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UNCTAD: A Policy Compact to Get Investment Flowing Again
James Zhan suggests world leaders make a joint effort to formulate effective investment policies to help build investment firepower to face 21st Century development challenges. Forecasts of deeper global economic gloom are tumbling one over the other. The global economy
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Artificial Intelligence in FinTech
From Product Marketing, through RoboAdvice, Compliance and Fraud Detection activities, Artificial Intelligence is finding its place, but for the forseeable future will make more efficient, rather than replace human activities. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been getting a lot of attention
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Delta Group: Helping the World Save on Energy
Delta, founded in 1971 and headquartered in Taiwan, is a global leader in power and thermal management solutions and a world-class provider of industrial automation, building automation, telecom power, networking, EV charging, data centre infrastructure, renewable energy, and display technologies.
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CFI.co Meets the Chairman & CEO of Image Nation Abu Dhabi: Mohamed Al Mubarak & Michael Garin
Mohamed Al Mubarak and Michael Garin were appointed chairman and CEO of Image Nation Abu Dhabi in 2011, three years after the company was established. Over the past six years, Messrs Al Mubarak and Garin have mapped the company’s business
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UK Independence Day
Great Britain has declared its independence. By a margin of 52 against 48, voters delivered a stunning blow to the establishment and instructed their government to take the country out of the European Union. The world, as it had been
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European Investment Bank: Investment Plan for Europe
Investment Plan for Europe – Paradigm Shift in the Use of Public Resources The Marshall Plan did much to inject life into the post-war recovery of Europe. Initially comprising $13 billion, mostly in direct aid, the plan constituted a substantial
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Venezuela: Economic Decline Too Steep to Tabulate
Venezuelan social media is a curious thing. There are few pictures of parents proudly showing off their kids, or of people buzzing with their hazy pictures of a boozy Friday night out littered with endless LMAOs and LOLs. Instead, the
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CFI.co Meets Mohamed Beavogui & Simon Young
African Risk Capacity (ARC), an organisation helping African governments manage natural catastrophe risk, has gained major international attention in recent months. ARC was endorsed by G7 Leaders in May 2015 as the model upon which to expand climate risk insurance
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African Risk Capacity: Africa Takes the Lead in Managing Climate Risk
Climate negotiations in Paris last year focused the world’s attention on the fact that Africa’s vulnerable populations will be shouldering most of the burden of rising temperatures despite having barely contributed to global greenhouse gas emissions. Greater rainfall extremes and
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Evan Harvey, Nasdaq: Where the Market Stands
The stock exchange industry has been increasingly active in advocating for smart and strategic disclosure of environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) performance data. Investors use these non-financial metrics to evaluate the health, resilience, and sustainability of public companies. And
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