Dubai / WAM Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) has announced that its membership of the World Alliance of International Financial Centres (WAIFC) has been unanimously approved by its Board. DIFC will use its membership to collaborate with members who represent other leading global financial centres including London, Frankfurt, Paris, Tokyo and Toronto. As the highest ranked global financial centre in ...

If it wasn’t for last year’s extraordinary events, there would be nothing even remotely remarkable about Jayshri Hodkar’s struggle to survive as a single mother of two on the earnings of her tailoring shop, a single machine in one room of a rented house. It’s one of those tens of millions of tiny businesses you see everywhere in India. Most ...

Senegal’s President Macky Sall seems finally to have quelled the violence that marked two weeks of opposition protests and government crackdowns and left at least eight dead. But repairing the reputational damage to one of Africa’s most peaceful and stable countries will require statesmanship of a higher order than Sall has so far shown. The question now is whether the ...

How is it that auto companies spend so much money and there is such vague disclosure on where it’s going? Or how their ambitious projects are progressing? Investors should be pushing accounting standards boards and companies to give them more. With the onset of electric cars and autonomous vehicles, companies are increasing their focus on technology and technical know-how over ...

Among the unsettling revelations about the January 6 attack on the US Capitol is the number of rioters who served in the military. Of the more than 300 people so far charged with crimes, at least 30 are veterans, and three are currently enlisted in either the Army Reserve or National Guard. The Pentagon believes some active-duty troops also participated ...

Bloomberg A surge in coronavirus cases in India could hurt the economy’s recovery from a rare recession, as curbs to avoid a new wave creates delays in putting millions who lost their jobs to the pandemic back to work. “There is a restless urgency in the air in India to resume high growth, and incoming data point to even contact-intensive ...

Bloomberg Japanese prosecutors on Monday formally charged two Americans with aiding in the escape of former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn, who fled trial in Japan over a year ago. Michael Taylor, 60, and Peter Taylor, 28, helped Ghosn illegally leave Japan in December 2019, where he was facing charges of financial misconduct, prosecutors said in a statement on ...

Bloomberg Ant Group Co. created an investment advisory platform on its Alipay app, allowing companies that offer robo adviser services to reach its 1 billion users. Five Chinese asset management companies debuted on the platform known as Tougu Guanjia, which means investment advisory manager. Users will be able to choose robo advisory services from the platform that functions like a ...

Bloomberg The days of the massive first-day pop in Hong Kong’s initial public offering (IPO)M frenzy may be nearing an end. Even as the pandemic spread for most of 2020, the offshore Chinese city’s IPOs and new listings were in hot demand from both institutional and mom-and-pop investors. With the bulk of new share sales posting large gains on their ...

Bloomberg South Korea’s exports are set for another monthly gain in March, adding to signs the global economic recovery is taking hold as vaccinations pick up. Exports rise 12.5% in the first 20 days of the month from a year earlier, the customs office reported on Monday, with chips and cars leading the gains. Average daily shipments increased 16.1% during ...