BUSINESS

Royal wedding fever is gripping the nation and tens of thousands of tourists are heading to London to join the party.

Jim Ratcliffe topped the Sunday Times Rich List 2018 with an estimated worth of £21.05bn.

Open Banking or PSD2 will enable third parties outside the traditional banking world to access customer data

More than 2000 bank branches have closed in the UK since 2015.

GDPR is a regulation that requires businesses to protect the personal data and privacy of EU citizens

With budgets under pressure, investment banks and asset managers are now asking whether better surveillance controls are possible through more efficient means.

Anthropologists have long explored how inanimate objects and nonhuman entities - like "data" - can take on fantastic, fetishistic, or even magical properties.

Women at Nike, fed up with the status quo, recently undertook a covert survey asking about sexual harassment and gender discrimination.

With the value of crypto-currencies soaring in recent months, it's not hard to see why cyber-criminals have jumped on the bandwagon.

PSD2 should be seen as an opportunity for banks to redefine the customer experience.

Should the British property market go vertical to end the perpetual housing crisis?

Is the growing backlash against free trade a threat to international policies that protect the environment?

Business and philanthropy complement one another hugely, argues James Reed is the Chairman of reed.co.uk.

The financial press failed to play its watchdog role and was handicapped by entrenched views and group-think, argues a new book

Donald Trump is fragmenting the world trade order making the hoped-for favourable trade deals post-Brexit a far more difficult prospect.

Over half of the Commonwealth's 2.3bn citizens are Indians.

Has the the time come for growth-focused investors to hand on the baton to their counterparts in the value camp?

Public blockchain networks live or die by the strength of their communities.

In the last decade, over 28,000 stores have closed, and footfall has been on a relentless downward trend.

It is arguable that Amazon has more active customers than Citi, Bank of America and JP Morgan combined.

Like the dot-com bust of the early 2000's, real companies - like Amazon, Google, eBay, or PayPal - will emerge through a crowded field of tulips.

Financial inclusion in the developing world: Technology is the key to unlocking barriers

Some online frauds are so simple to execute it questions why criminals would even consider robbing a bank.

Technology in all forms has fuelled a competitive advantage for retailers throughout the history of commerce

Hospitality industry employs a much higher proportion of EU nationals when compared to the UK workforce as a whole – 12.3% compared with 6.9%.

Gabriel Solomon is Head of Government & Industry Relations, Europe and Latin America at Ericsson.

Nick Martyniuk looks at how DLT is making industries go green

Doug Barrowman, Founder, EQUI, looks at the evolution of VC funding towards blockchain tokens.

Crypto price volatility and recent scandals surrounding centralized cryptos prove that future blockchain projects should look for better solutions to improve the market's investment climate.