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On Monday, Reserve Bank of India governor Shaktikanta Das announced the launch of its Unified Lending Interface (ULI), a tech platform aimed at “frictionless credit", especially for those who find it hard to borrow. “Just as UPI transformed the payments ecosystem, we expect that ULI will play a similar role in transforming the lending space in India," he said.

Let's start with the elephant in the room — artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). These powerful tools are no longer limited to science fiction; they're definite reality, and savvy investors are scrambling to get in on the action. A recent survey revealed that a staggering 71% of young investment professionals are actively seeking expertise in AI and ML, recognizing their potential to refine portfolio allocation, generate alpha, and uncover insights buried deep within mountains of data.

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Toncoin ($TON) and Resistance Dog ($REDO) are primed to explode if Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is released again after his surprise arrest in Paris on Saturday.

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French President Emmanuel Macron says the arrest in France of the CEO of the popular messaging app Telegram, Pavel Durov, wasn’t a political move but part of an independent investigation

It’s not every day that you come across a monkey-themed meme coin. Moreover, it’s even more difficult to find a meme coin with utility and vision.

Pavel Durov, the Russian-born founder of Telegram who was arrested in Paris, has nothing to hide it is absurd to hold an owner responsible for abuse of the messaging and social media platform, Telegram said in a statement. Durov, a 39-year-old billionaire cast as "Russia's Mark Zuckerberg", was arrested at Le Bourget airport outside Paris shortly after landing on a private jet late on Saturday from Azerbaijan. The arrest of the Telegram CEO prompted a warning from Moscow to Paris that he should be accorded his rights, and criticism from X owner Elon Musk who said that free speech in Europe was under attack.

After Jen Roche, the architect of last year’s rebranding of the giant broker-dealer network Osaic, bolted this month to rival LPL Financial, more changes are coming for the company’s senior management team who report to CEO Jamie Price.

Americana Partners, the Texas-based independent RIA with $7.5 billion in AUA, has taken another major step in its push to appeal to affluent members of the international Latin American community.

Meta Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, in a letter to the House Judiciary Committee has alleged that the Biden-Harris administration «repeatedly pressurised» Meta's teams to censor posts related to Covid. He further said that the platform had to make some changes, that «with the benefit of hindsight and new information,» they won't make today. Zuckerberg also said he 'regrets' not being «more outspoken» about it. «In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn't agree. Ultimately, it was our decision whether or not to take content down, and we own our decisions, including COVID-19-related changes we made to our enforcement in the wake of this pressure,» Zuckerberg said in the letter.

The social media platform X has made a change to its AI chatbot after five secretaries of state warned it was spreading election misinformation

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With employees back at work, two Canadian railroads can resume operating.

Jay Kim wasn't always liked at Credit Suisse, but people at the Swiss bank who were partial to him found him extremely palatable. That Marmite reputation may have followed Kim to ATLAS SP Partners, the credit firm fashioned out of Credit Suisse's former securitization platform and majority-owned by Apollo. — 18 months after joining ATLAS as chief executive, Kim is out again. 

Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of the messaging app Telegram, was arrested in Paris over the weekend over allegations that his platform is being used for illicit activity such as drug trafficking and the distribution of child sexual abuse images

Cobranded credit cards are expected to account for about 25% of the Indian credit card market in terms of issuances by the end of FY28, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 35-40%, according to a report by fintech startup Hyperface and consultancy firm Redseer. Currently, cobranded credit cards have a market share of 12-15%, the report has estimated. Data from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) shows that there are around 1 million outstanding credit cards in the country. RBI does not disclose the market share for cobranded cards.

The Department of Atomic Energy and Tata Consulting Engineers are redesigning the PHWRs to develop the Bharat Small Modular Reactor. «We are going to take the old design of the PHWR and then reconfigure and redesign it to be modular, scalable and safety-aligned to post-Fukushima standards,» Amit Sharma, the managing director and CEO of Tata Consulting Engineers, told PTI.

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