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AP Exclusive: Russia, Vietnam using energy profits to avoid possible US sanctions for arms deals | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/ap-exclusive-russia-vietnam-using-energy-profits-to-avoid-possible-us-sanctions-for-arms-deals

Singapore's three neobanks, GXS Bank, MariBank, and Trust Bank, together posted $278.1M in losses in 2024 as legacy rivals digitalized, intensifying competition (Dylan Loh/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/asean…

Profits, and customers, prove elusive for Singapore's digital banks
Lenders backed by Grab, Sea, StanChart hang on as legacy rivals DBS, UOB, OCBC boom

“The Michigan doctor is Bernie’s true heir.” 🔥
It’s Dr. Abdul El-Sayed
– epidemiologist, former Detroit Health Director, and wrote the book on Medicare for All. 
𝗜’𝗺 𝗿𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗮𝗻’𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗨.𝗦. 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿. In public service,
I’ve seen how broken politics puts profits over people.
That’s why I led the effort to cancel $700 million in medical debt for 300,000 Michiganders
— 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘯𝘰 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘨𝘰 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘬𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘬.
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Perspectives, Needs and Challenges for Sustainable Software Engineering Teams: A FinServ Case Study
Satwik Ghanta, Peggy Gregory, Gul Calikli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12466 ht…

Perspectives, Needs and Challenges for Sustainable Software Engineering Teams: A FinServ Case Study
Sustainable Software Engineering (SSE) is slowly becoming an industry need for reasons including reputation enhancement, improved profits and more efficient practices. However, SSE has many definitions, and this is a challenge for organisations trying to build a common and broadly agreed understanding of the term. Although much research effort has gone into identifying general SSE practices, there is a gap in understanding the sustainability needs of specific organisational contexts, such as fi…

Listening to CBC Radio Barrie this morning and they were interviewing the manager responsible for housing starts for the Town of Innisfil. The discussion was about missed targets for housing starts and what can be done to get back on track. You could tell that he was frustrated, but the reason for less homes being built was almost solely put on the downturn in the housing market. No one is buying, so private industry isn't building.
All levels of government are throwing money at the problem, with most of it incentivizing for-profit companies to put shovels in the ground. At some point, the Federal, Provincial, and Municipal governments have to realize that public housing, government leasehold development, co-operative housing, or subsidized family apartments must be considered to solve the housing shortage. Private industry will never have the same objectives of getting families into homes - without a calculation of significant profits first.
#CanPoli #AffordableHousing

Filing: Netflix UK distribution arm reports revenue of £1.85B for 2024, up 11% from 2023, and an 11% growth in average paid memberships (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/netflix-uk-revenue-surges-2-billion-profits-grow…

Netflix U.K. Revenue Surges to $2.4 Billion, Profits Grow
Netflix's U.K. arm delivered a strong performance in 2024, with revenue climbing 11% to $2.48 billion as the streaming giant continued its expansion.

Toward Quantum Enabled Solutions for Real-Time Currency Arbitrage in Financial Markets
Suman Kumar Roy, Rahul Rana, M Girish Chandra, Nishant Kumar, Manoj Nambiar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09289

Toward Quantum Enabled Solutions for Real-Time Currency Arbitrage in Financial Markets
Currency arbitrage leverages price discrepancies in currency exchange rates across different currency pairs to gain risk-free profits. It involves multiple trading, where short-lived price discrepancies require real-time, high-speed processing of vast solution space, posing challenges for classical computing. In this work, we formulate an enhanced mathematical model for the currency arbitrage problem by adding simple cycle preservation constraints, which guarantee trading cycle validity and eli…

Appcharge, which runs a DTC platform for game publishers, raised a $58M Series B led by IVP, taking its total funding to $89M, and powers stores for 100 games (Globes)
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-mobile-games-sales-platform-appcharge-rai…

Mobile games sales platform Appcharge raises $58m
The Israeli company has developed a direct-to-consumer (DTC) platform for mobile game publishers to maximize profits through owning player relationships.

Prioritizing Latency with Profit: A DRL-Based Admission Control for 5G Network Slices
Proggya Chakraborty, Aaquib Asrar, Jayasree Sengupta, Sipra Das Bit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08769

Prioritizing Latency with Profit: A DRL-Based Admission Control for 5G Network Slices
5G networks enable diverse services such as eMBB, URLLC, and mMTC through network slicing, necessitating intelligent admission control and resource allocation to meet stringent QoS requirements while maximizing Network Service Provider (NSP) profits. However, existing Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) frameworks focus primarily on profit optimization without explicitly accounting for service delay, potentially leading to QoS violations for latency-sensitive slices. Moreover, commonly used epsil…

