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  • Undeclared milk and egg in specific batches of Dunnes Stores Moroccan Style Topped Houmous

    Undeclared milk and egg in specific batches of Dunnes Stores Moroccan Style Topped Houmous


    Undeclared milk and egg in specific batches of Dunnes Stores Moroccan Style Topped Houmous


    Friday, 09 January 2026









    Alert Summary
    Allergy Alert Notification: 2026.A02
    Allergen(s): milk; egg
    Product Identification: Dunnes Stores Moroccan Style Topped Houmous
    Batch Code Best before date: 30/01/26
    Country Of Origin: Belgium


    Message:
    Specific batches of Dunnes Stores Moroccan Style Topped Houmous contains milk and egg which is not declared on the ingredients list on the affected batches. This may make the implicated batches unsafe for consumers who are allergic to or intolerant to milk or egg. Therefore, these consumers should not eat the implicated batches. Affected products can be returned to Dunnes Stores where a full refund will be given.














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  • Province enhances beef industry’s competitive edge – Government of Prince Edward Island

    1. Province enhances beef industry’s competitive edge  Government of Prince Edward Island
    2. Government of Canada invests in improved halal beef processing and packaging in Prince Edward Island  Yahoo Finance
    3. Feds spend over $2M to improve halal, kosher beef production in P.E.I.  CTV News
    4. Feds announce millions in spending on halal beef production in PEI  Western Standard

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  • More than 11,000 cheese products recalled due to possible Listeria contamination

    More than 11,000 cheese products recalled due to possible Listeria contamination

    Certain cheese products are being recalled due to a possible Listeria contamination, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

    Around 11,530 products from The Ambriola company, under names such as Boar’s Head and Member’s Mark, are being pulled from several states, including Texas.

    No illnesses have been reported in connection with this recall, and no other products are affected, the FDA stated.

    The recalled cheese was distributed between Nov. 3- 25, 2025.

    “We take food safety very seriously and immediately alerted stores and distributors to remove the affected products from shelves,” said Phil Marfuggi, chief executive officer. “We are working closely with the FDA and continuing to test our products and facilities to fully understand the situation.”

    If you have one of the products, the FDA said you can either return it to the store where you bought it for a refund or throw it away.

    Owners with questions can contact Ambriola at 1-800-962-8224, Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

    Listeria monocytogenes can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in children, older adults and those with weakened immune systems.

    Pregnant women are also at risk, as the infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths, the FDA said.

    Short-term symptoms in healthy individuals include high fever, severe headaches, abdominal pain, diarrhea and nausea.

    You can find the specific products and expiration dates here.


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  • A&O Shearman guides Genmab’s USD6 billion bank/bond financing

    A&O Shearman guides Genmab’s USD6 billion bank/bond financing

    The bank component of the financing involved a credit agreement providing for new senior secured credit facilities consisting of a USD1bn senior secured term loan “A” facility, a USD2bn senior secured term loan “B” facility and a USD500 million senior secured revolving credit facility. The bond piece consisted of Rule 144A/Regulation S offerings of USD1.5bn aggregated principal amount of 6.250% Senior Secured Notes due 2032 and USD1bn aggregated principal amount of 7.250% Senior Notes due 2033. 

    Genmab is an international biotechnology company dedicated to improving the lives of people with cancer and other serious diseases through innovative antibody medicines. For over 25 years, its passionate, innovative and collaborative team has advanced a broad range of antibody-based therapeutic formats, including bispecific antibodies, antibody-drug conjugates, immune-modulating antibodies and other next-generation modalities. Genmab’s science powers eight approved antibody medicines, and the company is advancing a strong late-stage clinical pipeline, including wholly owned programs, with the goal of delivering transformative medicines to patients.

    The A&O Shearman team was led by partners Harald Halbhuber (New York, capital markets), Michael Chernick (New York, debt finance) and Ryan Robski (Toronto/New York, capital markets), and associates Katya Bogdanov (Toronto/New York, capital markets), Ilya Mamin, Joe Tambasco (both New York, capital markets), Nick Slagter and Jahanvi Pandit (both Toronto/New York, capital markets) and Penelope Yan, Becky Hval, Jordan Tan (all New York, debt finance).

