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 ...

Forex trading, short for foreign exchange trading, is a dynamic and global financial market where currencies are bought and sold. Over the years, this market has witnessed a remarkable evolution, ...

The banking sector has historically been a monopoly, with the world’s biggest institutions maintaining a relatively unchallenged hegemony. However, a new breed of digital-only neobanks are starting to ...

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 ...

When it comes to financial inclusion, Peru has considerable room for improvement. The country falls below the regional average in terms of access to financial products and services, ranking sixth out ...

South Korea has spent billions trying to increase its fertility rate, currently the lowest in the world. With no sign of improvement in sight, the government is trying a different approach Since 2006, ...

For any nation, industrialisation is the bedrock of job creation, poverty alleviation and economic growth. As Nigeria’s foremost development finance institution (DFI), Bank of Industry (BOI) has the ...

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 ...

Rampant inequality, corruption and poor education standards continue to impede growth in South Africa. A year into his presidency, Cyril Ramaphosa will have to tackle an array of structural ...

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 ...