Weekly Newsletter
Each week, the stories and analysis our editors picked, on one page.
Commentary
We have spent the last few years obsessing over artificial intelligence that sits in front of the customer – chatbots that summarise documents, copilots that draft emails, and interfaces that appear to know everything. But finance does not run on…
Business
It was during my early years as a researcher. The issue presented to me was the harmonisation of Turkish standards with those of the European Communities (EC), as they were known at the time. At that time, the EC was…
Climate
Modern medicine has transformed global health, but its environmental footprint is often overlooked. Around the world, traces of pharmaceuticals are increasingly being detected in water bodies, including rivers, lakes, and groundwater, revealing a growing but hidden form of pollution. We…
Commentary
According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), 92 per cent of economies globally improved their ‘WEF Travel and Tourism Development Index’ score in 2026. Recent geopolitical conflicts, heatwaves and wildfires around the world have painfully highlighted just how vulnerable the…
Commentary
Over the past week, the economic agenda once again centred on news regarding funds in liquidation. As of Thursday 8 October, the funds of 43,000 out of the 455,758 investors in the funds being liquidated had been transferred to the…
Commentary
Worldwide, the interest rate policies of central banks—including the largest ones—are generally based on the understanding that ‘high interest rates do not drive up inflation in traditional economic theory; on the contrary, they are used to curb inflation by reducing…
