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The European Central Bank is expanding its digital euro efforts with its new Pontes solution. Announced Monday (Sept. 21), Pontes allows wholesale transactions in tokenized assets to be settled using central bank money. “The Eurosystem is working to enable a more integrated, innovative and resilient European financial market in the digital age,” Christine Lagarde, president of the ECB, said…

Article content MONTREAL — Birks Group Inc. (“Birks Group” or the “Company”) (NYSE American LLC: BGI) announced today its intention to voluntarily delist from the NYSE American LLC (“NYSE American”). The Company has been approved to have its Class A voting shares trade on the OTCQB Venture Market (the “OTCQB”) and anticipates launching on the…

More than 1.1 million low-income families in England are facing a widening gap between local rents and the housing benefit support available to private renters, according to new research from the Resolution Foundation. The think tank’s report, Saving private renters, found that the shortfall between typical rents at the 30th percentile of local housing markets…

“Basically, the fact that there’s import tariffs on Canadian shipments to the US and vice versa is going to raise the cost of production for everyone, and that’s going to get passed on… ultimately through the housebuilder to the consumer,” wood market expert Russ Taylor (pictured top) told Mortgage Professional America. American plywood and LVL…

Brics leaders on Saturday backed deeper cooperation on taxation and customs, welcoming initiatives undertaken under India’s chairship, including the creation of working groups on international taxation and transfer pricing, and on revenue statistics.   The leaders reaffirmed their commitment to a “fair, inclusive, stable, and efficient international tax system” and to strengthening cooperation among Brics…

Marc Nachmann, Goldman Sachs global head of asset and wealth management. CNBC Goldman Sachs said Thursday it won deals to manage a combined $70 billion in retirement assets for Verizon Communications and Lockheed Martin, one of the larger recent announcements in the fast-growing market for outsourced corporate investing. The mandates include about $30 billion in…