There has been a continued growth in digital banking in 2024 spurred on by an increased adoption of fintech solutions, AI and machine learning, digital wallets and cryptocurrencies and regulatory ...

Early in 2025, the private credit market surpassed $3trn in assets under management (AUM) and has been one of the “fastest-growing segments of the financial system over the past 15 years,” according ...

The Rockefeller name is one so deeply entrenched in different spheres across the United States that it is perhaps unlike any other legacy the world’s largest economy has ever known. From the oil ...

Europe is at an economic crossroads. Mario Draghi, the former head of the European Central Bank, has warned that the continent faces an “existential challenge” unless it can reverse decades of ...

The Middle East is on tenterhooks. A year after the breakout of the Israeli-Hamas war, the hostilities in the region are spreading fast. There are fears of an all-out war after Israel expanded its ...

One way of measuring global policy-makers’ concerns about the unprecedented increase in debt around the world is the number of times the subject is raised at high-level conferences. And it comes up ...

Every year, thousands of the world’s foremost leaders and business elite trek to the snow-capped mountains of Switzerland. In the Alpine town of Davos, geopolitical issues are hashed out, economic ...

Standing in the middle of Verkor’s headquarters in Grenoble, Olivier Dufour, the firm’s co-founder, delineates his vision for the future of Europe’s green economy. “Batteries replace oil – it is ...

In many ways, 2023 has been a bombshell year for activist investing. In January, US activist short-seller Hindenburg Research sent shockwaves through the business world when it accused India’s Adani ...

Since time immemorial, alcohol has been a part of the social fabric of human life on earth. The earliest evidence of intentional alcohol production stems back to 7,000BC, from fermented residues found ...

When Jared Bibler visited Iceland for the first time in 2002, he couldn’t imagine that one day he would become an Icelander himself. A native of Massachusetts in the US, he was working for an ...

The general consensus appears to be leaning towards the idea that artificial intelligence can replace the role of human financial advisors and therefore, those in the industry must adapt or risk ...