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Blue Economy forum highlights strategic financing, innovation
Blue Economy forum highlights strategic financing, innovation Published on: Friday, October 03, 2025 Published on: Fri, Oct 03, 2025 By: David Thien Text Size: Dark Mode: Off The speakers on stage during the event. Kota Kinabalu: Malaysia is the...

Olukoyede Calls for Public-Private Partnership in Combating Financial Crimes
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ola Olukoyede on Tuesday, September 30, 2024 called for public/private partnership in combating money laundering, terrorist financing and proliferation financing, ML|TF|PF. He...

‘Development Bank’s Inclusive MSME Financing Model Bridges Credit Gaps’
The Development Bank of Nigeria Plc (DBN) has established an inclusive financing model that effectively bridges credit gaps and empowers women and youth within the Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector, according to financial...

A 33-Year-Old Woman Asks For Help Becoming Financially Disciplined: 'I Know Nothing About Finance And It's One Of My Biggest Regrets Not Learning'
A 33-year-old woman from Los Angeles is just getting started on her financial journey. While it's optimal to invest in your 20s, it is never too late to get started. In fact, she's ahead of the people who only got started in their 40s and 50s. She...

Committee backs community wealth building legislation
A Holyrood committee has backed the principles of community wealth building legislation. The Community Wealth Building (Scotland) Bill would impose a duty on councils and other public bodies to create plans that would “facilitate and support the...

BoomerangFX Adds Integrated Financial Services to Private-Pay Healthcare Platform
BoomerangFX has added integrated financial services to its cloud-based software-as-a-service platform for private-pay healthcare practices. This addition turns the platform into “a full-spectrum financial infrastructure provider inside the...
Afterpay decison to use buy now, pay later schemes for essentials 'raising red flags' - finance consultant
Afterpay allows customers to make purchases and pay it back over instalments. (File photo) Photo: Afterpay Buy now, pay later provider Afterpay's decision to allow customers to buy fuel and groceries with no payment upfront is raising red flags, a...

Investors seek $8bn financing for women
The Impact Investors Foundation (IIF) has unveiled a 10-year roadmap aimed at raising $8 billion in inclusive capital to close a $42 billion financing gap for women. At the launch of the Gender Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI) Roadmap 2025–2035,...

10/2/25: Mo Egger with Amy Wagner from Dean Dorton Private Wealth
Amy Wagner is a Wealth Advisor with Dean Dorton Private Wealth, and she joins us every Wednesday to talk sports and money, on ESPN1530. This week: Big payrolls don't guarantee success, either in sports or in business. Lean about the Dean Dorton...

Denise Richards ex-husband reveals the reason he is 'financially desperate'
Denise Richards' ex-husband Aaron Phypers is in a desperate financial situation and on the brink of homelessness, according to a written declaration in new court documents filed on Wednesday, October 1. The 53-year-old says he is being pushed out...

TASTE ZAKYNTHOS – Zakynthos highlighted its gastronomic and nutritional wealth
TASTE ZAKYNTHOS – Zakynthos highlighted its gastronomic and nutritional wealth The two-day TASTE ZAKYNTHOS – From Tradition to Experience, which took place on 27–28 September 2025, organized by the Zakynthos Cooperation Network, was completed with...

United Grain Appoints Brian Welch as Chief Financial Officer
United Grain is proud to announce the promotion of Brian Welch to chief financial officer (CFO). Since joining the company in 2022, Welch has played a key role in strengthening financial operations, improving reporting, and building team capacity....

What furloughed federal workers should know about managing their finances during shutdown
Federal workers checking their finances to see how they'll fare if the government shutdown drags on may find themselves fighting gut-wrenching anxiety. Federal workers checking their finances to see how they’ll fare if the government shutdown...

Salaveria to step down as state Budget and Finance director, effective Oct. 31
October 2, 2025, 2:00 PM HST State Budget & Finance Director Luis Salaveria will leave his post at the end of this month. Succeeding him as acting director will be Sabrina Nasir. PC: Office of the Governor State Budget and Finance Director Luis...
Four pearls of wisdom from a legend of financial writing
Jonathan Clements, the Wall Street Journal personal finance columnist who may have done more than nearly anyone who didn’t work at Vanguard to bring index funds to the masses, died recently after receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis last year. He...

Shepherd University Financial Aid Director Talks FAFSA, Financial Aid Packages
This content has been archived. It may no longer be relevant Shepherd University (Photo Credit: Shepherd University Facebook Page) SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. — Shepherd University’s Office of Financial Aid began delivering financial aid packages to...

FMA urges Kiwi consumers to complain more on financial issues
Photo: IGOR STEVANOVIC / SCIENCE PHOTO The Financial Markets Authority wants consumers to complain more, and for companies to listen. The FMA has found that fewer than than one-third of people were confident that they knew how to complain about...
Shepherd University begins delivering financial aid packages
This content has been archived. It may no longer be relevant SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. – Shepherd University’s Office of Financial Aid began delivering financial aid packages to incoming students on Thursday. The packages provide critical information...

Punjab Registers 22.35% Rise In GST Collections To ₹13,971 Crore: Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema
Chandigarh: Punjab has registered a 22.35 per cent rise in Goods and Services Tax (GST) collection to Rs 13,971 crore during April-September this fiscal year, the state's Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema said on Thursday.The state had...

Utkarsh Small Finance Bank Files Papers For ₹950 Crore Rights Issue To Fund Business Growth
New Delhi: Utkarsh Small Finance Bank on Thursday said it has filed papers for a Rs 950 crore rights issue to fund its business growth. "We have filed the relevant applications with stock exchanges seeking their comments on the Draft Letter of...