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Bill Winters, chief executive officer of Standard Chartered, speaks at Hong Kong Fintech Week in Hong Kong on Nov. 3, 2025.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesBill Winters, CEO of Standard Chartered, foresees a future in which nearly all global transactions are conducted on a digital blockchain ledger, he told a crowd in Hong Kong on Monday, as crypto adoption amongst mainstream banking and finance institutions grows. “Our belief, which I think is shared by the leadership of Hong Kong, is that pretty much all transactions will settle on blockchains eventually, and that all money will be digital,” the UK-based multinational bank’s…

Michael O’Leary, chief executive officer of Ryanair Holdings Plc, during a news conference in London, UK, on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesRyanair chief executive Michael O’Leary on Monday admonished the U.K. government over its push to raise taxes on passenger flights, warning that the policy will see airlines move planes out of the country.Speaking to CNBC’s “Europe Early Edition” after reporting a significant upswing in first-half profit, the outspoken CEO described the Labour government’s push to raise air travel taxes as counter to its strategy of kickstarting economic growth.His comments come ahead of the U.K. government’s…

US President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrive to hold a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 13, 2025. Jim Watson | Afp | Getty ImagesDe-escalation in tensions between China and the U.S. after their leaders met in South Korea last Thursday stands in stark contrast to the chill in Washington-New Delhi relations, with India now subject to higher U.S. tariffs than Beijing.Experts said that the strategic relationship between India and U.S. built over two decades has substantially eroded.Atman Trivedi a partner and lead of the South…

Sky Sports columnist Laura Hunter analyses the big talking points from the latest Women’s Super League matches, bringing you closer to the key stories at the heart of the women’s game.Park and Toone unlocking new possibilitiesManchester United recorded their sixth win of the season on Sunday, and in doing so equalled a club-record five successive away victories. Marc Skinner’s side are proving difficult to handle. And it’s because they are uniquely efficient all over the park. Finally, this is a squad with title-challenging capability. Skinner’s 4-1-4-1 structure is the stabilising force. They know how to kill games using the perfect…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose mistaken deportation helped galvanize opposition to President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, has hearings on Tuesday and Wednesday in the human smuggling case against him in Tennessee.U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw will hear evidence on motions from the defense asking him to dismiss the charges and throw out some of the evidence.Here’s what to know about the latest developments in the case:Who is Kilmar Abrego Garcia?Abrego Garcia is a Salvadoran citizen with an American wife and child who has lived in Maryland for years. He immigrated to the U.S. illegally as a teenager…

Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, reacts during the 2025 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in Gyeongju, South Korea, October 31, 2025. Kim Soo-hyeon | Reuters Traders who shorted the S&P 500 — essentially, betting that it would go down — last month were in for a rude surprise. The broad-based index ended the month 2.3% higher, defying “Octoberphobia,” a term that arose because of the market crashes in 1929 and 1987 that happened during the month.The Nasdaq Composite had an even better month than the S&P 500. The tech-heavy index climbed 4.7%, giving a hint of what helped ward…

Sunderland’s dream return to the Premier League sees them riding high in the table.They spent £155m in the summer on 14 new signings, and their new-look team has hit the ground running. Sky Sports News’ north east reporter Keith Downie takes a look at the secret behind their early-season success…What’s the recruitment and scouting set-up at the club?Sunderland have a fairly unique set-up. Kristjaan Speakman is the club’s sporting director, but was joined this summer by Frenchman Florian Ghisolfi.The 40-year-old has been given the title “director of football”, and both men are working in alignment to not just help Sunderland…

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The latest elections in different African countries have ended with the same outcome: sidelined opposition candidates, disputed results and protests from mostly young voters after incumbents were reelected.The elections featured a bureaucrat in Cameroon who has become the world’s oldest leader with half his life spent as president. An economist in Ivory Coast who is starting his fourth term at age 83. And a woman in Tanzania whose emergence as the country’s first female president had originally created hope that change was coming — but has been denounced for an authoritarian style.The continent of 1.4 billion…

Kimberly-Clark is buying Tylenol maker Kenvue in a cash and stock deal worth about $48.7 billion, creating a massive consumer health goods company.Shareholders of Kimberly-Clark will own about 54% of the combined company. Kenvue shareholders will own about 46%.The combined company will have a large stable of household brands under one roof, putting Kenvue’s Listerine mouthwash and Band-Aid side-by-side with Kimberly-Clark’s Cottonelle toilet paper, Huggies and Kleenex tissues. It will also generate about $32 billion in annual revenue. Kenvue has spent a relatively brief period as an independent company, having been spun off by Johnson & Johnson two years ago.…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A major question hangs over the Supreme Court’s closely watched case on President Donald Trump’s far-reaching tariffs: Will the conservative majority hold the Republican president to the same exacting standards it used to limit his Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden? Key legal principles at the heart of conservative challenges to major initiatives in the Biden years are driving the arguments in the fight against Trump’s tariffs, which is set for arguments at the high court on Wednesday.The businesses and states that sued over the tariffs are even name-checking the three Trump-appointed conservative justices whose votes they hope to…