(This story originally appeared in on Jan 01, 2021)MUMBAI: Covid has shaped salary trends in a positive way for several sectors. These include internet & e-commerce, BFSI (banking, financial services & insurance), transportation & logistics and energy & utilities, as well as functions like legal & compliance and marketing. Additionally, these are expected to have…
Mortgage rates have only shifted by a few basis points since last Friday, but they’ve gone down more significantly since this time last month. Rates are much lower than they were on January 1 last year.If you want to get a mortgage soon, you may want to go with a fixed-rate mortgage rather than an…
BEIRUT: After a year of financial, political and social turmoil, few in Lebanon believe the crisis-wracked country’s situation will improve in the coming 12 months, while growing numbers fear their plight will worsen dramatically. “Our country is broken,” said Rima Al-Khatib, who works in the banking sector, describing a year in which her father…
Britain has clinched a last-minute trade agreement with the European Union that will preserve its zero-tariff and zero-quota access to the bloc’s single market of 450 million consumers. But it is a thin deal that will not prevent economic pain and disruption for the United Kingdom or for EU member states, and many aspects of…
Even as America hits low ebb with an out-of-control pandemic and staggering economic pain, there is, at least, the comfort that the nation can wrest itself out of its current situation if only it can find the political will. As we wait for most Americans to be vaccinated, there is overwhelming evidence that mask-wearing, social…
In December, the Vatican became one of the latest entities to unveil a plan to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, joining far less pious actors like BP, Shell, and President-elect Joe Biden. Net-zero plans have become all the rage as public concern about the climate crisis has grown. But approving coverage of these wide-ranging announcements…
Nigeria’s internal fish production is not enough to meet its 2.7 million tons demand annually, with a current deficit of 1.9million metric tons recorded. Aquaculture is an area where Nigeria is heavily reliant on imports due to multiple factors ranging from insecurity in the northeast, access to food, piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, to…
Founder Mike Cagney is always pushing the envelope, and investors love him for it. Not long after sexual harassment allegations prompted him to leave SoFi, the personal finance company that he co-founded in 2011, he raised $50 million for a new lending startup called Figure that has since raised at least $225 million from investors…
It was the week when the “Switzerland of Asia” mixed a dash of Silicon Valley into its tropical version of Zurich. From Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Singapore attracted top tech leaders to a weeklong “financial technology” event designed to underline that digitization is integral to the city-state’s vision of its…
Business Insider Intelligence This is a preview of Business Insider Intelligence’s US Banking Digital Trust Report 2020.The full report is available to Business Insider Intelligence enterprise clients. To learn more about this report, email Business Insider Intelligence Client Services at [email protected] US banks with the highest levels of digital trust in 2020 are PNC, Chase,…