Indeed there would be. VTB’s shop front in the City of London kept busy for years (and briefly employed your correspondent). Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 finally prompted severe enough ...
South Africa is undeniably a free country. The hidebound evil of apartheid is gone. A liberal constitution helps ensure South ...
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Term had ended at Columbia University. Classes were over, and the provost had announced that final exams would be conducted remotely, so the Manhattan campus was emptying fast. On Thursday a few kids ...
It is tempting to conclude that the fragmentation described in this special report—of capital flows, payment networks and financial institutions—might be spurred by geopolitics, but has little bearing ...
The options boom is propelled by the rapid growth of India’s stockmarket. In January it overtook Hong Kong’s to become the ...
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The prioritisation of national security above unfettered investment is reshaping the movement of capital across borders. Global capital flows—especially foreign direct investment (FDI)—have plunged, ...
More than a century on, financial globalisation’s second age has given the day trader tapping at her phone a menu of options that would put Keynes’s imaginary gentleman to shame. Though war has ...
A South Korean on the OECD ’s poverty line earns almost $22,000. That is still more than an average salary in Mexico. And ...
That leaves the third and most worrying option: making creditors pay. America would never be forced by the markets to default ...
At the same time, China’s retail payment providers have also grown to rival Western incumbents such as Mastercard and Visa. UnionPay, a Chinese card network, is now the world’s largest by transaction ...