Global Finance

Small Business Saturday UK

Hope springs eternal — and seasonal — for UK retailers

SMALL and independent retailers in the UK have high hopes for the coming year. Confidence in business growth came from 89 percent of those canvassed...
ActiveRE world map

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...

The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine Languishing on the...

The Asian steppes, which run from the far edge of Siberia in the east to the fringe of Europe in the west, has felt...
Online banking

Online shift has banks shutting shop

HIGH street bank branches are shutting as people turn to online services and money management. Which? magazine reports that 5,355 bank and building society branches...
Kris Canekeratne, CEO of Virtusa

From a software ‘player’ to a leader in his field: a...

A company joining the elite billion-dollar revenue group has mastered the art of turning a vision into reality KRIS Canekeratne loves to win — and...

Juliette Brindak: Girl Power

The information technology revolution opens the doors to a host of new businesses for tech-savvy young entrepreneurs with an eye for a market opportunity....

EIB Investment Plan for Europe: Revolution in Use of Public Resources

The Marshall Plan did much to inject life into the post-war recovery of Europe. Initially comprising $13 billion, mostly in direct aid, the plan...

Feature: Trudging The Empty Quarter for Hearts and Minds

Adventure, arid deserts, and diplomacy rarely go hand in hand. But in December 2015, when British explorer Mark Evans set off on an 808-mile...
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World Bank Report Finds Rise in Global Wealth, but Inequality Persists

Report goes beyond GDP to assess the economic progress of nations Global wealth grew significantly over the past two decades but per capita wealth declined...
Cancer startup entrepreneurs

University’s incubator programme selects cancer-fighting start-ups

TWENTY start-ups — eight of them operating projects in the field of cancer — have been selected for a University of Edinburgh incubator programme...