As we continue down this path of escalating nihilistic meme violence, it can feel like the worst things have become viral. We are drowning in the memetic effluent of a capitalist media that profits by maximizing engagement. But I wonder if anyone remembers "Pay it Forward?"
A movie came out in 2000 about a kid who started a viral kindness campaign. The idea was that you do something nice for someone else with the expectation that they do the same in the future. I never really saw the movie, but I do remember the time. There were a few weeks, maybe a few months, where people started doing it. People would just be randomly nice, and everything actually just started feeling better.
Over time, the world caught up. Capitalism consumed the whole thing, and life went back to normal. 9/11 happened the next year, and the US started down the path of becoming the most twisted and evil version of itself. But there was a short time that doing nice stuff was a viral meme, a thing that people just started doing.
Gun violence doesn't have to be the only viral meme we have. We can make good things happen too.

PSA: 🥵 Idk who needs to hear this, but in a heatwave for the love of science use air conditioning. If you don’t have air conditioning, get a portable unit as soon as possible.
The climate is going to get hotter and heat can very easily kill you or a loved one or a pet; or cause permanent disability.
Heat is a lot more dangerous than cold temperatures; even if you’re “young and healthy”.
The climate is already fucked and has long reached a tipping point as far as humans go—our only bet is large-scale CO2 extraction.
Sacrificing your health “to save energy*” for an imaginary fight that we have already lost is stupid. It’s also one of those “individual responsibility” mindfucks—the culprits for pollution are industry maximizing profits and governments that are not acting.
Anyway, stay cool.
*note that AC uses overall a lot less energy than heating does

"Former world leaders call for fossil fuel taxes to fund global climate action"
#FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange

Former world leaders call for permanent taxes on oil and gas profits
During an energy price crisis in 2022, similar taxes raised billions, the authors argue.

Rapper Wyclef Jean, now chief creative officer for OpenWav, extols the startup's tools that let musicians sell tickets, connect directly with fans, and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/11/the-music-industry-…

The music industry is broken: OpenWav's new app aims to change that | TechCrunch
OpenWav is building a direct-to-fan platform for music artists that lets them keep more of the profits.

As #IA's começam a ser empregadas para entrevista de emprego (!). A reportagem abaixo mostra que os candidatos exercem um contrapoder, ao identificar isso como mš prštica e mš cultura organizacional.
Imagine só o sofrimento de quem busca emprego: anda espremido entre recrutadores ruins e IAs
#tecnologia

"We can keep feeding, and ignoring, the machine that profits from our isolation, or we can remember what it means to be gloriously, beautifully human — together. The most subversive act in the 21st century may not be starting a unicorn … but showing up, approaching strangers, asking someone out, grasping for their hand."
https://www.

Lonely Fans | No Mercy / No Malice
Loneliness is lucrative. Leonid Radvinsky, the secretive owner of OnlyFans, received a $700 million windfall last year, while the platform’s top tier of content creators — mostly women — earn millions annually. With $7.2 billion in annual gross revenue and just 46 employees, OnlyFans may be one of the most profitable companies on the planet. […]

This from IPPR on the greatly increased costs of UK government debt servicing seems reasonable from IPPR.
1) Tax the big 4 banks on the windfall profits that the government is, effectively, funding.
2) Slow down the QE buy-back.
I would also think that the government/bank could, as an exceptional measure, buy back some of the long term gilts using 'monetary financing' aka 'printing money'.
Not something to be done willy-nilly, but here it could get govt ou…

Fixing the leak: How to end the £22 billion annual taxpayer losses at the Bank of England
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is an independent charity working towards a fairer, greener, and more prosperous society.

Comparing Methodologies for Ranking Alternatives: A case study in assessing bank financial performance
Dong Trung Chinh, Nguyen Thi Thu Hien, Pham Huong Quynh, Vu Quang Minh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08451

Comparing Methodologies for Ranking Alternatives: A case study in assessing bank financial performance
Bank financial performance encapsulates an institution's capacity to effectively manage its assets, capital, and operational activities to generate profits and ensure stability. Evaluating this performance necessitates the integration of diverse metrics, including profitability indicators, loan growth rates, capital utilization efficiency, and more. Nevertheless, directly comparing the financial performance across different banks presents a complex challenge due to inherent disparities in their…

Secure and Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Energy Transactions using Blockchain Technology
Antar Kumar Biswas, Masoud H. Nazari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06728 https://

Secure and Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Energy Transactions using Blockchain Technology
This paper presents an optimal peer-to-peer (P2P) energy transaction mechanism leveraging decentralized blockchain technology to enable a secure and scalable retail electricity market for the increasing penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs). A decentralized bidding strategy is proposed to maximize individual profits while collectively enhancing social welfare. The market design and transaction processes are simulated using the Ethereum testnet, demonstrating the blockchain network'…

