Large, established credit rating agencies (CRAs) wield immense influence and power over the global financial system and the world economy as a whole. In normal times, CRAs can significantly impact ...

A challenge for innovative startups in Europe is finding the funds to develop their technologies and then scale up. That is especially the case when it takes years to finalise a technology—because of ...

The international development finance (IDF) ecosystem is entering a new era—one in which investors, multilateral organizations, financial intermediaries and final beneficiaries are more interconnected ...

Across many global boardrooms today, a familiar pattern has taken hold—a structure that mirrors the Biblical Noah’s Ark. For every critical domain, boards are stacked two by two: two cybersecurity ...

“This is going to be American-operated all the way,” US President Donald Trump said as he signed an executive order on September 25 that paved the way for TikTok to be transferred to American majority ...

The global payment landscape is undergoing a transformative shift, driven by new ideas, innovation and the race towards faster, more efficient and digitalised payments. Yet the move towards instant ...

Capital investment in most middle-income countries of Europe and Central Asia (ECA) is lower than in peer economies around the world. More sluggish business dynamism since the 2008 Global Financial ...