US fintech Chime delivers 27% revenue growth and expands margins as the company announces CFO Matt Newcomb’s departure after almost a decade

Luxury jewellery brand Pandora announces that after seven years as CFO, Anders Boyer will retire, handing the financial reigns to newcomer Paulo Garcia

Caterpillar shares jumped 12% under CEO Joe Creed, backlog at a record US$72bn as the data-centre boom makes the old-economy giant a capital-cycle winner
Finance
HSBC's first-half pre-tax profit jumped 23% to $19.5bn and it restarted buybacks, as Georges Elhedery's strategy of selling and simplifying drove the beat
Operations
NatWest has named Triona O'Keeffe its Chief Data and Analytics Officer, a hire that moves AI out of the IT budget and into how the bank makes money
Videos
Fresha’s Sharee Campbell and Kiran Taylor on HR transformation, reshaping talent and why culture is a strategic operating system
Capital Markets
Finance Chief speaks to Karen Bodner, Head of Market Insights and Initiatives at BNY, to find out more on market insights and key business advice
People & Skills
High confidence in international recruitment clashes with costly compliance failures and geopolitical delays, according to a report from Safeguard Global
Events
Technology
Palantir reports Q2 earnings tonight, revenue up about 80% and government AI deals growing, but its stock is down a third this year on valuation fears
Sustainability
Net zero has moved from the CEO's stage to the CFO's spreadsheet as BlackRock and JPMorgan exit alliances and carbon-accounting firms like Watershed






