Italy's BPER Banca posts double-digit net profit growth

In just six years, the number of banks live on India’s real-time payments system, Unified Payments Interface (UPI), has nearly quintupled to 731 institutions in June 2026 from just 155 banks in June 2020, signalling growing adoption among financial institutions.   A year earlier, in June 2025, this number stood at 675 banks….

UK rents have risen by almost 5% (4.9%) over the last year, the latest Goodlord Rental Index. In September, average rents were up from £1,507 12 months ago, to £1,581, which means properties are costing tenants £888 more per year compared to 2025. The rise in year-on-year prices was felt most acutely in Wales, where…

Financial institutions ask customers for passports, facial images, addresses and information about their money to meet regulatory requirements. Stored together, however, the same records can become a ready-made targeting file for criminals, and obtaining it may not require breaking into a bank’s systems. London’s trading industry is coming home! What Happened to Revolut The latest…

A view of the Hollywood sign, in Hollywood, California, Sept. 30, 2025. Mario Tama | Getty Images At the Toronto International Film Festival last month, audiences saw “Wicked” star Cynthia Erivo return to the big screen for her newest movie, “Prima Facie.” Behind the scenes, there was a notable difference. While “Wicked” was a massive…

Jeff Thramann has always been an outside-the-box thinker. A trained neurosurgeon with a degree from Cornell Medical School, Thramann is an entrepreneur at heart and an inventor by nature. He’s been issued north of 130 patents and has seen his inventive startups like U.S. Radiosurgery sold to a publicly traded company and Denver CyberKnife (another…

Transcription: Transcripts are generated using a combination of speech recognition software and human transcribers, and may contain errors. Please check the corresponding audio for the authoritative record. Chana Schoenberger (00:12): Okay. So what is it that your clients are asking for right now? Elizabeth St. Onge (00:16): I think that question, I think about it…