Financial Innovation

Banks are no strangers to risk.

Governments that invest in businesses, but then have no say on any decisions made by company managers, are much more likely to see their investments be a success, according to new research by Vlerick Business School.

Banks have suffered a number of high-profile and costly IT glitches in recent times. Most notable among these was the ongoing saga at TSB when it tried to migrate its systems over to new parent company Banco Sabadell. But Barclays, RBS and…

Taking place in Davos for its 50th year this week, the World Economic Forum is already challenging the status quo and highlighting priorities in business and finance for the year ahead.

Since the beginning of double entry bookkeeping in the 1400s, companies have relied on educated and skilled accountants to perform a lot of data entry. Things didn’t change much over the following several centuries, as we still have a heavy…