C.I.A. cuts: The C.I.A. plans to cut more than 1,000 staff positions through attrition over the next few years as the Trump ...

Producers of alcoholic beverages in March 2025 reduced the VAT efficiency rate to 4.5%, which is 1.8 percentage points less compared to the same period in 2024 (6.3%), said Danylo Hetmantsev, head of ...

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump’s administration is listening to several ideas designed to help improve declining birthrates, including offering a payment to mothers, according to the New ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Major Russian banks have set up a netting payments system dubbed "The China Track" for transactions with China, aiming to reduce their visibility to Western regulators and mitigate ...

Circle, the issuer behind USDC and EURC stablecoins, is launching a new global payments system that will streamline cross-border bank transactions. International payments currently involve a number of ...

The pause in payments was extended multiple times by the Biden administration through 2023, and a final grace period for loan repayments ended in October 2024. That meant tens of millions of ...

hours and payment for caregivers. In the past, there were more than 600 intermediaries. After much public outcry and legal challenges, the new system launched on April 1 but many are struggling to ...

Tax Foundation President & CEO Daniel Bunn discusses the idea of the Trump administration changing the income tax withholding system on ‘The Will Cain Show.’ Trump says government to change ...

its real-time payments system, while pitching the platform for wider adoption overseas. National Payments Corporation of India aims to draw an additional 200 million to 300 million Indians to UPI ...

Last week, venture capital firm Andreesen Horowitz (a16z) published a report in which it suggested that stablecoins — cryptocurrencies pegged to stable assets — offer a way to revolutionise payments ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. EDINBURGH Trams has announced it has reached a major milestone for its new “Tap on, Tap off” payment system. The transport firm said it will ...

The NTAP program is intended to cover the majority of excess costs related to the new technology, though payment varies on a case-by-case basis. In its proposed ruling, CMS noted that the alfapump ...