By Umberto Bacchi (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Like the animated paintings that adorn the walls of Harry Potter’s school, a new online tool promises to bring portraits of dead relatives to life, stirring debate about the use of...
By Michael Nienaber and Andrea Shalal BERLIN/WASHINGTON/ROME (Reuters) – The world’s financial leaders are expected on Friday to agree to continue supportive measures for the global economy and look to boost the International Monetary Fund’s resources so it can...
By Carl Wegner, CEO of Contour Despite significant advances in digital enterprise technology in recent years, international trade remains overwhelmingly manual and fraught with inefficiency. Financial market participants spend millions of dollars to save fractions of seconds. Central banks are...
By Julie Zhu and Yilei Sun HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Huawei plans to make electric vehicles under its own brand and could launch some models this year, four sources said, as the world’s largest telecommunications equipment maker, battered...
By Dhara Ranasinghe LONDON (Reuters) – From the United States to Germany and Australia, government borrowing costs on Friday were set to end February with their biggest monthly rises in years as expectations for a post-pandemic ignition of inflation...
By Chris Burnside, Account Manager, Specialty Retail, UK & Nordics Global Sales & Verticals, Worldline COVID-19 is constantly shifting consumer shopping habits from on-site to online, meaning that eCommerce is becoming the main driver of physical retailers’ strategies. Changes...
By Lawrence White, Iain Withers and Muvija M LONDON (Reuters) – As the finance industry prepares for life post-pandemic, commercial banks are moving quickly to harness working from home to cut costs, while investment banks are keen to get...
By Kate Duguid NEW YORK (Reuters) – A sharp jump in U.S. Treasury yields this week has bond managers talking about a “tantrum”, worrying about extreme moves and pockets of poor liquidity in the $20 trillion market. The selloff in...
By Kate Duguid NEW YORK (Reuters) – A sharp jump in U.S. Treasury yields this week has bond managers talking about a “tantrum”, worrying about extreme moves and pockets of poor liquidity in the $20 trillion market. The selloff in...
By Joice Alves LONDON (Reuters) – Sterling fell against a stronger dollar on Friday, retreating from a three-year high touched earlier this week, as a rout in global bond markets sent yields flying and hurt the pound, while the...