    Other A&O Shearman lawyers involved in the transaction include partners Derrick Lott and Clare O’Brien (both New York, M&A), Larry Crouch (Silicon Valley, tax), Matthew Brown (Washington D.C., tax), Niels de Ru (Amsterdam, debt finance), Godfried Kinnegim and Rens Bondrager (both Amsterdam, tax), and associates Katherine Teng and Jake Shaughnessy (both New York, M&A), Daniel Kachmar and Brandon Fawbush (Washington D.C., tax), Joy Kloosterman (Amsterdam, tax), Sophia Evenhuis and Michaël Guenneguez (both Amsterdam, global financial markets), Mercedeh Naseri (Amsterdam, debt finance), Sy Ro (New York, funds) and Stephanie Li (Washington D.C., funds).

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  • Gibson Dunn Advised Diginex on Signing of Definitive Agreement to Acquire PlanA

    Gibson Dunn Advised Diginex on Signing of Definitive Agreement to Acquire PlanA

    Firm News  |  January 9, 2026


    Gibson Dunn advised Diginex Limited, a leading provider of Sustainability RegTech and data management solutions, on the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire PlanA.earth GmbH, one of Europe’s leading AI-powered carbon accounting and decarbonization platforms.

    Our corporate team includes partners Robert Giannattasio and Christopher Lang.

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  • Consolidated Reports of Condition and Income for Fourth Quarter 2025

    Consolidated Reports of Condition and Income for Fourth Quarter 2025

    This Financial Institution Letter and the attached Supplemental Instructions for the December 31, 2025, report date should be shared with the individual(s) responsible for preparing the Call Report at your institution. 

    There are no new data items that take effect this quarter in the FFIEC 031, FFIEC 041 or FFIEC 051 Call Report forms. The instructions have been updated to specify the length of time that loan modifications to borrowers experiencing financial difficulty should be reported in the Call Report (see FIL-30-2025, dated July 11, 2025). Institutions should refer to the attached Supplemental Instructions for December 2025 for additional guidance on certain reporting issues, including recently issued accounting standards updates. The Call Report forms for December 31, 2025, are available for printing and downloading from the FFIEC’s Reporting Forms webpage for each version of the Call Report. These forms can also be accessed from the FDIC’s Bank Financial Reports webpage.

    Except for certain institutions with foreign offices, your completed Call Report must be submitted electronically to the Central Data Repository (CDR) no later than 30 days after the current quarter’s report date. An institution with more than one foreign office, other than a “shell” branch or an International Banking Facility, is permitted an additional five calendar days to electronically submit its Call Report data. See the chart below for current and upcoming Call Report submission deadlines. 

    Report Date

    Due Date

    Due date for certain institutions with foreign offices (see above)

    December 31, 2025 Friday, January 30, 2026 Wednesday, February 4, 2026
    March 31, 2026 Thursday, April 30, 2026 Tuesday, May 5, 2026
    June 30, 2026 Thursday, July 30, 2026 Tuesday, August 4, 2026
    September 30, 2026 Friday, October 30, 2026 Wednesday, November 4, 2026

    Multifactor authentication (MFA) has now been fully implemented in the CDR application, and all users who have not yet registered for MFA must complete the registration process to access the system and submit Call Reports. Users who do not register for MFA will be unable to submit their December 31, 2025, Call Reports. If you need assistance with the MFA registration process, please contact the CDR Helpdesk at cdr.help@cdr.ffiec.gov.

    • James M. Gallagher
      Senior Deputy Comptroller for
      the Office of the Chief National Bank Examiner
      Office of the 
      Comptroller of the Currency
    • Mary Aiken
      Acting Director
      Division of Banking
      Supervision and Regulation
      Board of Governors of the 
      Federal Reserve System
    • Ryan E. Billingsley
      Director
      Division of Risk Management Supervision
      Federal Deposit
      Insurance Corporation

    Statement of Applicability: The contents of, and material referenced in, this FIL apply to all FDIC-insured financial institutions.

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  • Bessent says Argentina peso bet was ‘homerun deal’

    Bessent says Argentina peso bet was ‘homerun deal’

    US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said his risky US gamble on Argentina’s currency has paid off.

    Bessent said American financial support had been repaid and the US no longer held any Argentine pesos in its exchange stabilisation fund.

