European CFOs must adjust as the region’s biggest pension buyer of long-dated debt cuts back. This article appears in the September 2026 issue of Global Finance Magazine. The Netherlands pension system is beginning to reduce one of Europe’s most reliable sources of demand for long-dated debt as a broad regulatory shift changes how Dutch pension…
There is an airport in Bend, Oregon where I live. We’ve got a proper one in Redmond, the next town over, but a little baby municipal one here in Bend. There is a cafe there that I’m only just hearing about: Bend Airport Cafe. Looks nice, I should go! I’m mentioning it for another reason,though….
The findings are based on a survey of 42 media professionals conducted between September 2025 and May 2026. Respondents came from 12 markets, with groups based in India, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines. They ranged from reporters and editors to team leaders and C-suite executives. Most worked for national news organisations. The survey was conducted…
Compound interest is one of the most important ideas in long-term personal finance, yet it can be difficult to understand intuitively. The principle is simple: money earns a return, and over time those returns can generate additional returns. What is harder to see is how much the result can change when the starting amount, annual…
By Sylkia Cartagena The advertising market is changing quickly. Programmatic is under pressure, traffic is falling across the industry and AI is affecting how content is created, discovered, targeted and measured. For Veebha Mehta, COO of Crain Communications, those changes make some of publishers’ existing strengths more valuable, not less. “We all have the same…
Accession talks accelerate in Brussels as Ukraine, Moldova, Albania, and Montenegro push for faster integration into the EU. This article appears in the September 2026 issue of Global Finance Magazine. On July 14, the European Union took its most consequential step toward enlargement in two decades by holding four separate accession conferences in a single…
By Joanna Cummings Broadsheet began with a frustration. Nick Shelton was living in London after university and found the city exciting, cosmopolitan and buzzing – but difficult to discover. “You sort of had to know someone who’d been around to find out what to do and where to go,” he says. At the time, the…
Getting hurt or wronged is stressful enough on its own. Add a long legal case on top of it, and the financial pressure can feel constant. Bills don’t pause while your claim works its way through the system, and neither does rent, groceries, or a car payment. Many people assume a settlement check will arrive…
The weeks before an NBA season create an unusual information rush. New players arrive, coaches introduce different ideas, injury updates emerge, and promising training-camp reports can quickly shape expectations before meaningful basketball begins. Understanding that changing landscape requires more than checking which teams attracted the most offseason attention. Context matters because preseason assumptions can disappear…
There is a peculiar contradiction at the centre of today’s startup economy. Entrepreneurs have never had access to more information about markets, consumers and technological change, nor have they ever been able to build and test new products so quickly. At the same time, I continue to see founders approaching entrepreneurship in precisely the opposite…