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Italian Court Cuts Amazon €1.13bn Antitrust Fine Over Competition Abuse
TechEconomy
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September 2, 2025
Advertisements An Italian court has slashed a fine against Amazon, reducing the €1.13 billion penalty imposed by the country’s competition authority in 2021 for abusing its top market position. The Lazio Regional Administrative Court confirmed on...
Binance Invests $53M in Mexican Fintech Expansion Through New Regulated Platform
Yahoo Finance
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September 1, 2025
Binance announced an investment of more than one billion pesos ($53 million) for a new initiative in Mexico aimed at expanding digital financial services. The company has launched Medá, a regulated Electronic Payment Funds Institution (IFPE)...
Investors get the 'best of both worlds' with new holiday home ownership model
Allhomes
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We all know ride-share, racehorse-share and even boat-share. But now high-net-worth property investors are being offered a new concept: sharing holiday homes with allocated months for visits, but with their name on the title, creating a readily...
Italian court cuts $1 billion antitrust fine on Amazon
The Economic Times
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September 2, 2025
An Italian court has reduced a 1.13-billion-euro ($1.32 billion) fine imposed on Amazon in 2021 by Italy's competition authority for alleged abuse of a dominant position, a ruling showed on Tuesday. The Lazio administrative court upheld the main...
Project Finance Brief: Zenobē Acquires 400 MW Battery Energy Storage Project
Mercom India
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September 3, 2025
From: Mercom Capital Group Zenobē, a U.K.-based owner and operator of grid-scale battery storage, has announced the acquisition of a 400 MW ready-to-build battery energy storage system in Low Harker, Cumbria, from Innova, a U.K.-based renewable...
Italy, Palestine Intensify Calls for Peace Talks
MENAFN
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September 2, 2025
(MENAFN) Italy and Palestine have called for renewed diplomatic efforts to restart the peace process, emphasizing that humanitarian assistance alone will not resolve the ongoing conflict. In a meeting held in Rome, Italian Deputy Prime Minister...
Argentina arrests daughter, son-in-law of Hitler’s financial adviser over looted painting
The Times of Israel
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September 3, 2025
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentine police are investigating a deceased Nazi’s daughter and son-in-law after a 17th century painting stolen from a Dutch Jewish art collector was recently spotted in a property ad before promptly disappearing. The...
Brief history of Central Bank of Sri Lanka
Daily FT
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A story of resilience and adaptation On 28 August 1950, a very special type of bank was set up in Sri Lanka, with a simple ceremony. In the words of the first Governor of the Central Bank of Ceylon, John Exter, the simplicity of the ceremony was...
Italian government denies French PM Bayrou's 'unfounded' tax dumping claims
Euronews
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September 1, 2025
Published on 01/09/2025 - 16:36 GMT+2 •Updated 17:28 The French Prime Minister, Francois Bayrou, accused Italy of pursuing a policy of "fiscal dumping", just days before the vote of confidence in his government scheduled for 8 September, and...
After selling LVLY for $35 million, co-founder Hannah Spilva attracts investors for new haircare startup Done
SmartCompany
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September 3, 2025
Serial entrepreneur Hannah Spilva has raised a pre-seed funding round, and already attracted interest from retail partners, for her new hair colour startup Done. Spilva has spent the past two years researching and developing her new business,...
Investors face September blues
Market Screener
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September 2, 2025
The United States returns to trading this afternoon after a long weekend. Yesterday, European markets generally rose, albeit with somewhat low trading volumes. With several indices at their peak after a spectacular rebound that began in the...
Who watches the watchmen? Surveillanceware firms make bank, avoid oversight
The Register
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Governments can't get enough of hacking services to use against their citizens, despite their protestations that elements of the trade need sanctioning. Only legitimate government agencies are supposed to use surveillanceware against criminal...
Stevanato Group to Participate in Upcoming Investor Conferences
The AI Journal
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September 2, 2025
PIOMBINO DESE, Italy–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Stevanato Group S.p.A. (NYSE: STVN), a leading global provider of drug containment, drug delivery, and diagnostic solutions to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and life sciences industries, today announced...
enough with ultra-rich TV characters + italian dockworkers stand with Gaza
Thred
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September 2, 2025
Summer’s officially over (unless you’re in the Southern hemisphere, you lucky duck), so I’m here to brighten up your inbox with a little Tuesday newsletter. From vegan restaurants adding meat to the menu, to why everything on TV is so unrelatable...
Secured financing locks Marinus Link in, with contractors given go ahead
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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September 2, 2025
The Marinus Link undersea power cable project has passed two major milestones, with financing locked in and suppliers ordered to start production on key components. Australia's Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has agreed to provide $3.8...
Europe plotting how to rein in Premier League’s financial might
The Times
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If the Premier League clubs are patting themselves on the back for dominating European rivals in the transfer market, then they should not pat too vigorously. Data shows that the Premier League spent £3billion this summer, more than all the other...
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore caught cruising on Clooney's yacht in Italy
WSBT 22 - Indiana
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September 2, 2025
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WBFF) — Photographs published by the Daily Mail showed Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is photographed on Monday in Italy, sailing aboard a luxury yacht, the report said is owned by actor George Clooney. Shirtless in swimming shorts, next...
Europe’s difficult trade-off between military and welfare spending: the Italian case
The Brookings Institution
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The idea of building a three-mile suspension bridge between Sicily and Italy’s mainland was notoriously a pet project of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who was keen to leave a major landmark in Italy’s poorest and most remote regions....
English football and Liverpool flex financial muscles in unprecedented summer transfer window
Naharnet
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English football — and Liverpool, in particular — flexed its financial muscles in unprecedented fashion in a summer transfer window that highlighted the growing imbalance in the European game as well as the effect player power can have in securing...
Italy mulls activating EU defence spending clause
EurActiv
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September 1, 2025
Italy is considering triggering an EU budgetary provision that would let it boost military spending without breaching the bloc’s strict fiscal rules, according to people familiar with the matter. The so-called “national escape clause” – already...