Chinese venture capitalists force failed founders on to debtor blacklist
Pursuit of entrepreneurs threatens start-up ecosystem as investors target personal assets to claw back funding ...
Finland fuels children’s future with financial literacy and food
Finland aims to achieve the best financial literacy in the world by 2030, and projects such as Yrityskylä are a big part of the push. Already in 2018, Finland placed second financial literacy at ...
Rich must pay for others to go green, says EU environmental pioneer
European voters will abandon the fight against climate change unless the wealthy help fund the cost of going green for all, the architect of the EU’s ambitious “Green Deal” has said.
Ruchir Sharma: top 10 trends for 2025
Projections about the coming year assume market shifts will be dictated by Donald Trump. But the global economy is unlikely to revolve around the US ...
Live news: Chinese equities extend declines in rocky start to year
Chinese equities fell in early trading on Monday, extending early underperformance for 2025, as the country’s two largest ...
Elon Musk calls for Nigel Farage to be replaced as Reform party leader
Elon Musk has called for Nigel Farage to be replaced as leader of Reform UK in a surprising U-turn hours after the British ...
The infighting propelling Austria’s far right to power
Austria’s mainstream political groups promised to freeze the far-right Freedom party out of power after it won parliamentary elections last autumn. But the collapse of their coalition talks has put ...
What’s next for US Steel?
Eurozone economists warn the European Central Bank has been too slow to cut interest rates, and US Steel faces a bleak outlook after President Biden’s decision to block its sale. UK businesses plan ...
House museums #98: Apsley House, London
The former home of the 1st Duke of Wellington and vanquisher of Napoleon still houses a preponderance of objects relating to the French emperor ...
US finance navigates Trump ‘anti-woke’ era while staying open for green business
Big banks and asset managers have been caught for most of the past two years in a political war between “anti-woke” attacks from US politicians which are expected to escalate under US president-elect ...
BNY to name new head of large UK pension manager
Hanneke Smits, who has been the head of BNY’s investment management division, left at the end of 2024. Minaya says BNY’s investment division, which has $2tn in assets under management, has grown to ...
Strive files to launch ‘bitcoin bond’ ETF
The ETF manager, co-founded and majority-owned by Vivek Ramaswamy, a high-profile “anti-woke” ally of president-elect Donald Trump, has registered the Strive Bitcoin Bond ETF with the Securities and ...