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Gold Remains Top Bet For Wealthy Indians As Allocation Rises To 15%: Report
Last Updated:July 09, 2025, 15:19 IST Affluent Indians are diversifying portfolios with alternative investments and managed solutions. Gold saw the highest increase in allocation, followed by alternatives. Furthermore, affluent investors across...

Credit Card Delinquency Increased More In One CA City Than Anywhere In The U.S.
Posted Wed, Jul 2, 2025 at 1:45 pm PT|Updated Wed, Jul 2, 2025 at 1:47 pm PT FREMONT, CA — The same city that was consistently named the happiest in America, was also just identified as the city where credit card delinquency has increased the...

6 Useful Financial Literacy Lessons From ‘Superman’
Financial Literacy Lessons From Supermangetty With a new movie set to release across the U.S. this week, there’s a new Superman in town. Regardless of what you think about this iteration, its story, or superhero films in general, Superman is an...

Credit card mandates are antithetical to free market principles
Efforts to shoehorn the Credit Card Competition Act into pieces of popular legislation need to be defeated. The proposed law would harm the small businesses and consumers it purports to help, writes Thomas Aiello, of the National Taxpayers...

How Banks Can Be The Anti-Robinhood And Reverse Deposit Displacement
Deposit displacementSource: Cornerstone Advisors OBSERVATIONS FROM THE FINTECH SNARK TANK The deposit displacement numbers are staggering—and deeply concerning for banks and credit unions. According to research from Cornerstone Advisors and...

Nationwide issues update over £100 bonus payments for four million customers
Nationwide has issued an update over £100 bonus payments it has been handing to customers. The building society started paying the free cash into bank accounts on June 18 as part of this year's Fairer Share scheme. This qualifies people with...

HMRC tax scam warning to millions of people due letter on doormat
An HMRC tax scam warning has been issued as millions of people are due a letter on the doormat. The Government agency is sending out P800 tax calculation letters to four million people in the UK who may have overpaid income tax, including PAYE...

Personal loan interest rates July 2025: Which bank is offering the lowest rate?
As of July 2025, leading banks in the country are providing competitive personal loan interest rates for salaried and self employed individuals. These loans can be used for weddings, medical expenses, traveling or debt consolidation. While RBI has...

Bank Al-Maghrib: Over 38 million bank accounts opened in Morocco by end of 2024
Morocco’s central bank reported continued growth in financial inclusion, with more than 38.2 million bank accountsopen in the country by the end of December 2024. According to Bank Al-Maghrib, this represents a 5.2% increasecompared to 2023. In...

Seattle and Spokane See Rising Credit Card Delinquencies
(The Center Square) – As fears of recession grow, a new report found that Seattle and Spokane are among the top five cities with increasing numbers of people not paying their credit card bills. WalletHub published data on Wednesday, ranking 100...

Senate passes Schmitt's ENABLE Act supporting disability savings accounts
Senator Eric Schmitt | U.S. Senator Eric SchmittSenator Eric Schmitt | U.S. Senator Eric Schmitt U.S. Senator Eric Schmitt's ENABLE Act has successfully passed the U.S. Senate, marking a significant development for individuals with disabilities...

Video circulating on social media has prompted concerns about safety of credit card information
A video circulating on social media has prompted concerns about the safety of credit card information at gas pumps, claiming that scammers are using stickers with microchips to steal information.The News 8 On Your Side team has been investigating...
Health savings accounts get small tweaks in tax bill
Health savings accounts were poised to get a big boost in Trump's signature tax package. That didn’t happen. While the House version of the bill included several changes to enhance the use and benefits of health savings accounts (HSAs), the...

Post Offices Go Digital: Open, Update RD & PPF Accounts Using Aadhaar Biometrics
Last Updated:July 09, 2025, 15:51 IST The Department of Posts has expanded its Aadhaar-based e-KYC biometric authentication services to include Recurring Deposit (RD) and Public Provident Fund (PPF) schemes Now Open, Update RD & PPF Accounts Using...

Seattle, Spokane among worst in U.S. for rising credit card delinquencies
(The Center Square) – As fears of recession grow, a new report found that Seattle and Spokane are among the top five cities with increasing numbers of people not paying their credit card bills. WalletHub published data on Wednesday, ranking 100...

PETER HOSKIN reviews Rematch: Part cartoon, part fashion shoot, it's blissfully free of sponsorship deals, extra credit card payments... and best of all, there's no Cristiano Ronaldo
Rematch (PlayStation, Xbox, PC, £20.99) Verdict: Golazzo! Rating: Video games have conspired to make the beautiful game ugly. They’ve reduced football to sponsorship deals, big spreadsheets and, worst of all, hundreds of additional credit card...

To the rescue: Why you need an emergency fund now
To the rescue: Why you need an emergency fund now With the stock market at record highs and the unemployment rate at a modest 4.2%, an emergency savings fund might not seem like the most pressing need at the moment. But in fact, this is exactly...

Personal Loans of Up to 55 Lakhs Available on Bajaj Markets
HT Syndication Pune (Maharashtra) [India], July 2: Bajaj Markets, one of the leading financial marketplaces in India, enables salaried individuals to explore and apply for personal loans of up to 55 Lakhs from multiple trusted lenders. With...

Vedanta Tanks 8% After US Short-Seller Viceroy Research's Report: What's Behind The Crash?
Last Updated:July 09, 2025, 15:21 IST Vedanta Resources Ltd share price fell 5.5 percent intraday after a Viceroy Research report claimed the company resembles a Ponzi scheme. Vedanta shares fall sharply on Wednesday. Vedanta Share Price: Vedanta...

Premium Bonds – big thing one in three NS&I holders are getting badly wrong
Premium Bonds are one of the nation's most popular savings products. Promising complete Treasury-backed security, penalty-free access to your money if needed, and tax-free earnings incentives on… winnings that may never transpire? A new analysis...