Platinum’s price broke its three-year slump in 2025, rising sharply due to surging demand and supply deficits. Viewed as a safe-haven precious metal, investors have flocked to it as a hedge against ...

WorldCom’s accounting scandal is a riches-to-rags story. Until its demise in mid-2002, WorldCom was regarded as the second-largest long-distance US telecommunications company. Although changing market ...

As technology continues to advance at a rapid pace, financial institutions all across the world are under intense pressure to improve efficiency, reduce costs and boost productivity. Indeed, there is ...

Inspired by a wave of disruptive digital innovation, the last decade has witnessed perhaps the most rapid evolutionary change ever within the global banking system. Thanks mostly to a combination of ...

The 1990s decade is known for many achievements, but possibly the most tectonic was the advent of the internet and, along with it, numerous web-based tech companies. In a short space of time, the IPOs ...

Some companies define their space, and for decades, this was true of Thomas Cook, the world’s oldest travel firm. Longevity was not enough to save it, as it succumbed to mounting debt and pressure ...

Enron Corp., once a top American energy-trading company, became a case study in corporate-accounting chicanery and filed for bankruptcy in 2001. The corporation’s troubles started with the ...