It seems progressive and social democratic politicians are at a loss over how to win elections and gain popularity, so here are my tips.
1. Increase taxes for the rich.
2. Stop subsidies to companies making huge profits.
3. Invest in social welfare programmes like education, health care, and the like.
4. Stop investing in war criminals like the Israeli government.
5. Enact policies to stop the climate crisis.
6. Subsidise working families to protect them from t…

"We shouldn’t be surprised, because capturing communities with false promises only to sell us out is business as usual in the corporate internet. The founders handled the transition horribly, even by tech industry standards, and the pain and disruption it creates in our lives is real. Yet capital is constantly pulling the rug on online communities... For corporations, it’s always profits over people"

When We Get Komooted
Following the sale of Komoot to private equity, Josh Meissner explores the broken relationship between corporate capital and our communities...

Do you recall how kids play "shop", trading imaginary wares for imaginary money?
Capitalism is just like that, except it's adults doing that, with other adults watching them and trading even more imaginary money to have a share in their imaginary profits.
#AntiCapitalism

Bidding strategies for energy storage players in 100% renewable electricity market: A game-theoretical approach
Arega Getaneh Abate, Salim Hassi, Dogan Keles, Xiufeng Liu, Xiao-Bing Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26568

Bidding strategies for energy storage players in 100% renewable electricity market: A game-theoretical approach
The transition to electricity systems powered entirely by renewable energy sources makes energy storage indispensable for balancing intermittency and ensuring reliability. Since RES operate at near-zero marginal cost, storage operators can strongly influence electricity prices and energy security when renewable supply alone cannot meet demand. We develop a Cournot competition model in which storage operators strategically bid quantities to maximize their profits. We propose a MILP model with th…

ITV reports H1 2025 adjusted EBITA down 31% YoY to £146M, ITV Studios revenue up 11% YoY to £632M, ITVX digital ad revenue up 12% YoY and MAUs reaching 16.4M (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/itv-half-yearly-profits-drop-1236468600/

ITV Half Yearly Profits Drop 31%
U.K. media giant ITV posted a 31% drop in group adjusted EBITA (Earnings before interest, taxes, and amortization) for the first half of 2025.

Microsoft Q4: Windows OEM and Devices revenue up 3% YoY, gaming revenue up 10%, Xbox hardware revenue down 22%, and Xbox content and services revenue up 13% (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/716191/microsoft-q4-20…

Microsoft reports strong cloud earnings, with Windows and Xbox up too
Microsoft’s Q4 fiscal 2025 earnings are strong for cloud. Azure is up year-over-year, and Xbox and Windows are both up, too.

Estimating profitable price bounds for prescriptive price optimization
Masato Inokuma, Shunnosuke Ikeda, Yuichi Takano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15248 https://

Estimating profitable price bounds for prescriptive price optimization
Pricing of products and services, which has a significant impact on consumer demand, is one of the most important factors in maximizing business profits. Prescriptive price optimization is a prominent data-driven pricing methodology consisting of two phases: demand forecasting and price optimization. In the practice of prescriptive price optimization, the price of each item is typically set within a predetermined range defined by lower and upper bounds. Narrow price ranges can lead to missed op…

Just in case you forgot...
Americans are being criminally exploited, and they are too busy getting used and abused to even notice what their government is doing.
Quit fighting left vs right, recognize the true enemy is the billionaire class who steals away your life blood for extra profits they can't even spend in their lifetime.
#greed

Learn to Rank Risky Investors: A Case Study of Predicting Retail Traders' Behaviour and Profitability
Weixian Waylon Li, Tiejun Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16616 https://

Learn to Rank Risky Investors: A Case Study of Predicting Retail Traders' Behaviour and Profitability
Identifying risky traders with high profits in financial markets is crucial for market makers, such as trading exchanges, to ensure effective risk management through real-time decisions on regulation compliance and hedging. However, capturing the complex and dynamic behaviours of individual traders poses significant challenges. Traditional classification and anomaly detection methods often establish a fixed risk boundary, failing to account for this complexity and dynamism. To tackle this issue…

£100Bn or £20?
How much would water nationalisation cost initially?
If the companies are allowed to go bankrupt then the latter.
Of course then there will be more costs of investing properly in decent water infrastructure, water conservation and waste reduction and management.
But the public are being asked to pay for that, and profits and bonuses now.
Labour’s arguments on #WaterNationalisation

Labour’s arguments on water nationalisation reveal their total economic incompetence
This exchange took place in The Commons yesterday as Clive Lewis MP asked Steve Reed MP, the Environment Secretary, about nationalisation of the water industry: Clive Lewis (Norwich South) (Lab) I am afraid that the report feels like a missed opportunity for the Government to show the public whose side they are on....

