APRA fiddles on bank risk while Rome burns
Feb 21, 2017 02:56 am UTC| Insights & Views Law Central Banks
Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) chairman Wayne Byers has made it clear the bank regulator will be cracking down on bank capital levels this year. Bank capital reserves are a loss-absorber, designed to...
Tech Industry Faces Sexism Controversy Again With Ex-Uber Coder's Complaints
Feb 21, 2017 02:50 am UTC| Technology Law
The tech industry is usually regarded as one of the leaders in pushing progressive platforms in the US, but even free-thinking companies are still experiencing their own issues when it comes to matters of equality. A good...
Uber CEO Orders Company Investigation Over Sexual Harassment, Gender Bias Claims By Ex-Programmer
Feb 21, 2017 02:47 am UTC| Technology Law
On Sunday, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick issued a comment about matters regarding claims by a former company employee who claimed that she experienced sexual harassment and gender bias multiple times while working at the...
Bill Gates Supports Robot Taxation When Used To Replace Jobs
Feb 20, 2017 08:08 am UTC| Technology Law
Scientists have declared automation as being the biggest threat to jobs in the future. With research into smarter artificial intelligence and more efficient machines progressing smoothly, its expected that millions will...
How much does the Johnson Amendment curtail church freedom?
Feb 20, 2017 05:42 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics Law
On National Prayer Breakfast day in early February, President Donald Trump repeated a pledge he had made several times on the campaign trail that echoed the 2016 Republican Party Platform: I will get rid of, and...
Could your Fitbit data be used to deny you health insurance?
Feb 17, 2017 02:26 am UTC| Insights & Views Life Law Technology
Wearing a fitness tracking device could earn you cash from your health insurance company. At first, this sounds lucrative for the people who participate, and good for the companies, who want healthier insurance customers....
Would you resort to bribery? Studies show many would
Feb 16, 2017 08:05 am UTC| Law
its notoriously difficult to gauge how often people are willing to offer someone a bribe to get what they want. A 2007 survey suggested that across a range of industrialised countries, two per cent of the public had...
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
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight