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Affordable Housing, Entrepreneurship, Nigerian Economy as Targets: Sonnie Ayere Has the Experience to Make It Happen
Founding chairman and group MD of investment firm DLM Capital Group, Sonnie Ayere, has a passion for empowering young Nigerian entrepreneurs – and the goal of boosting the country’s economy. He has the right sort of experience in corporate and
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Mohamed El Dib, Chairman & MD, QNB ALAHLI: Thinking Laterally and Literally About Egypt’s Financial Future
QNB ALAHLI is one of Egypt’s leading financial institutions, established in 1978 and ranked in 2020 as the country’s second-largest private bank. Mohamed El Dib is its Chairman & Managing Director. The full-service organisation operates around diversified business lines serving
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Otaviano Canuto on Central Banks and Climate Change: Turning Black Swans Into Green
There are three possible motivations for the engagement by central banks with climate change: financial risks, macro-economic impacts, and mitigation/adaptation policies. Regardless of the extent to which individual central banks incorporate the three prongs of motivations, they can no longer
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Resistance Is Futile as Berlin Backs EU Solidarity
For the third time in her 15-year reign, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has sprung a major surprise and taken the lead whilst others dither. In 2011, she renounced nuclear energy and fossil fuels, promising to put Europe’s largest economy on
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Few Strings in US, Many in Europe
As trillions of dollars and euros were being doled out in state aid by governments and central banks trying to buy their way out of a recession, some of the cash ended in the wrong pockets. This morning, The New
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EU: Stage Set for Clash
The Hague is expected to deploy the biggest gun available to EU member states and roll out its veto to derail a Franco-German plan that introduces eurobonds under a different name. Last week, the Dutch were said to have succumbed
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Business in Times of Corona
Ten weeks ago, CFI.co published a series of five reports on the portent of a novel economic event. Some 70,000 words later, that event has become – not arguably, but factually – the most significant news story of our lives.
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The Value of News
Lee Enterprises for Davenport, Iowa, is a leading US provider of local news. In January, the company paid $140 million to add 31 smaller-circulation newspapers to its burgeoning stable that includes such hallmarks of print as the St Louis Post-Dispatch
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Ayah Bdeir: Innovation, Invention from Mouths and Hands of Babes
Get them while they’re young and make it fun, says littleBits founder Ayah Bdeir, and we can ignite a child’s innate curiosity for STEM subjects. Innovators of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) are researching and collaborating to deliver solutions
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Recession or Depression: Nadir Has Passed, Recovery Delayed
The shape of things to come seems not to resemble the ‘V’ promised early on in the Corona Recession. With a little luck, growth graphs may yet turn into a hesitant ‘U’ shape. Die-hard optimists took heart from the latest
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