Close Brothers FY26 slides: cost cuts deliver as profit falls 17%

Home Awards Award Winners Best Treasury and Cash Management Banks 2026 | Western Europe Unified digital interfaces and sophisticated cross-border architectures are making silos a thing of the past. European financial institutions are changing to meet corporate demands for AI-driven automation and real-time liquidity management. By deploying unified digital interfaces and sophisticated cross-border architectures, banks…

Top 25 Firm Withum acquired Farber Hass Hurley in Chatsworth, California, effective as of Sept. 1. Processing Content FHH, founded in 1990, adds three partners and approximately 30 employees to Withum’s Los Angeles office. The deal expands Wiithum’s assurance and consulting practice, and strengthens its industry and service capabilities, including in industrial and consumer products,…

Creating artificially intelligent dupes of real people is . . . off-putting, to say the least. AI stand-ins for actors, like Val Kilmer’s posthumous AI-powered performance in the film As Deep as the Grave, have largely been deemed to be in poor taste. AI clones of pastors and tech executives are similarly divisive. But one…

Accounting firm tech stacks may be leaking more information than leaders realize, including sensitive client data, due to unintentionally agreeing to innocent-sounding terms and conditions that give vendors permission to access and use it how they see fit, such as training their own AI models. Processing Content As a result, many firms are likely in…

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Zoe Financial, an RIA offering referral services between advisors and potential clients, didn’t disclose conflicts of interest related to its own wealth platform, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The agency regulator settled charges against the New York-based firm, which acquiesced without admitting or denying the charges. To settle the claims, Zoe Financial will…