Finance and Banking

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The group’s countries share one concern—the growing use of U.S. sanctions to restrict trade and investment globally. 

The global south is hungry for an alternative to the Western-dominated order, but BRICS may not be up to the task.

Undeterred by Western pressure, a record number of countries want to join the group ahead of the annual summit.

Worldcoin trades cryptocurrency for eyeball scans, creating a global ID database and scaring the willies out of privacy experts.

The first high-profile departure from China’s Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank says it is dominated by CCP operatives and Beijing’s foreign-policy objectives.

The global south’s debts have reached alarming levels, and Beijing is tightening the screws.

Without a playbook to turn to, officials are still grasping for solutions.

Beijing’s conversion into a major creditor has upended international finance—and not in a good way.

This isn’t the first distressed bank that JPMorgan has stepped in to purchase—and it probably won’t be the last.

Poverty alleviation in the economically weakest parts of the world will require giving the poor a real seat at the table—which the World Bank has never done.

The development bank doesn’t have enough money to achieve its goals—unless it gets more creative with its balance sheet.

Bad management and bad luck prompted the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. What about other banks?

The scandal has cast doubt on whether Modi can ensure India remains the world’s fastest-growing major economy.

Bernard Arnault is the king of luxury commerce and a fixture in French politics and culture.

The Fund's bailouts for Egypt had one big problem: they weren't designed by country experts.

Unfreezing billions of dollars while huge revenues flow to Kabul risks legitimizing an extremist regime.