Award for Hotel in London
LONDON, ONTARIO / ACCESS Newswire / December 22, 2025 / Best Western Plus Lamplighter Inn & Conference Centre has been selected as the 2026 Consumer Choice Award winner in the Hotel category, acknowledging its commitment to comfort, service and versatile accommodations in the London region. The award highlights the hotel's reputation for quality hospitality across a variety of guest needs, including business travel, family stays, leisure visits and special events.
EON Resources Inc. Reports Management and Directors Buy an Additional 282,000 Shares of EON Class A Common Stock for a Total of 1,561,000 Shares Bought in 2025 and a Total Ownership of Over 5 million Shares
HOUSTON, TEXAS / ACCESS Newswire / December 22, 2025 / EON Resources Inc. (NYSE American:EONR) ("EON" or the "Company") is an independent upstream energy company with 20,000 leasehold acres in the Permian Basin. The fields have a total of 750 producing and injection wells producing over 1,000 barrels of oil per day. Today, the Company reports that part of the management team and several independent directors ("Team") purchased a combined 282,000 shares of the Company's Class A Common Stock on the open market in the past three weeks.
Third 'Avatar' film soars to top in N. American box office debut
"Avatar: Fire and Ash," the third installment in James Cameron's blockbuster sci-fi fantasy series, debuted atop the North American box office with $88 million in ticket sales in the weekend before Christmas, industry estimates showed Sunday.
China's rare earths El Dorado gives strategic edge
Buried in the reddish soil of southern China lies latent power: one of the largest clusters of crucial rare earths is mined around the clock by a secretive and heavily guarded industry.
Wheelchair user flies into space, a first
A German woman engineer on Saturday became the first wheelchair user to blast into space, taking a brief ride on a Blue Origin flight.
French culture boss accused of mass drinks spiking to humiliate women
Hiyam Zarouri was delighted when a senior civil servant at France's prestigious culture ministry reached out to her on Linkedin offering the then jobless 25-year-old career advice.
US Afghans in limbo after Washington soldier attack
Afghans who worked alongside US troops during almost two decades of war were once promised a home in the United States to shelter them from the extremist intolerance of the Taliban.
Nasdaq rallies again while yen falls despite BOJ rate hike
Resurgent artificial intelligence shares lifted the Nasdaq Friday for a second straight session while the yen retreated despite a Bank of Japan interest rate hike.