John Lothian: Week in Review (September 21nd – 25th, 2026)
The Weekend Update
JLN PRESS ROOM PICK OF THE WEEK
The Future of Nigeria’s First Regulated Prediction Market is Clouty
David Umeh recently returned to the United States from Nigeria, where he is weeks, if not days, away from regulatory approval from Nigerian market regulators to launch a futures exchange offering prediction markets. Umeh’s Clouty Inc. is in the final stage to become the first Nigerian SEC-approved regulated prediction market, operating under the trade name Sabi.
10 MOST CLICKED STORIES OF THE WEEK
JLN PRESS ROOM PAGE OF THE WEEK
BlackRock Inc.
BlackRock has built three investment portfolios that will trade as digital tokens, the company’s latest move to bring traditional assets to the blockchain. The model portfolios will be tokenized by Ondo Finance.
FROM JOHN LOTHIAN NEWS
AI Discovery – Stop Asking Vague Questions: How to Actually Get Results from AI
Want to know the best tools and strategies to make AI your personal assistant? We talked with Tom Smith, the founder of Prosperum Fintech Holdings, about how he uses AI and what he sees coming for the technology in the future.
A Weak Man’s Ban, and the Markets’ Responsibility
Markets are built on disagreement. A price is not a decree; it is not a social media post demand. It is a negotiated truce between people who see the world differently. The buyer thinks the asset is cheap, the seller thinks it is dear, and the number where they meet carries the compressed judgment of everyone with information and an opinion. Take away the disparate perspectives, and you do not get a cleaner price. You get a worse one.