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How will the world look after Covid-19? Those old business models may not be looking so healthy anymore. Eli Lee, head of investment strategy at Bank...
The reinvention of Goldman Sachs has a distinctly 1920s flavour. Yes, the bank is getting in on the hot and not-so-new consumer trend of the 2020s: the...
Mastercard and Visa's acquisitions of payment businesses will come under scrutiny after six European countries asked the European Commission to assess...
One of the benefits of the last financial crisis is that at least we know how not to do some things this time around. That includes banks paying out...
JPMorgan chief executive Jamie Dimon sees a "bad recession" happening in 2020 and says the bank may suspend its dividends in a worst-case scenario....
The Covid-19 outbreak is causing remarkable changes in the UK, where the FT reveals this weekend that the inequalities laid bare by the Covid-19 outbreak...
Data is precious in Africa, where they are more difficult to collect. So it will be interesting to see who has acquired Jumia, the ecommerce business...
April fool jokes feel superfluous this morning as we emerge from what feels like a year-long month of March.Now from the bunker, we're surveying...
The only traffic on the transatlantic air route that passes over the Lafferty office is cargo planes now.With oil prices slumping under $20 a barrel,...
Looking on the bright side of all of this, said one tweeter over the weekend (and with a lot of sarcasm): when this is over we'll have a police state...
Along with supermarkets, pharmacies and post offices, banks are among the few businesses staying open to the public during what's now a three to four...
Facebook may take a stake in Indian conglomerate Reliance Jio, which has seized a major share of the telco market, though not without the aid of the state....
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