Tag: financials

Lawmakers have called on the National Security Bureau to investigate claims of pervasive Chinese influence among Aboriginal communities. Legislators pointed to a surge in communist propaganda and ... ( read original story ...)

Pin-up photographs and smutty jokes have long been commonplace on trading floors, but the finance world is gradually opening up to women — underlined by the arrival today of Jane Fraser at the head of ... ( read original story ...)

One thing European leaders always knew about Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi was he would never lose his cool. When European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker gathered senior policymakers ... ( read original story ...)

Online brokerage Robinhood, at the centre of this year’s retail trading frenzy, is planning to file confidentially for an initial public offering as soon as March, Bloomberg News reported late on ... ( read original story ...)

SoftBank Group Corp. has reached a settlement in a U.S. legal dispute with directors of office space-sharing venture WeWork Inc. and its founder Adam Neumann, the Japanese technology company said ... ( read original story ...)

China's Ant Group is in talks with other shareholders in its new consumer finance unit to bolster the firm's capital as the fintech giant prepares to fold in its lucrative micro-lending businesses, ... ( read original story ...)

CTBC Bank did not miss a beat in the Taiwanese loan market in 2020, cementing its leading position with senior roles on deals from acquisition financings to wind farm projects. It added to its ... ( read original story ...)

The one with Beijing involving the Diaoyu Islands is viewed as the most volatile, while analysts see little likelihood of progress with Moscow over the Kuril Islands. ( read original story ...)

Home-sharing site Airbnb posted a $3.9 billion loss in the fourth quarter of 2020 as it suffered from the pandemic downturn in travel and recorded one-time costs for becoming a public company. In ... ( read original story ...)

Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAOI), a leading provider of fiber-optic access network products for the internet datacenter, cable broadband, telecom and fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) markets, ... ( read original story ...)

Expectations the global economy will rocket have helped equities surge in recent weeksFed boss Jerome Powell for a second day reiterated ... ( read original story ...)

GameStop Corp shares surged anew after chief financial officer (CFO) Jim Bell was pushed out in a disagreement over strategy, a move investors took as a sign that the video game retailer is on the ... ( read original story ...)

Somaliland international partner Taiwan has allocated US Dollars 2 million to help finance the forthcoming May 31, 2021, parliamentary and civic elections in the country. The money will be used to ... ( read original story ...)

Taiwan's drive to plug a global shortage of microchips has hit a snag — a lack of water for its foundries caused by a drought. ( read original story ...)

A 23-year-old second lieutenant in Taiwan’s armed forces has found overnight fame after her picture went viral online thanks to her resemblance to Taiwanese celebrity Wu Yang-lin .The Youth Daily News ... ( read original story ...)

DFI and Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, signed the IoT Hardware Certification Partner Program. DFI is the world's first industrial computer manufacturer to offer Ubuntu-certified IoT hardware ... ( read original story ...)