Tokenization becomes eye-catchy in 2019 - Apple, Facebook tokens accessible through Abra platform

Feb 07, 2019 11:56 am UTC| Research & Analysis Digital Currency Insights & Views Commentary

Despite the downturn of the cryptocurrencies that is observed in the past year, may have caused apprehensions for aspirant cryptocurrency investor, we kept reiterating that the buzz world, tokenization mechanism is quite...

FxWirePro: BoE banks on Brexit deadlock, can it be most likely status quo monetary policy?

Feb 07, 2019 10:37 am UTC| Research & Analysis Central Banks Insights & Views

The Bank of England will provide its first policy decision and Inflation Report for the year in a short while. That will be followed by BoE Governor Carneys first press conference of 2019. The markets expectations for...

What actually is populism? And why does it have a bad reputation?

Feb 06, 2019 23:39 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics

No doubt thanks to Donald Trump, Brexit, and a string of anti-establishment leaders and parties in Europe, Latin America and Asia, everyone seems to be talking about populism. But populism is nothing new. Its long...

Work in the ‘gig economy’: one-night stand or a meaningful relationship?

Feb 06, 2019 23:38 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy

In Europe and around the world, many people are delivering fast food on bicycles or acting as taxi drivers in their own cars, not quite employees and not quite self-employed. Following recent legal judgements in France,...

Brexit: David Trimble’s legal challenge to the Irish backstop is a hiding to nothing

Feb 06, 2019 23:38 pm UTC| Insights & Views

There has always been something of Don Quixote about David Trimble, the awkward politician who never really shrugged off his persona as a legal academic. In 1998 no one could deny the urgency with which he sought to right...

Young people drowning in a rising tide of perfectionism

Feb 06, 2019 23:37 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

We recently conducted one of the largest-ever studies on perfectionism. We learned that perfectionism has increased substantially over the past 25 years and that it affects men and women equally. We also learned that...

Venezuela: Denial of food is a human rights crime

Feb 06, 2019 23:36 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy

In early February, the Lima group, a coalition group of several Latin American countries and Canada, urged the Venezuelan military to sever ties with President Nicolás Maduro. The group called for the urgent...