A group of international financial organisations has launched the Climate Training Alliance (CTA) to provide climate risk education to central banks and financial supervisors. In a statement on July 9, the Bank for International Settlements announced…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) holds a House resolution on the approval of the creation of a select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol as…
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CC BY-ND Nearly 10% of everyone on Earth – an estimated 768 million of us – were undernourished in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted economies, job markets and supply chains and inflated food prices.…
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Over the past few weeks, the Chinese government’s crackdown on big tech companies has intensified. The giants have all felt the brunt of heightened regulatory scrutiny. At the end of last year, Ant Group (which…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A coal-burning power plant can be seen behind a factory in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, October 31, 2010. REUTERS/David Gray By Muyu Xu and David Stanway BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s long-awaited…
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CC BY-NC-ND People who experience sex discrimination, race discrimination and other forms of discrimination at work aren’t getting much protection from the laws designed to shield them from it. That’s our main finding after analyzing…
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The number of women in senior positions within UK banks has increased over the last 20 years, but little progress has been made on improving age and nationality diversity. These were the findings of new…
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Pioneering spacefarer John Herschel Glenn Jr. would have turned 100 on July 18, 2021. When Glenn died in 2016, the famed astronaut was lauded as “the last genuine American hero.” NASA, the U.S. Marine Corps,…
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© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan Investing.com – Oil prices rebounded Tuesday as market bulls looked forward to data likely to show another draw in US crude stockpiles. But any disappointment over the numbers due from…
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Most American workers are hired “at will”: Employers owe their employees nothing in the relationship except earned wages, and employees are at liberty to quit at their option. As the rule is generally stated, either…
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