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After years of growth, the bubble has unfortunately burst for many important parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. With South Africa expected to slide into recession, Nigeria's currency plummeting to record lows ...
If you’re buying from overseas for your small business, paying a mortgage on a holiday home, receiving a pension from an old job abroad, or simply looking to buy foreign ...
Mobile payments are becoming more popular every day, and are changing the traditional relationship between business size and available markets on a global scale. Continued developments in the fintech industry ...
In January last year, the Swiss National Bank (SNB) decided to abandon its currency peg with the euro. This decision was taken largely in response to a weakening euro and ...
Giving mortgages to recent grads and swapping overdraft charges for low-rate loans isn't what you’d expect from a financial institution, yet that’s exactly what many tech-savvy start-ups like San Francisco-based lender SoFi ...
As we begin 2016, the world’s real estate markets stand at a crossroads. The Economist reported back in October that it had seen house prices rise at an average rate of ...
Bitcoin was launched as an digital alternative payment system seven years ago, and has had a rough few years despite having been billed as the next big thing. A lack of regulation has made the ...
The European Commission has announced that executive and consumer confidence in the eurozone has risen to its highest level since 2011. As confidence in Europe grows, how could this shift ...
China’s much-publicised stock plunge, which can largely be attributed to a struggling commodities market, has had serious implications for the world economy. So what exactly is going on, and are ...
The global gap in wealth inequality has reached extreme levels, with the rich getting richer year-on-year. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan recently decided to tackle this issue head-on, ...
In the past, real estate has often been seen as a business of relationships, reliant on contacts and personal connections. While that's still hugely important, software trends are also becoming ...
For the past few decades, Hong Kong has enjoyed the dual benefits of high-powered development in mainland China and the freedom of a ‘Western-style’ market economy. However, as China’s economic ...
Crude oil prices are at a seven year low, with barrels selling for less than $40 due to global oversupply. An estimated 31.7m barrels per day were produced in November, ...