For India’s Swiggy and Eternal (formerly Zomato), the quick-commerce business is proving to be too sweet to spit and too bitter to swallow. Financial results posted last week show that Swiggy nearly ...

Wearing my hat as humble author of a dozen books, I reckon that, as with most authors, my pay has been at best £5 per hour, if even that. Not for us the dizzy heights of celebrity bestsellers. True, ...

Second, excess global savings are not channelled into investment in developing countries for understandable reasons. Many developing countries suffer from insecurity, disastrously poor governance and, ...

This golden rule of business growth was sadly not on show at the splashy launch of UK chancellor Rachel Reeves’ ambitious, but flawed Mansion House accord ( Report, May 14) forcing pension funds to ...

“And how do you ensure the steel industry gets the credit it needs?’’ asked my guest, the deputy head of Gosbank, the state bank of the USSR, in 1987. He was on a visit to the Bank of England, and as ...

Marc De Vos’s op-ed “Brussels needs a new geopolitical compass” ( May 12) is effectively a call to create a “United States of Europe”. He seems to have no interest in the fact that there is no popular ...

Despite trade volatility, international law firms see long-term potential in Asia-Pacific and the adoption of new technology ...

Pilot projects by lawyers, charities and campaign groups show how tech can streamline services for vulnerable communities ...

Lawyers have shown technical creativity to help providers overcome the challenges of cross-border arrangements ...

The prize is better outcomes, but the price may be sharing more personal details. Lawyers are working on the new rules ...

Some analysts think the territory is being used as a testing ground that might lead to more liberalisation in the use of crypto and other digital assets in the mainland. Hong Kong first outlined its ...

Trade tensions and a drop in the biggest deals mask green shoots for smaller-scale buyouts and growth potential of tech sector ...