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Google is Banning All Bitcoin, ICO, and Cryptocurrency Ads from June
Google is banning ads for cryptocurrencies and binary options from June. The search giant is also cracking down on adverts for other financial products such as CFDs, spread bets, and foreign exchange products. Facebook has also banned cryptocurrency adverts. Google’s
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Ana Botín: Reshaping the Financial Universe
The first woman to lead a major global financial services provider, Ana Botín remains one of only six women at the helm of a Fortune Global 100 company. Mrs Botín also tops the list of the world’s most powerful women
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Even Crypto Bulls Expect a Big Shake Out This Year: ‘The market right now is just everyone wants a Lamborghini’
Startups raised over $5 billion issuing their own digital currencies last year and there are now over 1,400 in circulation. “In 2018 what’s going to happen is some consolidation of the market,” cofounder of cryptocurrency IOTA tells BI. “I think
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Ksenia Sobchak: Stooge or Promise?
She never had any real chance of winning the Russian presidency and in the end only managed to obtain 1.53% of the vote – at least according to the official tally. Ksenia Sobchak did, however, manage to put issues on
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Khaira Arby: Fighting Jihadists with Music
In Mali, she is the grande dame of the country’s exceptionally rich music scene: Khaira Arby – aka The Nightingale of the North. Mrs Arby is celebrated throughout her country and the world; for many of her fans, she also
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Joshua Wong: Teenager vs. Superpower
The sharp end of the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, student activist Joshua Wong is getting up close and personal with the Chinese powers-that-be who are in no mood to permit or tolerate political dissent. He may be just 21
Read MoreYassine Belattar: Clown of the Republic
The Paris king of comedy likes to make people wince – either in agony or in shock. His jokes and comments frequently unleash a firestorm on social media where the holier-than-thou brigade rules and expresses its faux-indignation in no uncertain
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US Trade Policy: End of the Liberal World Order
The established wisdom, first formulated and then imposed by the United States, says that trade encourages nations to maintain peace. In the decades following the end of World War 2, the US erected a new world order based on the
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Jerome Powell, Chair of the Federal Reserve: The End of Easy Money
It had to happen and it just did. The untold joys of expansive monetary policy as the engine of growth in lean times are, of course, always of a temporary nature. As the global economy emerges with a vengeance from
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Ursula von der Leyen: Close Cooperation
The first woman to preside over Germany’s Ministry of Defence, Ursula von der Leyen was appointed by Chancellor Angela Merkel to re-establish order at the demoralised department. Mrs Von der Leyen is one of the longest-serving members of the German
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