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Big Four accounting firm PwC UK orders staff back to the office
“Face-to-face working is hugely important to a people business like ours,” says Laura Hinton, managing partner of PwC UK PricewaterhouseCoopers, one of the Big Four accounting firms, is clamping down...
US bank profits jump 11% in second quarter of 2024 as expenses shrink
THE US banking industry recorded profits of US$71.5 billion in the second quarter of 2024, up 11.4 per cent on the prior quarter, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (Fdic)...
US bank profits jump but watchdog warns of stress
THE US banking industry recorded higher profits in the second quarter of 2024, but the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) on Thursday (Sep 5) identified several lingering areas of...
UK retailer John Lewis to bring back 100-year-old price pledge
British department store John Lewis is reintroducing its 100-year-old “Never Knowingly Undersold” promise to customers on Monday (Sep 9), two years after it dropped it, hoping a revamped version...
US dollar sags as traders up their bets on jumbo US rate cuts
THE US dollar touched one-month lows against the yen and was under pressure against other major currencies on Thursday (Sep 5) as growing concern over the US economic outlook...
Tourist-focused Island Hospital will enhance IHH Healthcare’s attractiveness to higher-paying foreign patients: analysts
Island Hospital is complementary to IHH’s existing Penang hospitals and yields immediate commercial synergies, say analystsINTEGRATED healthcare provider IHH Healthcare’s RM3.9 billion (S$1.17 billion) acquisition of Penang’s Island Hospital...
Morgan Stanley quietly walks away from plastics financing goal
MORGAN Stanley no longer has an explicit financing goal to tackle plastic pollution, as the Wall Street bank quietly shelves an earlier target.
In its latest ESG report, published on...
Jack Ma-backed Ant makes inroads on AI to pave tech growth
JACK Ma-backed Ant Group rolled out a package of artificial intelligence services, as the company seeks new avenues of growth following a multiyear government crackdown.
The fintech company said...