    The US had purchased the then-plunging currency last year in an effort to stave off further turmoil and boost the party of President Javier Milei, a key ally of President Donald Trump, in the run-up to national midterm elections.

    The move sparked criticism from Democrats, who accused Bessent of risking taxpayer money on a country with a long history of financial turmoil.

    In the end, Bessent said the manoeuvre had been a success.

    “Stabilising a strong American ally – and making tens of millions in profit for Americans – is an America First homerun deal,” he wrote in an announcement on social media.

    When the US moved to intervene in September, people were dumping the peso, mindful of the shocks they had experienced after previous elections and rattled by signs that Milei’s party might experience an upset in the mid-terms.

    Bessent promised to do “what was needed” to stave off further drops in September. He announced a month later that the US had purchased pesos and agreed to extend a swap line to Argentina, allowing the country to exchange pesos for dollars.

    The move helped to halt the falls in the currency, which saw further gains after Milei’s party clinched a landslide victory in the mid-term elections, though it has drifted lower more recently.

    Argentina’s central bank said it settled the swap line in December. It ultimately traded just $2.5bn in pesos for dollars of a possible $20bn, according to a government report on deal.

    The report said the US had also separately provided $872m in support involving reserves held at the IMF.

    The Treasury Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment on that transaction.

    “Getting your money back is a straight forward definition of a success,” said Brad Setser, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, even if he said tens of millions in profit was “small change” given the sums involved.

    But he said big challenges continue to face the Argentine economy, given how much it spent last year from its reserves to prop up the currency.

    “It’s been a short term success – Bessent got his money back,” he said. “I do remain worried that the Argentines are relying too heavily on the expectation that Secretary Bessent will ride to the rescue … and therefore aren’t showing enough urgency in their plans to rebuild their own reserves.”

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  • Saskatchewan Adds Over 15,000 Jobs in 2025 | News and Media

    Released on January 9, 2026

    Statistics Canada recently released their annual labour force numbers which demonstrate that Saskatchewan’s labour market experienced another strong year with continued low unemployment and consistent job growth. 

    In 2025, Saskatchewan’s economy created 15,200 jobs. The province also had the lowest annual unemployment rate among provinces at 5.2 per cent, well below the national average of 6.8 per cent. Saskatchewan was the only province to record a decline in unemployment rate compared to 2024.

    “In 2025, Saskatchewan continued to experience strong job growth and low unemployment rates, this is the direct result of the strength of industry and employers, and the increasing opportunities available in Saskatchewan,” Immigration and Career Training Minister Eric Schmalz said. “Our government is committed to ensuring this growth continues into 2026 and that Saskatchewan remains the best province in Canada to live, work, and raise a family.”

    In 2025 Saskatchewan saw all time historical highs with:

    • 510,600 people in full-time employment; 
    • 617,400 people employed; and
    • 651,200 people in the labour force.

    Saskatchewan had the highest employment rate at 63.9 per cent and the second highest labour force participation amongst provinces at 67.4 per cent. Saskatchewan’s two biggest cities also saw  growth this year. Compared to 2024, Saskatoon’s employment was up 4,000, an increase of 2.0 per cent, and Regina’s employment was up 6,500, an increase of 4.5 per cent. 

    Industries that saw the largest job gains from 2024 were health care and social assistance up 9,000, construction which increased by 5,000, and agriculture increased by 1,600. 

    The province continues to see economic growth in other areas. In 2025 Saskatchewan ranked first amongst provinces for growth in urban housing starts (January to November) and second in the value of building permits and new motor vehicle sales (January to October). 

    This economic growth is backed by the Government of Saskatchewan’s Building the Workforce for a Growing Economy: The Saskatchewan Labour Market Strategy, a roadmap to build the workforce needed to support Saskatchewan’s strong and growing economy, and Securing the Next Decade of Growth: Saskatchewan’s Investment Attraction Strategy, a plan to increase investment in the province and to further advancing Saskatchewan’s Growth plan goal of $16 billion in private capital investment annually.

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  • Kettering University Announces Fall 2025 Class of MEDC Michigander Scholars

    Kettering University Announces Fall 2025 Class of MEDC Michigander Scholars

    Kettering University and the Michigan Economic Development Corp. (MEDC) have named 19 Kettering students to represent the University’s latest class of Michigander Scholars. The innovative Michigander Scholars program offers scholarships of $5,000 and up to $10,000 to qualifying scholars who complete a Co-op (or internship) and/or accept a full-time position as a computer, electrical, or process engineer, or as a software developer (or a similar job title) with a participating company.

