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why it’s dangerous to buy now and pay later. Click the link and your heart will skip a beat: $120 for jeans? They are advertised as “the last pair of jeans you will ever buy”. Cholera. All right, solid writing.Here’s the problem. You’ve only got $30 left in your clothing budget, so you know to […]
Ok, you have selected the car you want. You might even have taken it for a test drive. But now you still have to negotiate the car price and your armpits are already sweating. I know that arguing about the price of a car with the seller is just as much fun as getting in […]
Employees Never has the job market changed as much (or as drastically) as it has in recent years. Many people choose . I’m a strong believer in the benefits of working face-to-face in an office environment, after all it’s a big part of what creates connections, collaborates and helps build teams.But for those looking for […]
Umbrella Insurance: How It Works and What It Covers But before he even reaches the banquet table, he slips on an invisible puddle of eggnog, severely injures his tailbone and yells “superkalifragilisticexpialidoos”! Next thing you know, Mary pulls a lawsuit out of her purse and swears to sue you for millions. After years of hard […]
Most of the major global banks have successfully weathered the geopolitical and economic challenges of 2022. These included Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and subsequent international sanctions, rising energy and food prices, as well as the negative impact of the stronger US dollar on the economy and inflationary pressures that prompted central banks to push through […]
Expansion, diversification, growth: Everything costs. After the global financial crisis of 2007-2009, a universal imperative emerged: get out of debt. The opposite happened. Central banks around the world have cut interest rates to historic lows to stimulate the economy, and companies that have been borrowing to stay afloat for years, refinancing debt or buying back […]
Michael (C-Y) Yang, CBC: As major central bank interest rates have risen sharply since last year, concerns have been raised about a global economic slowdown. In addition, weak demand for consumer electronics and ongoing inventory adjustments limited the growth momentum of Taiwanese exports. Gloomy export prospects and weak market confidence hampered private investment growth. There […]
Digitization holds as much promise for businesses as it does for financial institutions and other parties involved in trade flows, promising greater efficiency, reliability, sustainability and integration into international trade and supply chains. So far, so good. But it’s complicated. Global trade consists of intersecting flows: the physical flow of goods, the document flows that […]
The key question is whether the retail banking arm of the public sector is subject to the same kinds and levels of regulation” as its private sector competitors, Tshabalala said at the Standard Bank Africa Central Banking Conference in April. “If not, then calling it a CBDC rather than a state-owned retail bank does nothing […]
Occasionally, NFMs engage in critical discussions involving identifying the financial strengths and weaknesses of the external organization, such as deciding whether to extend a large new loan to a client, or evaluating the financial viability of a key supplier, or perhaps more importantly, when evaluating the financial performance of an acquisition target or even the […]