May 31 (Reuters) - Laurentian Bank of Canada ( LRCDF ) said on Friday it had recorded impairment and restructuring charges of C$196.8 million ($144.4 million) in the second quarter. The charge was related to the restructuring of the bank's operations and the impairment of its personal and commercial banking segment, Laurentian said. The bank also booked severance charges of...

MADRID, May 31 (Reuters) - Spain's data protection watchdog AEPD has ordered the provisional suspension of two planned Meta products set to be deployed in the upcoming European election on its social media platforms Instagram and Facebook, it said on Friday. The tools, named Election Day Information (EDI) and Voter Information Unit (VIU), would potentially violate the Spanish data protection...

06:54 AM EDT, 05/31/2024 (MT Newswires) -- The Bank of Canada is disappointed with the country's lack of progress toward launching a modernized payments system, a senior bank official said Thursday, The Globe and Mail reported It noted Ron Morrow, executive director of payments, supervision and oversight at the central bank, said in a speech in Toronto that Canada lags...

06:50 AM EDT, 05/31/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Flutter Entertainment ( FLUT ) said Friday that Chief Financial Officer Paul Edgecliffe-Johnson will leave the group, effective immediately. The departure comes in anticipation of the company's US primary listing which would require extensive executive management time to be spent in the US and was not in his best interests due to family...