Tag: finance
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Investors around the globe were buying bonds backed by a notorious mafia in Italy for four years, The Financial Times reported, citing financial and legal documents. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/07/international-investors-reportedly-bought-bonds-backed-by-the-italian-mafia.html more ›
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Major international banks and private equity (PE) houses have been reducing their exposure to Africa in the past few years, but, thankfully for the continent’s startups, not everyone is retreating.… more ›
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Globalization, automation, and inequality. That prediction, made by the World Bank in 2017, and based on decades of Nigeria’s dependence on oil, has proven astute. Amid a crippling coronavirus pandemic,… more ›
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For many Americans, the fallout of the novel coronavirus pandemic gets bleaker by the day. More than twice as many people are unemployed in the U.S. right now than there… more ›
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Note: To make this an easier and shorter article to read, I tried to convey the most important points in simple language and bolded them, so you can get the… more ›
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In his influential annual letter to chief executives, Mr. Fink said his firm would avoid investments in companies that “present a high sustainability-related risk.” Laurence D. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/14/business/dealbook/larry-fink-blackrock-climate-change.html more ›
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This report is part of an ongoing, multi-year study by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School into the relationship between large-scale technology companies and journalism. This… more ›
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Oct.29 — Billionaire hedge-fund founder Ray Dalio says the global economy is under threat from an explosive mix of ineffective monetary policy, a rise in the wealth gap and climate… more ›
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The multimillion pound spending habits of corrupt members of the global super-rich – including 421 luxury homes, three superyachts, seven private jets as well as elite private school fees and… more ›
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Essentially, it’s the name given to a collection of 70 offshore shell companies whose controllers used them to move billions of dollars of private wealth from Russia to the west.… more ›