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The two families had agreed, the court found, that the defendants would hold the farm until the plaintiffs got back on their feet financially, at which point the plaintiffs could buy it back for roughly what the defendants had put into it. Nothing about price, timing, or the meaning of that phrase was ever written…

Berkshire Hathaway bet $4.5 billion on its own continued growth.

U.S. small businesses registered a mixed performance in August, with dollar volume climbing but transactions dropping for the tenth straight month, according to the August Small Business Index released early Thursday by the payments processor Fiserv Inc. It all added up to a Small Business Index reading of 145, flat with July and the third…

The growing dependence of banks on complex information technology (IT) vendor ecosystems has significantly increased exposure to third-party and IT supply chain risks. Grounded in principal–agent theory and transaction cost economics, this study develops and statistically validates a comprehensive risk assessment framework for bank IT supply chain management. A structured multidomain taxonomy of 108 risk…

In the weeks after the Budget of October 2024, pension schemes started receiving an unusual request. Savers who had taken their tax-free cash wanted to hand it back. They had taken it because of rumours that the then chancellor, Rachel Reeves, was about to cut it in the Budget. She didn’t. By December 2024, HMRC…

Vishal Garg will no longer lead Better, the company has announced.  Processing Content The founder and former CEO was replaced Monday, days before the company is scheduled to post its second quarter results. Newly tapped board member Daniel Lewis, a former hedge fund boss, will replace Garg as CEO on an interim basis immediately, the…