Senior Reporter
Elena Cortés
Elena Cortés covers equity and rates markets, with an emphasis on how positioning and earnings expectations interact around scheduled catalysts.
She is skeptical of narrative explanations for single-day price moves and tends to write about the mechanics underneath them instead: who has to sell, who is hedged, and what the options market implied beforehand.
Recent work
- FintechKenyan neobank Cloud9 reaches $1 million in total funding after Alliance investment
- MarketsRobinhood and T. Rowe Price explore tokenized access to an actively managed ETF
- MarketsCboe Clear Europe extends securities lending clearing to US equities for the first time
- MarketsAI-native insurer Ledgebrook raises $200 million Series D co-led by Allianz X and Rockefeller Capital Management
- MarketsCapitolis agrees to acquire eSecLending for $200 million in its fourth deal in five years
- MarketstZERO lands new backing from Cohodes brothers and Intercontinental Exchange for tokenized-market infrastructure
- MarketsSoFi begins settling its entire Mastercard card program on a proprietary stablecoin
- MarketsSingapore stablecoin payments firm dtcpay closes $25 million Series A with SBI Group as strategic investor
- MarketsS&P Global agrees to acquire OpenZeppelin, the security firm behind most stablecoin smart contracts
- MarketsFirst Abu Dhabi Bank and Citi complete live tokenized-deposit settlement on Swift’s Ledger
- MarketsDeutsche Bank to launch regulated digital-asset custody for institutional clients in Europe
- MarketsKaiko extends Series B to $110 million, backed by S&P Global and a bench of market infrastructure names
- MarketsU.S. Bank completes live pilot of its own dollar stablecoin on the Stellar blockchain
- MarketsOrion180 targets $1.7 billion valuation in Nasdaq IPO for its flood and homeowners insurance business
- MarketsCoinbase and Moov partner to bring stablecoin infrastructure to more than 1,000 community banks
- MarketsCircle to acquire Singapore payments firm Tazapay for $400 million in stock
- MarketsGemini secures Major Payment Institution license from Singapore regulator
- MarketsVanguard agrees to acquire Altruist, pushing deeper into advisor technology and custody
- MarketsLondon Stock Exchange partners with Kraken’s parent to tokenize the UK’s 100 largest stocks
- MarketsStocks close higher as Nvidia beats, inflation cools and Warsh avoids a September signal
- MarketsStocks slip as investors wait on Nvidia earnings and July inflation data
