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Capitalism is having an identity crisis – but it is still the best system

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The 73-year-old Vietnamese refugee is responsible for bringing Sriracha to American consumers

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Electric Truckmaker Rivian, Backed By Amazon, Ford, Raises Whopping $1.3 Billion

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Fintech

Stockholm-based Kreditz bags €10M from Ingka Investments, others to bring financial transparency: Know more

Image credits: Funtap/DepositPhotos Stockholm-based Kreditz, a credit information startup, announced on Wednesday, May 3, that it has secured €10M in equity capital from investors, including Ingka Investments and Creades. Kreditz says it […]

Libya Christians face death sentence over conversion from Islam and proselytization – JURIST

Libyan activists told The Guardian Wednesday that six Libyan Christians are at risk of being executed for converting from Islam and spreading their religious beliefs.After being arrested in March by the Libyan […]

Banks

LHV Bank Receives UK Banking Licence 1 Year After Application Submission

LHV Bank, a provider of banking services and SME lending solutions, has been authorised as a credit institution by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA). This has enabled it to become the first […]

Banks

Toqio Reveals ‘Remarkable Growth’ of BaaS Across Europe in Latest Report

Banking-as-a-service (BaaS) and BaaS-powered business models across the UK and Europe may be experiencing a quick evolution – as BaaS gains a foothold in a number of countries across Europe, including in […]

Age discrimination persists among Australian workers despite legal protections, study shows – JURIST

Despite legal protections against age discrimination and record-high job vacancies, a significant number of Australian organizations are reluctant to recruit potential employees over the age of 50, a new survey revealed. Nearly one-fifth, […]

China’s local-debt crisis is about to get nasty

Locals in guiyang have a keen sense of the distance between them and everywhere else. Over cold rice noodles bathed in chilli paste and vinegar, an elderly resident of the city in […]

Gabriel Zucman, a controversial John Bates Clark medallist

Since the global financial crisis of 2007-09 the world has worried more about inequalities of wealth and income. That is in large part a result of work done by a band of […]

How Japanese policymakers ended up in a very deep hole

Investors betting on tighter monetary policy from the Bank of Japan (boj) have experienced very few victories over the past three or so decades of ultra-low interest rates. The first decision by […]

What the First Republic deal means for America’s banks

“Life isn’t knights on horseback,” Logan Roy, the former boss of WayStar Royco, a media conglomerate, and lead character of “Succession”, a television drama, tells his son Kendall. He is warning his […]

America faces a debt nightmare

On a wall in Manhattan, not far from Times Square, America’s debt clock ticks steadily higher, from $3trn when it was inaugurated in 1989 to more than $31trn today. After climbing for […]

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