Jane Austen on the new £10 note.
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Jane Austen is on the Bank of England’s new £10 note. About time, too.
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Talk of banks leaving London completely for other European cities is just that – talk.
The study used an eye-tracking device to ensure that all information included in the management report was read and considered in light of judgment formation.
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Research shows investors could have been misled just by the order of information in financial reports.
The leaders of the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa alliance.
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The sub-imperial formation called BRICS, which pretends to be a progressive global force could be divided by a series of crises.
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Recalling August 9 2007 – the start of the credit crunch and global financial crisis.
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The International Monetary Fund’s view of how to fix South Africa’s economy deserves to be seriously considered.
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The novelist’s life was marked by the financial industry … and not always for the best.
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Insurers complain noisily when regulators step in to stop them charging more to some groups, but there might be a benefit to us all when a better balance is found.
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We all miss out when corporates keep themselves to themselves.
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim is thinking about reinventing the organisation model.
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Africa should be concerned about news that the World Bank is looking to migrate from the model that largely relies on funding member states to become a broker of private capital.
An early prototype of the IBM Watson cognitive computing system in Yorktown Heights, NY. It was originally the size of a master bedroom in 2011.
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Banks are relying more and more on robots that perform financial services.
The first microloans were made to women in rural Bangladesh in the 1970s. Banesa Khatun (far left) here in 2006, was still using Grameen Bank 30 years later.
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A new study finds that giving small loans to very poor people reduces both the incidence and depth of poverty in the developing world.
Banks are in such poor conditions that it affects Tunisians’ day to day lives.
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Tunisia’s economy has been struggling since the country’s 2011 revolution. Corruption and bad governance within the banking sector is not helping.
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LIBOR continues to evoke irritation, frustration and fear – for traders, central bankers and the public.
Getting down to business.
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If the UK fails to maintain its global outlook, it could lose business to a globalist France.
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Stories of financial mismanagement in football have become all too common. Where is the outcry?
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The Chinese government is doing its best to stop China’s bad loan problem from blowing up.
Former Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan flanked by Deputy Minister Mcebisi Jonas and Director General Lungile Fuzile.
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The framing of the prevailing political protests in South Africa shows too much focus on the role of individuals. This is dangerous in hearkening back to the flawed Great Man Theory.
Creating a bitcoin ETF won’t suddenly make it safe.
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Money is pouring into exchange traded funds, but making a bitcoin one isn’t necessarily a good idea.
The sacking of South Africa’s Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has created uncertainty about the future of the country’s finances.
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The removal of South Africa’s finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, is the greatest threat to public finances experienced in the post 1994 era.