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The West Bengal state government will release 50% of pending Dearness Relief arrears of individual and family pensioners in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) area through banks, PTI reported citing an official notification on the same. As per the notification from the state finance department’s pension branch, pending DR arrears will be disbursed through banks…
The Internal Revenue Service said Wednesday it’s introducing a new automatic process to provide penalty relief for taxpayers who have a history of filing and paying their tax debts on time, lessening the need for them to ask for assistance. Processing Content The new process, known as Automatic Exemption from Penalty, will eventually replace the…
by Calculated Risk on 1/07/2026 07:48:00 PM Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Thursday:• At 8:30 A ET, Trade Balance report for November from the Census Bureau. The consensus is the trade deficit to be $59.4 billion. The U.S. trade deficit was at $52.8 billion in September. • Also…
Please enable JavaScript if it is disabled in your browser or access the information through the links provided below. June 18, 2026 Federal Reserve Board issues enforcement action with former employee of Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company For release at 11:00 a.m. EDT The Federal Reserve Board…
Amid a deepening housing affordability crisis, roughly 1 in 10 homes in the country is sitting vacant, concludes a new report. Around 14.5 million houses are empty, according to a new analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data compiled by personal finance site LendingTree. However, only a shockingly low number of these homes—fewer than 800,000—are actually up…
Identity theft wears many different faces. From credit cards to student loans, thieves can open different forms of credit in your name and just like that, destroy your credit history and financial standing. If this happens to you, getting the situation fixed can be difficult and time-consuming. But you can set things right. If someone…
Please enable JavaScript if it is disabled in your browser or access the information through the links provided below. June 18, 2026 Federal Reserve Board issues enforcement action with former employee of Bank of Eufaula and S N B Bancshares, Inc. For release at 3:00 p.m. EDT …
Paragon Bank has added two-year bank base rate (BBR) tracker options for landlords, with rates starting from BBR plus 1%. The range covers single self-contained properties (SSCs), houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) and multi-unit blocks (MUBs), improving landlord choice. For SSC properties at 75% loan to value (LTV), the two-year tracker is priced from…
Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB) has built a comprehensive environmental, social and governance (ESG) framework in Middle Eastern Islamic banking: a Shariah-compliant sustainable finance programme that is publicly committed, formally governed and increasingly embedded across its business lines. The headline commitment is AED60 billion in sustainable finance by 2030. By the end of 2025, ADIB…