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Writing about SME banking, it's astonishing how often bankers shake their heads sorrowfully when asked to explain why it's so difficult to lend...
Nigerian banks are being encouraged to grow their retail lending books in order to grow the economy, according to a report on Bloomberg, by increasing...
Some historians trace the rise of consumer credit in America back to the Singer sewing machine, which became popular in the 1850s, with women showing...
Agustin Carstens, the chief central banker of the central banks, spoke last weekend to the Financial Times on the question of central banks issuing digital...
Michael Lafferty writes: Jaja Finance announced last Friday that it will acquire the credit cards business of Bank of Ireland UK. This is a great move...
Following the news of Facebook's entry into the world of digital assets and digital tokens, we observed that the Libra Association - which will run...
The ECB's Yves Mersch has been calling for instant payments in Europe for the last few years, but he's also been warning that bitcoin...
It's hardly a surprise that US congresswoman Maxine Waters is calling for a ban on Libra, stating that nothing must be allowed to challenge the dollar....
Facebook's Libra project is growing from an office in Geneva. And how? We've marked Switzerland's card as a world leader in digital assets...
Uberisation has come to mean upending, or total disruption of a business. One of the weekend papers here in Ireland carried a supplement about the uberisation...
"The advent of the internet and mobile broadband has empowered billions of people globally to have access to the world's knowledge and information,...
Lloyds Bank's head of remuneration Stuart Sinclair has been writing his name in lights with a soon-to-be-immortal quote about chief executive Antonio...
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