Global Finance

Container Ship Dock Crane

The onus is on business to drive more inclusive trade

In his first speaking engagement as ICC Secretary General, John Denton put the onus on business to help drive transition to a more inclusive...
Cathay Pacific 747

Cathay Pacific losing altitude

Once held up as a benchmark of luxury long-haul air travel, the company’s determination not to jump on the low fair bandwagon looks like...
Sessions Market food selection (Photo: Justin DeSouza)

Sessions Market cooks up an incentive to beat chef shortage

SESSIONS Market has launched a chef incentive and recruitment scheme to boost an industry hard-hit by the Covid pandemic. Founder Dan Warne, previously MD at...
Decentralised Finance, DeFi, institutional investment

Regulators eye checks and balances on DeFi market

THE WORLD’S securities regulators are set to crack down on decentralised finance (DeFi) platforms. The International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has outlined a plan...

IFC: Latin America and the Caribbean – Seizing a Trillion Dollar...

Soon the world will celebrate the one-year anniversary of the historic climate agreement signed in Paris in December 2015. The agreement will be implemented...

Of Two Minds in the Public Eye: Charlotte Church

At age of eleven, Welsh schoolgirl Charlotte Church’s fabulous voice and classical song repertoire catapulted her onto the global stage and into the headlines....
Lebanon Bomb Damage

The business of war

THE American writer and humourist, PJ O’Rourke, spent the autumn of 1984 in Lebanon as the country’s civil war began to heat up. The...
Jet Airways Boeing 777

Debts too heavy for airline to retain its international flights

INDIAN AIRLINE Jet Airways is reported to have suspended its international flights. Click here to see stock prices for the companies mentioned in the article The...

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...

Bhutan: Sustainable Happiness

At around the time Abba were raising a glass of Babycham to toast their number one chart success with Waterloo, the good folk of...