Over the past year, heightened business uncertainty has made it harder for companies to offer key support to employees — employers have regressed in their role across the globe.
Higher financial literacy results in lower loan default rates, higher loan affordability, and stronger GDP growth.


(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Financial inclusion, which improved globally over the last two years, plateaued in 2025, according to the latest Global Financial Inclusion Index (the Index) from Principal Financial Group®. The findings mark an inflection point, with business uncertainty arising from shifting global trade dynamics and geopolitical tensions driving companies to provide measures supporting financial inclusion, such as flexible pay or more generous insurance and pension benefits. In response, the data shows governments and financial systems stepping in to help advance financial inclusion.

Now in its fourth year, the Index, conducted by the Centre for Economics and Business ... Read more »

New data from two pivotal TEVIMBRA studies – RATIONALE-307 and -312 – reinforce the PD-1 inhibitor’s proven clinical benefit in both NSCLC and ES-SCLC

Early data from investigational HPK1 inhibitor BGB-26808, in combination with TEVIMBRA, show promise in advanced solid tumors

(BUSINESS WIRE)--BeOne Medicines Ltd. (Nasdaq: ONC; HKEX: 06160; SSE: 688235), a global oncology company, today announced the presentation of data from two pivotal Phase 3 trials – RATIONALE-307 and 312 – offering new evidence of the benefits of its PD-1 inhibitor, TEVIMBRA® (tislelizumab), at the European Society of Medical Oncology 2025 Congress (ESMO 2025) in Berlin, Germany, October 17-21. The results reinforce TEVIMBRA’s consistent and durable efficacy across lung cancer subtypes, including non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC). In addition, the first clinical data from BeOne’s inv ... Read more »

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Collaboration Strengthens Interoperability and Enables Providers to Harness AI with Reliable Data Foundations

(BUSINESS WIRE)--InterSystems, a creative data technology provider managing over one billion health records worldwide, today announced a new partnership that integrates InterSystems HealthShare with Google Cloud. Announced at HLTH, this collaboration aims to deliver a scalable, real-time, harmonized data foundation for generative and agentic AI applications.

The partnership addresses one of the most pressing challenges in healthcare IT: fragmented and inconsistent data. By combining InterSystems expertise in data harmonization, identity resolution, and interoperability with Google Cloud’s broad suite of AI-enabled analytics and search capabilities and secure infrastructure, healthcare organizations can now unlock the full potential of AI with clean, unified, and actionable data on a proven, ent ... Read more »

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(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company (SALIC), wholly owned by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), and global agri-tech leader Syngenta Crop Protection AG (Syngenta), have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to combine their expertise to create a resilient agri-food sector in Saudi Arabia and globally.

The LOI aligns with the shared mission of both entities to bolster global food security through strategic partnerships, technology and responsible practices. It outlines how the two entities plan to explore joint projects in sustainable farming, digital agriculture, soil health, crop protection solutions, and other areas.

Potential project areas could include climate-smart farming practices, sustainable soil management, crop and seed solutions, capacity building, technical training, best practice-sharing initiatives, and knowledge transfer through the creation of centers of excellence. These m ... Read more »