New American Funding names Stacy Chevalier as Northwest VP

For an industry betting that obsolete office towers can help solve the housing shortage, this week’s scare at the former Pfizer headquarters could be a snag. Work stopped at the Midtown Manhattan tower on Tuesday after two steel columns failed during construction, prompting evacuations of the site and neighboring properties. The project, led by Nathan…

Alternative investment management firm 26 North is relocating its New York City offices to LeFrak’s Midtown office tower at 40 West 57th Street, Commercial Observer has learned.  The company has inked an 84,000-square-foot lease at the 36-story property, where it will occupy four full floors following its move from 600 Madison Avenue, according to landlord…

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has proposed that external benchmark-linked loans be made optional for non-banking finance companies (NBFCs), while emphasising that usurious rates are not charged for small-ticket loans in the draft norms on interest rates on loans and advances.   The draft, which offers a harmonised framework for determining interest…

A US service member died in northern Iraq on Saturday “during a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian one-way attack drone,” US Central Command announced. A second service member was wounded. The death came a day after two US service members were killed in Jordan when American and partner forces came under…

TOKYO, Aug. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — TIER IV, the pioneering force behind open-source software for autonomous driving, has joined the Next-Generation Edge AI Semiconductor Research and Development Program led by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) to advance research and development of a software-defined system-on-chip (SoC) for Level 4 autonomous driving. Under the JST…