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Elon Musk are some of the high-profile names who are expected join the dinner hosted for US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping in San Francisco. The dinner which is being hosted by National Committee on US China relations and US-China Business Council will take place during the 30th Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit on Wednesday. The forum is expected to witness hundreds of business leadeers from various fields like banking and technology attending while President Xi could also make a speech, reported CBS News.

Sweden has opened a new state-of-the-art plastic sorting facility, the largest of its kind and big enough to receive all plastic packaging waste generated from Swedish households

PayU is in the process of setting up business-to-business payment rails for its Indian clients. Additionally, the company is evaluating opportunities in the supply chain financing space. “B2B payments is something that we are thinking very hard about … the idea is to expand into vendor payments and (look at) the different ways in which we can manage the suppliers of these anchor merchants, solve their reconciliation problems,” said Vijay Agicha, PayU’s global head of strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and investment.

Canada’s Brookfield says AustralianSuper must be factoring in higher energy prices for consumers and running Origin Energy’s coal-fired power station for longer in its finding that the $20 billion takeover bid from Brookfield and partner EIG undervalues Origin.

By Max A. Cherney and Loren Elliot

CEO pay at many of the biggest companies in the U.S. has snowballed over the past decade to levels hundreds or even thousands of times higher than median salaries — and in a lot of cases, the higher compensation isn't reflected in financial performance.

Central-Asia Country Kazakhstan has officially launched the digital tenge project, a central bank digital currency (CBDC) designed to simplify payments and drive economic growth.

Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ:PANW) shares fell 8% after-hours Wednesday after posting solid first quarter results but issuing second quarter and full year billing guidance below estimates.

Tetra Tech (NASDAQ:TTEK) shares rose more than 4% after-hours following the company’s reported Q4 results, with EPS of $1.78 coming in better than the consensus estimate of $1.44.

After two acquisitions so far this year, AlTi Global Inc., the giant registered investment advisor that targets wealthy clients, continues to see potential mergers and acquisition targets on the horizon.

CFX Labs has raised $9.5 million in seed investments to expand its Solana-based stablecoin payment and remittances network.

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) found himself in the hot seat during a recent court proceeding regarding the exchange's risk management measures. The hearing, documented by BitMEX Research, shed light on a catastrophic event stemming from a flawed risk engine in 2020, the subsequent code change titled «Allow Negative,» and its implications on FTX's operations.

In a recent social media exchange, Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of FTX, found himself amidst a whirlpool of questions regarding the potential risk transfer from Alameda Research to FTX. The core issue revolved around the use of FTX customer funds to settle the debts of Alameda's lenders, a move seen by some as transferring risk onto FTX customers.

Bethesda-based financial giant, ProShares, has once again taken a pioneering step in the crypto-linked ETF domain with the launch of the world’s first short ether-linked ETF, named ProShares Short Ether Strategy ETF (SETH), according to BusinessWire. This innovative ETF is engineered to give investors a lucrative avenue on days when Ether’s value descends. The announcement came on November 2, 2023, further solidifying ProShares' standing as a trailblazer in the crypto-linked ETF landscape.

MUMBAI : Hiring activity cooled in tech and retail sectors in the December quarter as companies cut hiring mandates and reduced sub-contracting costs, while banking recruitment stayed flat and manufacturing saw a minor uptick. While hiring in the IT and startup sector is down to the levels of June quarter of 2020 when a strict lockdown was in force, retail and packaged consumer goods mandates are almost 20% lower from a year ago, recruiters said. However, manufacturing and automobile industries have shown some growth in hiring.

Former Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank President and CEO Thomas Hoenig discusses potential for a recession during his appearance on 'Mornings with Maria.'

OpenAI will pause accepting new users for its paid ChatGPT Plus service due to overwhelming demand, CEO Sam Altman said in a post on Tuesday. Altman's company introduced new features and upgrades at its first-ever developer conference last week, allowing users to build custom versions of ChatGPT to accomplish specific tasks. The announcements triggered a rise in demand for OpenAI's artificial intelligence tools and services. «The surge in usage post devday has exceeded our capacity and we want to make sure everyone has a great experience,» Altman wrote on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. The AI startup said at its conference that roughly 100 million people use its services every week and more than 90% of Fortune 500 businesses are building tools on OpenAI's platform. With the new option, users will be able to create their own specialised versions of ChatGPT — simply called GPTs — that can help teach math to a child or explain the rules of a board game.

(Reuters) — A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators has written to Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding documents about its research into the harm to children from its social media platforms.

By Trevor Hunnicutt

Canadian pension funds bulked up on private equity investments for their attractive returns over the past couple of decades, but changing dynamics in the PE sector and volatility in public markets are now leading some to reverse course and put holdings on the block.

UBS Group CEO Sergio Ermotti says the «incredible» market demand for the bank's recent issuance of AT1 (additional tier one) bonds is a «signal to the Swiss banking system.»