    Employers such as Ford, GM, BorgWarner, Bosch, Hemlock Semiconductor, Magna, Mahle, Nissan, Our Next Energy Inc., and ZF are investing in this growing talent pipeline to ensure a steady flow of skilled professionals ready to contribute to next-generation mobility, energy, and manufacturing sectors.

    The Michigander Scholars program strengthens Michigan’s innovation ecosystem by connecting high-achieving students in tech and engineering with the state’s leading employers. Through career mentorship, industry engagement, and paid experiential learning, including Kettering University’s signature Co-op program, the initiative fosters early and ongoing relationships between students and companies that shape Michigan’s future economy.

    The first of its kind in the United States, this program represents an unprecedented public-private partnership with some of Michigan’s leading advanced manufacturing employers and universities. This MEDC initiative is a vital talent retention strategy that fills in-demand jobs in the semiconductor and electric vehicle industries, which are essential to Michigan’s economic growth.

    This class of Michigander Scholars includes:

    FORD MOTOR COMPANY

    • Leonardo Durasevic, Chesterfield, Dakota High School, Class of 2028, Mechanical Engineering
    • Yusef El-Sheikh, Canton, Plymouth High School, Class of 2028, Electrical Engineering
    • Sumukh Kallur, Novi, Novi High School, Class of 2028, Mechanical Engineering
    • Briana Lapuz, Farmington Hills, Mercy High School, Class of 2027, Electrical Engineering
    • Josiah Thompson, Macomb Township, Parkway Christian School, Class of 2028, Computer Science
    • Brandon White, Livonia, Churchill High School, Class of 2029, Electrical Engineering

    GENERAL MOTORS

    • Jordan Ceperov, Saline, Saline High School, Class of 2028, Mechanical Engineering
    • Paul Ibegbu, Canton, Divine Child High School, Class of 2028, Computer Engineering
    • Alyssa Shelton, Fenton, Hartland High School, Class of 2026, Mechanical Engineering*
    • Ashmit Swarnkar, Novi, Detroit Catholic Central High School, Class of 2027, Mechanical Engineering
    • Evan Thompson, Highland, Milford High School, Class of 2028, Computer Science
    • Aaliyah Washington, Lansing, Waverly High School, Class of 2027, Industrial Engineering
    • Alexander Yolles, Fair Lawn, New Jersey, Fair Lawn High School, Class of 2024, Electrical Engineering*

    HEMLOCK SEMICONDUCTOR

    • Elijah Rowland, Owosso, Flushing High School, Class of 2027, Mechanical Engineering

    MAGNA

    • Maddison Bourbeau, Grand Blanc, Grand Blanc High School, Class of 2027, Mechanical Engineering
    • Kianna Lucas, Spring, Texas, Class of 2026, Engineering
    • Giuseppe Waller, Ypsilanti, Plymouth Christian Academy, Class of 2028, Mechanical Engineering

    MAHLE

    • Andrew Johnson, Columbiaville, Lapeer High School, Class of 2027, Mechanical Engineering

    MOBIS

    • Aidan Petras, Sterling Heights, Stevenson High School, Class of 2026, Computer Engineering

    * Student was awarded a $10,000 full-time scholarship and will complete a Co-op (or internship) and/or accept a full-time position as a computer, electrical, or process engineer, or as a software developer (or a similar job title) with a participating company.

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  • Statement by the Eurogroup President on the nominations for the post of ECB Vice-President – consilium.europa.eu

    1. Statement by the Eurogroup President on the nominations for the post of ECB Vice-President  consilium.europa.eu
    2. Euro Zone’s Growing Eastern Wing Wants Seat at ECB’s Top Table  Bloomberg.com
    3. Eurogroup gets 6 candidacy to replace ECB’s Vice President Luis de Guindos  MarketScreener
    4. Six candidates bid to replace ECB vice president de Guindos -Eurogroup  Global Banking | Finance
    5. ECB vice-presidential hopeful Centeno flags “structural uncertainty” facing Europe  investingLive

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