Wise Group shares tank after U.S. bank charter rejected. What’s next for the fintech.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s budget continues supplemental pension payments but raises taxes.Bloomberg News Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s $17.6 billion 2027 budget pledges to continue the city’s supplemental pension payments but calls for a host of revenue-raising measures, including a personal property lease tax hike, increased sports wagering and liquor tax rates, and a revival of…

New valuation analytics solution built on 30+ years of proprietary property data delivers AI-powered home price trends and forecasts from the national level to individual census blocks IRVINE, Calif. — Aug 25, 2026 — ATTOM, the leading provider of property data, AI-powered intelligence, and real estate analytics solutions, today announced the launch of the ATTOM…

“When you get to the local level, it gets to be extremely underfunded in relation to the scope of the advancing technology,” Fitch Ratings’ Omid Rahmani said of cybersecurity defense. Cyberattacks increasingly threaten capital-strapped communities across the Midwest, with threat actors using artificial intelligence to increase the speed and sophistication of their hacking campaigns.  Processing…

Move over Alexander Wang — it’s Alexandr Wang (with only one “e”) whose fashion choices are generating buzz online. The Meta exec, fresh off the runaway popularity of the Muse AI agent, is the guy Mark Zuckerberg effectively spent $15 billion to hire last year. And he dressed for the occasion — Meta’s Connect 2026…

Construction, manufacturing, and the finance and insurance sector all expanded for a second consecutive month, while April’s GDP figures were revised upward by a tenth of a percentage point to 0.6%. Andrew Grantham, an economist at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), urged restraint. “Growth was flattered by a reversal of some one-off factors…