EAST HARTFORD — The process for food vendors based in other towns to run their food trucks in East Hartford just became a lot easier and cheaper. On Aug. 2, the Town Council authorized Mayor Mike Walsh to sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the state health department, allowing itinerant food vendors licensed in other … Read more
CNN — United States border officials have a message for travelers who bring food items from overseas: Violations will cost you. Last month, a passenger traveling from Indonesia to Darwin Airport in Australia’s Northern Territory was fined $1,874 after two egg and beef sausage McMuffins – along with a ham croissant – were found in … Read more
Powerhouse Habitat, the residential property managed by TwentyTwo Real Estate (4.5 billion euros in assets under management), signed two of the four largest residential transactions in France in 2021. Last April, the OPPCI PWH ( whose sole subsidiary is Powerhouse Habitat) won the precious SRI label. The founder of TwentyTwo Real Estate, Daniel Rigny, explains … Read more
Adobe Stock It’s not too late to build out your summer reading list. Affordable Housing Finance asked a number of leaders to share the books that they’ve been spending time with this season. The list, heavy on nonfiction, offers a good mix of business, history, social justice, self-improvement, and books you won’t want to put … Read more
The notion of embedded finance has particularly developed over the last decade. The desire for transparency has pushed financial and non-financial players to seek solutions for increasingly demanding digital customers. Embedded finance (or Embedded Finance) allows non-banking companies to offer their own financial services while freeing themselves from administrative constraints. Some big players like Samsung, … Read more
Despite what we have been reading everywhere for a few months, embedded finance is not a new concept in France. According to some sources, this concept has gradually developed over the past decade. This development can be explained by the demand (by customers familiar with digital technology) for transparent e-commerce solutions, which pushes financial and … Read more
A sign hangs from a branch of Banco Santander in London, UK, on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010. Simon Dawson | Bloomberg via Getty Images Banks and other mortgage providers have been battered by plunging demand for loans this year, a consequence of the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes. Some firms will be forced to exit … Read more
In the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, as airlines grounded fleets and canceled buys of new aircraft, planemakers Boeing and Airbus were the focus of much of the attention. But Spirit AeroSystems, a key supplier to both, was hit extraordinarily hard. The Wichita, Kansas-based company, probably best known for building the green airliner fuselages, … Read more
Firearms are displayed during the National Rifle Association (NRA) annual convention on May 28, 2022 in Houston, Texas. Children still died. Innocent lives, who will never have the opportunity to know what their future will be made of, mowed down in the middle of the course by a madman, whom American law has authorized to … Read more
“I truthfully didn’t even know the word entrepreneur. I was in my late thirties, and I didn’t know the word ‘brand,’ I didn’t know the word ‘entrepreneur,’” Bethenny Frankel, founder of SkinnyGirl, told Sharon Epperson at the CNBC Small Business Playbook virtual summit on Wednesday. Now, just over a decade later, Frankel is a widely … Read more