Europe’s Metro Dilemma: Software Ages Faster Than Hardware
A mismatch between 40-year construction loans and 15-year digital lifecycles is leaving European taxpayers with a billion-euro bill just to keep existing trains running...
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Earthquakes Derail Venezuela’s Escape From Abyss
The interim government has identified Venezuela's huge energy reserves as one of the routes to help the nation escape its economic abyss...
Save SMEs: Labour Government’s Toughest Challenge
Despite accounting for 99% of the 250,000 active manufacturing businesses in the UK, SMEs struggle to access finance...
NAFTA: North America’s Trade Glue Is In Turmoil
President Donald Trump wants changes in NAFTA, which has turned Canada and Mexico into United States’ two largest trading partners, ahead of China...
$15 Billion ‘Blood Gold’ Keeping the Sahel at War
From artisanal pits taxed by jihadists to Russian-backed refineries designed to launder illicit ore, the Sahel's gold sector has become the financial backbone of one of the world's most intractable conflicts...
Cash vs Counterfeiters: An Eternal Battle
Physical banknotes face a huge vulnerability in the form of counterfeiting, the illegal act of creating, copying, or imitating a physical currency...
Hong Kong Tops the World As the New Home of Global Wealth
Hong Kong has booked USD 2.95 trillion in cross-border assets, overtakes Switzerland to become world’s largest offshore wealth hub...
John Ternus and Apple’s battle for the post-smartphone era
Despite refining hardware and perfecting chip architecture, Apple has been lagging big time, in terms of integrating AI in its devices...
Women entrepreneurs have a more holistic approach to decision-making: Dr Albena Pergelova
Women entrepreneurs wear many hats and, therefore, have intertwined identities as business owners, mothers, community members, change-makers...
’X is likely to start with full interoperability before trying to lock financial activity within its ecosystem’
As X expands into financial services and digital wallets, the platform is positioning itself to capture the next phase of payments, commerce, and creator-driven transactions...