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Android vs Apple Pay: Fight!
After failing to come to agreement with Apple to enable mobile phone payments, six of Australia’s biggest financial institutions this week signed on with Android Pay. The service will...
Ask the Experts about the U.S. Fed Rate Hike Decision
Three, two, one, liftoff! Alex Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy, Lehigh University It finally happened: the nine-year-long spell of near-zero interest rates came to a logical end. The Fed raised its funds rate...
Green Bonds Still in Too Few Hands
The climate summit in Paris has shown that global big business is now also on board with the transition to a low-carbon economy. However, the most promising instruments in...
All For One, and Savings For All
As predicted, the US Federal Reserve has raised interest rates after nearly a decade, which means a slightly better rate of return for savers. Meanwhile in the UK, the...
Rising Interest Rate Tide will Sink Emerging Markets’ Boats
All eyes are on the US Federal Reserve, which is expected to raise interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade. Since the financial crisis in 2008,...
Consequences of Setting Such a Low Interest Rate Bar
With the US Federal Reserve seemingly set on raising interest rates, it is time to take stock of what low rates have done for the world. In addition, what...
Why is U.K. Productivity Lower Than Its Peers?
We all know by now that Britain has a productivity problem. The average British worker simply doesn’t make as much stuff as those from other major countries and for...
Can You Feel the (Climate) Love Tonight?
The Paris climate talks have been heralded as a historic deal. However, while they have been praised for the very feat of reaching an agreement and for setting an...
Australia Pro-Competition Laws Miss the Mark
How can two words create so much confusion? The government has released its options paper on Australia’s misuse of market power laws. However, all the options miss the key...
Cutting Two-Thirds of your Workforce: Not a Good Sign
Anglo American, one of the largest mining companies in the world, has announced a restructure that will cut 85,000 jobs worldwide, a reduction of its workforce by almost two-thirds....