As surveillance gets smart, hackers get smarter
Jul 28, 2016 02:37 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
There is an escalating technological arms race underway between governments and hacktivists. As governments step up their surveillance, the hacktivists find new ways to subvert it. This cat and mouse game has been...
ANZ wins class action on fees, but we still don't know the real cost of late payments
Jul 28, 2016 02:32 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
A six year legal battle came to an end yesterday when the High Court ruled in favour of ANZ Bank, finding by a 4-1 majority that the bank could enforce late payment fees on credit cards. The lead plaintiff in the class...
Is Islamic banking more risky compared to conventional banking?
Jul 28, 2016 02:30 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
Islamic banks are less risky and more resilient than their counter parts in terms of bank capital requirement and mobilisation of deposits. Somewhat perversely, the global financial crisis presented a big opportunity to...
Social Media Revolution Series
Candidates control their own social media. What message are they sending?
Jul 28, 2016 02:22 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
We live in the age of social media. Indeed, many of us likely saw something about the Republican and Democratic conventions on Facebook, Twitter or even Instagram over the last few weeks. A recent Pew Research Center...
What kind of person joins a cult or joins a terror group?
Jul 28, 2016 02:14 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
There are some striking similarities between cults and terror groups. An all-encompassing ideology can, when exhibited by a group or individual, have destructive effects on society. And when a cult or terror group...
Jul 27, 2016 13:46 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
Oil got a bit ahead of itself in June, breaching $50/bbl, but has since eased as some earlier supply disruptions were resolved and the market focuses on the potential for slower demand growth, an overhang of refined...
Jul 27, 2016 12:35 pm UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views Central Banks
The GBP versus a few major G10 currencies on Wednesday, despite upbeat Q2 GDP numbers, as the investors seem to have remained cautious ahead of the Feds monetary policy statement due later in the day and the Bank of...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects