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These are the 18 best countries in the world for starting and running a business
October 29th, 2015
The World Bank’s Doing Business 2016 report is just out — it’s the most authoritative source in the world for which countries are most friendly to entrepreneurs, and where’s it’s least onerous to keep an enterprise running. We’ve laid ...
China Foreign Exchange Trade System and Deutsche Börse sign cooperation agreement
October 29th, 2015
China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS) and Deutsche Börse today entered into a strategic cooperation agreement to connect the respective markets and foster product innovation. The cooperation agreement was signed by Sun Jie, Executive Vice President of CFETS, and ...
Why We’re Ungovernable, Part 11: Portugal Stages A Coup
October 26th, 2015
Wow. Portugal just did something extraordinary. In its most recent election, parties of the left — anti-austerity, anti-business, mistrustful of the euro and other extra-national institutions — gained a parliamentary majority, which gives them the right to form a ...
London is #1 EU tech city – but Nesta warns on cost of living
October 26th, 2015
London has topped Nesta’s index of top EU tech cities for both starting and scaling up – that’s despite it coming last out of 35 cities on the measurement of its cost of living. The team at Nesta consulted ...
What Will It Mean If the Yuan Gets Reserve-Currency Status?
October 26th, 2015
At least $1 trillion of global reserves may migrate to yuan Successful bid would boost Xi’s economic reform efforts International Monetary Fund representatives have given China strong signals that the yuan is likely to soon join the fund’s basket ...
Europe Admits QE Has Failed, Promises More Of It
October 23rd, 2015
New Age monetary policy has begun to resemble the form of insanity in which a patient repeats the same behavior while expecting a different outcome. Throughout the developed world, interest rates are at record lows and central banks continue ...
The Shifting World Distribution of Income
October 22nd, 2015
The fastest-growing countries around the world, now and probably for the next few decades, will not be the high-income countries. As a result, the global distribution of income will become–gradually–more equal over time. Tomáš Hellebrandt and Paolo Mauro offer ...
Broadridge hired three senior executives to its London office
October 22nd, 2015
Kimberly Jewell, Mike Thrower and Peter Morris join Broadridge’s London office Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR) has hired three senior executives to its London office to expand the firm’s support for global financial institutions in key market-centers internationally. The ...
20 Reasons Why All The People That Quit Prepping After September Are Dead Wrong
October 21st, 2015
Millions of Americans were gearing up for some huge event to happen in September, but the world didn’t end and now many of them have given up entirely on prepping. Of course the truth is that some absolutely earth-shattering ...
P2P lending platform expands into mainland Europe with the acquisition of Zencap
October 21st, 2015
Funding Circle launches across Europe with deal for Rocket Internet-backed Zencap Leading global marketplace for business loans expands into Germany, Spain and the Netherlands Funding Circle, the world’s leading online marketplace for business loans, today announced it has joined ...