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Western hegemony - primarily the U.S., but also the EU - is being challenged and besieged by China, backed by the BRICS bloc and part of the Global South, which promote multipolarity as an alternative. Pressure also comes from states hit by the...

Street protests have demonstrated, in the last two decades, that social networks are not only communication tools, but also true "virtual markets” where civic movements are born. From the "yellow vests” in France to...

The geopolitical and economic storm that is shaping up around the US dollar is taking on unexpected proportions after the recent summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (ed. - Shanghai Cooperation Organisation - SCO), which took place...

The International Center for Settlement of Foreign Investment Disputes (ICSID), the so-called ICSID tribunal in Washington, attached to the World Bank, has in recent years become the preferred tool of fossil energy giants through which they block...

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The main indices of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) recorded double-digit increases in the first half of the year, boosted by the result of the presidential elections on May 18, which confirmed the country's pro-European trajectory for the...

Endava, grupul specializat în transformarea afacerilor prin soluţii digitale avansate, a cărui abordare AI-nativă îmbină inovaţia de ultimă generaţie cu o expertiză solidă în industrie, arată că 85% dintre directorii din domeniul fintech...

Cetatea Oradea s-a transformat în hub-ul regional al inovaţiei financiare, găzduind cea de-a patra ediţie a UNCHAIN Festival, între 17-18 iunie 2025, evenimentul care reuneşte, an de an, fintech-uri, bănci, asigurători, procesatori de plăţi,...

Bitcoin, the world's most popular cryptocurrency, has seen rapid growth in the last two months, reaching a new all-time high of around $111,950 in May, amid a combination of factors such as the suspension of trade tariffs announced by the...

Peisajul plăţilor se află în plină revoluţie tehnologică, transformând radical modul în care consumatorii şi companiile îşi transferă valoarea. Deşi cardurile şi metodele convenţionale de plată digitală devin din ce în ce mai dominante la nivel...

The payments landscape is undergoing a technological revolution, transforming how consumers and businesses exchange value. While cards and conventional digital payments are becoming increasingly dominant worldwide, they still face persistent...

The Governor of the National Bank of Romania, Mugur Isărescu, issued a clear warning yesterday regarding the direction of economic reforms and the risks associated with current fiscal policies. In a message directly addressed to the government,...

Defense companies play a key role in shaping global security, supplying everything from fighter jets and missiles to advanced cyber systems, and in 2025, the valuations of major defense contractors rose to record highs amid ongoing armed...

French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin's recent proposal to eliminate cash entirely to combat drug trafficking has sparked a lot of backlash and controversy, according to BFMTV. "A lot of everyday fraud and crime, even criminal...

NETOPIA Payments devine primul procesator de plăţi online din lume care a implementat Click to Pay şi Passkey FIDO (Fast Identity Online), o soluţie modernă de check-out online, construită pe standarde internaţionale EMV®, care...

As the world evolves, new industries are emerging as key drivers of future economic growth. According to the McKinsey Global Institute, there are 18 fast-growing areas-including artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, biotechnology, and air...

As the Trump 2.0 Administration continues to close international channels of collaboration, impose unilateral tariffs and withdraw the US from global agreements, a major question looms over the future of the American role in the world: is the US...

Dolarul american, considerat monedă de refugiu în perioade turbulente ale pieţelor financiare, nu s-a apreciat de această dată, chiar dacă investitorii au căutat siguranţă în primele luni ale anului, fapt ilustrat de evoluţia aurului ce se află...

At a time when a new technological revolution is taking place at a global level, profoundly rewriting the rules of the economic game, and when supply chains are being reconfigured amid aggressive protectionist trade measures introduced by the US,...

The United States risks running out of cash to pay its obligations by mid-July unless Congress adopts a resolution to raise or suspend the maximum national debt ceiling, according to an analysis published by the Bipartisan Policy Center think...

Reporter: We are going through a turbulent period in terms of geopolitics and macroeconomics globally. What impact could this situation have on the crypto space?

Reporter: East Capital Group manages funds that invest in the capital markets of Eastern Europe, including the Romanian market. In your opinion, what are the main strengths or opportunities presented by the leading companies on the...

Nearly a third of central banks have postponed plans to launch digital versions of their currencies, according to a study published this week by Reuters.

Banca Comercială Română anunţă o nouă extindere a ecosistemului digital George către produse bancare şi non-bancare, printr-un parteneriat cu EasyBill - parte a grupului Filbo, una dintre principalele platforme online de facturare electronică şi...

The development of online commerce is closely related to artificial intelligence, better said to its use on new platforms and for the modeling of new applications characteristic of each type of consumer/client, stated the participants at the...

In recent times, the United States has witnessed the transition from the Trump administration to the Biden-Harris administration, two distinct approaches to American leadership that have had a profound impact on domestic and foreign policy.

The preparation of the campaigns for the presidential and parliamentary elections that will take place on November 24, respectively December 1, led the Government to increase the amount of budget expenditures in the second month of autumn in...

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is considering the possibility of closing the mBridge pilot project, a cross-border payments platform that Russian President Vladimir Putin considers a solution to circumvent international sanctions...

The BRICS member states must take several critical decisions at the Kazan summit in order to improve cooperation within the group, Russian leader Vladimir Putin said yesterday, on the first day of the BRICS summit he is hosting.

Brazilian digital bank PicPay will start hiring financial companies to carry out an initial public offering (IPO) in New York next year, according to sources cited by Reuters. This will be the second time that PicPay, a bank owned by the J&F...

The US economy is facing an "enormous amount of debt", so the challenge for the Federal Reserve is to keep interest rates high enough to benefit lenders, but not so high as to cause problems debtors, said the famous billionaire investor...

The United States Department of Justice has dismantled a Russian network that was trying to influence the November 2024 US presidential election through an extensive online disinformation campaign. As a result of investigations by FBI and US...

Reporter: How adequate do you think the current pension system architecture is for our country's current and future needs?

• The authorities in Moscow aim to launch the digital ruble in July next year 

The social and political convulsions of the first three months of the current year left their mark on the entire semester, because the PSD-PNL coalition turned to the state piggy bank to calm them down. Thus, the Ciolacu government decided to...

• The US currency is up 40% from its 2011 lows, while currencies such as the yuan have depreciated against the dollar over the past decade, according to Business Insider 

The American financial-banking company Visa holds the supremacy in the card payment market, with a volume of 267 billion transactions in 2023, according to Statista data, taken by visualcapitalist.com.

The budget deficit continued its decline in the second financial quarter as well, its growth being a little smoother compared to the first three months of 2024. Thus, if at the end of March the budget deficit recorded for the first quarter stood...