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The crypto-focused venture capital firm CoinFund has closed a fundraising round for its latest VC fund, the CoinFund Seed IV Fund, after raising $158 million from investors.

The president and CEO of Gucci is stepping down later this year

A top EU official says TikTok needs to do more to get ready for new European Union digital rules taking effect next month aimed at keeping users safe online

diamond industry. It is also a testament to India’s entrepreneurial spirit. It will serve as a hub for trade, innovation and collaboration, further boosting our economy and creating employment opportunities," PM Modi said in a tweet.

Mumbai: Building a more inclusive workplace to curtail attrition, improvements in customer service, and a stronger digital infrastructure are some of the priorities at India’s largest private sector lender HDFC Bank, its chief executive Sashidhar Jagdishan said on Wednesday. In a message to shareholders in the bank’s annual report, Jagdishan said that since talent, potential and capabilities can best be harnessed through an enabling culture, the bank has adopted the managerial behaviour architecture of nurture, care and collaborate. The ‘nurture, care, collaborate’ initiative covered over 12,000 managers in FY22 was extended to the senior leadership levels and over 6,000 new managers in FY23.

Revised Income Tax Return (ITR) Filing for AY 2023-24: To err is human. Taxpayers also make mistakes while filing their Income Tax Returns. This year is also no exception. These mistakes may be in the form of not disclosing all incomes or forgetting to claim some deductions.

Income Tax Return filing Errors AY 2023-24 (how to avoid): Taxpayers have been proactive this year in filing their returns early. According to Income Tax Department’s data, more than 3 crore returns for AY 2022-23 have been filed till July 18 while over 1.5 crore ITRs have been processed by the taxpayers. Tax filers have also verified more than 2.8 crore returns.

Defaulting on a bank loan has serious repercussions. When you fail to repay your loan, you are deemed to be a defaulter by the lender and the same is reported to the credit bureaus. This default can have several consequences such as tarnishing your credit score and affecting your financial credibility for an extended period, making it difficult to avail funds in the future.

SEC registered investment advisory firm SageView Advisory Group has expanded its growing national footprint with the acquisition of Retirement Benefits Group (RBG) San Diego.  

ICICI Securities, citing ONDC CEO Thampy Koshy and Senior VP Rahul Handa. Half of the transactions are projected to come from retail and the other half from mobility. ONDC hopes to achieve that scale from the 75,000 to 80,000 transactions it currently hosts per day, Koshy and Handa told ICICI Securities.

G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant on Wednesday said the country should target 100% electrification of two and three-wheelers by 2030. He also said India should target that 65% of its state public transport should be electric by 2030. Kant said India requires a clear policy framework to achieve its electric mobility goals. He was addressing a side event organised by the NITI Aayog on 'Policy support and Enablers to Accelerate India's Electric Mobility during the ongoing fourth Energy Transitions Working Group meeting under India's G20 Presidency in Panaji.

  Leslie D'Monte The Generative AI race just got hotter with Meta releasing the second version of its free open-source large language model, Llama 2, for research and commercial use, thus providing an alternative to the pricy proprietary LLMs sold by OpenAI like ChatGPT Plus and Google Bard while giving a boost to open source LLMs. Developers began flocking to LLaMA--Meta’s open-source LLM that was released in February (https://ai.meta.com/blog/large-language-model-llama-meta-ai/). Researchers made more than 100,000 requests for for Llama 1, according to Meta.

OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, and Google. OpenAI and Google have created amazing large language models that power chatbots like ChatGPT and Bard. These chatbots have impressed people with their ability to mimic human creativity and knowledge.

HDFC Securities underscored the Indian markets are doing well mainly driven by flows from FPIs and locals. Sectoral and stock rotation based on developments and relative comparisons, with profit booking postponed, has led to the broadening of the rally. However, Jasani believes Indian markets are not cheap in terms of valuations.

Although revenue was down, growth at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management contributed to one of the strongest fiscal quarters in Bank of America’s history. 

A veteran PwC Australia tax partner specialising in providing research and development incentive advice has become the first partner named by the firm over its tax leaks scandal to take legal action to stop the firm forcing him out of its partnership.

Swiss invoice finance provider TP24 has secured a new $200 million warehouse finance facility from British investment bank Barclays to deploy in Australia, in what TP24’s chief executive says should be a “wake-up call” for the big four.

Amrapali Gan, the CEO of UK-based online subscription platform OnlyFans, announced her resignation as the company’s chief executive on Tuesday.In a LinkedIn post, Gan, who led the platform — known for its adult content — for three years, said she was leaving to start her own venture, Hoxton Projects. OnlyFans’ chief strategy and operations officer Keily Blair will head the company. “Spending nearly 3 years at OnlyFans while it echoed throughout the cultural zeitgeist, has been beyond rewarding.

(Reuters) — Westpac Banking (NYSE:WBK) Corp on Wednesday said it would split its consumer and business banking business into two, with each having its own CEO, effective Aug. 1.

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) — Swedish truck maker AB Volvo on Wednesday reported a bigger-than-expected jump in second-quarter adjusted operating profit and raised its outlook for the European and North American markets.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his Microsoft counterpart Satya Nadella have joined forces to introduce the world to Llama 2 (Large Language Model), the next generation of AI. What makes this collaboration even more intriguing is the decision to release Llama 2 as an open-source technology. This new partnership between Meta & Microsoft was announced by Zuckerberg in a power-packed Instagram post. The picture shared on Zuckerberg's handle captured the two tech titans dressed in blue, smiling for the camera as they celebrated the collaboration. His post read, «Today, we're open sourcing Llama 2 with our preferred partner @microsoft. This gives researchers and businesses access to build with our next generation large language model as the foundation of their work. Grateful to Satya and our teams for making this happen.»