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Expect more deals as low-cost options derail the investment industry’s business model.
Under threat? A tough call for PSA.
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The takeover of GM’s European brands has historic parallels – and implications for both Europe and the US.
On the outside.
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Whether it is a basic bank account, a mortgage to buy a house or loan to start a business, financial services are an essential part of modern life.
Young women in the survey showed less interest and knowledge on long-term investments.
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Young women are are confident in implementing budgeting and savings strategies, but lack the knowledge and confidence required to implement long-term financial strategies, a new pilot study finds.
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Financially illogical and fuelled by irrational dogma, the creation of a new tranche of private sector debt is a missed opportunity.
It’s too soon to say what advantages there are to issuing government bonds using blockchain technology.
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Despite a media statement announcing that Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) and Queensland Treasury Corporation (QTC) have created the first government bond using the blockchain (dubbed the “cryptobond…
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The Conservatives may be willing to sacrifice what’s left of the UK’s beleaguered social model to maintain the City’s global status.
Scott Morrison’s UK visit may deliver some new ideas on data for Australia.
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Australia could follow the UK’s lead in fostering progress in the financial technology sector.
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The one audience that was prepared for a hard Brexit, it seems, was the City of London.
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The World Economic Forum draws a straight line from social injustice to many of the risks facing the world in 2017.
Small businesses need all the help they can get.
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Research suggests paying small businesses just a couple of weeks faster can help them become more profitable, hire more workers and grow more quickly.
Taking care of business. Will Trump be hands off?
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One cymbal manufacturer has survived 400 years, but most in-house companies fail to survive through the generations.
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Does the Turkish government have ulterior motives in its attempt to make Istanbul a global financial centre?
Continue cooperation is crucial.
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London and Brussels should be constructive about Brexit – for both their financial benefit.
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Scandals, elections, budgets, 2016 had it all. Here’s what made news in business and economics.
Blockchain can’t solve every problem in the finance industry.
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For a discipline that is supposedly rational, finance has had its fair share of irrational crazes. For example, the dotcom bubble and the collateralized debt obligation craze that led to the global financial…
South African President Jacob Zuma just escaped a bid by some of his senior colleagues in the governing ANC to remove him.
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The South African economy stands to benefit if the country’s president steps aside because he has had a destructive economic impact.
Superannuation’s influence on the Australian financial sector mostly balances out.
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Business Briefing: what super is doing to banking and finance
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New research modelled how an increase in the superannuation guarantee would affect the finance sector and the results show it all balances out.
South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma is part of a faction which embraces patronage politics.
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It is common to reduce the politics of the ANC to a battle between personalities. A closer look suggest that this is a fight between two factions, both of them products of trends in the economy.
The South African economy just narrowly escaped a credit rating downgrade but it is not in the clear yet.
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South Africa is breathing a sigh of relief after escaping a credit rating downgrade. But there are still serious concerns around structure of the country’s economy and finances.