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A novel item arrived in the post this week — the first debit card issued by my high street bank without a long, bumpy number...

The finance world is filled with complex terminology, but shortening them to acronyms like HELOC or SPAC doesn’t always make them easier to understand. The...

The world is changing. From COVID-19 and climate change to digitalization and diverging demographics, the IMF’s member countries are confronting new challenges. The impacts of...

The survey results underpinning the WEF’s Global Risks Report 2022 paint a bleak picture for the global recovery, with just one in six international business...

By some accounts, the season finale of the pandemic approaches. Omicron appears to be less severe than the Delta variant. Some of this will be...

Roland Brandli, strategic product manager at SmartStream, talks to The Banker’s Kimberley Long about if banks are ready to meet the ISO20022 deadline, and the...

After helping to drive decades of development and modernization in emerging economies, the twentieth-century economist W. Arthur Lewis’s Nobel Prize-winning growth model can now be...

For most of last year, investors priced in a temporary rise in inflation in the United States given the unsteady economic recovery and a slow...

From music services that anticipate listeners’ moods to maps that predict the fastest routes, smart technologies once considered futuristic have become commonplace—thoroughly changing consumers’ expectations...

While the conventional wisdom is that the next financial crash will come from the collapse of the cryptocurrency bubble, climate finance may pose a more...