Pakistan has returned to the International Monetary Fund twenty-three times. Twenty-three. At some point, the conversation must shift from “how...
A decade after the SDGs and Paris Agreement peaked, multilateralism confronts financing gaps, climate setbacks, and geopolitical fractures threatening global progress. Introduction: The Promise of 2015...
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s Federal Constitutional Court’s, three-judge bench this week delivered a quiet revolution. By upholding the controversial ‘Super Tax’ on the country’s wealthiest entities, the...
Ten days into her presidency, Zou Jiayi chose Hong Kong’s Asian Financial Forum as the venue for a message that was simultaneously reassuring and urgent. Speaking...
On a crisp January morning in Davos, as global elites gathered for their annual ritual of discussing “collaboration” and “shared prosperity,” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney...
In the hushed private banking suites of Hong Kong and Singapore, a seismic shift is underway. Family patriarchs who built empires from rubble in the decades...
Just weeks into 2026, China’s economic data release has sent shockwaves through global financial markets and policy circles. Despite an escalating tariff war and predictions of...
When former Bank of England governor Mark Carney declared at Davos this week that the rules-based international order is “effectively over,” he articulated a fashionable pessimism...
The death of reputational risk as a regulatory standard has unleashed something unexpected in American banking: not innovation, but a fundamental identity crisis that pits fortress-grade...
The alpine air in Davos was brisk on January 23, 2026, but the atmosphere inside the Congress Centre was even icier. President Donald Trump, addressing the...