European cities could cut EV grid bill by 40% with smart charging, study says

Key insight: CFPB union leader Stephen Wheeler was placed on administrative leave last Thursday amid an investigation whose scope and allegations have not been disclosed, according to the union  Supporting data: The CFPB has 1,071 employees as of July, down from roughly 1,750 at the start of the Trump administration. Forward look: The union is…

Ethereum and Solana occupy a fundamentally different category. Institutions that hold these assets carry shorter time horizons and explicit performance conditions, generally tied to whether real-world adoption translates to token value within the next few years. Several institutions hold neither, citing an inability to identify a clear mechanism by which user activity accrues value to…

The Unified Payments Interface (UPI), which was launched on August 25, 2016, has completed a decade of transforming India’s digital payments landscape, emerging as the backbone of the country’s digital payments ecosystem and a global benchmark for real-time payments. Annual UPI transaction volume rose from 1.78 crore in 2016-17 to more than 24,162…

“I never heard a rock hit the windshield.”

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…

Indian equity benchmarks are set to enter the September 21-25 trading week after ending lower for the sixth consecutive week, marking their longest losing streak since 2020. The Nifty declined 0.22% during the week to close at 23,346, despite gaining 0.33% on Friday, while the Sensex fell 0.65% to 74,294. Most of the weekly damage…