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Below zero: How low rates are reshaping the investment landscape

Touted as a central bank emergency response tool, negative interest rates across much of the developed world are becoming an entrenched norm. Even before the coronavirus pandemic paralysed economies and sent markets into a tailspin, interest rates in Japan and much of Europe were below zero and negative yields had enveloped a quarter of the global bond market.

Since March 2020, central bank rates have been negative in either nominal or real terms across the Group of Seven leading economies: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US.

State of play: Fintech in Nigeria

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State of play: Fintech in Nigeria is an Economist Intelligence Unit report, sponsored by Mastercard and MTN Group. The report examines key trends in the fintech sector in Nigeria and assesses both industry drivers and impediments to further growth.   

Financing sustainability: Asia Pacific embraces the ESG challenge

Financing sustainability: Asia Pacific embraces the ESG challenge is an Economist Intelligence Unit report, sponsored by Westpac. It explores the drivers of sustainable finance growth in Asia Pacific as well as the factors constraining it. The analysis is based on two parallel surveys—one of investors and one of issuers—conducted in September and October 2019.

The digitisation of finance

The second episode of The EIU Digital Economy podcast examines the impact of digital technology on the financial services industry. Host Pete Swabey is joined by Greg Baxter, chief digital officer at US insurance company MetLife, and Tejal Mody, head of business development for Rabobank’s wholesale banking division, to discuss how digitisation has shaped insurance and banking so far, how they lead digital innovation within their organisations, and how the evolution of the industry will affect their employees and customers.

 

Banking on Big Data

Big data is the key to better risk management.

ESG priorities in China: How companies in China are approaching ESG

The survey finds that Chinese companies are in a state of transition from largely domestically driven priorities emanating from China’s unique period of  breakneck industrialisation to a set of goals more aligned with international ESG practice. Whereas companies were more likely to follow government regulation in the past, the current drivers of this change are primarily demands from investors and customers.

The main findings of the survey as follows: 

Podcast | What would a protracted war in Ukraine mean for Asia-Pacific economies?

Episode 5: What would a protracted war in Ukraine mean for Asia-Pacific economies?

Tech redefines ageing: how tech is enabling productive lives for older populations

Globally, advances in healthcare have significantly improved not just life expectancies, but also the quality of people’s health in older age. These changes are raising questions around how greying populations can be supported by technological innovations so they can continue living productive lives.

Podcast | Protecting investment portfolios against climate change risks

Episode 3: Protecting investment portfolios against climate change risks

Digitisation has progressed far among businesses in Singapore—but it is proceeding at different speeds, and many organisations are lagging

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