This is precisely why consulting firm Boston Consulting Group projects that the global payments industry revenue will grow at a high single-digit rate annually to top $3 trillion by 2031. With more than 80 million merchant locations and approximately 4 billion cards in circulation worldwide, Visa is heavily favored to continue to be the biggest beneficiary of these positive industry trends.
The FTSE 100 has opened higher today, with easyJet among the risers after its winter trading update. Retailer Dunelm, estate agent Foxtons and investment platform AJ Bell are among other companies with updates. AJ Bell defies stock market jitters as assets jump 17% in last year to £80 billion.
ANDEREN, Netherlands (AP) — Inside the barn on the flat fields of the northern Netherlands, Jos Ubels cradles a newborn Blonde d'Aquitaine calf, the latest addition to his herd of over 300 dairy cattle. Little could be more idyllic. Little, says Ubels, could be more under threat. As Europe seeks to address the threat of climate change, it's imposing more rules on farmers like Ubels. He spends a day a week on bureaucracy, answering the demands of European Union and national officials who seek to
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Norway's $1.6 trillion sovereign wealth fund, one of the world's largest investors, said on Thursday it would vote in favour of a proposal letting NatWest buy back more of its stock from the British government, amid efforts to speed up privatisation. Ahead of its annual meeting on April 23, lender NatWest has asked its investors to back a resolution that would enable it to acquire up to 15% of its total stock from the government in a 12-month period, up from a previous ceiling of 5% a year. The British government, which bailed out the lender at the height of the 2007-9 financial crisis, recently reduced its stake in NatWest to below 30%, making it no longer a controlling shareholder.
Two German-Russian men have been arrested in Germany on suspicion of espionage, one of them accused of agreeing to carry out attacks on potential targets including U.S. military facilities in hopes of sabotaging aid for Ukraine, prosecutors said Thursday. The two, identified only as Dieter S. and Alexander J. in line with German privacy rules, were arrested Wednesday in the Bavarian city of Bayreuth, federal prosecutors said.
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All primary school children in London will enjoy free school meals for another four years if Sadiq Khan is re-elected mayor, he promised on Thursday. Mr Khan first offered all pupils – regardless of their family’s wealth - free lunches in State primaries from last September as a one-year emergency measure to alleviate the cost of living crisis felt by many London parents. Earlier in the campaign, Mr Khan’s Tory rival, Susan Hall, who had earlier promised to retain it until the cost of living crisis eased if elected, questioned whether it was right for” Londoners on the breadline” to be contributing via their council tax to feed “children of millionaires”.
Building permits for apartments in Germany fell 18.3% in February from a year earlier, government data on Thursday showed, underscoring a continued downturn in demand in the construction and real estate industry. Germany has been jolted by the most severe slump in the property sector in decades. The number of building permits is an important indicator of future construction.
Two German-Russian nationals have been arrested in Germany for allegedly plotting sabotage attacks, including on U.S. military facilities, designed to undermine military support for Ukraine, the German prosecutors said on Thursday. Authorities have searched the homes and workplaces of the two suspects, who are accused of working for a foreign secret service, the prosecutor's office said in a statement. One of the suspects, identified as Dieter S., had since October 2023 discussed possible plots with a person linked to the Russian secret service, the statement said.
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BERLIN (Reuters) -Two German-Russian nationals have been arrested in Germany for allegedly plotting sabotage attacks, including on U.S. military facilities, designed to undermine military support for Ukraine, the German prosecutors said on Thursday. Authorities have searched the homes and workplaces of the two suspects, who are accused of working for a foreign secret service, the prosecutor's office said in a statement. One of the suspects, identified as Dieter S., had since October 2023 discussed possible plots with a person linked to the Russian secret service, the statement said.
Food waste could be on the endangered list in the Heritage city. The FoodCycler is set to be unleashed on the rest of Nelson outside of the neighbourhood of Fairview, after the majority of residents in the pilot program stepped up for the waste diversion technology. Around 76 per cent of people in the northwest Nelson neighbourhood — 709 out of 928 eligible homes — elected to receive the “innovative approach to diverting organic waste” with the FoodCycler since the inception of the pilot launch
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