Global Finance

A Butterfly without Excuses: Progress Stalled

The ways of the world are quite often more straightforward than they at first glance appear to be. Whatever happens has a cause that...
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Latest insolvency figures show a worsening situation for UK

By PATRICE CROSBOURNE DATA for July 2022, published on August 16, show 1,827 corporate insolvencies — 67 percent higher than in the same month the...
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Up in arms about arms — DSEI event’s ethical enemies are...

PEACE doesn’t have much of a chance at London’s docklands this week as Europe’s biggest arms fair opens its doors. The Docklands’ Excel centre is...

Dalia Grybauskaitė: Marketing Coffee and a Country for Nearly 60 Years

Women political leaders who make it to the top are few and far between. Those that stay in power are even more of a...

Calestous Juma: A Biotech Revolution for Africa

In western countries, the genetic modification of crops is often seen as a threat to the environment. Professor Calestous Juma takes a contrarian view:...

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...
Oleg Tinkov

Russian banker gives up citizenship over war

BILLIONAIRE Russian banker Oleg Tinkov has renounced his Russian citizenship in protest at the war in Ukraine. Tinkov, the founder of online Tinkoff Bank, said...
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I belong tae Glasgae… as do top honours for SME growth

GLASGOW has emerged as the best city to work for a small business in Britain. Research by small business lender iwoca ranked areas using ONS...

Steven Spielberg: Storyteller Extraordinaire

It takes a remarkable man to change the course of a whole industry with one mechanical shark. Steven Spielberg did just that with his...

ZICA ASSIS (Founder, Beliza Natural): A real rags to riches tale

AS a child in the seventies, Zica Assis and her family had nothing. They lived, like thousands of others in the run-down favelas of...