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REFORMS OVERVIEW         STARTING A BUSINESS (more info) At the fifteenth position, worldwide, and first in Africa, under the Starting a Business index of the 2020 Doing Business ranking, Togo sustains its reformative dynamics with more reforms….   ENFORCING CONTRACTS (more info) Compared to some years ago when it was one of the lowest rankers under the Doing Business’ Enforcing Contracts indicator, Togo, leveraging many efforts to improve its business climate, was able to jump significantly on the index in the recent years… . CONTRACT EXECUTION (more info) Creation of special chambers of commerce for small debts…

iShares Russell 1000 Growth Fund (NYSE:IWF) has outperformed the market over the past 10 years by 3.43% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 16.6%. Currently, iShares Russell 1000 Growth Fund has a market capitalization of $132.10 billion. Buying $100 In IWF: If an investor had bought $100 of IWF stock 10 years ago, it would be worth $464.27 today based on a price of $121.01 for IWF at the time of writing.iShares Russell 1000 Growth Fund’s Performance Over Last 10 YearsFinally — what’s the point of all this? The key insight to take from this article…

QDEX, developer of pre-submission lending platform QDEX Intelligence, has launched its mortgage sourcing platform Edge to the market. Edge is the free entry version of its QDEX Intelligence platform and provides residential and buy-to-let (BTL) mortgage sourcing services. The firm has made this available to all mortgage brokers, saying the launch reflected its belief that mortgage technology was “entering a new era”.  QDEX said comparing products alone was no longer sufficient and its platform would help brokers understand whether they have selected a suitable option before packaging and submitting a case.  The Edge platform has a pre-submission lending intelligence…

Globalpay Launches Smart Switch Card The Card Aims At Revolutionising International Leisure Travel GlobalPay Launches Smart Switch Card FinTech BizNews ServiceMumbai, March 16, 2026: GlobalPay, a trusted standard in global payments for leisure, students, and corporate travellers, today announced the launch of the GlobalPay Smart Switch Forex Card, a first-of-its-kind prepaid forex card that enables travellers to start with a single currency and seamlessly switch across up to 30 global currencies on the same card through the GlobalPay app or website, eliminating the need for multiple cards, paperwork or card replacements.Designed with a focus on leisure travellers, the card offers…

Motive Partners has appointed Jennifer Nason as an Industry Partner, adding a veteran investment banking executive to strengthen the firm’s advisory capabilities as it continues investing in financial technology and technology-enabled business services companies. Nason will work closely with Motive’s investment professionals and portfolio company leadership teams, providing strategic guidance on growth initiatives, corporate development, capital markets, governance and enterprise transformation. Her appointment reinforces the firm’s investor-operator-innovator (IOI) model, which combines investment capital with operational expertise and industry relationships to support portfolio company growth. The addition comes as financial services firms continue to invest in artificial intelligence, data infrastructure and…

Mortgage Solutions speaks to Joe Noon (pictured), regional account manager for the Yorkshire region at buy-to-let (BTL) lender Landbay. Which locations and how many advisers and broker firms do you cover in your role at Landbay? I cover a large slice of Yorkshire and the East Midlands, with SK thrown in for good measure. My patch includes the postcodes BD, DE, DN, HD, HU, HX, LN, LS, NG, S and SK.   What personal talent or skill is most valuable in doing your job? It would have to be my organisational skills; a good to-do list for the day…

Prithvi Exchange launches ICONIC Forex Card for global travellers scanx.trade Source link

EXCLUSIVE: At just 24 years old, Martha Collins is a proud homeowner and hopes to be mortgage-free by the time she reaches her early 40s08:50, 19 Jul 2026Updated 10:59, 20 Jul 2026At just 24 years old, Martha Collins and her partner, Harry, are on target to be mortgage-free homeowners(Image: Martha Collins)While many twentysomethings are struggling to get on the property ladder, one young woman hopes to be mortgage-free by 40.Martha Collins, now 24, bought her first home with her partner Harry at just 23, having “saved every penny possible through apprenticeships, part-time jobs and full-time work”.After moving into their £137,500…

If new Prime Minister Andy Burnham introduces a property tax many landlords could decide to raise rents or even sell, Savills warns. Burnham is known to be a supporter of a Land Value Tax, which would involve an annual charge based on a property’s value, to replace Council Tax. But the impact on property investors and landlords could be severe, especially if prices and values are rising. Consider selling Now, estate agents are concerned that a new tax could hit the private rented sector at a time when the effects of the Renters’ Rights Act, which came into force in…

North American stock markets were drifting in mixed trading Wednesday, while oil prices climbed another three per cent as fighting continues in the war with Iran. On Wall Street, the S&P 500 slipped less than 0.1 per cent, coming off its best day in three weeks, after swinging between modest losses and gains for much of the day. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 61 points, or 0.1 per cent, as of 2:10 p.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.3 per cent lower.Meanwhile on Bay Street, the TSX was up by about 0.3 per cent, and helped…