Few have played a greater role in building modern Indonesia than Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati. Reappointed for a second term, the world is waiting to see if she maintains her reputation as a ...

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, ...

Between skyrocketing inflation, bear markets galore, and geopolitical instability in both Europe and Asia, environmental, social and governance-based issues have fallen down many investors’ and ...

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 ...

The general consensus appears to be leaning towards the idea that artificial intelligence can replace the role of human financial advisors and therefore, those in the industry must adapt or risk ...

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 ...

For many years, Mauro Botta had been a successful partner at the accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in California, where he was responsible for auditing Silicon Valley firms. After ...

Global warming from carbon emissions, increasing sea levels and images of pollution are increasing public and shareholder pressure on corporations to take an active role in finding solutions and be ...

When Donald Trump took his seat in the White House, he promised to shake up global trade as part of his ‘America First’ policy. The US president certainly upheld that promise, initiating trade attacks ...

In the event of economic crisis, a country’s banking system is saved at all costs. When Iceland made the decision to go against the grain and let its banks fail, no one could have predicted the ...

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 ...