jack zhang, co—founder and chief executive of airwallex. week, thank you. thanks, ben. ben thompson there, speaking with jack zhang of airwallex. well, that's it for this week. i hope you enjoyed the show. don't forget, you can keep up with the latest on our global economy on the bbc website or the smartphone app. you can also follow me on x. thank you for watching. i'll see you soon. bye— bye. hello. sunday promises to be a sunny day across many parts of the uk and turning really quite hot across the south of the country. the outlook into monday points to even hotter weather and the possibility of some big showers and thunderstorms in the north—west of the uk. so here's the morning, then, on sunday. admittedly, it will be a little cloudy to start with in the south, perhaps some mist and murk and coastal fog, particularly in the south—west. a bit of drizzle too, but the rest of the uk, it's sunshine all round, right from the word go. now, we may have to wait a little bit across the south before that sun breaks through, but i think come the

jack zhang, good to have you on the programme talk to me first of all about what you do.ex? we're providing banking and payment services like bank accounts globally, moving money around the world, and also the entire sort of software suite to help you run your business. you're not alone in offering services like that. it's a really competitive market. everyone wants a slice of that pie. why are you any different? we built our business as an infrastructure first business, so we built alternative infrastructure to the swift system, which is built in the 1970s. so we're able to lower the cost by more than 90% compared to the traditional swift or correspondent banking system when you transfer money globally. and jack, a few weeks ago, much of the world's travel infrastructure, other systems, they went down in that microsoft crowdstrike outage. what impact did it have on a company like yours? so first of all, most of our laptops are not running on, um, uh, windows systems. so we use mac internally. but for our customers that interacting with our system, uh, we, um, run on goog

british number one jack draper will face china's zhang zhi—zhen in the first round.er will begin against a qualifier, while emma raducanu faces another grand slam champion in sofia kenin in the first round. the full draw is on the bbc sport website. and that's all the sport for now. hundreds of thousands of teenagers in england, wales and northern ireland have been finding out how they've done in their gcses and btec exams. the government says they're all pupils who've had to overcome challenges to their secondary school education because of the covid pandemic. after years of study, a summer of exams and a morning of nerves, it is finally time to find out. best of luck! and it is good news for keelan in county tyrons who is going on to study a—levels after a disruptive star to secondary school due to the pandemic. well, i missed the first... a good 75% of the first year and second year. so it was quite a big setback. getting back into school and getting to know everyone around me. so but i got through it all right. northern ireland saw the steepest drop in result of

british number one jack draper begins against chinas zhizhen zhang.ys americas sofia kenin, whilst harriet dart plays the french player chloe pacquet at the start of the day four more british players could have still reached the main draw — if they could make it through the final round of qualifying. billy harris and lily miyazaki are both due on court shortly while jan choinski is in action later this evening. but sonay kartal won't be involved any further in new york. she won the opening set against ukraine's yulia staro—dubt—seva — before losing the next two — meaning the world number ia6 reaches the main draw — and kartal goes home. you're watching sportsday, time to take a quick look at some of the other stories making the headlines today. 0lympic 800 metre champion keely hodgkinson will miss the rest of the athletics season because of injury. hodgkinson has won all nine of her 800 metre races this year but will now miss next months diamond league finals. 16 year old rocky flintoff — the son of former england captain andrew — scored 32 on his fir

later tonight against the american sofia kenin, but fellow briton jack draper is already through to the second round after his opponent zhangh draper 4—0 up in the third set. draper progresses. british numberfive dan evans is in a battle with 23rd seed karen khachenov. evans came from a set down and now leads 2—1. all three sets went to tie—breaks. it's currently 1—1 in the 4th. world number one jannik sinner is playing his first match since it emerged he had twice tested positive for a banned substance but escaped a lengthy ban. he lost the first set against american opponent mackenzie macdonald, but has bounced back taking the next two sets dropping just three games. as you can see there, 4—1 in the fourth. about to wrap that up there. there's been a couple of upsets in the men's draw, with two big names going out. number 1! seed stefanos tsitsipas was knocked out in four sets by autralian world number 86 thanasi kokkinakis. and the 2021 semi—finalist felix auger—aliassime lost in straight sets to the 18—year—old czech jakub mensik. in the women's draw, the british number one katie boulter is through. she beat belarus's a

british number one jack draper cruised through the first two sets against zhang zhizen of china, winning, the british number one katie boulter is through. she beat belarus's aliaksandra sasnovich in three sets to progress to the second round. there were 18 games in the second round of the league cup last night, and and everton were able to forget about their poor premier league form with a 3—0 win against league two's doncaster rovers. the goal of the game was scored by iliman ndiaye — the summer signing from marseille got the second for sean dyche's side, who pick up their first win of the season. fulham also booked their place in the next round with a win at birmingham city. a rauljiminez penalty and this strike from jay stansfield enough to wrap up a 2—0 win. you can see all last night's results on the bbc sport website. having played for liverpool and manchester city, a possible move from raheem sterling to manchester united will certainly raise some eyebrows. there have been talks between the two clubs. united exploring the possibility of bringing a player with huge experience. live