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Mastercard Accelerates Move Toward Sustainable Plastics in Cards
Mastercard is accelerating efforts to remove first-use, PVC plastics from payment cards on its network by 2028. The decision reinforces the company’s sustainability commitments and scales the accessibility of more sustainable card […]
The IMF faces a nightmarish identity crisis
During the landmark three-week conference at Bretton Woods in 1944, one delegate contrasted the “extraordinarily beautiful” venue—the Mount Washington hotel—with the “glorious confusion” of negotiations. Yet the bedlam gave birth to the […]
UK Consumers Resistant to Digital-Only Banks Despite Cost-of-Living Pressure
UK banking customers are still resistant to change, with one in three preferring to do all their banking in person, according to a recent survey by Accenture. The survey of over 2,400 […]
Chinese officials promise foreign investors greater access
Foreign investors have been flooding into China over the past two weeks. For all but a few, it is their first trip in three years, since the country walled itself off from […]
Starling Bank Backs “a Sustainable Future” With National Trust Partnership
Starling Bank will exclusively sponsor National Trust’s nationwide ‘Summer of Play’ programme. The three-year partnership will see an estimated 1 million people benefit from improved access to nature. Around 6,000 school children […]
Stocks have shrugged off the banking turmoil. Haven’t they?
Bank failures are usually bad for business. A sickly banking system will lend less and at higher interest rates to companies in need of capital. A credit crunch will crimp economic growth […]
Welcome to a new era of petrodollar power
A pack of hungry headhunters has descended on Europe’s financial quarters. Over coffee in the mid-morning lull, they tempt staffers at blue-chip investment funds with tax-free jobs, golden visas and gorgeous vistas […]
Life is getting tough for borrowers. Where will the pain be felt?
After american regulators seized control of a collapsing Silicon Valley Bank (svb), the fallout felt unpleasantly familiar. The biggest bank failure since 2008 was swiftly followed by others. Signature Bank fell two […]
How the state could take control of the banking system
America’s banking conflagration may have died down, but the clean-up continues. Small and midsized banks have lost about $260bn in deposits this year. The Federal Reserve continues to plug much of the […]
Sudan paramilitary group offers return of Egyptian soldiers captured amid conflict – JURIST
The Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) Saturday announced that they are prepared to return a group of captured Egyptian soldiers who were conducting training exercises in northern Sudan. The RSF stated […]
Germany expert commission releases report recommending legalization of early-stage abortion and amended laws for later-term pregnancies – JURIST
The Commission on Reproductive Self-Determination and Reproductive Medicine in Germany on Monday submitted a final report recommending the legalization of abortion within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy in the country.The German […]
Australia judge rules in defamation trial that former government adviser raped a colleague in parliament – JURIST
Australia Federal Court Justice Michael Lee found that former government adviser Bruce Lehrmann raped a colleague in a Parliament House office on Monday. The judge dismissed a defamation lawsuit Lehrmann brought against […]
Poland classifies attack on humanitarian aid workers as murder, demands Israeli cooperation in investigation – JURIST
The Polish government on Friday labeled the death of Polish aid worker Damian Soból as murder, following the deaths of seven humanitarian aid workers from the World Central Kitchen (WCK) serving in […]
Amnesty International urges immediate investigation into war crimes in Merawi, Ethiopia – JURIST
Amnesty International asserted Friday that African and global human rights bodies must urgently investigate alleged war crimes committed by the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) in the town of Merawi, Amhara region, […]
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