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Where should you invest? What technology should you own? What should you outsource? How do you embrace AI without compromising customer trust, data security, or commercial advantage? These are the conversations every mortgage business leader needs to be having, and they’ll take centre stage at Mortgage Innovation & Technology Live 2026 on 13 October at…

You’ll have to time travel back to the spring of 2014 to find U.S. pending home sales this low. According to a new Redfin report, pending sales are at their lowest level since spring 2014—except April 2020, when the pandemic brought the housing market to a halt. Redfin said pending home sales fell 4% from…

Introductory speech by Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB, at the ECB Forum on Central Banking 2026 “Shaping Europe’s future: innovation, growth and stability” in Sintra, Portugal Sintra, 29 June 2026 It is a pleasure to welcome you to the ECB Forum on Central Banking. Over the past 15 years, the euro area faced an…

President Donald Trump on Wednesday insisted that he had nothing to do with a slowdown of SpaceX‘s Starlink in Ukraine, and does not know if Elon Musk was responsible for speed-capping the critical satellite service. Trump’s latest denial came one day after The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed U.S. officials and people familiar with the…

Two Trees Management has signed a deal with an artificial intelligence firm to more than double its office space on the Williamsburg, Brooklyn, waterfront, Commercial Observer has learned. Data platform Minerva BI, which stands for business intelligence, expanded from 3,500 square feet on the third floor of the Refinery at Domino to 8,320 square feet…