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If you're waiting on the sidelines, hoping fervently for a resumption of banks' pandemic buoyancy before releasing your resume onto the jobs market, you might be waiting a while.

Clock Tower, popularly known as Ghanta Ghar, at Srinagar's historic Lal Chowk is getting a major makeover under the Srinagar Smart City Project. Locals feel the refurbished city square, named after the iconic Red Square in Moscow, will add to the city's hang out options. The business community of Lal Chowk claims it has suffered immensely over the past seven months due to the maintenance work, yet hopes in the end it will be all worth the trouble.

Chicago-based boutique wealth management firm Rothschild has completed a merger with RIA firm Sentinus, bringing together two long-established businesses with a combined $5 billion AUM.

Scott Hanson and Pat McClain, who started an advisory firm in 1993 that has grown into $18 billion Allworth Financial, announced Wednesday they are stepping down from their roles as Allworth’s co-CEOs.

FundsDLT is playing a key role in the development of D7, a new cloud-backed and DLT-ready platform from the German exchange operator that will deliver same-day-issuance and paperless, automated straight-through processing for the entire value chain of issuance, custody, settlement, payment and asset servicing for digital securities.Alrready a significant minority shareholder, Deutsche Börse has bought out former stakeholders Credit Suisse Asset Management together with UBS Asset Management as well as Natixis Investment Managers.“The acquisition of FundsDLT is a critical and natural step in our digital strategy. It demonstrates our position at the forefront of innovation and will redefine the overall distribution chain of the fund business,” states Philippe Seyll, CEO of Clearstream Fund Centre.

Sterling and Wilson Renewable Energy Limited a renewable engineering procurement and construction company has won orders worth Rs 826 crore in the first four months of FY 2023-24. The orders aggregate to around 1 GWp and include projects in Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat.

ICICI Prudential Life Insurance’s MD and CEO Anup Bagchi believes that despite the new tax rule, where proceeds from non-Ulip products exceeding Rs 5 lakh annual premium have become taxable, will impact the industry too much. The money, he said, would “largely” remain in the insurance industry as long as there aren’t substitute products in the financial sector that can replace the long-term nature of insurance products.

Signing a cheque? It is important to be cautious before doing it due to the legal and financial implications involved. A signature on a cheque signifies authorisation for the mentioned payment, making it a powerful financial instrument.

Explained: What is a rating downgrade? And six key reasons why Fitch Ratings downgraded US The move has the potential to affect the overall economy and hit investor confidence, leading to negative market sentiment. Moreover, the downgrade can also impact the US dollar in a negative way which is positive for gold since the yellow metal is priced in dollars. Investors prefer gold for investment in times of economic uncertainty.

Rahul Guha, MD & CEO, Thyrocare, says: “Our partnerships business is coming along well. We will partner, of course, with the government as well to participate in many of the health tenders that are coming up in the next couple of quarters. Most of our capital allocation for the next year is going to fund our international expansion.

Mahindra & Mahindra and Temasek, the Singapore-headquartered global investment firm, have executed a binding agreement for the latter to invest Rs1200 crores into MEAL (Mahindra Electric Automobile Limited), the four-wheeler (4W) passenger electric vehicles company, Mahindra and Mahindra said in a filing to the stock exchanges. Temasek will invest Rs1200 crores in the form of Compulsorily Convertible Preference Shares (CCPS) at a valuation of up to Rs 80,580 ($9.74 billion) crores resulting in Temasek’s ownership of a 1.49% to 2.97% stake in MEAL. ET had reported on the company’s fund-raising plans in its July 10 edition.

DoorDash raised its annual core profit forecast for a second time and posted an upbeat quarterly revenue as groceries and food orders jumped, sending its shares up more than 4% after the bell on Wednesday. The delivery firm posted its highest revenue since its IPO in Dec. 2020 as people stick to the pandemic trend of buying from their homes, thanks to promotions, deals and free deliveries with subscription passes by DoorDash and its rivals.

MinterEllison has hired former AGL executive and McKinsey partner Joao Segorbe as a partner in its ESG consulting practice.

Downer EDI’s boss, Peter Tompkins, says the troubled contractor’s new management team has “a good grip on all known issues” after disclosing $550 million in write-downs ahead of the company’s annual results.

«Bitcoin surged to US$30,000 yesterday after the positive developments from Fitch downgrade of U.S Treasurys and Microstrategy plan to purchase more bitcoin. However, soon after a news website wrote about Binance could face US fraud charges, BTC immediately started to drop,» Edul Patel, Co-founder and CEO at Mudrex, said. «Currently, it is trading above the US$29,100 level. On the other hand, institutional investors await the US SEC's decision on the approval of a Bitcoin Spot ETF. Despite the excitement surrounding Litecoin's halving event, the coin's value plummeted by more than 5% in the last 24 hours. In the same timeframe, Uniswap's token also experienced a significant decline of over 7.8%,» he added. Bitcoin (BTC) fell 2% to $29,030, meanwhile, its largest peer, Ethereum, was also trading lower and declined below the $1,850 level.

Elon Musk, the owner of X, formerly Twitter, has announced that he intends to discuss with Apple CEO Tim Cook the possibility of reducing App Store fees for creators who earn money through subscriptions on the X social network. Musk's proposal involves requesting Apple to apply a 30 percent cut only to the portion of the creator fee that Twitter retains, rather than taking 30 percent of the entire fee earned by a creator on the platform.

₹1,200 crore in its electric vehicle subsidiary Mahindra Electric Automobile Ltd (MAEL). The Indian auto major M&M and Singapore-headquartered Temasek have executed a binding agreement for the investment in the four-wheeler (4W) passenger electric vehicles company. Temasek Holdings will invest the money in the form of Compulsorily Convertible Preference Shares (CCPS) at a valuation of up to ₹80,580 crore.

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Temasek Holdings and Mahindra & Mahindra have executed a binding agreement whereby the former will invest Rs 1,200 crore in the latter’s subsidiary Mahindra Electric Automobile Ltd. Temasek will invest the money by subscribing to compulsorily convertible preference shares at a valuation of Rs 80,580 crore, M&M said in a release. This investment will result in Temasek holding a 1.49-2.97% stake in Mahindra Electric Automobile.

Temasek signed an agreement with automotive major Mahindra & Mahindra to invest Rs 1,200 crore in its passenger electric vehicles (EV) company MEAL at a valuation of $9.8 billion, the company said in a stock exchange notification on Thursday. Temasek will join British International Investments (BII) as an investor in MEAL, the company said in a statement. BII had earlier signed an agreement with Mahindra Electric to invest Rs 1,925 crore ($250 million) in July 2022 through compulsory convertible preference shares, which would result in a stake of 2.75-4.76%, depending upon milestones achieved.

Lawyers for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried say prosecutors are wrong to seek his detention prior to trial because their arguments are based on “innuendo, speculation, and scant facts.”