Mastercard is set to launch a cryptocurrencies payments card, after striking a deal with Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange. The crypto debit card will let users pay for everyday purchases using various cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, that they have stored ...
Octopus Energy Group has launched a renewables strategy targeting early stage green energy projects to reduce Europe’s reliance on gas imports The €220m Octopus Energy Development Partnership (OEDP) Fund has already made its first investment in renewables developer Exagen – ...
The concept of a five day working week is “in many cases no longer fit for purpose for 21st century businesses”, the chief of digital lender Atom Bank said today as he hailed the success of a four day week ...
REUTERS TAIPEI — Taiwan will next year begin deploying drone defense systems on its offshore islands, the defense ministry said, after footage emerged of Taiwanese soldiers throwing stones at a Chinese drone that buzzed a guard post near China’s coast. ...
LOS ANGELES — The widow of the late basketball star Kobe Bryant was awarded $16 million by a jury on Wednesday over the sharing of photos of human remains at the helicopter crash site where her husband, their 13-year-old daughter ...
IZHEVSK, Russia — Russia’s record employment signals a surprisingly smooth decoupling from the West. Its rapid replacement of McDonald’s and Starbucks says business as usual. Yet pressures are building inside its economic machine. Six months into the Ukraine conflict, the ...
CANADA is on track to exceed its immigration goal of granting permanent residency to more than 430,000 people in 2022, Immigration Minister Sean Fraser said on Wednesday. Fraser, speaking to reporters in Vancouver, also announced a plan to hire up ...
TAIPEI — Taiwan proposed $19 billion in defense spending for next year on Thursday, a double-digit increase on 2022 that includes funds for new fighter jets, weeks after China staged large-scale war games around the island it views as its ...
KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia’s veteran politician Mahathir Mohamad said on Thursday that the disgraced former premier Najib Razak, who he helped bring down, was likely to receive a royal pardon and be released from a 12-year jail sentence for graft ...
BERLIN — China is exerting increasing pressure on foreign companies doing business in its markets to bring them into line with its political agenda, broadening the “red lines” for issues to which it is allergic, a German study seen by ...