London sparkles with foreign capital.
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London is a global financial centre that relies on money coming in from overseas. When the EU goes, what is left?
O'Dwyer’s effort to avoid any confession of error just drew more attention to the bad call.
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This bald-faced refusal to acknowledge their own inconvenient history in part comes from the politicians’ belief that if you just burnish the “spin”, you can get away with saying anything.
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A new survey reveals that firms are only slowly adapting to advances in financial technology, even as CFO optimism rises.
‘I don’t even know how much this is going to cost.’
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New research shows that many adults across the world are financially illiterate and unable to complete even basic mathematical calculations.
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The financial services industry is nothing more than gambling, dressed up in the ‘professional’ clothing of business.
South Africa needs review policies meant to support people living with disabilities to give them a better deal.
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A new study reveals the challenges faced by people living with disabilities who want to open their own businesses.
The spectre of Brexit hangs over the City of London.
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The EU has ruled out any cherry picking from the UK for things like single market access for financial services.
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The 20 largest OECD countries alone have a US$78 trillion shortfall in their pensions obligations.
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African cities are failing to raise development funds through bond markets.
In the red.
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Markets follow a mix of economic reasoning, human emotion and out-of-control algorithms.
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The Dow Jones is on a rollercoaster. But don’t panic.
Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa’s deputy president who was recently elected as the leader of ruling party, is seen to be fighting corruption.
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The shake up at South Africa’s power utility, Eskom, sends a good signal about where Cyril Ramaphosa is taking the country.
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Zimbabwe’s new administration has promised to revive the country’s agricultural sector. Here’s what it needs to do.
So many numbers, so little time.
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CFOs spend two-thirds of their waking hours working, according to a survey. The difficulty that companies are having hiring and retaining qualified employees is also at a 20-year high.
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In announcing free higher education, South African President Jacob Zuma, lobbed a populist hot potato at the ANC elective conference but it’s ordinary people whose fingers will be burnt.
The gates are open.
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Open banking will require data sharing that will disrupt the monopoly that big banks have on customers’ financial data. It will boost the range of products and deals available to people.
This year the Chinese Communist Party will tackle some of it’s biggest economic hurdles.
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The Chinese government will use its consolidated power to try to reign in some of the biggest problems facing its economy in 2018.
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Next generation finance bots are incredibly sophisticated.
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Business Briefing: What happened to the price of Bitcoin? The truth behind big bubbles and crashes
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On this episode of Business Briefing we unpack great heights and crashing lows of a bubble and a crash.
Ready to pop?
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An analysis of Bitcoin’s fundamentals shows how much of a bubble its price has inflated to.