Trust is a Vital Part of ‘Success Recipe’ for Pharma Companies

German pharmaceutical company BioNTech has debuted a modular medicinal production facility — just one of many recent innovations in the medical sector. A significant impact of the past two years has been raised awareness of healthcare as a priority. A

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Casting Russia Adrift: The Decline of Western Power May Have Been Exaggerated

The Austrian subsidiary of Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender, has collapsed after its parent company was unable to provide the liquidity required to keep the bank afloat. Sberbank’s other European subsidiaries are being wound down or offloaded in fire sales to

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Florian Reuter, Volocopter: ‘Pragmatic Excellence’, Transparency, and the World of Urban Air Mobility

Florian Reuter has been at the helm of urban air mobility pioneer Volocopter almost since its inception, steering the company from strength to strength. Volocopter was born in 2010 when the founders met in an online forum for tech enthusiasts.

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Fortress Russia on Shaky Ground: EU Finds Its Footing and Unleashes Its Economic Might

The rouble took a pounding of note, losing almost a third of its value as soon as forex markets opened Monday morning. Equity trading was suspended whilst Russian financial authorities pondered the extent of the sanctions imposed over the weekend.

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Markets in Turmoil: President Putin’s ‘Technical Operations’ Upset the Apple Cart

In the early morning of Thursday, Russian missiles rained down on Ukrainian military installations as markets in the far East opened for business and promptly took a beating in a rolling barrage that soon swept Europe and beyond. Stocks went

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Oil North of 60: Africa Seeks to Cash in on Energy Crunch

Already jittery markets, largely without direction, are braced for a near-perfect storm as central banks taper their bond-buying sprees and shelling across the ‘line of separation’ in Ukraine intensifies – a possible, if not likely, presage to an all-out war

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Keep on Truckin’, urges Canada, but Protest Blockade evades an Easy Fix

What do truckers and Covid-19 vaccinations have in common? You would think very little, but recent events in Ottawa prove otherwise. In January, Covid-19 mandates required drivers to be vaccinated before crossing the US-Canada border — sparking the Freedom Convoy

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Evan Harvey, Nasdaq: Language Locks and Building Blocks

Language has been an inhibitor to the progress of sustainable business. Rather than putting a trendy new name on an essentially new business practice, a series of conflicting, complementary, and confusing labels has come into practice. Because this era is

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Fausto Ribeiro, CEO of Banco do Brasil: Green Dreams Coming True as Brazilian Bank Focuses on ESG

The financial sector has a key role to play in the transition to a new model. At Banco do Brasil, sustainable credit represents 37.5 percent of the total portfolio. Sustainability and environmental, social and governance issues have been steadily gaining

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World Bank: Investment Push Needed for Green, Resilient and Inclusive Development

As we enter the third year of the COVID-19 crisis, we face a world with a serious ‘reversal’ problem – a reversal in development progress made over the last 20 years, of a magnitude not seen in a generation. It

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