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The gold standard in AI and reserve currencies

The gold standard in AI and reserve currencies

After the arrival of the Chinese AI tool DeepSeek in January, this month has seen a flurry of conferences on artificial intelligence (AI). At the AI...

17.02.2025 20

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Year of snakes, ladders

As China celebrates the Lunar Year of the Snake, the first angpow (red packet gift) was the DeepSeek AI software that shook Wall Street to the tune of...

03.02.2025 10

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Enjoy the froth till it lasts

With the return of the highly unpredictable Donald Trump as US President this month, how should anyone manage his or her risks? We define risk as...

06.01.2025 7

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Self-strengthening sole antidote to Trump 2.0.

As President-elect Donald Trump completes his Cabinet nominations, still subject to legislative approval after January 2025, the policy intentions...

24.11.2024 4

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Can banks become tech platforms?

100 YEARS AGO How are banks responding to an era of massive tech disruption and prospects of lower interest rate margins as global interest rates...

27.10.2024 4

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October 1987 crash in historical perspective

On 19 October 1987, following three days of decline in the New York stock market, the Hong Kong market dropped 10.5 per cent after a rise of 89 per...

16.10.2024 9

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Bureaucracy must embrace AI processes

There is a lot of hype about artificial intelligence (AI) and technology sparking off a revival of growth globally. As Nobel Laureate economist...

23.09.2024 3

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Is Bretton Woods fit for the 21st century?

In July 1944, delegates from 44 countries gathered in the UN sponsored Conference in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to decide on a post-Second World...

08.09.2024 4

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Lower Fed rates could reduce deflation risks

August for central bankers is Jackson Hole month, when the Kansas Federal Reserve Bank has invited leading central bankers, finance ministers,...

25.08.2024 5

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Is US $ debt or equity?

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings, so said the American poet Carl Sandburg. Since the pseudonymous...

28.07.2024 10

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Poor bear the brunt in an unfair world

Last year was certainly the hottest summer ever, according to the Scientific American. This summer is not yet over, but it certainly feels like it...

14.07.2024 3

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