Throughout the late 20th and early 21st centuries, globalisation was a dominant economic force, facilitating the free movement of labour, capital, goods and services across borders. Today, the trend ...

The global financial system has traditionally been controlled by Western institutions and currencies, notably the US dollar.

The price of cobalt, a hard metal employed in many industrial uses, has surged over the past 12 months, driven by supply and ...

Coming hot on the heels of accounting scandals involving Enron and Tyco, both of which sent financial markets into tailspins, the fraud committed by WorldCom, one of the world’s biggest ...

As technology continues to advance at a rapid pace, financial institutions all across the world are under intense pressure to improve efficiency, reduce costs and boost productivity. Indeed, there is ...

Inspired by a wave of disruptive digital innovation, the last decade has witnessed perhaps the most rapid evolutionary change ever within the global banking system. Thanks mostly to a combination of ...

The US dollar is the world’s reserve currency, the representation of US economic might on the global stage and the de facto currency unit for the overwhelming majority of financial assets. Throughout ...

Less than a month into 2021, the world watched in amazement as the stock price of the then-troubled American brick-and-mortar video-game and consumer-electronics retailer GameStop skyrocketed after ...

Following the end of the Second World War, Japan’s economy experienced several bouts of phenomenal growth. Perhaps most famously, its consumer-electronics industry grew to make Japan the industry’s ...

As of early 2024, fraud and cybercrime within the global banking system show little sign of abating. On the contrary, the comprehensive ongoing digital transformation undertaken by many of the world’s ...