Following Trump’s election, the price of Bitcoin has broken record after record. Many of his plans have caused excitement in the industry.
- Professor and Head, School of Business, Monash University Malaysia
Some foreign officials promoting central bank digital currencies want to be able to track and limit transactions in real time.
From May 2, any countries buying oil from Iran can expect US sanctions.
Gordon Brown is worried. So should we all be.
Artificial intelligence will transform universities. Here’s how.
Futures trading is driving up the price of Bitcoin but institutional investors remain cautious.
Regulation and oversight could be the saviour or the death of a Bitcoin and others.
Banks are relying more and more on robots that perform financial services.
The cryptocurrency is now starting to challenge gold as the investment of choice.
The demonetisation drive has made the banking sector healthier but failed to curb ‘black money’.
An enormous 8% drop in the pound was recently rectified in a matter of minutes but the ‘flash crash’ wasn’t merely an algorithm issue.
Pro-infrastructure and pro-enterprise, the newly-elected mayor has the policies to keep London a global financial centre.
Geopolitics – from the US to Syria to Iran – are at the heart of Saudi Arabia and Russia’s decision to freeze oil production at January levels.
Oil exporters have had a tough year … but there is hope for economic reform via the Islamic bond market.
Why the Chinese yuan took its biggest one-day loss in two decades.
Shadow banking has helped fuel continued Chinese economic growth. But it could come back to bite if not brought into line.
Already a trillion dollar industry, Islamic finance is making inroads in China, where it is being trialled in a small province in the country’s northwest.
One of the world’s great economic success stories, Singapore owes much of its prosperity to Lee Kuan Yew, the country’s founding father.
Saudi Arabia’s largest lender, National Commercial Bank (NCB) has attracted 215.8 billion riyals (US$58 billion) of bids from about 1.2m investors following its initial public offering. Despite attracting…
Islamic finance is going global. South Africa has joined the UK and Hong Kong to become the third non-Muslim country to issue an Islamic bond or sukuk. And this follows American investment bank Goldman…
Could a new upstart be about the join the likes of London, New York and Tokyo as a global financial superpower? The Malaysian government would like to think so, at least. Recently it announced bold plans…
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