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Accounting and bookkeeping solutions provider Digits announced the official launch of an AI Bank Reconciliations feature for its Agentic General Ledger solution. Starting today, the software will now automatically reconcile bank statements. Accountants and business owners can drag and drop their bank statement PDFs onto Digits, and the AGL handles the rest, from document extraction, to matching, to verification.Digits said the agent acts like a junior staff member. It ingests bank feeds, bank statements and ledger data, automatically matches transactions and finalizes reconciliations, without rules to configure or maintain, and runs continuously, so by the time a firm is ready…

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said President Donald Trump’s suggestion that Americans may receive a tariff “dividend” of at least $2,000 could come via the tax cuts passed in his signature economic policy bill earlier this year.Bessent was asked on ABC’s This Week about a social media post by Trump earlier Sunday that derided people who oppose tariffs and said a “dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone.”Bessent said he hadn’t spoken to the president about this idea but “the $2,000 dividend could come in lots of forms, in lots of…

Flight timings and cancellations are displayed on the departures board, a month into the ongoing U.S. government shutdown, at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., November 9, 2025. Annabelle Gordon | ReutersFlight cancellations were again piling up on Monday as air traffic controller shortages, worsened by the longest-ever U.S. government shutdown, snarled air travel coast to coast while President Donald Trump threatened to dock air traffic controllers’ pay if they are absent from work.On Monday, 1,432 of the 25,733 scheduled flights across the country were canceled, around 5.5% “and growing,” according to aviation data firm Cirium.Last week,…

People walk past a Burger King restaurant with Chinese national flags displayed on a street during the National Day Golden Week holiday on October 5, 2024, in Chongqing, China. Cheng Xin | Getty ImagesRestaurant Brands International on Monday announced that it will form a joint venture with CPE, a Chinese alternative asset manager, to run Burger King’s restaurants in China.Earlier this year, a subsidiary of Restaurant Brands acquired its equity interests from its previous Burger King China partners, Turkish-based operator TFI and U.S.-based private equity firm Cartesian Capital, for roughly $158 million in cash. At the time, the company said…

A FlexJet Gulfstream G450 airplane approaches San Diego International Airport for a landing on May 9, 2025 in San Diego, California. Kevin Carter | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesDemand for flights on private jets has been on the rise during the U.S. government shutdown as commercial air travel headaches have worsened, the CEO of private jet charter and fractional ownership company Flexjet told CNBC.More than 17,000 U.S. commercial flights were delayed over the weekend, partly due to major staffing shortages at air traffic control facilities coast to coast, according to FlightAware. That was on top of several hundred preplanned…

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff turned his video doorbell into a $1 billion sale to Amazon. He has some advice for the next generation of founders.In an interview with Business Insider, Siminoff offered a handful of tips, ranging from the books founders should read to the reasons they should build. He even recommended they go on “Shark Tank.”Asked which book a founder should read, Siminoff first referenced his own, “Ding Dong.” He said the “best book,” though, was an almost 20-year-old biography of a business maverick.Siminoff recommended Neal Gabler’s “Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination.””When you read stuff from…

In a tough market, applying to jobs can bring an instant sense of relief.The problem is, it often doesn’t bring much else.Rather than applying to job after job, you’d be better off having five conversations a week with people at companies where you might want to work. That’s the advice of Alan Stein, CEO of Kadima Careers, which offers job seekers coaching on how to get six-figure roles.Following his “five chats” rule doesn’t mean asking each person for a job, he told Business Insider.”Go in there with an intent to learn about them,” he said.The conversations a week are a…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Tori Dunlap, the 31-year-old founder and CEO of Her First $100K, a financial education company geared toward Gen Z and millennial women. She’s also an author and podcast host based in Seattle. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I founded Her First $100K when I was 25 to fight financial inequality by giving women actionable resources to better their money.I didn’t build a business to work so hard that I burn myself out. That’s why I left a 9-to-5 job. I built a company culture where we do really…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Patrick Montgomery, a former Army Ranger and the founder of KC Cattle Company, an American wagyu farm. It has been edited for length and clarity.I thought I’d spend my whole life in Special Operations as part of the First Ranger Battalion — but when life had other plans and I left the Army in 2014, I certainly didn’t expect to become a wagyu rancher.I went back to school at the University of Missouri, planning to become a large-animal veterinarian. I loved the hands-on work, the adrenaline of working with farm animals,…

Using money well is a skill. Having this skill means knowing how to invest wisely and maintain a strong savings habit, but it also means you understand how to spend money with intention.One of the most powerful ways to spend well is to buy back time.That’s what my family did when we decided to hire a house manager. Our top priority is having more time and energy to be fully present with our 4-year-old daughter. We also wanted to devote more time to our financial planning business, which my wife and I run together, rather than managing our household.Here’s how…