Antoine van Agtmael is widely acknowledged to have coined the term “emerging markets” in the early 1980s while serving as Deputy Director of the Capital Markets department of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector-oriented affiliate of the World Bank.
15th March 2021
Have you ever worked in an open-plan office only to be driven slowly mad by a colleague chatting or slurping their coffee? This is where music can help – it provides non-invasive and pleasurable feelings, and can help you ignore those irritating distractions.
4th February 2021 The first month of 2021 was certainly eventful! The markets started on a strong footing after the Democrats won the Georgia runoff ….
January 2021
After four years of damaging division that reached much further than the Gulf, the recent agreement which whilst still being ‘I’ dotted and ‘t’ crossed broadly has one winner, Qatar. One face-saver, Saudi Arabia. And one loser, the UAE, which finds itself in the cold.
2020 – The Year the World Changed
4th January 2021