RTL Group reports H1 revenue down 3% YoY to €2.78B, vs. €2.83B est., Fremantle revenue down 5% to €905M due to lower revenue from the US and "phasing effects" (Jesse Whittock/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/08/fremantle-rtl-h1-interim-ea…

Fremantle Sees Half-Year Revenue Fall 5.4% Due To U.S. Drop, As Streaming Shines For RTL In Mixed Results
Got Talent' producer Fremantle has seen H1 revenues fall 5.4%, as RTL posted interim results in which streaming shone but sales and profits fell.

Replaced article(s) found for q-fin.TR. https://arxiv.org/list/q-fin.TR/new
[1/1]:
- Maximizing Battery Storage Profits via High-Frequency Intraday Trading
David Schaurecker, David Wozabal, Nils L\"ohndorf, Thorsten Staake

Here is CUPW's fact sheet on Postal Banking “A Bank for Everyone”
Fun fact!
"our post office used to have a national savings bank – up until 1969 – and there is no reason we shouldn't have one today”
Some other reasons:
"Banks are failing to meet the needs of a growing number of Canadians. Thousands of towns and villages across our country do not have a bank. But many of them have a post office that could provide access to financial and banking services.”
"Postal banking is lucrative!
New Zealand: Kiwibank generated 81% of New Zealand Post's after tax profits.”
"France: Banque Postale has an obligation to provide products and services to as many people as possible. It provides a Livret A or passbook savings account, at no charge, to anyone who requests it. It also provides banking services to the financially vulnerable and financing for social housing, voluntary organizations and microentrepreneurs lacking bank credit.”
"Canada Post's secret postal banking study
Canada Post conducted a secret four-year study on postal banking that indicates that adding this service "would be a win-win strategy" for the corporation. This study was obtained though an Access to Information (ATI) request. Unfortunately, 701 of the study's 811 pages were redacted. CUPW has asked Canada Post's President to release the full report, but he has refused.”
#CanadaPost #UPW #Strike #Union #Solidarity
https://www.cupw.ca/en/campaign/resources/postal-banking-–-bank-everyone-fact-sheet

Thirty Bob Ross paintings will be auctioned, and the proceeds, estimated at $850K-$1.4M, will go to public TV stations to help pay programming fees (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/bob-ross-auction-public-television-1029c1e91ac55d80…

Public TV stations to benefit from Bob Ross painting auction
Thirty paintings by Bob Ross are set to be auctioned to support public television stations. The Bonhams auction is to begin Nov. 11 in Los Angeles with three of the paintings. Other auctions will follow. All profits will help public TV stations with licensing fees for popular programs that include “The Best of Joy of Painting” and “America's Test Kitchen.” Bob Ross Inc. president Joan Kowalski says the auction will continue Ross' legacy of supporting public television. Ross, who died in…

Replaced article(s) found for q-fin.PR. https://arxiv.org/list/q-fin.PR/new
[1/1]:
- Automated Market Making and Arbitrage Profits in the Presence of Fees
Jason Milionis, Ciamac C. Moallemi, Tim Roughgarden

Quasi-Ergodic Control of Multi-Periodic Autoregressive Processes: Formulation and Examples
Vyacheslav Kungurtsev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24729 https://a…

Quasi-Ergodic Control of Multi-Periodic Autoregressive Processes: Formulation and Examples
This work considers state dynamics driven by Periodic Autoregressive Moving Average noise, and control of the system over time. Such processes appear frequently in applications involving the environment, such as energy and agriculture. Managing these systems applying forecasts to make decisions that exhibit foresight and risk aversion while maximizing profits is a challenging control problem that can be computationally difficult for standard scenario- based methods. This paper presents a formul…

Replaced article(s) found for q-fin.MF. https://arxiv.org/list/q-fin.MF/new
[1/1]:
- Automated Market Making and Arbitrage Profits in the Presence of Fees
Jason Milionis, Ciamac C. Moallemi, Tim Roughgarden

Noisy Certification in a Duopolistic Setting with Loss-Averse Buyers
Dmitry Shapiro, Tri Phu Vu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04146 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509…

Noisy Certification in a Duopolistic Setting with Loss-Averse Buyers
This paper studies how noise in certification technology affects seller profits in a duopoly with unobservable product quality. We identify two opposing effects of noisy certification. First, it reduces the informativeness of certification outcomes, homogenizing buyers' beliefs and limiting the scope for vertical differentiation. Second, it introduces randomness into buyer perceptions, endogenously generating differentiation between otherwise similar products. When buyers are risk-neutral, the …

Cloudflare expands its Project Galileo program, providing access to its Bot Management and AI Crawl Control tools for free to nonprofits and independent media (Mediaweek)
https://www.mediaweek.com.au/cloudflare-expands-project-galileo-to…