The Future of Financial Innovation
Throughout history, there have been major transformative periods where a single innovation has wrought profound social and economic changes over the next century
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FM Global Beefs Up Resilience Index
FM Global, one of the world’s largest business property insurers, four years ago created its Resilience Index to rank 130 countries and territories according to their ability to manage disruptive events.
Delaware Mulls Rules For Distributed Ledgers
Delaware has proposed amendments to new legislation that would enable corporations to use distributed ledgers for record-keeping and to keep track of stock transactions, the state’s latest effort to be a first mover when it comes to blockchain technology.
Reaping Interest Rewards With Raisin
The partnership of mobile-only bank N26 with German fintech Raisin allows the bank to offer its clients, initially in Germany but across the EU beginning next year, the chance to open savings accounts with just a few taps. As Raisin ...
Swaps Loophole Still Puts US At Risk
Swaps and other derivatives, blamed by some for causing the global financial crisis, have returned in a big but deceptive way.
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Gideon Rachman
Gideon Rachman, Chief Foreign Affairs commentator for the Financial Times and Author: Easternisation: War and Peace in the Asian Century talks with Global Finance Magazine’s Managing Editor Edith Updike about Innovation.
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The Safest Countries in the World
The Global Finance ranking of World's Safest Countries incorporates three measures of security and safety, factoring natural disaster risk with measures of peace and crime.
The Poorest Countries in the World
All these extremely fragile and underdeveloped economies have either recently been through a civil war or are suffering from ongoing sectarian or ethnic conflicts.
The World's Richest and Poorest Countries
Global Finance ranks the world’s richest and poorest countries for 2016, taking into consideration GDP per capita, adjusted for relative purchasing power.
Awards & Rankings
The Innovators 2017
Global Finance magazine's anniversary special issue on Innovation includes our awards for top Innovators in Finance of 2017, as well as a look back at the top innovations of the last 30 years and a look ahead to what the future of finance portends.
Flux Favors Innovation
It’s been another crazy year, with Brexit, the election of Donald Trump as US president, tensions building up with Russia, continued strife and displacement in Syria and rising tensions in Asia, all of which are affecting global markets.
Design And Innovation Support Asset Growth
Islamic financial institutions continue to forge ahead in financial product innovation and process development, meeting conventional banks head-on in competition.