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This category is Finance & Economy, exploring global financial trends, economic policies, and investment strategies. It features expert insights on corporate finance, market dynamics, and key economic factors shaping business and industry growth worldwide.

Ukrainian Businesses Thriving in the Face of Adversity

Ukrainian Businesses: Thriving in the Face of Adversity

By Viktor Andrukhiv – Ukrainian entrepreneur, co-founder of Fibermix and Savex Minerals Ukrainian businesses are gaining global attention for their sustainability and adaptability. In 2023, the focus...
Signals a Country's Economy is Doing Well

Signals a Country’s Economy is Doing Well

Although some of these variables may change depending on how weighted an economy is in one sector, as a general rule, particular fundamentals will...
Paying Your Employees By Using Quickbook Online Software

Paying Your Employees By Using Quickbook Online Software

One of the most common questions that businesses are asked by clients and potential customers is, "How do we pay?”. This article will cover...
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Balancing Risk and Return: The Art of an Investment Manager

In financial management, investment managers emerge as pivotal figures for optimizing portfolios to achieve the delicate equilibrium between risk and return. This article delves deep...

Eight Types of Corporate Crisis and the Role of National Culture

By Kai Hammerich & Richard D. Lewis A crisis is a defining moment in any organization’s life. Below, Kai Hammerich and Richard D. Lewis consider...
Optimize Corporate Spend

Optimize Corporate Spend With These 6 Tips

Spend management solutions can help companies optimize their expenditure. These solutions typically include tools and services, such as analytics, data management, contract management, and...

9 Tips for getting your loan approved

Getting your loan approved isn't the simplest process. There's a dizzying range of loan options out there, with lenders competing heavily for your attention. It...
Visa to Portugal and Passport

Investing in Your Future: How to Do it with the Portugal Golden Visa

Ever thought of investing in another country here comes your golden opportunity, in a literal sense. Like many other countries, Portugal is giving would-be...

9 Tips to Set Up an Accounting Department

An accounting department, either big or small, is the heart of any company. Numbers mean a lot for businesses’ success, so it’s highly important...
AI and the New Financial Consumer

Understanding and Influencing Today’s Financial Consumer: How AI Is Rewriting Insight, Visibility and Trust

By Hakan Yurdakal Financial institutions face a fast-changing, emotionally complex consumer landscape. Hakan Yurdakal explains how AI transforms insight, visibility, and trust by uncovering behavioural...

How To Deal With Business Property Settlement After Separation

If you and your partner have been in business together and then you get divorced, it throws up many question marks around what happens...
Invest in UK Property

Where Are the Best Places to Invest in UK Property in 2022?

Over the past two years, the UK property market has gone above and beyond expectations. With record-breaking property prices and a strong rental market,...
Pension people

Portafina Find that 83% of People Don’t Know How Pensions Work.

A survey by pension specialists Portafina reveals that 83% of Brits do not understand what a pension is and only a third know how...
fintech

Machine Intelligence Will Shake Up Banking, But the Disruptors Won’t Be Fintech Startups

By Urs Rohner and Howard Yu Artificial intelligence and machine learning are being woven into the fabric of every aspect of our lives. The financial...
Challenges of Doing Business in Japan

Top 7 Challenges of Doing Business in Japan

The Japanese economy is one of the most successful in the world. Today, Japanese culture continues to shape our world and influence all of...

When Technology Meets Finance: An Interview with CFO, Rabobank Asia Niels Boudeling

Finance leaders are aware of the tremendous impact of technological advancements and of the need to improve their business strategies to keep their competitive...

Minding the Gap: Women and Angel Investing

By Susan Coleman and Alicia Robb In spite of the impressive growth of women-owned firms in the United States in the recent years, they are...
Where is the Oil Market Headed

Where is the Oil Market Headed: Post Pandemic Expectations?

The pandemic was the highlight of the year 2020. Just like major industries went to their downfall, the oil market also observed certain calamities....
FinTech

FinTech Development: The Future of Financial

The Fintech industry is one of the fastest growing today. This is not surprising, since in the rush of modern life, financial transactions can...

Your Customer is Not Just King. He or She Can Be Your VC, Too!

By John Mullins Are you looking for a venture capitalist to finance or grow your startup but you’re struggling in doing so? Surprisingly, perhaps, the...
Capital.com

Capital.com Expands User Base, Adding Over A Million New Accounts In 3 Months

Investors are showing a strong appetite for financial derivatives, though they’re increasingly turning to traditional assets such as indices and commodities at the expense...

7 Helpful Tips to Cut Mailing and Shipping Costs

The opening and running of a business are faced with many challenges, among them mailing and shipping costs. The shipping cost is usually a...
money

Worldline’s Dramatic Freefall Spotlights Digital Vulnerabilities and Enduring Value of Cash

While early November has brought a tenuous rebound, French digital payments firm Worldline is still reeling from a stunning nosedive. In the biggest freefall...

Negotiating New Payment Terms With Creditors During Covid-19

By Keith Tully The coronavirus pandemic continues to disrupt trading across the world, pushing businesses of all sizes, from independent boutiques to multinational corporations to...
NOTHING IS FREE: Data-driven optimisation unlocks freemium business models’ real potential

NOTHING IS FREE: Data-driven Optimisation Unlocks Freemium Business Models’ Real Potential

By Stefan Wagner and Julian Runge In today’s digital era when the marginal cost of (re)production and distribution of products and services tend to be...

