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Institute for Energy Security’s (IES’) review of data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) and financial advisory and asset management firm Lazard, have revealed...

The ability to harness “big data” and accelerate digitalisation and automation will be a key determinant of long-term winners and losers in the Financial Institutions...

Early statements from Estonia's new government suggest a return to fiscal prudence once the coronavirus shock fades, following a more expansionary stance under the previous...

A global semiconductor (microchip) shortage is disrupting automotive production and may delay a recovery of new vehicle sales and profitability in the sector, Fitch Ratings...

In the 1960’s Senator McCarthy ruined lives of innocent people. The criticisms of McCarthyism, and of Senator McCarthy in particular, are threefold. First, he ruined...

The COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating in many countries and uncertainty is unusually high. Decisive government actions are necessary to ensure swift and extensive vaccine rollouts, protect...

A lot has changed in the past year. One thing that has remained constant is the state of stasis of South Africa’s new petroleum code....

“Ghana could not have survived the Economic Recovery Program (ERPs) of the 1980s put in place by the ruling Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) without...

In a patch of desert to the west of the Nile, more than six million solar panels harvest the energy of the sun, helping to...

A newly-updated interactive country-by-country map of bank rating trends from Fitch Ratings shows that nearly 60% of bank ratings were still on Negative Outlook at...