![Paying bills in future could be as easy as texting]()
by Eric Englert | Jun 27, 2017 | Business & Tech, Featured
WASHINGTON– Imagine a world where payments move like text messages. A number of bankers and fintech entrepreneurs have that vision for the future of payment systems worldwide. While the U.S. payment system could operate more instantaneously, it is still...
by Jingnan Huo | May 9, 2017 | Business & Tech, Featured
WASHINGTON – This year is shaping up to be a good one for initial public offerings, as many companies want to go public and confidence levels are higher than last year, Nasdaq’s CEO Adena Friedman said on Friday. Fifty-five companies moved forward on IPOs in the...
by Jingnan Huo | Apr 26, 2017 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON — Uncertainty about the Trump administration’s stance on climate change won’t change the World Bank’s focus on the issue, the institution’s chief said on Thursday. World Bank President Jim Yong Kim on Thursday, referring to the threat that the Trump...
by Jingnan Huo | Apr 4, 2017 | Business & Tech, Featured
WASHINGTON — Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, said Monday that “more and better education” is crucial to combat sagging productivity in period of technological change. Lagarde said that in “both in advanced and emerging...
![Cuban government-owned business crafts books by hand]()
by David Jordan | Mar 29, 2017 | Business & Tech, Featured
In Matanzas, Cuba workers handcraft books at the government owned publishing house Ediciones Vigías. They primarily use recycled materials and publish in both Spanish and English. Hugo Santana is an engineer by day and a poet by night, and has been published by...
![Clean energy has momentum, despite Trump brush-off, experts say]()
by Yu-Ning Aileen Chuang | Mar 11, 2017 | Business & Tech
WASHINGTON – Given the policy priorities of the Trump administration, the conditions may not look ripe for America to make big progress on moving toward a low-carbon economy. But some energy experts offer a counter narrative, noting that states and large US companies...
