Working for a global financial services firm that offers access to the markets for more than 1.5 million investors via our online trading platforms has enabled me to see a wide range of market ...

Forex trading, short for foreign exchange trading, is a dynamic and global financial market where currencies are bought and sold. Over the years, this market has witnessed a remarkable evolution, ...

Almost everyone has a clear idea on what they will be doing after retirement from work. Unfortunately, most have not taken any concrete steps to prepare for retirement. As is often the case, planning ...

When Jared Bibler visited Iceland for the first time in 2002, he couldn’t imagine that one day he would become an Icelander himself. A native of Massachusetts in the US, he was working for an ...

Move over, millennials: Gen Z is here, and is ready to spend. Generation Z – or those born between the years of 1997 and 2012, for the uninitiated – now account for a staggering 40 percent of ...

Rampant inequality, corruption and poor education standards continue to impede growth in South Africa. A year into his presidency, Cyril Ramaphosa will have to tackle an array of structural ...

It was revealed, in a survey carried out by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (LILP) in 2019, that 90 percent of the 200 cities around the globe that were polled were considered to be unaffordable ...

When Brexit came one step closer to becoming a reality in 2018, Tradeweb was left with few options other than expanding its European presence beyond London. The US company, which runs platforms for ...

Governments in Africa have a penchant for operating in hubris. This has often led to bad decisions. In Mozambique, the discovery of liquefied natural gas (LNG) has sent the government into a frenzy ...

As one of the world’s largest and most populated countries, it should come as no surprise that China’s digital economy is of a scale to be reckoned with. With some one billion ‘netizens,’ businesses ...

Global warming from carbon emissions, increasing sea levels and images of pollution are increasing public and shareholder pressure on corporations to take an active role in finding solutions and be ...

There’s a reason China has been named “the world’s factory”. According to data published by the United Nations Statistics Division, China accounted for almost 30 percent of global manufacturing output ...