China gave Hong Kong a stern warning after several candidates favoring independence won legislative seats in the city’s first major election since 2014’s pro-democracy demonstrations. The vote drew a record turnout that reflected sharp differences […]
Indian digital-payments and e-commerce startup Paytm is raising $300 million in a funding round led by Taiwan’s MediaTek Inc. and other investors, more than doubling its valuation to $5 billion, a person with knowledge of […]
The corporate controller’s role continues to transform. Driven primarily by advances in technology and the need for organizations to capture, manage and leverage data to enhance an organization’s performance, the controller is at the center of the corporate universe. Increasingly, companies are expecting […]
A big fall in consumer confidence in stocks helped pull Taiwan’s overall consumer sentiment index down 0.62 point to 79.56 this month. All six subindices were lower, leaving the broad reading far beneath the break-even […]
The European Central Bank has purchased more than €1 trillion in government bonds over the 18 months of its quantitative-easing scheme. While bond yields have risen slightly over the past couple of weeks, the ECB […]
By Tristan Van Iersel. Indexing is at the heart of a process that has moved the investment industry from art to science, and the growing popularity of index-based investment has forced all asset managers and advisers to improve […]
PureFunds has brought to Nasdaq two technology-focused exchange-traded funds, one targeting financial technology and the other giving exposure to medical technology. The PureFunds Solactive FinTech ETF tracks a fintech index, while the PureFunds ETFx HealthTech […]
HTC is continuing to invest heavily in building up the virtual reality ecosystem that it hopes to one day dominate. Steel Wool Studios, an Oakland-based gaming studio made up of Pixar veterans with a few decades of […]
Talks at Google in London were delighted to welcome Alex Tapscott to talk about his book Blockchain Revolution, looking at how the technology behind Bitcoin can reshape the world of business and transform the old […]
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