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PricewaterhouseCoopers is cutting pay increases and bonuses for some of its 25,000 UK employees, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Innoviti Technologies Pvt Ltd. is weighing a new funding round that could value the Indian fintech startup at around $350 million, according to people familiar with the matter.

Europe is making a fresh push for a deal to create a single stream of trading data for all of its stock markets, with some officials hoping that at least one major stumbling block could be overcome by keeping some of its most-valuable information anonymous.

A Taiwanese vice premier is traveling to Japan for the first time in 29 years to shore up economic ties and talk about the semiconductor industry.

Rishi Sunak’s efforts to ensure companies give UK consumers the full benefit of cost cuts and interest rate rises appear unlikely to yield significant results, leaving the government with few palatable options to shield ordinary Britons from inflation.

France accounts for nearly half of illicit cigarette consumption in the European Union, with high taxes and inflation driving people toward counterfeit products, according to a study released on Wednesday.

The Irish government sold 5% of AIB Group Plc, returning the bank to majority private ownership for the first time since the financial crisis and raising the prospect of pay restrictions being relaxed.

At least nine people were killed and 56 wounded in a Russian rocket strike that hit a restaurant in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, according to the interior ministry. Rescue work was still underway Wednesday morning.

Norway’s energy ministry approved oil and gas projects with a total value of more than 200 billion kroner ($18.5 billion) as Europe’s biggest supplier of natural gas works to keep up production.

South Koreans will become at least a year younger as the nation, which traditionally counts newborns as one year old, joins international standards.