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The firm has added a new director and promoted several lawyers in its Johannesburg location. DLA Piper has hired Virgin Active Africa lawyer Phila Zulu as a director in its finance practice. He joined the firm’s Johannesburg office on 1 July. Zulu specialises in complex, multijurisdictional finance work, with a focus on debt capital markets, credit derivatives, banking and finance, securitisation and general corporate law. His practice also involves UK, EU and US securities law transactions. He started his career at Deneys Reitz (now Deneys, formerly Norton Rose Fulbright) in 2004 and transferred to White & Case in 2008. He…

When Jeff Bezos said that one breakthrough technology would shape Amazon’s destiny, even Wall Street’s biggest analysts were caught off guard. Fast forward a year and Amazon’s new CEO Andy Jassy described generative AI as a “once-in-a-lifetime” technology that is already being used across Amazon to reinvent customer experiences. At the 8th Future Investment Initiative conference, Elon Musk predicted that by 2040 there would be at least 10 billion humanoid robots, with each priced between $20,000 and $25,000. Do the math. According to Musk, this technology could be worth $250 trillion by 2040. Put another way, that’s roughly equal to:…

The Mortgage Works cut rates by up to 25bps across selected buy-to-let and limited company buy-to-let switcher products for existing customers, with reductions including a five-year fixed buy-to-let rate lowered 15bps to 4.44% with a £1,495 fee at up to 65% LTV, a two-year fixed buy-to-let rate cut 10bps to 4.89% fee-free at up to 65% LTV, and a two-year fixed limited company buy-to-let rate reduced 20bps to 5.74% fee-free at up to 75% LTV.  Tipton & Coseley Building Society trimmed mortgage rates by up to 14bps across its range, introducing new products including expat buy-to-let mortgages from 5.44% for a two-year discount…

Surat: A private bank-appointed gold valuer and three customers have been booked for allegedly cheating a private bank by securing loans against fake gold jewellery using forged valuation certificates. The fraud, involving loans worth nearly Rs 10 lakh, came to light during an internal audit that found several pledged ornaments to be counterfeit. The complaint was lodged by Premsukh Mali, 32, branch manager of Shivalik Small Finance Bank’s Adajan branch. According to the FIR, the bank appointed Yogesh Soni as its authorised gold valuer a year ago to assess the purity, weight and value of jewellery pledged for gold loans.Police…

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When Jeff Bezos said that one breakthrough technology would shape Amazon’s destiny, even Wall Street’s biggest analysts were caught off guard. Fast forward a year and Amazon’s new CEO Andy Jassy described generative AI as a “once-in-a-lifetime” technology that is already being used across Amazon to reinvent customer experiences. At the 8th Future Investment Initiative conference, Elon Musk predicted that by 2040 there would be at least 10 billion humanoid robots, with each priced between $20,000 and $25,000. Do the math. According to Musk, this technology could be worth $250 trillion by 2040. Put another way, that’s roughly equal to:…

Trader sitting in front of screens ©Shutterstock Crowded US positioning may create opportunities abroad Barclays believes the dominance of US equities remains firmly in place, but says market conditions are beginning to favour a gradual shift toward international markets as investor positioning becomes increasingly stretched. Writing on Wednesday, strategist Emmanuel Cau noted that US equity funds attracted approximately $150 billion in June, the largest monthly inflow on record, while non-US markets “remained largely for sale.” The bank added that improved confidence in the US economy and easing concerns over Federal Reserve independence have pushed bullish dollar positioning back to its…

The personal information and property addresses of an estimated 70,000 people have been affected by a data security incident at the Singapore Land Authority (SLA), following unauthorised access to an IBM-managed cloud environment.In a statement on Friday (July 3) afternoon, SLA said the unauthorised access involved a data set created for the purpose of vendor development and testing.The data set, which was created in 1998 and updated periodically over the years, was intended to only contain mock and anonymised testing data based on property ownership and lodgement records.However, it has since been found to contain the names, NRIC numbers, and…

Thomas Cook India expands prepaid Forex Card to 28 currencies, adding 16 new ones. Seamless global transactions & cost efficiency for travelers.Mumbai, Apr 30 (PTI) Omnichannel foreign exchange services and travel company Thomas Cook (India) on Thursday announced the expansion of its prepaid Forex Card portfolio to 28 currencies, adding 16 new global currencies.The newly added currencies include Chinese Yuan, Swedish Krona, Vietnamese Dong, Malaysian Ringgit, Indonesian Rupiah, Danish Krone, Hong Kong Dollar, Qatari Riyal, Norwegian Krone, Omani Riyal, Kuwaiti Dinar, Bahraini Dinar, Bangladeshi Taka, South African Rand, South Korean Won and Philippine Peso.This complements the company’s existing suite of…

Introduction On 18 March 2026 the FCA, PRA and Bank of England (Bank) published policy statements introducing new requirements and expectations for the reporting of certain operational incidents, and expanding the scope of existing data collections on third-party arrangements.1 These measures, which follow a package of consultation papers published back in December 2024, are the latest in a series of initiatives to support the operational resilience of the UK financial sector. In particular, they are hot on the heels of the introduction of a new oversight regime for critical third parties to the financial sector (CTPs) in January 2025, which…