Nigeria was the largest of the African economies in 2022, but declining oil production has seen it slip down the rankings. It has turned – successfully – to capital-raising in a bid to reignite the ec ...
For many years, Mauro Botta had been a successful partner at the accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in California, where he was responsible for auditing Silicon Valley firms. After ...
In 1956, consumer retail was revolutionised. The Southdale Centre in Edina, Minnesota was the first of its kind: a large, spacious building filled with modern shops and public art. Its ...
Ursula Burns made history as the first African American woman to lead a Fortune 500 company when she became CEO of Xerox in 2009. Her journey from a tough childhood in public housing to the top of ...
If you work in a firm that deals with the international trade of commodities and you have not yet heard of commodity trading and risk management (CTRM) systems, it’s about time you did. Perhaps a ...
In the event of economic crisis, a country’s banking system is saved at all costs. When Iceland made the decision to go against the grain and let its banks fail, no one could have predicted the ...
There is growing recognition among corporations that climate change poses a considerable risk to their bottom line. Change is afoot – though so too is corruption Companies understand the impact that ...
When it was first introduced, many lauded microfinance as the solution to worldwide poverty. While that has proven not to be the case, the model does offer a step in the right direction Microfinance ...
When Jared Bibler visited Iceland for the first time in 2002, he couldn’t imagine that one day he would become an Icelander himself. A native of Massachusetts in the US, he was working for an ...