In under a year, the International Monetary Fund has released three research papers on “zombie” banks, showing the extent of top-level interest in…

There is a proposed law currently under consideration by Lebanese ministers that is designed to address the state of country’s embattled banks. It…

After more than two years of negotiations and 16 hours of talks in Brussels, the European Union finally reached a preliminary agreement on revising…

Turkey is caught in a severe economic and financial crisis, most clearly expressed by high inflation rates.In 2022, inflation peaked at 86%, dropping…

The world’s international financial architecture is outdated, and reform is badly needed to properly reflect how the global order has changed since…

A draft law on the reform and reorganisation of banks, prepared by the Banking Control Commission (BCC) and the Bank of Lebanon, was recently…

Argentina’s recent presidential election was won and lost on economics.It was fought by Sergio Massa, known as "superminister” due to his…

Criticism of the International Monetary Fund dates right back to the inception of the world’s lender of last resort.The IMF has always been the…

Lebanese people seemed to be split down the middle after deputy governor Wassim Mansouri took control at the Banque du Liban (BDL), replacing former…

In a 1950 article entitled Computing Machinery and Intelligence, mathematics professor Alan Turing asked if a machine could one day be equipped with…