CORPUS CHRISTI, Tx — Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Athletic Department is gearing up for one of their biggest fundraisers of the year. It’s the annual Islander Athletic Fund Casino Night on Saturday, August 3rd. The event supports the student-athlete scholarship fund and allows a first-class Division I experience for Islanders student-athletes. The event will be held
Editorial Staff 30 July 2024 The funding will enable S64 to capitalise on growing demand for alternative investment solutions. London-headquartered S64, a global alternatives fintech and solutions partner to the wealth management industry, has just closed its series A funding round which includes investments from HPS Investment
LINCOLN — As introduced, Gov. Jim Pillen’s core property tax relief proposal could fall short by $139 million in annual estimated revenue needed. Pillen’s main proposal, introduced through Legislative Bill 1 in the special session, includes placing a sales tax on more than 100 currently tax-exempt goods and services. It would also raise seven “sin”
Investment flows into mutual funds and exchange-traded funds reinforce the degree to which large technology stocks have dominated the U.S. stock market this year—that is, until this month’s well-documented rotation out of those stocks. Technology funds attracted $4.2 billion in net inflows in the second quarter, wrapping up a first half in which when they
Over its first financial quarter of the year, CPS Energy has successfully lowered the total amount it’s owed by past-due customers from the $175.5 million it was owed as of December to $145.8 million, as of the end of April. The utility has also lowered the total amount it is likely to write off from
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — The Minority Business Development Center hosted a Solar Energy Job Fair at Illinois Central College in Peoria on Monday. The event provides opportunities to seek employment in the fast-growing solar energy job market. Attendees learned about the opportunities available, and certain grants that can be provided. The event also helped local
During the offseason, the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) unanimously voted on the use of technology in the 2024 football season and Virginia Tech quarterback Kyron Drones is very happy about the new addition. The new technology additions are sideline access to in-game video which allows teams to make adjustments during the games on tablets and
Insurance rates have been on the rise, but some local agents are seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. If you’ve been paying attention to your rates, you may have seen some double-digit increases these past few years after a period of little-to-no bumps; this is the result of what insurance agents like
Will the recent CrowdStrike outage trigger cyber insurance premium increases for end customers, MSPs or MSSPs? It’s a good question, particularly since the Crowdstrike outage wasn’t triggered by a cybersecurity event but instead by a system update issued by the company. How will insurance companies account for that? Will Brooks, channel chief at cyber insurance
In June, the Energy Institute released the 2024 Statistical Review of World Energy. The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. Each year, I do a series of articles covering the Review’s findings. In three previous articles, I discussed: Overall highlights Trends in global carbon