MSTRpay
Fred Kwaku Gyamfi appointed to strengthen MSTRpay’s Ghana strategy
MSTRpay has expanded its West African footprint with the appointment of Mr Fred Kwaku Gyamfi as a non-exclusive country agent...
US politics
Trump sparks backlash with Pearl Harbor remark during Iran war discussion
A controversial comment in a tense geopolitical momentUS President Donald Trump has drawn sharp criticism after invoking Japan’s 1941 Pearl...
Market reactions
Global markets reel as Iraq crisis triggers sharp volatility across asset classes
Global financial markets turned sharply volatile on Thursday as a rapidly escalating crisis in Iraq sent shockwaves through equities, commodities...
Financial insights
Mumbai market opens mixed as domestic strength offsets global concerns
Mumbai’s equity markets opened mixed on Friday,...
Singapore market opens cautiously as investors track oil and regional risk
Singapore’s stock market opened cautiously on Friday,...
Tokyo market opens under pressure as geopolitical tensions weigh on sentiment
Tokyo equities opened lower on Friday, with...
Iran
Israel strikes Tehran as Netanyahu signals potential ground escalation in Iran war
Israel launched a fresh wave of airstrikes on Tehran on Friday, marking a sharp escalation in the ongoing war with...
Meta leaving Metaverse
Meta retreats from the metaverse as vision loses momentum
A costly experiment gives way to strategic recalibrationMeta is increasingly stepping back from its once-ambitious metaverse strategy, signalling a broader...
On this day
On this day in 1969: John Lennon married Japanese artist and musician Yoko Ono
The marriage of John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1969 marked one of the most influential cultural partnerships of the...
AI
Visa prepares payment systems for AI-driven transactions
Payments giant moves to support autonomous commerceVisa is developing new infrastructure to enable payments initiated directly by artificial intelligence agents,...
Banking
US banking rules set for easing as capital requirements decline
Regulators signal shift towards flexibility in capital frameworkThe United States’ largest banks could see their capital requirements reduced by 2.4%...
Africa
Africa must pivot towards innovation-led growth driven by data and frontier technologies
A structural shift is required to unlock long-term economic potentialAfrica stands at a critical economic crossroads, where future growth will...
Blockchain
Bitcoin dips below $71K but bullish momentum remains intact
Market pullback meets continued institutional supportBitcoin briefly fell below the $71,000 threshold on 19 March 2026, yet underlying market data...
Climate & Energy
Tropical Cyclone Narelle: how global heating intensified Queensland’s severe storm
Tropical Cyclone Narelle has emerged as one of the most severe storms to hit Queensland in recent years, with scientists...
Newshub long read
America’s opioid crisis: From prescription boom to national catastrophe
A decades-long epidemic reshaping public health, policy and profitThe opioid crisis in the United States stands as one of the...
Business of the week
Kaspi.kz shows how smartphone services can transform an emerging market
A Kazakh super app has become one of the clearest examples of how a company in an emerging market can...
Hidden financial giants
Hidden giants in Finance: Ant Group
While China’s financial system is often associated with large state-owned banks, one of the most influential forces in the country’s...
HDFC Bank: India’s hidden financial giant powering a banking revolution
While global attention often focuses on India’s technology sector, one of the country’s most powerful financial institutions has quietly grown...
Hidden giants: The Rabiu family and Nigeria’s quiet financial powerhouse
While Africa’s billionaire class is often associated with headline names and high-profile conglomerates, one family has built a vast financial-industrial...
Hidden Giants in Finance: Euronet and the invisible rails moving US$200bn a year
Every day, trillions of digital signals move quietly between banks, wallets, ATMs, and payment apps — and behind much of...
America’s quietly powerful Pritzker dynasty
Few families shape global capital as discreetly as the Pritzkers. Best known publicly for building the hotel empire behind Hyatt...
Europe’s hidden financial giant: the foundation behind IKEA
Behind one of the world’s most recognisable retail brands sits a little-known Dutch foundation that quietly controls assets worth tens...
The Grosvenor family (Duke of Westminster)
Few fortunes in Britain are as substantial — or as discreet — as that of the Grosvenor family, headed today...
Sweden’s hidden giants: How Wallenberg and Rausing compare on the global ownership stage
Two Swedish industrial spheres — the Wallenberg network and the Rausing family — quietly control capital measured in trillions of...