An International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff team has concluded discussions with Sri Lankan authorities on the country’s seventh review under its Extended Fund Facility (EFF) arrangement and the 2026 Article IV Consultation,
Hopes by the British government to ease post-Brexit supply chain challenges by joining a major pan-European trade convention are being held up by Brussels, according to sources on both sides of the
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The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has issued a stark warning about the fragility of the modern global financial system, emphasizing that despite significant changes since the 2007–09 financial crisis, the core
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Deutsche Bank has revealed that it could face a significantly larger capital impact than previously expected under the upcoming Basel IV banking reforms, which overhaul how lenders calculate risk across their portfolios.
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In a scathing critique that threatens to deepen political fissures within Ukraine’s wartime leadership, former president Petro Poroshenko has accused President Volodymyr Zelensky of authoritarian behavior, likening his actions to those of
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Moscow has claimed for the first time that it has fully seized control of the Luhansk region in eastern Ukraine — one of the four territories President Vladimir Putin declared annexed nearly
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Sir Pascal Soriot, chief executive of AstraZeneca, has expressed a private desire to move the company’s primary stock market listing from London to the United States, according to sources cited by The
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KPMG stepped down as auditor of Prax Group, the parent company of one of the UK’s largest oil refineries, in the year leading up to its sudden insolvency, according to a report
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The United States is intensifying its efforts to dismantle a global criminal network accused of using stolen cryptocurrency to finance North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme, with a high-profile trial and new sanctions
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President Trump moved a step closer to securing his biggest legislative victory of his second term on Tuesday as the “One Big Beautiful Bill” narrowly passed the Senate following a tense 27-hour
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Editor’s Note: Annie White, Director of Software Tools at the Growth Lab, Harvard Kennedy School, and Sebastian Bustos, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Development, Harvard University, recently presented their
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Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra amid escalating political unrest and fallout from a leaked audio recording, intensifying the country’s already fragile political landscape. The court accepted a
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In a sweeping move that signals a dramatic shift in U.S. foreign policy, President Donald Trump has signed an executive order dismantling most U.S. sanctions against Syria, declaring an end to the
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Nearly three months after her dramatic departure from the presidential residence, South Korea’s former First Lady Kim Keon-hee is now at the center of a growing corruption scandal that threatens to further
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Liquidators pursuing funds looted from Malaysia’s scandal-ridden 1MDB sovereign wealth fund are suing UK-based banking giant Standard Chartered for more than $2.7 billion, alleging the bank played a central role in one
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