At the beginning of the last decade, Swiss investment firm UBS Investment Research began partnering with satellite companies such as Remote Sensing Metrics LLC in order to gauge changes in the ...

Coming hot on the heels of accounting scandals involving Enron and Tyco, both of which sent financial markets into tailspins, the fraud committed by WorldCom, one of the world’s biggest ...

It’s one of the world’s scarcest metals. With many qualities making it highly sought after across such diverse industries as automotive catalytic converters, jewellery, refining, new hydrogen ...

As technology continues to advance at a rapid pace, financial institutions all across the world are under intense pressure to improve efficiency, reduce costs and boost productivity. Indeed, there is ...

Inspired by a wave of disruptive digital innovation, the last decade has witnessed perhaps the most rapid evolutionary change ever within the global banking system. Thanks mostly to a combination of ...

The last decade or so has seen concerns grow significantly over the long-term health of the dollar. Those concerns have only grown in urgency since the coronavirus arrived on the shores of the United ...

In the early hours of Monday, September 23, the UK company that revolutionised the package holiday filed for compulsory liquidation. Following the failure of last-ditch rescue negotiations, the UK ...

“China and the United States have effectively switched places as the overwhelming leader in research in just two decades.” That’s the brutally honest assessment delivered by the Australian Strategic ...

As of early 2024, fraud and cybercrime within the global banking system show little sign of abating. On the contrary, the comprehensive ongoing digital transformation undertaken by many of the world’s ...

Construction in the United States entered 2024 on a high note, with growth in all major segments. While some categories appear poised for further increases, the industry is unlikely to repeat its ...

Combating money laundering poses a major challenge for the financial-services industry and beyond. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimates that the annual cost of money laundering and ...

It is a familiar story. A party is tricked into paying money to a fraudster posing as someone else in an email. This type of fraud even has its own name: authorised push payment (APP). When the APP ...