Freedom Gold extends financing deadline, plans unit offering

Mobile technology and partnerships are extending banks’ reach and addressing distribution gaps. Yet banks and their partners must ensure that inclusion is responsible and commercially sustainable, while adapting their models to the characteristics of each market.    African ecosystems   At Egypt’s Commercial International Bank (CIB), ecosystem banking is focused on building a connected platform for SMEs…

Amazon (AMZN -0.66%) is building a constellation of 3,000-plus small “Amazon Leo” satellites to provide broadband internet service from low earth orbit. Blue Origin, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos-founded cousin company, wants to build its own constellation of 5,400 small satellites to provide similar communication services specifically for enterprise, data center, and government customers. And of course, there’s…

Fresh services and manufacturing sector data out Wednesday stoked concern that the Federal Reserve may have no choice but to raise interest rates one more time before the end of this year, sending 10-year Treasury yields north of 5% for the first time since 2007. That added chaos in the bond market arrived a week…

White refrigerators, wall-to-wall carpeting, ivy stenciling; the 1990s design trends modern homeowners have gone to great lengths to cover up are about to enter the spotlight once again, thanks to HGTV’s new competition series, “Totally ‘90s House.” Hosted by Jaleel White—the actor anyone with a birth year starting with “19” will know as Steve Urkel…

Los Angeles County office leasing climbed to its highest level since 2019 during the third quarter in another sign that the market is slowly stabilizing. Tenants signed about 4 million square feet of office leases in July, August and September, up 15 percent from a year ago and 0.7 percent from the second quarter, according…