Truong My Lan at her trial in Vietnam, April 2024.
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A recent corruption case in Vietnam has led to the owner of a bank being sentenced to death.
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Robo-advisers and AI are making investing accessible to everyone, but there are also risks to consider.
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High interest rates have been a big earner for the last couple of years.
‘The Waterworks of Money’, an architectural map of the money system drawn by cartographer Carlijn Kingma.
Far from the idea of “trickle-down economics”, a map illustrates how the waterworks of the financial system are parching certain sections of the real economy and producing vast inequality.
Birds fly over a man taking photos of the exposed riverbed of the Old Parana River, a tributary of the Parana River during a drought in Rosario, Argentina, in July 2021. The Global South is being hit hard by climate change, but could business help turn the tide?
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The goal of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, or GFANZ, is to bring together the financial sector to accelerate the transition to a net-zero economy. Here’s why it might actually work.
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There’s a growing push among businesses, including the finance sector, to protect the climate and nature.
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Digitising healthcare and exporting more sustainable protein alternatives are just some ideas that could help Australia’s economy return to form.
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Progress on gender pay issues in finance especially has been too slow, fragmented and uneven.
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South Africa is the eight country in the world to adopt the ‘Twin Peaks’ model of regulating its financial services sector.
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The financial services industry is nothing more than gambling, dressed up in the ‘professional’ clothing of business.
The coal-fired Plant Scherer, one of the top carbon dioxide emitters in the United States, stands in the distance in Juliette, Ga.
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In the age of climate change, investors have different ideas about financial risk. Green bonds take social, environmental and governance issues into consideration, and could help fight climate change.
Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street.
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Oliver Stone’s 1987 film Wall Street turns 30 this month. Its infamous character’s mantra, “greed is good”, seems oddly prescient with greater inequality and an even more rampant culture of greed.
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Should we care about the loss of an industry that normally lives in the shadows?
South Africa’s Finance Minister, Malusi Gigaba, needs more than the 14-point plan to revive the economy.
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South Africa needs to restore trust and effective bargaining mechanisms between key stakeholders to revive the ailing economy.
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From Winston Churchill to the Industrial Strategy Commission: laying down the markers for success.
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A warning from Athens about facing political headwinds with a government barely worth the name.
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Banking in a highly financialised society like Britain could be seen as akin to a fundamental human right.
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Expect more deals as low-cost options derail the investment industry’s business model.