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    Main Street Bank finalizes merger with Wayne Savings Community Bank

    Wheeling, W.Va. (WTRF) - It's official. The Main Street Bank and Wayne Savings Community Bank merger has been finalized. The announcement comes as Main Street Bank held their 23rd annual shareholders meeting at the Undo's Event Center in Elm Grove. Customers of Main Street Bank will receive a mailing this week detailing the expanded products, []

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    Bank of England set to hold rates as Europe's central banks diverge from Fed

    Investors are set to focus on the MPC vote split, inflation outlook and Governor Andrew Bailey's comments on Thursday.

  • Competition Council Approves Intesa Sanpaolo Bank’s First Bank Acquisition

    The Competition Council authorized the transaction by which Intesa Sanpaolo SpA intends to take over First Bank SA, according to a press release from the competition authority. Following the analysis, the Competition Council found that this operation does not raise significant obstacles to effective competition on the Romanian market or on a substantial part of […]

  • Ukraine-Russia war live: Russia seizes another village in ongoing offensive

    Russia has claimed victory over a village in eastern Ukraine after bitter fighting amid Moscow’s renewed offensive. ]]>

  • Ukraine-Russia war live: Ukraine strikes refinery 746 miles inside Russia

    Ukraine broke records with a long-distance strike on Russia on Thursday, hitting a target 746 miles from the border.]]>

  • Premji Invest in talks to pick up big stake in Bank of Baroda’s Nainital Bank

    Premji Invest, the family office of Wipro founder Azim Premji, is in advanced talks to acquire a majority stake in Nainital Bank, which is a subsidiary of the publicly owned Bank of Baroda, three people aware of the discussions said. The proposed investment is likely to value the Uttarakhand-based lender at around Rs 800 crore, they added.“Premji Invest has signed a term sheet and the due diligence process is over. However, the final decision is yet to be made on the acquisition,” according to...

  • Paytm Payments Bank: Paytm Paytments Bank moves bill pay business to Euronet India

    Paytm Payments Bank (PPBL) has migrated its bill payment business to Euronet Services India, said two people in the know. This comes after the shifting of PPBL’s retail point of sales business to RBL Bank and the settlement business for merchant payments to Axis Bank.Euronet is an American payment technology company handling backend settlement systems for several digital payment modes in India. “Since Paytm Payments Bank was asked to stop offering services, they had to migrate to someone else,...

  • Russia-Ukraine war: Ukraine says Russia attacking border in northern Kharkiv region and replaces commander on frontline – as it happened

    Kharkiv region’s governor says Russia is attempting to stretch front line; Ukrainian commander responsible for north-eastern frontline replacedPutin removes Sergei Shoigu as Russia’s defence ministerRussia’s new defence minister Andrei Belousov has said that soldiers need better access to housing, hospitals and welfare benefits.Reuters reports:We rejected that at the time and I think the same applies to the different requests that are now being made. Continue reading

  • Russia doubles down on illegal invasion

    Not only has the Russian occupation of eastern and southern Ukraine continued, but advances have been made along the front. In recent days Russian forces have also invaded from the north-east in the direction of Kharkiv, the second-largest city in the country which lies close to the border. Having been starved of western munitions over recent months Ukrainians have been fighting with one hand tied behind their back. The recent decision by the US Congress to provide necessary armaments is very...

  • Lafrenière banks in tying goal

    R2, Gm4: Alexis Lafrenière sends the puck from a difficult angle towards

  • Victory Day in Russia – in pictures

    Vladimir Putin celebrated Victory Day in Russia, which marks the defeat of Nazi Germany in the second world war, with a display of patriotic pageantry. He praised his forces fighting in Ukraine and criticised the west for fuelling conflicts around the world Continue reading

  • Russia is losing the South Caucasus

    Russia is withdrawing its “peacekeeping forces” from Azerbaijan’s Karabakh region and from the Armenian border. They are no longer needed because the advantages that Moscow gained from a frozen conflict in the South Caucasus could only be maintained for as long as the conflict continued. With Armenia and Azerbaijan moving toward a peace agreement and looking westward […]