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San Jose, California, United States, July 2026 — Altera has appointed Junaid Ahmed as its Chief Financial Officer, strengthening the executive leadership team as the company accelerates its growth as the world’s largest independent pure-play FPGA solutions provider.Announcing the appointment, Altera welcomed Junaid at a pivotal stage in the company’s evolution, noting that his leadership will help strengthen Altera’s financial foundation, enhance operational scalability, and create long-term value for customers, partners, employees, and shareholders. With more than three decades of leadership experience across the global semiconductor industry, he brings deep expertise in corporate finance, strategic planning, transformation, mergers and acquisitions,…

XRP (CRYPTO:XRP) just had one of its quietest days on-chain all year. Barely 25,000 wallets did anything on the network, and new sign-ups fell to their lowest level since late 2024. At the same time, the price slipped about 3% over the week to $1.11. Normally, an empty network and a falling price feed each other, since fewer users means less demand, and less demand means a lower price. But XRP is still holding above $1, and its ETFs have gone almost silent this month too. So the bigger puzzle isn’t why activity dried up, but what it means when…

Foundation, the intermediary-only specialist lender, has today (8th July 2026) launched a major refresh of its buy-to-let mortgage range, including rate reductions of up to 0.25% across a wide range of products. The changes form one of the lender’s most significant buy-to-let updates this year and are designed to strengthen its proposition for landlords operating across both mainstream and specialist sectors. The refresh delivers enhanced pricing across much of Foundation’s buy-to-let range, alongside improvements to lending criteria intended to provide brokers with greater flexibility when supporting landlord clients. The lender said the changes underline its commitment to offering competitive specialist solutions for a broad spectrum of borrower circumstances, property types and portfolio…

People moves for the week ending July 10 Alternatives Watch Source link

PTSB customers furious as technical issue sees their debit cards refused Irish Independent Source link

FinanceGovernment strategy to call on fund to use more of its 5% allocationJapan’s Government Pension Investment Fund began alternative investing in fiscal 2013 but remains well short of its 5% ceiling. (Photo by Shintaro Ino)TOKYO — Japan’s government will nudge the country’s massive public pension fund to invest more in alternative assets as part of an effort to harness capital for economic growth, Nikkei has learned. Source link

United Trust Bank (UTB) has made rate reductions of up to 100 basis points (bps) and launched new 90% and 95% loan-to-value (LTV) products. Its new residential mortgage rates start from 5.24% for two-year fixes for Super Prime customers. Three- and five-year fixed rates both start from 5.39%. For Prime Plus members, its two-year fixed rates start from 5.44%. Its three- and five-year fixes start from 5.59%. New products are available for Super Prime and Prime Plus borrowers. Loans at 90% LTV with maximum size of £750,000 and 95% LTV with maximum loan size of £500,000 have been introduced.…

Martin Lewis shared some tips around bank accounts (Image: ITV)Martin Lewis has shared some tips around the best bank accounts that may suit older people and pensioners. He shared some success stories on his BBC podcast and spoke about an account that is “especially good” for the older generation.The consumer expert encouraged people to shop around and see if they can get a better account, as you can currently get paid a bonus from several banks if you will switch your current account over to them. At the time of writing, these include £220 from HSBC, £200 offers from either…

The delicate gold ribbon, found near Hilborough, has been identified by experts as dating from the Middle to Late Bronze Age and is thought to have once formed part of an ornate bracelet or neck torc worn more than 3,000 years ago. The Bronze age ribbon was found in Norfolk (Image: British Museum) The discovery was made by Paul Davis on September 20, 2025, while metal detecting with the permission of the landowner. At a treasure inquest held at Norfolk Coroner’s Court, Maeve Sykes, the assistant coroner, formally ruled that the artefact met the legal definition of treasure under the…

A court heard Fletcher walked into the Bannatyne Health Club & Spa in Ashford three times, making off with several wallets and bank cards from members’ lockers – using the money to buy cigarettes.He has 32 previous convictions for 167 offences, with 110 of those for “theft and kindred offences” – but when he appeared before Sevenoaks magistrates on June 30, he was spared an immediate prison sentence.Victoria McGrady, prosecuting, said: “He goes into gyms to get people’s bank cards and then uses them, and he’s done this before. “He travelled to the health centre and entered by going through…