Venezuela expects $76 billion oil investment boost amid U.S. cooperation

The Reserve Bank’s liquidity measures announced last week to drain surplus from the banking system lifted weighted average call money rates by 0.12 per cent on Monday, experts said. The measures, including moves to increase the daily CRR maintenance limit to 99 per cent and bond sales through open market operations, will also help accelerate…

Key insight: Shopify has added agentic payments capabilities through a partnership with Meta. What’s at stake: Agentic commerce helps Shopify grow its payments volume and thus its ability to provide embedded payments and finance as an alternative to banks.  Expert quote: “Agentic commerce really excites us. The agents don’t have the same challenges as humans.”…

Equated monthly instalments (EMIs) for retail and small business loans will rise after the six-member rate-setting panel of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) unanimously voted on Wednesday to raise the policy repo rate by 25 basis points (bps) to 5.5 per cent, in line with expectations.  The surprise was the change in the policy…

Keynote speech by Frank Elderson, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB and Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the ECB, at the ECB-Bank of England Conference on supervising climate risk in a non-linear world Frankfurt am Main, 14 October 2026 It is a pleasure to open this joint ECB-Bank of England conference. Bringing…

L5 Mission Critical, a new data center operations and management firm, has tapped Matt Landek as its first president and CEO.  Landek previously spent 14 years at JLL, most recently as president of its data centers and critical environments division in Chicago.  SEE ALSO: In Pro-Development South Florida, NIMBYism Rises L5 Mission Critical, launched Wednesday…