Even though down payments remain an obstacle to prospective homebuyers across the country, affordability conditions have improved significantly in the past three years. That’s the key takeaway from a ...

President Donald Trump signed the annual defense authorization bill into law Dec. 18, confirming a 3.8% raise in military basic pay. Congress approved the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, or ...

TOTALENERGIES Marketing Nigeria Plc has officially launched the TotalEnergies Mobility Card Plus (TEMC+), a next-generation mobility and payment solution designed to enhance convenience, security and ...

The developers of Miami Beach’s Goodtime Hotel are in for a not-so-good time over a payment guarantee tied to an allegedly defaulted $149.3 million mortgage. Eric Birnbaum and Michael Fascitelli ...

Houdini Swap launched Houdini Pay, a payment service that breaks onchain links between counterparties, offering surface-level privacy. Centralized instant exchange aggregator Houdini Swap has rolled ...

The Trump administration has finalized the rule that sets government payments to hospital outpatient facilities and ambulatory surgical centers, including a 2.6% rate bump for each. That is an ...

Xpress Payment Solutions Limited, one of Nigeria’s leading financial technology companies, has been officially appointed as the collecting agent for the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) under the ...

HOUSTON – House-hunting shouldn’t feel impossible. But for Martin Campusano and millions of prospective buyers across Texas, the biggest obstacle isn’t interest rates or search fatigue — it’s the down ...

Federal workers have been ordered to return to work after the end of the government shutdown as they await back pay. While an estimated 750,000 workers were furloughed during the shutdown, some others ...

What lessons emerge from payment resilience in Fragile and Conflict-affected States (FCS) and how could they be applied to CBDC? This chapter explores how FCS can strengthen the resilience of their ...

As the U.S. government shutdown reaches its 28th day, hundreds of thousands of federal workers remain furloughed, with President Donald Trump threatening to block back pay once the shutdown ends. In ...

Some federal workers who are not being paid during the government shutdown have a nagging fear: They might not receive retroactive pay once the impasse is resolved. Roughly 1.4 million federal ...