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New Finance Minister To Stabilize Singapore
Thepublic face of Singapore’s largely successful Covid-19 response is now in charge of the finance ministry.
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Banking
Pandemic Takes Toll On Loyalty Of SME Clients
Banks that led and lagged in deploying digital offerings witnessed significant differences in defection rates.
News
Millionaire Ex-Bankers Surprise Win In Ecuador
As leader of a nation marred by deep political divisions and devastated by the coronavirus epidemic,GuillermoLasso faces monumental challenges.
News
Shareholder Revolt At Toshiba
Toshiba shareholders voted for an independent probe into allegations that investors were pressured against pursuing a management shake-up at last summer’s annual general meeting.
Features
ESG Reporting Fails The Transparency Test
ESG metrics are growing in popularity but are still far away from being standardized.
News
China Takes The FDI Title
China surges past the U.S. as the top destination for foreign direct investment.
News
London Tradings Post-Brexit Fall
London’s loss of the crown as Europe’s top trading hub is only the latest in a year-long string of bad news for the UK.
Data
World’s Most Unbanked Countries
Hundreds of millions of people globally have no checking or savings bank account. Financial exclusion undermines their quality of life and hold their nations’ economies back.
News
Brussels, Beijing Ink Trade Deal
Strongly advocated by Germany, the agreement drew criticism from other European Union member states concerned with issues ranging from Beijing’s human rights record to cybersecurity and technology transfer.
News
Germany: A Successor At Last?
Angela Merkel’s center-right Christian Democratic Union choseArmin Laschetto lead the party.
Data
Household Saving Rates 2021
Household saving is defined as the difference between a household’s disposable income and its expenditures on goods and services. During the pandemic it rose to historical highs everywhere.
News
China Displaces US As Europe’s Top Trading Partner
Reverberations from the US-China trade war may have contributed.