Banking & Fintech

Reviews of digital wallets (SadaPay, NayaPay), savings account rates, and credit card comparisons.

Barclays Q2 2026 Results: Income Beats, Costs Rise 7%

Barclays reported second-quarter income of £8.3 billion, up £1.2 billion from a year earlier, and upgraded its full-year 2026 income…

1 month ago

Global Central Bank Divergence 2026: Why the Fed, BoE, BoJ, and PBoC Are All Moving Differently

The world's major central banks are no longer moving in anything resembling lockstep. The Federal Reserve is watching a weakening…

2 months ago

SpaceX IPO 2026: $2 Trillion AI Bubble, OpenAI & Anthropic — What Investors Must Know

SpaceX debuted at $1.77 trillion and made Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire. But the AI IPO boom of 2026…

3 months ago

ADB Loan for Pakistan Insurance Sector: $700M Approved

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has formally approved a landmark $700mn loan for Pakistan’s insurance sector, signaling an aggressive attempt…

3 months ago

Nidec Accounting Fraud: The Pressure Culture That Built Japan’s Biggest Corporate Scandal in a Decade

There's a comic book on Nidec's website — or there was, until recently — called "The Man Hotter Than the…

3 months ago

OnlyFans’ $3bn Succession Gamble: A Valuation Discount, a Fintech Pivot, and the AI Spectre Haunting the Creator Economy

London. When Leonid Radvinsky, the reclusive, Ukrainian-born billionaire who quietly built one of the internet's most improbable cash machines, died of…

5 months ago

The Saigol Pivot: Inside Maple Leaf Cement’s Strategic Incursion into Pakistan’s Banking Sector

It is a move that initially appears as a study in industrial asymmetry: a northern cement giant, whose fortunes are…

6 months ago

US-Iran Conflict: The Hidden $2 Trillion Threat to Markets — And the Only Peaceful Exit Strategy That Works

At 2:30 a.m. Eastern time on February 28, 2026, President Donald Trump appeared on Truth Social to tell the world…

6 months ago

When the Strait Shakes: How the US-Iran War Is Rewriting the Rules of Global Finance

There is a moment in every genuine geopolitical crisis when financial markets stop pretending they are merely reacting to data…

6 months ago