Gender agenda and balance in new age of Davos Man
WEF founder Klaus Schwab, troubled by contradictions, ensures a level playing field, as JOHN STARR reports
THE WORLD Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting in Davos,...
Bright idea to combat flying foes
By HAL WILLIAMS
WAGENINGEN University in the Netherlands has found a hi-tech means of virus-prevention. And no, this has nothing to do with Covid.
The virus...
UK MPs look into SME funding challenges
A CROSS-PARTY committee of UK MPs is to examine the key challenges SMEs face when seeking finance.
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£9tn Indo-Pacific partnership ‘boost to UK tech’
ASIA Pacific investors are said to be set to inject millions of pounds into the UK tech industry.
Investment opportunities worth £100bn are being presented...
UN recognises US$1.6 trillion trade finance gap
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has welcomed official recognition of the estimated US$1.6 trillion trade financing gap in the United Nations’ (UN) annual...
Clive Stafford Smith: A One-Man Army for Justice
Clive Stafford Smith is a British lawyer specialised in civil rights and fighting death penalty convictions. He has spent much of his working life...
High street hopes trump high ambitions for UK companies
UK BUSINESSES are “hyper-local” with few international aspirations, a recent survey revealed.
As Brexit draws closer, more than half of those canvassed believe their local...
Security and gambling sector: ‘costly’ directive gains ground
OPERATORS in the gaming and gambling sector are on average 66 percent of the way through their fifth anti-money laundering directive (5MLD) implementation programmes.
That...
Life after death: Tech Nation rises once more
TECH Nation is officially relaunching to work with the UK government as “an independent voice” for founders, and to help tech entrepreneurs to thrive...
The UN’s Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI): A Pioneering Global Framework...
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues—also known as sustainability issues—are posing a shared risk to the insurance industry, business, government, and society at large,...
