Austin Wealth Management LLC reduced its stake in shares of SPDR Portfolio Short Term Treasury ETF (NYSEARCA:SPTS – Free Report) by 8.5% in the fourth quarter, according to its most recent filing with the SEC. The fund owned 232,465 shares of the company’s stock after selling 21,556 shares during the period. SPDR Portfolio Short Term [...]
B&I Capital AG boosted its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR – Free Report) by 17.9% in the 4th quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The firm owned 69,991 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after buying an additional 10,650 shares during the period. Digital Realty Trust makes up approximately 3.9% of [...]
B&I Capital AG lifted its holdings in shares of Public Storage (NYSE:PSA – Free Report) by 4.8% in the 4th quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The institutional investor owned 39,000 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after acquiring an additional 1,785 shares during the period. Public Storage accounts for approximately 3.6% of B&I Capital AG’s [...]
Austin Wealth Management LLC grew its holdings in shares of SPDR Gold MiniShares Trust (NYSEARCA:GLDM – Free Report) by 3.5% during the 4th quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The institutional investor owned 286,479 shares of the company’s stock after acquiring an additional 9,720 shares during the quarter. SPDR Gold MiniShares Trust makes up 3.7% of Austin [...]
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Assetmark Inc. grew its position in CocaCola Company (The) (NYSE:KO – Free Report) by 12.5% in the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 336,564 shares of the company’s stock after purchasing an additional 37,326 shares during the quarter. [...]
Assetmark Inc. lowered its stake in RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. (NYSE:RNR – Free Report) by 7.3% in the 4th quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The fund owned 73,010 shares of the insurance provider’s stock after selling 5,707 shares during the quarter. Assetmark Inc.’s holdings in RenaissanceRe were worth $20,528,000 at the end of the most recent quarter. Several [...]
Assetmark Inc. raised its stake in Spotify Technology (NYSE:SPOT – Free Report) by 11.6% during the 4th quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 32,059 shares of the company’s stock after buying an additional 3,335 shares during the quarter. Assetmark Inc.’s holdings in Spotify [...]
The emergence of AI agents across the global financial ecosystem started in 2024 but in recent months, usage rates of these tools (especially AI-powered trading bots) have shot up monumentally, so much so that they currently account for 58% of all crypto trading volume. Behind these numbers is a structural shift as AI agents are no longer being used purely as execution tools but rather as independent economic actors that can observe markets, form their own views, allocate capital, manage risk, and even execute strategies without any sort of real-time human supervision. That said, being "agent-ready" means more than having an API suite. It means offering reliable uptime, well-documented endpoints, genuine support for agent authentication patterns, regulatory standing that protects agents operating across jurisdictions, and a product suite deep enough to be worth the integration effort. With all of this in mind, listed below are a few exchanges that have strived to achieve a perfect synergy of these aforementioned aspects. Coinbase and its Bet on Providing Quality “AI Infrastructure” Coinbase has been the most aggressive in publicly positioning itself around the AI agent narrative, having launched its Agentic Wallets offering earlier this year. The product is designed specifically for autonomous agents and not adapted from human-facing wallet infrastructure. It also supports programmable guardrails, which matter considerably for institutional deployments where risk managers need to constrain what an agent can or cannot do autonomously. Additionally, the company’s x402 protocol, which went live in May of last year, provides a payment rail allowing stablecoin transactions to be made directly via HTTP request/response cycles. As a consequence, adoption has been growing steadily and 107 million transactions have been processed since the protocol’s debut. That said, there are some gaps present in this setup starting with the fact that Coinbase's ecosystem is heavily slanted toward EVM chains and the Base L2 network. Furthermore, its geographic and financial rail coverage outside North America and Western Europe remains a limiting factor for agents operating across emerging market contexts. VALR and its Real-World Autonomous Finance Capabilities The most substantive development in the AI agent exchange space of early 2026 may be VALR's April 10 launch of its AI Service , a system designed explicitly to serve both human users and autonomous AI agents operating as independent market participants. What separates VALR's approach from the standard "our API works with agents" marketing position is structural, which in layman's terms means that the platform's implementation follows the Agent Skills Standard. This allows named agent frameworks such as OpenClaw, Anthropic's Claude Code, OpenAI's Codex, and others to interface with VALR through a defined integration layer (enabling the building of agent systems at scale). In addition to all this, it bears mentioning that the underlying API suite covers the full operational spectrum be it real-time market data, trade execution, account management, or secure authentication. Everything runs within VALR's regulatory perimeter which consists of an FSCA-license in South Africa, and regulatory approval in Europe. The exchange currently serves over 1.7 million registered users and 2,000 corporate and institutional clients globally and is backed by Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, and Fidelity's F-Prime Capital. Its product suite spans spot and margin trading, perpetual futures, staking, lending, OTC, tokenized real-world assets including gold and equities, and VALR Pay. That said, the differentiator that arguably sets VALR furthest apart from its contemporaries is its geographic positioning. Africa's largest crypto exchange by trade volume is also, through its recently announced Onafriq integration, now connected to nearly one billion mobile money wallets across 43 African markets. Onafriq operates Africa's largest digital payments network, and the VALR integration allows direct, local-currency deposits across the continent via mobile money platforms including M-Pesa and MTN MoMo. For AI agents that need to interact with financial systems in markets where traditional banking infrastructure is thin and mobile money is the primary financial rail (and this describes a substantial portion of the world's economic activity) such setups are a no brainer. Kraken and its Compliance and Longevity Markers For AI agents whose operational parameters are defined by risk management rather than return maximisation, Kraken offers something genuinely valuable, namely the institutional reliability that everyone wants. In the context of autonomous agents, security track record is of utmost importance given that agents don't sleep, don't log off, and operate continuously on infrastructure that has been tested across market stress events, regulatory inquiries, and attack vectors of every variety. Kraken has been tested and its Proof of Reserves (PoR) reporting and MiCA compliance in Europe have given the platform a regulatory standing that holds up under scrutiny. And, even though Kraken isn't leading the AI agent narrative the way VALR or Coinbase are, it consistently surfaces in AI-generated exchange recommendations, which is, in a sense, a form of market validation in itself. Lastly, on a technical note, some of Kraken’s limitations are real. For instance, it offers a narrower asset suite than some of its core competitors, and its geographic reach doesn't extend meaningfully into high-growth African, South Asian, or Latin American markets. The Emerging Standard As things continue to unfold within this yet nascent space, it stands to reason that the exchanges which end up as default infrastructure providers for AI agents won't be determined purely by marketing narratives but by developers deploying agents at scale (and making practical decisions based on API quality, compliance posture, asset coverage, etc.). Therefore, as the global AI agent market moves from $8 billion in 2025 to a staggering $50 billion by 2030, practical decisions and considerations will only continue to compound. In any case, interesting times ahead! This article was written by FM Contributors at www.financemagnates.com.
As per the AM retail prices updated by the Indian Bullion and Jewellers Association Ltd (IBJA) on Thursday, fine gold (999 purity) is priced at Rs 15,331 per gram, 22 carat gold at Rs 14,963 per gram, 20 carat gold at Rs 13,644 per gram, 18 carat gold at Rs 12,418 per gram.