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 ...

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 ...

Also known as the internet bubble or the information technology bubble, the dotcom bubble was the unprecedented rise in equity valuations of internet-based tech companies during the bull market of the ...

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 ...

It was recently reported that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) had rated a third of large US national banks as having unsatisfactory management. That report raises serious questions ...

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 ...

Both of these buildings in downtown Houston, 1400 Smith Street and 1500 Louisiana Street, were formerly occupied by Enron. August 2021 marked the 20 th anniversary of arguably the most notorious ...

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 ...

It was among the best-performing commodities during the previous two years, as the breathless rally beginning in late 2020 saw the price of lithium skyrocket, largely off the back of booming sales of ...

The global banking system is coming under increasingly sophisticated fraud attacks, such that this long-running menace continues to siphon off billions of dollars from lenders every year. According to ...

Finance teams the world over are grappling with the problem of invoice and payment fraud. Criminals continue to extract hard-earned cash out of businesses, who all too often are unprepared for this ...