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The failure of Silicon Valley Bank and the ensuing turmoil at Credit Suisse have put Japan’s ailing regional banking sector and its financial institutions under the tightest market scrutiny since…

Vladimir Putin has said Russia plans to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, marking Moscow’s latest attempt to use the threat of a nuclear war to ramp up tensions with…

In today’s increasingly globalized world, more and more people are choosing to live, work and study abroad — and this trend appears to be a good thing: Social science studies…

Israel’s defence minister has broken ranks with his government by calling on prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to halt a controversial judicial overhaul, warning that the bitter divisions it has caused…

The global regulatory regime for “too big to fail” banks set up after the 2008 crisis does not work, according to Switzerland’s finance minister. In an interview with Swiss newspaper…

Brussels has agreed to exempt cars which run on certain types of fuel from the EU’s new law which will ban the sale of combustion engines from 2035, after Germany…

Companies are spending more money buying back their own stock than they ever have. These stock buybacks have come under criticism as a bad investment – the argument being that…

Reviewing a European art show in 1891, the Belgian poet and art critic Émile Verhaeren remarked that there were no longer movements or groups, only fast-shifting rival tendencies like “kaleidoscopic…

We published an article, “How GE is Disrupting Itself,” in the October 2009 Harvard Business Review, co-authored with Jeff Immelt, Chairman and CEO of General Electric. The article introduces the…

The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 was a “complete game changer” for jeweller Deakin & Francis: its commemorative silver jam spoons, butter knives and teaspoons flew off the…