NEW YORK (Reuters) - Takeover speculation in Northern Trust has revived industry hopes of deals among large U.S. and regional banks, propelling exploratory conversations that could lead to consolidation, according to financial executives and analysts. Talk of potential mergers and acquisitions among Wall Street banks and large regional lenders has increased in recent weeks in a major shift under the...

SYDNEY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Google agreed on Monday to pay a A$55 million ($35.8 million) fine in Australia after the consumer watchdog found it had hurt competition by paying the country's two largest telcos to pre-install its search application on Android phones, excluding rival search engines. The fine extends a bumpy period for the Alphabet-owned internet giant in Australia,...

(Reuters) -The crypto industry will take a step closer to going mainstream this week as a series of industry-friendly bills progress through Congress, paving the way for digital assets to potentially be further integrated into traditional finance. The House of Representatives is set to pass a series of crypto-related bills in a week which the Republican majority has dubbed crypto...

06:16 AM EDT, 07/14/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Air India Chief Executive Campbell Wilson said a preliminary report on the fatal crash of a Boeing ( BA ) Dreamliner in June opened additional questions, indicating that the probe is far from over, Reuters reported Monday, citing an internal Air India memo. The preliminary report identified no cause nor made any recommendations,...