By Edmund E. TERKPERNOR
Married together, the words “financial” and “technology” begets Fintech. Fintech offers a digital and thus convenient means of accessing one’s finances. A currency on the other hand according to the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary is a system of money that a country uses. Today, this currency...
The entrepreneurial spirit is ripe in Africa, especially with a high percentage of the population engaged in self-employment. This goes to show that the continent is open to innovation and independence. It may seem like the corporate sector has no involvement or role to play in encouraging entrepreneurship, but...
Smishing—or SMS phishing—has become a common way for cybercriminals to abuse mobile users. Smishing texts try to get users to provide personal information or download malware. Understanding and fighting against smishing attacks is essential for personal and corporate security as mobile devices become ubiquitous. Smishing is a sophisticated type...
A year ago, the Ghana Association of Restructuring and Insolvency Advisors (GARIA) had a grand celebration to usher in the new Companies Act, 2019 (Act 992)! GARIA had been on the frontline of advocacy efforts to create a new modern, fit for purpose Companies Act reflective of our globalized,...
By Abubakari Saddiq ADAMS
In the rapidly evolving digital age, protecting intellectual property (IP) has become a paramount concern for businesses of all sizes. As companies increasingly rely on digital platforms to develop, market, and distribute their products and services, the risk of IP theft and infringement has grown exponentially.
The...
The Media as a Social Force for Change
The media plays a critical role in shaping and directing society toward a national conscience of developmental goals, based on how it selects and cuts through a nation’s developmental agenda by making some issues more salient than others. Through the media’s selection...
Swiss nationals, home and abroad, annually observe August 1, as the Swiss National Day with great celebration.
In Bern, the capital city of Switzerland, built around a crook in the Aare River, the Swiss National Day, which is a very important day on the Swiss calendar is celebrated in a grand style.
The date refers...
By Mohamed A. EL-ERIAN
To the extent that financial historians ever refer back to August 2024, I suspect it will be for the craziness of the first three days of the month, when equity prices tumbled as investors’ dumped their darling stocks and sent the VIX (Wall Street’s “fear index”)...
The statistician Nassim Nicholas Taleb coined the term “black swan” to describe improbable, hard-to-predict events that can have a massive impact on the economy. The authors of a recent report have now introduced into the taxonomy of finance the phrase “green swans”: events caused by climate change and biodiversity...