Global Recessions: A Survivor’s Manual

By Irv Rothman The article is an excerpt from the book “Out-Executing the Competition: Building and Growing a Financial Services Company in Any Economy”, by...
Businessman touching virtual screen Analyzing financial and investment data, planning strategies to increase sales profits

Why Many Sales Incentive Models are Short Sighted 

By Leo Rocha and Jason Kofman   Picture running a marathon as if it were a sprint. Initially, your speed puts you ahead, but as the...
banking

Actionable Advice To Scale Your Business in an Uncertain Economic Climate

ECOMMPAY’s business development manager Daniella Sjarki gives an overview of the latest payment preferences and technologies to help your business gain a competitive advantage...
3 Things You Need to Know When Investing in Watches

3 Things You Need to Know When Investing in Watches

to give watches the time of day (pardon the pun). They are not only fashion accessories, but also nowadays a high technological device that...
US China Russia

Managing Geopolitical Risk Under Uncertainty

By Ghaidaa Hetou and J. Mark Munoz Geopolitical shifts born out of the US-China-Russia rivalry have manifested in supply chain interruptions, divestments, national security directed...

Fast-Expanding Markets: Where New Growth Can Be Found!

By Terence Tse, Mark Esposito & Khaled Soufani This article is dedicated to provide a working definition of these markets, which we call “Fast-Expanding Markets”...
wall street

The Fed Day That Shook Wall Street

On the evening of December 18th, the stock market experienced a sharp downturn at the end of the trading session following the Federal Reserve’s...
stockmarket

How to Save Your Small Business from the Brink of Bankruptcy

Are you struggling to keep your organisation afloat? If so, you’re not alone!  Turning an excellent idea into a lucrative business venture can be challenging...
Crop Insurance

Crop Insurance: Advantages and Benefits

Agriculture is a production sector that is exposed to various risks associated with diseases, pests, extreme weather events and other threats. Farmers and producers...
Coins from Europe

Understanding the Dynamics of the Swiss Franc Exchange Rate

The Swiss franc, known for its stability and strength, plays a crucial role in the global financial market. As the official currency of Switzerland...

When Spending Hurts

By Nailya Ordabayeva and Pierre Chandon Thorstein Veblen coined the term conspicuous consumption in 1899 to describe spending with the intention of gaining social status.1...

3 Financial Management Goals for Your Small Business

Many small business entrepreneurs start businesses because they are experts in a specific product or service. Concentrating your efforts on making a great product...

The Burning Platform of Retail Banking

By Magne Angelshaug and Tina Saebi Without argue, digitalisation has changed many aspects of our everyday lives. With these changes come different challenges and one of...
Revenue Cycle Management

Unlocking The Secrets Of Efficient Revenue Cycle Management

Photo by @freepic.diller on Freepik.com Having a well-managed revenue cycle is essential for the health of any business.  One of the lesser-known facets of this...
Pros & Cons

Prop Firms Trading – Pros & Cons Revealed

What if you could trade using someone else’s money and keep the profit? That’s prop firm trading. Beginner traders often feel tempted by the idea...
Business

Dubai’s Booming Economy: Is Now the Right Time to Start Your Business?

Dubai, a constituent emirate of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is recognized as the globalized financial capital of the UAE and has been experiencing...
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Migom Bank’s Unprecedented Growth: A Look at the Past, Present, and Future.

With more than a billion people globally lacking access to financial services, banks like Migom Bank have a huge and fertile field to introduce...

What Could Be a Hidden Key for a Successful Merger and Acquisition Project?

By Mark Goyens and David De Cremer The way we engage, communicate and deal with people involved in each phase of a merger and...

Top 4 factors influencing Bitcoin price value

In recent days, Bitcoin trading has become a popular thing. Many times, investors use Bitcoin as a trading currency over the web. In comparison...
Outsourcing

Outsourcing as the Most Effective Strategy That Increases Business Efficiency in the Recessive Economy

No business is fully immune to the impacts of market and economic conditions. An economic downturn is usually fueled by factors largely out of...
Optimizing LLC Finances How to Leverage Business Bank Accounts for Growth

Optimizing LLC Finances: How to Leverage Business Bank Accounts for Growth

For Limited Liability Companies (LLCs), efficient financial management is essential for sustained growth and success. One of the key components of managing an LLC's...

Sex and Money: Do men and women use money differently

By Adrian Furnham Do men and women, think about, use and invest money differently? If so why? Dare one go there? One has to be...
2022 review

Certainty of Uncertainty: 2022 in Review

By Emil Bjerg, journalist and editor of The European Business Review Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Energy crisis in Europe. Three Prime Ministers in two months...
Businessman using tablet and lock icon with customer network connection and exchange data on virtual screen, business security and cyber attack concept

A Macropay Review: Grow Your Business Through Safe Payment Methods

The world is becoming increasingly aware of the risks involved in using banks and credit cards to make online payments. Consumers are now demanding...

How Is the Personal Loan Market Adapting to the Pandemic?

While it was hoped in many quarters that the Covid-19 pandemic was a short-term problem that would get managed well and blow over quickly,...