Global Finance

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Brum beats the drum as Goldman Sachs comes to town

GOLDMAN Sachs is opening a new office in Birmingham — a move welcomed by Neil Rami, CEO of the West Midlands Growth Company. Rami’s investment...
Jeremy Hunt MP, UK Chancellor, first Spring Budget

Three PMs, four chancellors, and a partridge in a pear tree…?

ONLY a quarter of UK retail investors have faith in Tory economic policy, with the majority concerned for the future. Research commissioned by online forex...
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Employment on the rise in UK with more women finding work

THE UK's unemployment rate is at its lowest level in nearly 45 years, holding a steady 3.8 percent in the three months to October. Figures...
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It’s up to you, New York!

Is paranoia over vanishing industrial heritage keeping the city that never sleeps awake? Business Vision’s Tony Lennox examines the changing face of commerce in...
Dame Helen Alexander

Obituary: Dame Helen Alexander

Businesswoman was a brilliant leader and trailblazer for women in senior boardroom roles… TRIBUTES have been paid to Dame Helen Alexander – a true pioneer...
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The Big Fail: South Sudan

Where did it all go wrong? Designed as place where new business could survive and prosper, South Sudan’s devastating collapse into corruption has driven away...
First Republic Bank

Banks, the Fed, and a short-term absence of fear

By GEORGE LAGARIAS ANOTHER week, another regional bank failure. First Republic, a 37-year-old San Francisco institution became the third US regional bank — and fourth...
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Bid to ease virus impacts on cash flow ‘flawed’ — CEO

THE UK government’s proposed Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CIBLS) is coming in for some criticism. HM Treasury and the Bank of England last week...

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...

OECD: 21st Century Trade Agreements & Regulatory Coherence

In the past, services markets were largely local and countries mostly worked out their regulation without consideration for how other countries regulate. As a...