The most striking moment in recent talks between United Arab Emirates officials and U.S. Treasury officials in Washington wasn’t the Emiratis’ suggestion of a currency swap line, but the warning they attached to it. If the UAE runs out of dollars, Emirati officials reportedly told their American counterparts, it might be forced to use Chinese […]
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) earlier this month announced its 2026 New Hampshire Small Business Award winners. Thomas Hartley, owner of Hartley Transportation in Pembroke, has been selected as 2026 SBA’s New Hampshire Small Business Person of the Year in recognition of Hartley’s leadership, innovation and contributions to his community through his business. Other […]
In mid-April 2026, Twilio announced a new Flex SDK that embeds contact center capabilities directly into existing applications, alongside enhanced insights, sub-account support, and a User + Usage pricing model for more flexible CX deployments. This move positions Twilio as a unifying platform for CPaaS and CCaaS, tightly integrating with Salesforce’s Agentforce Contact Center and […]
In the eight weeks since the Iran war started, the conflict has driven gas prices above $4 a gallon, strained homebuyers and pushed inflation to its highest level in nearly two years. Even if the war ends soon, Americans are likely to feel the financial sting for months, economists say. “I think the damage has already been done, […]
NBCUniversal owner Comcast has disclosed the 2025 compensation packages for chairman and co-CEO Brian Roberts and co-CEO Michael Cavanagh, who served as president until the start of 2026, along with pay details for other top executives. Comcast’s proxy statement, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, showed that Roberts’ pay for his roles as chair and CEO, before the change […]
If it seems like financial services face more cloud-based cyberattacks daily, that’s because they’re using and pushing applications to the cloud more often, according to CrowdStrike’s field CTO for the Americas. Cristian Rodriguez says these cyberattacks tend to start with stolen credentials or identities, allowing adversaries to simply log in and leading to some major […]
In 2019, the Heywood Foundation launched its first fellowship in memory of the late cabinet secretary Jeremy Heywood, giving a senior civil servant the opportunity to explore issues relating to public service and policy outside of their day job. Jenny Bates, then a director general in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, became the fourth […]
Akunna Cook’s Next Narrative Africa Fund has spent the past year making the case that African storytelling is a serious global market that the entertainment industry has consistently underestimated. Now the organization has some numbers to back up its pitch. NNAF released a new report Thursday, produced in partnership with Parrot Analytics, finding that global […]
Raymond James Investment Management, a global asset management company with $115 billion in assets and a wholly owned subsidiary of Raymond James, has appointed Kristi Higgins as Head of ETF Strategy. In this role, Higgins will focus on supporting the continued development and expansion of the firm’s active ETF platform. She will report to Johan […]
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