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Our 2025 Ideal Employer report, based on over 15,000 responses to our global survey, is out. We had a clear winner: JPMorgan. But the data had a deeper story to tell.Click here to register your interest in entering the bubble by eFinancialCareers, our new anonymous community. ✍️We also asked all of our survey respondents whether or not they had worked for their chosen Ideal Employer before (or currently). Many did, and some interesting patterns emerged among those that did and those that did not.Like last year, Ideal Employers are overwhelmingly aspirational - most people have not worked for the employers they voted for. Just 28% of respondents to our survey said their Ideal Employers were organizations they’re working for now or had worked for in the past.However, respondents were more li...

Pay attention to restrictions that sometimes come with HYSAs. For example, some savings accounts limit the number of withdrawals and transactions you can complete in a month. Others might require a minimum deposit to open an account or have limits on your APY based on your balance. How traditional savings accounts workTraditional savings accounts work the same as HYSAs. However, unlike high-yield accounts that are often found online with no brick-and-mortar branches, traditional savings accounts are usually held at banks that have physical branches. In some cases, you can get above-average yields with more traditional accounts held at local credit unions and community banks with physical locations, but often the best savings rates are found with online-only accounts. Traditional savings ac...

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Tech led gains in US stock futures on Monday, after the Senate took a big step toward ending the record-breaking government shutdown that has clouded the picture of the economy. S&P 500 futures (ES=F) rose nearly 1%, while those on the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 (NQ=F) climbed 1.5%. Contracts on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (YM=F), which includes fewer tech names, added 0.4%. Markets have turned upbeat amid optimism that the 39-day US shutdown could soon come to an end, after a weekend of deal-making in Washington. A new bill was released late Sunday and quickly advanced in a key Senate procedural vote, after enough Democrats joined with Republicans to avoid a filibuster. The prolonged shutdown has taken a toll on consumer confidence and the overall economy, with consumer se...

The Ramsey Show Highlights/YouTube Moneywise and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue through links in the content below. Imagine checking a long-forgotten account and discovering it’s worth multiple millions of dollars. That’s what happened to Sarah, a 50-year-old mom from Seattle, recently. Sarah, who says she’s been homeschooling for 20 years, happened to check her employee benefits account from a tech giant where she used to work. The account had gone from barely worth anything to roughly $18 million at current market price, she told Dave Ramsey in an episode of The Ramsey Show. Although she didn’t reveal which company it was, some online commenters speculated that it could be Nvidia, the tech giant that has surged tremendously over the past two y...

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African stock markets regained momentum in the third quarter of 2025, with Nigeria, Kenya, and Morocco among the strongest performers as investor confidence improved and currency conditions stabilised. The latest market capitalisation data from Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority (CMA) shows that out of nine exchanges, six recorded double-digit gains over the quarter, although persistent reporting gaps in others continue to obscure a full view of the continent’s investment landscape. The analysis draws on CMA’s quarterly market-capitalisation data for selected African bourses. Although market capitalisation is influenced by currency movements, new listings, delistings, and changes in share prices, it remains a widely used indicator of market performance and investor sentiment. Finan...

Trade finance is being reshaped by the intertwined pressures of sustainability, digitalisation, and geopolitical turbulence. The International Sustainable Trade Finance Framework (ISTFF), adopted by many banks including Standard Chartered, aims to standardize what ‘sustainable trade’ looks like across markets. While the technology and standards for digital trade are emerging, interoperability between different platforms remains the biggest hurdle, especially for emerging markets. Trade finance is being reshaped by three intertwined pressures: sustainability, digitalisation, and geopolitical turbulence. As emerging markets push for economic growth, banks face the difficult task of balancing development needs with global demands for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) stand...

Georgia-based wealth management company Merit Financial Advisors (Merit) has acquired Madison, Wisconsin-based firm Mennenga Tax & Financial (Mennenga). The transaction is expected to add $715m in assets and extend its client service capabilities in Wisconsin. Mennenga Tax & Financial specialises in wealth management, estate planning, and tax planning and preparation. As part of the acquisition, Mennenga’s team of over 35 people, including 20 credentialed enrolled agents, will join Merit. Its founder, Marshall Mennenga, will be appointed as wealth manager, tax advisor, and partner at Merit. The acquisition follows Merit’s recent acquisition of Obsidian Planning Solutions, which brought in $476m in assets last month and expanded its expertise in business succession plan...

“Financial Scams and Consumer Trust,” a collaboration between PYMNTS Intelligence and Block, examines how the rise of digital scams is undermining the confidence powering everyday banking, commerce and payments. Drawing on a survey of 15,110 United States consumers conducted from Sept. 9, 2025, to Sept. 22, 2025, the report reveals how fraud has evolved from a personal nuisance to a systemic trust challenge. Nearly four in 10 U.S. households have fallen victim to scams in the past five years. Losses from these scams range from a few hundred dollars in gift-card or tech-support schemes to thousands of dollars in investment and Social Security scams. What’s most surprising is who’s getting hit: younger, affluent and college-educated consumers, the very group long assumed to be the most digit...