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...
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
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...
Sued for Refusing an Abortion: The Surrogacy Clause Courts Won’t Enforce
A California couple is seeking at least $100,000 in damages from the woman who carried their son, on the theory that she breached their contract by declining to end the pregnancy. The clause they are suing over is one courts have long said cannot be enforced against a pregnant woman. What remains enforceable is the...
The Good Climate Numbers of 2026, and the Coverage They Didn’t Get
Four major indicators moved in a favorable direction this year. Each arrived with a documented explanation from the agency that produced it. Almost none of them led a newscast. Intro The Atlantic hurricane season passed its climatological peak this month without producing a single hurricane. Five tropical storms have formed Arthur, Bertha, Cristobal, Dolly and...
New York Workers Can See Their Personnel Files Starting Nov. 8. The Rules Change Again in 2027
Introduction New York employers will be required, for the first time, to hand employees a copy of their personnel file on request and to tell workers when something damaging is put into it. Governor Kathy Hochul signed S3460 into law on September 9, 2026 as Chapter 293 of the Laws of 2026, adding Section 210-b...
Lab-Grown Salmon Is on American Menus. Almost Nothing Requires the Menu to Say So.
Four restaurants in the United States are currently serving salmon that was never caught, never farmed, and never alive as a fish. It is grown from Pacific coho cells in steel vessels in San Francisco, harvested, and combined with plant-based ingredients into something that looks and cuts like a fillet. Eight states have made selling...
Same Law, Three Answers: Who Decides Whether Mental Illness Excuses a Homicide
This article reflects the court record as of September 13, 2026. In the space of eleven days this summer, three American courts confronted nearly the same legal question about three mothers who had killed their children. Each case was a homicide in which no one disputed who caused the deaths. Each turned entirely on whether...
Part II: A Waiver Washington Can Grant, in a Market Washington Does Not Control
Second in a two-part series. Part I examined the antitrust exemption bill filed five days before the “Pacing the Frontier” letter. On Sept. 10, the AI company Anthropic published a 154-page threat intelligence report. Buried in it was an account of an Iran-linked account using the company’s Claude model to assemble what the report called...
The Safety Letter Got the Headlines. The Bill Filed Five Days Earlier Is the Story.
More than a thousand employees of the companies building the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence signed a public statement on July 28 asking the United States government to help build the tools to slow them down. The signatures ran to the top of the industry: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki, Meta...









