IFC: Why Corporate Governance Is Crucial to Myanmar’s Growing Private Sector
Emerging from decades of isolation, Myanmar is undergoing major reforms to become a more market-driven economy. Many are hoping for a meteoric rise of...
Lloyds Banking Group shuts down all crypto credit card transactions
Are we witnessing the murder of Bitcoin? Knives are out for the biggest and (so far) bestest crypto on the block. HAL WILLIAMS looks...
New Cryptocurrencies, Same Old Problems
Based on insights from SARIT MARKOVICH, clinical associate professor of strategy at the Kellogg School
RECENTLY there has been an explosion of global interest in...
Fast moves mean head start in high-paced fintech arena
A LONDON-based fintech start-up profiled in BV’s feature on the recent Gibfin conference, Lendo, is making headlines for its pioneering approach towards regulated cryptocurrency.
Forbes...
Indian Summer On The Horizon
Investors had been keeping their distance from India this last 12 months as New Delhi's business hubs looked like being on the brink of...
Sharia banking weaves moral fibre into the West’s oft-flawed system
No pork, no porn, no booze: this traditional Islamic take on finance and funding relies on ancient ethical codes — and ensures lender and...
The Big Win: Singapore
The ‘Lion City’ is roaring again
By Tony Lennox
IN the heart of downtown Singapore, Raffles Hotel, a stately symbol of colonial splendour, sits in the...
More to employee satisfaction than monetary gain, report shows
FINANCIAL professionals have voted Goldman Sachs the world’s top company to work for.
Research by eFinancialCareers was conducted via an online survey between the months...
Deutsche Bank cuts thousands of jobs to keep ‘doing what it does do well’
New CEO Christian Sewing comes out swinging as troubled German lender struggles towards promised turnaround
DEUTSCHE Bank has announced it will cut more than 7,000...
Banking group’s Bitcoin block ‘won’t halt crypto trading’
Lloyds Banking Group has blocked credit card transactions for cryptocurrency purchases, but that lacks logic – and may even increase demand, say experts
By HAL...
