Desire to WFH! Will it be a full time thing?
38% of professionals in the Middle East have expressed their desire to move to full-time remote working, with a further 32% wanting at least 50% remote working this year. Jason Grundy, Managing Director at Robert Walters Middle East commented that 2020 was the year of the world’s largest remote working experiment, and employers would be […]
Similarities in the Global trends of 2008 and 2021 (Insights by Nawaz Ali)
In a recent conversation questionnaire with Nawaz Ali, the Head of Insights at Western Union Business Solutions, we could draw few business insights which gave us a better plan for the year ahead. Topics like Global trades in 2018 and the global trends now, what are the changes visible, what are the new challenges, etc. […]
Asia Pacific Banks set on financial recovery
World Bank Prospects Group Director Ayhan Kose described the world recession plunged by the Covid crisis as “singular in many respects and is likely to be the deepest one in advanced economies since the Second World War and the first output contraction in emerging and developing economies in at least the past six decades”. After […]
Is Taiwan in the “monitoring list” of the US Department?
In the late 2015 or early 2016 to be precise, Taiwan’s economy was tackling with a disturbing recession as growth in the GDP ( Gross Domestic Product ) fell into the negative territory for the first time in the six years. There were growing concerns over the long term prospects of the export heavy nation. […]
The new Growth Frontier- Virtual economy
Digital transformation has been on the biggest opportunities, for years now. And for the banks and other financial industries and service providers it has been a headache. With banks constantly competing to meet the ever changing customer expectations around digital services and striving to keep up with the challenger banks which were basically built digitally! […]
The future trajectory of the economy!
Interest rates are to be unchanged at near zero ( 0-0.25 per cent ) announced The Federal Reserve System’s Board of Governors (the Fed) of the United States while concluding its two-day monetary-policy meeting on Wednesday, September 16. This is yet another decided and dominant signal that its monetary policy will effectively be on hold […]
Complicit enablers or unwitting enablers?
Remember the times when the banks, law firms and accountants used to be the most trusted institutions and a key part of the social fabric? And the day has come where in it is so hard to find a single article, news or a headline that does not have a tag line which says the […]
Another outlook on Dubai’s Economy
Imran Farooq, CEO of Dubai based Samana developers, shared his insights regarding the return of the realtors and buyers in the year 2021 for the purchase of properties. International buyers seems to have lost interest in buying property from Dubai in the year of pandemic but the CEO is sure that they will return in […]
Politics and trade to lead the market in world economy
Due to Brexit and the commercial war between United States and China, the active management for an environment of political uncertainty is defend by the firm Allinaz GI. The risk of cyber security might reduce the value of actions is their main concern and returns are likely to be moderate over the next few course […]