Supply chain finance disuptor Greensill is undone by its own financial wizardry, putting at risk thousands of jobs in the UK, Australia and the EU. The timing could not be worse for already buckling supply chains.
Read more...In his former role as governor of the Bank of Italy, Draghi was partly responsible for Monte dei Paschi’s di Siena’s decline. Now he must reverse it.
Read more...Squatters versus landlords: the battle lines are drawn as this once-in-a-lifetime crisis threatens to create a whole new generation of olvidados.
Read more...Physical cash should still have an important — albeit diminished — role to play in the economy of the future.
Read more...The City’s vast financial services sector benefited hugely from the creation of the euro. Now, a large part of that business is at risk.
Read more...More and more bank CEOs tout robotics as the answer for the industry’s precarious cost position. But will it promise more than it delivers?
Read more...By Satyajit Das, derivatives expert and the author of Extreme Money: The Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives – Revised Edition (2006 and 2010)
In the first of three articles, the problems of US debt are outlined. The next two articles look at how America needs to control its public debt and how given political exigencies it may actually be dealt with.
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