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The Need For Speed
Do you have five milliseconds? Innovation has been fast and furious in the foreign-exchange market in the past year.
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Trade Finance Getting Its E-Legs
Processes that have changed relatively little over hundreds of years in trade finance are being catapulted into the 21st century, due to significant advances in data analytics, digitization and shared ledger technology. Once a forgotten backwater of transaction banking, trade ...
News
Unprofitable Tesla Achieves Record Market Cap
Elon Musk, profitless billionaire first it surpassed Ford, then GM, then went head to head with Honda and flew past it.
News
US-China Deal Counters Campaign Rhetoric
Following the April summit the US and China achieved a 100-day joint action plan, a significant departure from Trump’s campaign rhetoric
Features
Gideon Rachman
The Innovation Issue:Chief Foreign Affairs commentator for the Financial Times and Author:Easternisation: War and Peace in the Asian Centurytalks withGlobal Finance Magazine’s Managing Editor Edith Updike.
Country Report
Russia Takes A Half Turn To Asia
Russia is working to reduce its dependency on Europe by strengthening domestic industry and ties to the Far East. It’s a work in progress.
Features
Michael Gould
The Innovation Issue:Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Anaplan talks with Global Finance Magazine’s Managing Editor Edith Updike.
Features
China Is Not Japan. And Never Will Be
The same forces that have hammered Japan’s economy are at play in China, but with mitigating features that portend different outcomes.
Features
New Tool Mines Quintillions Of Data Points
New data-crunching platform from Nasdaq mixes everything from central bank statements to celebrity Tweets to uncover actionable investment trends.
Features
Rich Kids Don’t Trust Robots
Study of wealthy Millennials finds more interest in private equity than robo-advisory, and a desire to “do good” as well as get good returns.
Features
African Banking’s Transitional Moment
Patrick Akinwuntan, group executive director of Ecobank Transnational, explains the bank’s plans to use mobile technology to vastly expand its customer base in the 33 African countries in which it operates
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Alipay Seeks Growth From Traveling Chinese
Alipay is partnering with banks around the world to provide its Chinese customers with seamless service at their preferred tourist destinations, with Italy’s UniCredit Bank following France’s BNP Paribas and Barclays in the UK.