For these CFOs, summer is where the year is won or lost. This article appears in the July/August issue of Global Finance Magazine. Every spring, airlines, cruise lines, travel booking platforms, golf tour operators, race promoters and other seasonal businesses begin trying to answer the question that will define much of their year: How is…
UK residential property transactions halted a two-month decline in June 2026, according to data released by HMRC, though the traditionally strong spring period showed limited momentum. The seasonally adjusted estimate for residential transactions in June reached 98,700, representing a marginal increase of less than 1% compared to May’s figure of 98,460. The June total was…
The Federal Reserve may soon be drawn into the Trump administration’s efforts to back the embattled currency of U.S. ally Japan. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wants the apolitical Fed to expand a lending facility that would enable Japan to support its currency without roiling the sensitive U.S. Treasurys market. That request comes as new Fed…
The General Insurance Council (GIC) on Monday defended its advisory on admission criteria for fever and infectious diseases, saying the framework is based on Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) guidelines and is aimed at reducing unnecessary hospitalisations, not restricting doctors’ clinical autonomy. The…
The SNLR of 47.4% contributed positively, but both the 33.4% expiry rate and 16.2% volume decline — consistent with Montreal Island home sales declining for consecutive months — hit the floor of their scales. “Look only at prices and you conclude the market is solid; look only at volume and you conclude it is slowing sharply….
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Retail spent two years bolting chatbots onto websites that could field a shopper’s specific questions but never close a sale. Voice agents built on models like OpenAI’s GPT-Realtime are changing that, holding real sales conversations, asking the same probing questions a floor associate would and adapting as a shopper’s needs shift, all without a human…
Three U.S. regulators announced separate financial penalties Monday against UBS Financial Services for anti-money laundering violations involving foreign currency wire monitoring and customer due diligence failures that persisted from January 2019 through June 2023. UBS Financial will pay $125 million for penalties levied by the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, the Financial…
Treasury teams are adapting to ongoing market volatility by treating uncertainty as the norm. This article appears in the July/August issue of Global Finance Magazine. Treasury teams now navigate sustained market volatility by treating uncertainty as a core factor in everydaydecision-making, rather than an exception. That’s among the central findings of the latest Herbert Smith…