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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 ...

Sri Lanka’s economy is currently experiencing a phase of strong growth, driven by an increase in domestic consumption and a pickup in business and infrastructure spending. Furthermore, the ...

At the beginning of the last decade, Swiss investment firm UBS Investment Research began partnering with satellite companies such as Remote Sensing Metrics LLC in order to gauge changes in the ...

According to the head of the Siemens tax service, Christian Kezer (Kaeser), investing in Germany is becoming pointless. “In fact, there is nothing that would speak in favour of investing in Germany.

On October 22, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released the latest edition of its “World Economic Outlook”. Published twice a year, the report’s October issue confirmed that the organisation ...

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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 ...

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 ...