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Have global supply chains had their day? A quick scan would suggest not. But times are changing. Supply chains are shrinking. Production in some areas is coming home and firms are seriously rethinking ...
When Jared Bibler visited Iceland for the first time in 2002, he couldn’t imagine that one day he would become an Icelander himself. A native of Massachusetts in the US, he was working for an ...
The general consensus appears to be leaning towards the idea that artificial intelligence can replace the role of human financial advisors and therefore, those in the industry must adapt or risk ...
Move over, millennials: Gen Z is here, and is ready to spend. Generation Z – or those born between the years of 1997 and 2012, for the uninitiated – now account for a staggering 40 percent of ...
It was revealed, in a survey carried out by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (LILP) in 2019, that 90 percent of the 200 cities around the globe that were polled were considered to be unaffordable ...
When Brexit came one step closer to becoming a reality in 2018, Tradeweb was left with few options other than expanding its European presence beyond London. The US company, which runs platforms for ...
With a fortune estimated at $940m, Baba Ahmadou Danpullo is ranked number one on Forbes Afrique’s rankings – the French edition of the US magazine. Danpullo is a discreet man, avoiding the media and ...
For many years, Mauro Botta had been a successful partner at the accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in California, where he was responsible for auditing Silicon Valley firms. After ...
Global warming from carbon emissions, increasing sea levels and images of pollution are increasing public and shareholder pressure on corporations to take an active role in finding solutions and be ...
Dubai is looking to use its current position of strength to expand even further and become a world hub by 2033, in time to mark its 200th anniversary, writes Martyn Cornell ...
In the event of economic crisis, a country’s banking system is saved at all costs. When Iceland made the decision to go against the grain and let its banks fail, no one could have predicted the ...
In our post-Cold War society, economic sanctions have become one of the defining features of the political landscape. Since the early 1990s, the US, Europe and other developed economies have employed ...