America is betting on stablecoins while other nations favor safer digital currencies. This article appears in the September 2026 issue of Global Finance Magazine. CFOs and corporate treasurers face a dilemma when selecting which digital currencies to use. Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are backed by the issuing central bank’s balance sheet and the full…
Gradients can look super different depending on what color space you have them interpolate in. It’s sRGB by default, and there is a decent chance you’ve never even thought about it. But it’s a small syntax change to change that, as Keith Grant documents. One of those is not better than the other. Maybe it’s…
Freelancing is becoming a larger part of the skilled workforce. Upwork’s Future Workforce Index found that skilled freelancing grew from 28% of skilled knowledge workers in 2025 to 38% in 2026. As more people take on independent work, more freelancers are signing client contracts without a legal background. The right contract can protect your pay,…
August employment report brings mixed blessings for the U.S. economy. U.S. employers added a robust 162,000 jobs in August, signaling an employment rebound, even as finance-sector jobs declined, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest Employment Situation Summary. The sectors with the most job growth were leisure/hospitality (62,000 jobs), government (35,000 jobs), private education/health services…
‘For us, moderation is one component of a much larger picture. The real question is how technology can help publishers produce, distribute, moderate and monetise social content much more efficiently.’– Henning Rosenstengel, co-founder and CEO: MainSent; managing director: Ippen Digital social media business unit For the better part of the past decade, most publishers have…
Combining finances does not have to mean combining every dollar. For many couples, the better arrangement is a shared financial layer: both people know how household bills are being handled, both contribute toward common goals, and both can still keep some spending and accounts separate. A household money system is simply a set of rules…
By Branko Brkic World News Day, 28 September 2026 In my life I have watched communities, organisations, and entire countries lose their grip on truth. I was just starting my book publishing career in Yugoslavia in the mid-’80s when the shared facts that held our society together for 40 years came apart, piece by piece,…
Home Banking People on the Move: EIF, Barclays, Standard Chartered, and Julius Baer This article appears in the September 2026 issue of Global Finance Magazine. Jean-Christophe Laloux, EIF The European Investment Fund (EIF) has appointed Jean-Christophe Laloux as its next CEO, effective Jan 1. He will succeed Marjut Falkstedt, who plans to retire. Laloux currently…
The self-employed tax problem is not a new one. Independent contractors, consultants, freelancers, and 1099 workers across every industry have long faced a common challenge: without an employer to withhold taxes on their behalf, self-employed individuals are responsible for estimating their own tax liability, organizing their records, and making timely payments throughout the year. Without…
The creator of the TV show The Good Place wrote a tie-in book about moral philosophy which includes a chapter called “The Luck of the Draw,” discussing how the myth of meritocracy leads people to “underestimate the role that luck has played in their lives.” Given how God seems to play dice with the universe, there is something compelling in the way art…