Canada optimistic about concluding trade talks with India by year-end, minister says

Consumers already use the world’s largest real-time payments system for groceries and essentials, but AI agents could soon assume the heavy lifting for routine transactions on India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI). According to Reuters, India is ​developing the Unified Agent Protocol to facilitate agentic commerce on UPI. The framework could incorporate existing elements like UPI…

Design, adapt, and test We found that firms who understood their customers were better able to design support around real needs, adapt their communications, and ensure people received a consistent experience. This helped them deliver better outcomes, reduce barriers to access and support customers to make effective use of products and services. And they were…

At Money20/20 this year, one question deserves more attention than how quickly money can move: what does it take to make a new payment rail genuinely useful to a business operating across borders? The distinction matters. Moving money between two points is one challenge. Making that movement reliable, compliant and practical for a business—with the…

Proprietary score data that influential government-related mortgage buyers recently revealed could give housing finance firms an edge in predicting loan performance, Bank of America researchers concluded in a new study. Processing Content “We think the providing of the agency score is a timely, robust addition to credit modeling, offering a consistent alternative,” Jeana Curro, Chris…

India’s high-income taxpayer base is expanding, with the share of individual taxpayers reporting annual gross income above Rs 50 lakh nearly doubling over three years, pointing to a growing number of Indians moving into higher income brackets.   According to ClearTax’s annual report, ‘How India Filed in 2026’, 8% of self-filers reported gross income exceeding…

Key insight: Find out how artificial intelligence transformed the ethical landscape for global accounting professionals. What’s at stake: Accountants risk losing professional judgment, accountability, and public trust as technological pressures mount. Supporting data: 61% of surveyed professionals identified one primary issue as their leading ethical challenge. A comfortable majority of accountants agree that artificial intelligence…