Amid the saturation coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic, lots of important stories are slipping through the cracks. One such is the impending launch of a state-backed crypto: China is trying to do what it stopped Facebook doing with the now aborted launch of its coin, Libero. This fusion of state and crypto could turn into […]
While the UK is easily the biggest and most dynamic market for crowdfunding in Europe, it is by no means the biggest market in the world. There’s little doubt that China can claim that prize. Today, we run a short extract from a Ryan Weeks’ article in AltFi. Ryan’s piece puts the UK scene in […]
Let’s stand back and take stock… The precipitous fall in the oil price has resulted in sharp declines in share prices around the world, but the long-term effect of a lower oil price is to reduce the amount of cash in the pockets of oil producers and increase the amount available to consumers to spend. […]
China can manufacture – but innovation is a different matter I have spent the last few days in China. The stock market has collapsed over the past year by 70 per cent as GDP growth has slowed from 10 per cent to 7 per cent. But the optimism amongst Chinese business people has not diminished […]