On Saturday, Congress advanced efforts to ban the widely-used video-sharing platform TikTok. The House made a second attempt to pass legislation aimed at tackling what lawmakers argue poses a national security risk.In a decisive 360-58 vote, the House of Representatives approved a bill containing a provision that would compel ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, to sell the company within a year. If the Chinese tech firm fails to follow the order, it will be removed from app stores in the US.However,...
About N531.4bn of the Central Bank of Nigeria intervention funds remains unused in the coffers of nine Deposit Money Banks in the country, findings by The PUNCH have shown. This came on the heels of the suspension of all CBN intervention funds by the incumbent governor of the apex bank, Olayemi Cardoso. Last October, the Read More
Brazilian authorities believe that an elderly man who was wheeled into a bank where his niece attempted to get him to sign off on a loan had already been dead for two hours.
Todd Hill, 51, who was known as 'Mr. Flip It' on HGTV's Flip It to Win It was jailed for four years and ordered to pay nearly $10M after being found guilty of fraud. Prosecutors he was involved in multiple scams including a Ponzi scheme
Rubiales is reportedly set to be tried alongside ex-Spain manager Jorde Vilda. The Criminal Court rejected the appeals against the order of judge in the case. Nottingham Forest have been stripped bare of their sympathy after three ropey decisions - Listen to the
North Carolina's government should collect higher revenues during this fiscal year and next than what is projected in the current two-year state budget.
Banks are increasingly carrying out checks to verify that their customers are not laundering money, financing terrorism or violating sanctions, De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) said on Monday. At the same time, the Dutch central bank noted that some banks are delaying or scaling back improvements to their controls and checks. As a result, they have to do more to get their controls in order.
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The Judo Bank is now forecasting the Reserve Bank will raise interest rates three times in 2024. This would see borrowers paying the highest rates in almost 16 years.
Judo Bank now predicts the Reserve Bank will raise interest rates three times in 2024 to levels not seen in 16 years - increasing the average mortgage repayment by $300 a month.The bank's chief economic adviser, Warren Hogan, forecast the key interest rate will rise to 5.1 percent by Christmas, from a 12-year high of 4.35 percent. Rate hikes in August, September and November this year would see the Reserve Bank of Australia's key interest rate reach levels last seen in December 2008 during the...
/PRNewswire/ -- Higher credit costs are expected to serve as a modest headwind to U.S. bank earnings this year, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence's
So, how was your Tax Day? Hopefully, you managed to eke out a refund. If not, maybe you didn't end up owing anything. If that is not the case, I sincerely hope you only needed to write a check to the IRS this year and not arrange to have a kidney removed.