Octobank – the future face of finance

OF all the Volkswagen Group’s concepts and future models on display at the Munich Motor Show last year, there was one which stood out for a very good reason. The Skoda Vision O, a concept version of a

We are in a real-life game of Risk. In 2019, Fiona Hill, an official at the US National Security Council during Donald Trump’s first term, said the Russians had informally proposed a plan whereby they

“The failure of economists to forecast recessions is virtually unblemished,” notes Prakash Loungani, assistant director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This includes the economists at the IM

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The leisure sector is but part of the gigantic services sector, which accounts for roughly 80% of UK GDP. The latter encompasses everything from professional services such as solicitors and accountant

The way that central banks responded to the global financial crisis almost 20 years ago is often derided as “printing money” and “debasement”. This shorthand is odd. Whereas a Roman emperor might deba