by Lucy Ren | Aug 26, 2015 | Business & Tech, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON – Financial technology services, such as digital payments, are rapidly transforming the landscape of developing countries, while also contributing to a safer global financial system, experts said at a Brookings Institution panel Wednesday. The Brookings...
by Lucy Ren | Aug 25, 2015 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON –The recent currency devaluation and stock market rout in China pose little threat to the longstanding inflows to international equity funds, with U.S. investors still counting on global quantitative easing to boost their fund returns, experts say. Mutual...
by Lucy Ren | Aug 25, 2015 | Data Projects
With four months left in 2015, the banking industry this year has lost more than last year from bank failures, ending the steady streaks of declines in both assets of failed banks and the cost of closing them since the 2008 financial crisis. “The banking industry...
by Lucy Ren | Aug 18, 2015 | Faith, Ethics + Spirituality
WASHINGTON – Furnishings for Pope Francis’ Mass in Washington in September – an altar, a special chair, a stand to hold the Holy Scripture — are taking shape at a dusty cabinetry shop in Frederick, Maryland. “We had to design something that...
by Lucy Ren | Aug 6, 2015 | Business & Tech, Topics
WASHINGTON — A much-anticipated fund aimed at individual investors could help boost active managers’ reputation at a time when market conditions are becoming more favorable for stock-picking professionals. Eaton Vance’s exchange-traded managed fund, dubbed...
