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Young people are increasingly taking active roles in entrepreneurship, education, innovation, digital work and community development. However, financial independence does not begin only after graduation or employment. It begins with learning how to save, plan, manage money, make informed financial decisions and use banking services responsibly. The GCB Youth Banking Programme is designed around t…

If I think market expectations are too dovish and I expect rates to stay high for longer i.e. rate cuts by X central bank to happen in September for example (as opposed to whats priced in, e.g. May), what type of interest-rate swap would i put on to "benefit" from rates higher for longer? I've read that in this case i would want to receive Aug24 (fixed) and pay floating - is this right? Given I'm…

At age 24, workers born in the late 1990s are paid more than any cohort since those born in the 1950s Gen Z’s early careers are more financially rewarding than those of millennials, research suggests. Those typically born between 1997 to 2012 are experiencing a mini-rebound in pay packets, according to the research by the Resolution Foundation, in a seeming contrast to how the previous generation…

When mobile game ad revenue drops, it is tempting to open the ad dashboard and check one number first: eCPM. If eCPM is down, it feels like the answer is obvious. Demand is worse. The network is paying less. Maybe the mediation setup is broken. But in practice, eCPM alone can be a misleading first signal. For small mobile game and app teams, the better question is: Which driver actually changed f…

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Published online: 21 June 2026; doi:10.1057/s41599-026-07983-6 Do corporate bond offering and listing comment letters increase the cost of equity capital?

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Published online: 21 June 2026; doi:10.1057/s41599-026-08005-1 Small-scale merchants’ acceptance of UPI payment apps: evidence from India

An academic and a medical student share concerns about ​extremes of wealth and poverty, but do they agree on the monarchy? Anna, ‘in her 40s ’, Exeter Occupation Education academic at the University of Exeter Continue reading...

Victory in Makerfield is propelling him towards No 10 but investors expect to know how he will fund his promises Burnham allies confident of ‘coronation’ Andy Burnham’s thumping victory in the Makerfield byelection came and went without the bond market rout that Rachel Reeves’s backers had warned about. But as he moves towards the premiership, Burnham would be wise to set clear expectations about…

Elon Musk is a beneficiary of America’s lopsided prosperity – does the country have any appetite for redistribution? As Barack Obama’s presidency was coming to a close, Jason Furman, then chairman of the president’s council of economic advisers, laid out the strides his administration had made to curb the nation’s exorbitant income inequality in “the largest investments in reducing inequality sin…

Most fintech breaches you read about involve a hacker, a vulnerability, and a headline. Most fintech losses I've actually seen up close involve none of those things. They involve someone who read the terms of a cashback offer more carefully than the product team did, found the one path through the workflow nobody had tested, and quietly walked away with money the system handed over willingly. Tha…

Are there any applications of abstract algebra (group theory, rings, fields etc.) in any branch of either economics or finance?

Big Tech’s AI buildout is moving from cash-flow story to bond-market story, and Kevin Warsh’s first Fed meeting just made that shift harder to ignore. Nvidia doesn’t need the money. That is what makes its $25 billion bond sale the useful starting point. The chipmaker filed to sell investment-grade debt for the first time since 2021, then upsized the deal from $20 billion after investors put in mo…

The Code Most People Never See Yeah,yeah i know more than 90% of the people reading this have heard of bitcoin. Everyone talks about Bitcoin's price. Few people talk about what makes it actually work. Under the hood, Bitcoin is a marvel of applied cryptography, distributed systems, and elegant scripting and you don't need to be a cryptographer to understand it. 01 Transactions How a transaction i…

As global economic conditions become more complex, credit risk management is emerging as a critical priority for banks and financial institutions. Rising interest rates, geopolitical tensions, inflationary pressures, and changing borrower profiles are increasing the challenges associated with assessing and Read More ... The post Stronger Credit Risk Practices Essential Amid Rising Economic Uncert…

Observers are calling Cuba’s new free-market reforms the most sweeping economic overhaul on the island’s communist economy since the Cuban revolution.

Over 60% of APAC finance leaders say AI-led automation is their top priority for 2026. For Indian businesses, that stat hides a quieter truth: most SMBs have no idea which automation to start with. They hear "AI for finance" and picture an enterprise suite with a six-figure licence fee. Wrong picture. I've built finance automations for CA firms, D2C brands, trading desks, family-run manufacturers…

Finance blogs, spreadsheet templates, travel-money pages, and internal dashboards often need a small historical exchange rate lookup without building a full currency tool from scratch. FXpeek now has an embeddable widget that can be added with one div and one script tag. Quick embed <div data-fxpeek-widget data-from= "USD" data-to= "IDR" data-amount= "100" data-locale= "en" ></div> <script async …

The count of cities with $1 million starter homes has nearly tripled since 2020, an enduring sign of how the pandemic housing boom reset affordability for first-time buyers - The number of cities where a typical starter home is worth $1 million or more has nearly tripled since before the pandemic, rising from 80 in February 2020 to a record 242 today. - California still has the most cities with m…

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 19 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02665-2 The economic impact of climate change has been widely acknowledged, yet current assessments remain fragmented and uncertain. Researchers develop a comprehensive channel-specific framework, apply it to the UK and show that the potential welfare loss could be much larger than previous estimates.

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 17 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02654-5 Greenhouse gas emissions are typically attributed to where they are produced or consumed. A recent analysis traces them to capital owners, revealing a stronger concentration and offering new perspectives on how they are distributed — and why it matters.