Global Finance

3 reasons why consistent implementation is critical for the EU’s GDPR

A particularly momentous year in the world of privacy, 2018 will see the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) move from policy...

Charity begins at home; blockchain plan ensures it goes the distance

Commit Good lives up to its name with technology to track donations from source to recipient IS THE money you just donated to that children’s...

David Owen: The Best Leader That Never Was

In the long list of those described as “the best leader we never had,” David Owen’s name is found near the top. Uniquely among...

Dramatic fall in half-year profits strikes to heart of John Lewis

JOHN Lewis Partnership’s June predictions of low-to-zero profits for the first half of 2018 have proven precise, rather than pessimistic: a plunge of 99...
Gibraltar Border

Let’s talk about Gibraltar: tobacco, land-reclamation and environment are in...

BREXIT has induced the UK and Spain to talk, once again, about Gibraltar. The two nations will negotiate the largest bilateral agreement on the Rock...
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Go-ahead team and pioneer spirit combine in company’s on-going bid to...

THE ALTERNATIVE risk transfer market was relatively unknown when Juan Antonio Niño, CEO and founder of Active RE, began to advocate for its adoption...

Électricité de France (EDF): Thinking Big and Outside the Box

Determined to become the world’s largest supplier of renewable energy, Électricité de France (EDF) in July took an 80% stake in Hong Kong-based wind...
Gorilla

Great apes benefit from guerrilla tactics from online community

REDDIT’s at it again. Fresh from boosting the share price of game retailer GameStop, the WallStreetBets community has gone wild, “adopting” 3,500 wild gorillas...
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SMEs find banks ‘biased against them’

NEARLY three quarters of UK SMEs say their banks discriminate against them in favour of larger companies. Fintech platform HedgeFlows canvassed the leaders of 500...
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Barclays’ African odyssey over the years: always with people as primary...

IN 1950, the British bank Barclays (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas – DCO) was the dominant financial institution on the African continent. Its presence was entrenched...