Intro In one week this month, Europe’s leaders sounded a coordinated alarm. France, the Netherlands, Finland, Lithuania and Switzerland each warned their citizens of rising threats from Russia. French President Emmanuel Macron told party leaders, “No one is safe.” The warnings raise three fair questions. Are European governments fear-mongering? Are they laying groundwork to enter...
Author: Dominick Bianco, Editor-in-Chief
Dominick M. Bianco
Editor-in-Chief, Nexfinity News
Dominick M. Bianco is the Editor-in-Chief of Nexfinity News, where he leads editorial coverage across global finance, capital markets, emerging technologies, macroeconomic policy, and investigative reporting.
His reporting focuses on institutional trends, artificial intelligence, digital assets, ESG investing, blockchain technology, and cross-border capital flows.
Bianco emphasizes data-backed analysis, regulatory context, market transparency, and forward-looking economic implications.
He oversees editorial standards, newsroom strategy, fact-checking practices, and content integrity to ensure coverage aligns with high-trust publishing benchmarks and professional journalism standards.
Bianco is a member of the National Writers Union and the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ). He is also a former U.S. Marine Corps veteran.
Areas of Expertise
- Global Financial Markets
- Artificial Intelligence in Finance
- Digital Assets & Blockchain
- Carbon Credits & ESG Investing
- Macroeconomic Policy
- Investigative Financial Journalism
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Latest Posts
If the System Failed Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Daughter, What Chance Does a Poor Kid Have?
Introduction Nikole Hannah-Jones meant her daughter’s education to be an argument against leaving neighborhood schools. After a decade, it has become one of the strongest arguments for letting families leave them. In her Sept. 20 New York Times Magazine essay, she concludes that keeping her daughter in high-poverty Brooklyn public schools failed the girl, and...
Two Queens Men Charged After Park Avenue Manhole Exit Triggers UNGA-Week Security Sweep
Intro Two Queens men have been charged after police say they were recorded climbing out of a manhole on Park Avenue in the early hours of Wednesday, Sept. 23 a few steps from a hotel used by visiting dignitaries during the United Nations General Assembly. Kevin Rodriguez, 26, of Flushing, and Samuel Reveron, 25, of...
Falling Rents: Three Forces, One Trend
Introduction The Department of Homeland Security said on Sept. 25, 2026, that it is “reducing your rent,” crediting immigration enforcement for falling rents in states that cooperate most with ICE. In a post on X, the agency said Texas accounted for about a quarter of ICE arrests in July and posted the country’s sharpest rent...
Chicago’s First Elected School Board Will Inherit Underused Buildings and a Budget It Can’t Yet Pay For
On Chicago’s West Side, Frederick Douglass Academy High School sits in a building designed for about 1,000 students. According to a June 2025 ProPublica and Chalkbeat investigation, Douglass had 27 employees for 28 students. Douglass is the extreme case, but the gap between building space and students runs across Chicago Public Schools (CPS), the nation’s...
New York’s Sports Betting Windfall: $5.1 Billion in Losses, and Who Paid Them
New York’s mobile sports betting tax is usually reported as a win for the state and its schools. Two numbers rarely appear alongside it: what bettors lost to produce that revenue, and whether schools actually receive more money because of it. The first can be calculated directly from the tax rate. For the widely cited...
Two Standards, One Border: The Vaccine Mandates That Stopped at the Rio Grande and at the Sanctuary State Line
For years, federal and state governments made jobs, military service, hospital work and school enrollment depend on vaccination. Those standards were never applied at the same strength to people entering between ports of entry, or to the jurisdictions that shelter them. Measles is now at a 35-year high, largely for reasons unrelated to the border....
Rate Bets That Settle Like Futures and the Three Different Regulators Watching Them
Intro On Sept. 16, the Federal Open Market Committee raised its policy rate a quarter point. The decision, approved unanimously 12-0, brought the target range to 3.75%–4% and marked the first hike since July 2023. Updated projections showed a strong majority of officials expect another increase before year-end. Two weeks earlier, that outcome was not the...
The Navatek File: What’s Proven, What’s Alleged and What’s Unresolved in the Susan Collins Report
Intro A defense contractor’s former CEO is in federal prison for illegal campaign contributions to Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine). A new investigation now says the FBI later wanted to go much further. ProPublica reported Tuesday that FBI agents sought in 2024 to open a broad pay-to-play inquiry examining dealings between Collins and a major donor,...
A Third of the U.S. Surrogacy Market Is Foreign. Almost Nothing Above It Is Federal.
The McKenna West case took four courts in three states to reach an unfinished answer, and every party in it was American. The fastest-growing part of the market she entered is not American at all and the legal machinery that eventually resolved her case stops at the border. The Growth Isn’t Mostly American Gestational surrogacy...









