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The shopping basket has always held the answer. Brands just haven’t had a clear way to read it at the moment a customer pays. Smart checkout technology could change that by matching products in the basket with eligible offers and applying the savings automatically. “The Smart Checkout Opportunity: Why Brands Are Ready to Fund a…

Fintel has bought Mortgage Brain Holdings for £38.4m. Mortgage Brain Holdings owns companies including Mortgage Brain Limited, AE3 Media, Criteria Hub and Mortgage Engine. The best-known, Mortgage Brain, provides software used to support around 40% of UK residential mortgage and buy-to-let applications. Fintel first invested £1.5m in Mortgage Brain Holdings in March 2024, buying a…

By firm size, small businesses with fewer than 50 employees led with 23,000 new jobs. Pay data sent a more layered signal. Annual earnings for job-stayers held at 4.4%, while those who changed employers saw pay climb to 7%, the sharpest gain since August 2025. “Job-changers are highly sensitive to real-time economic conditions, and their rapid…

News Updated: Wednesday, October 7, 2026, 13:27 [IST] The Nagaland state has declared results of three Sambad Dear lotteries on October 7, 2026. These are Dear Spark Morning 1PM, Dear Prestige Evening 6PM and Dear Destiny Night 8PM lottery. All three are offering bumper prize of Rs 1 crore. In the total, there are six…

France's Le Pen pledges to hardwire deficit cuts with 'golden rule'

Verification, CRA Tracking, State-Level Tax and MGIC Webinars, Non-Agency Product Developments I am no numerologist, but Freddie Mac’s announcement yesterday, that 30-year mortgage rates are averaging 6.66, caught my attention. Unlike rumors, like the one going around about a Texas IMB buying California IMB, hard, provable numbers are hard to argue with… Like…