Procrastination, elections, referendum, or cancellation: how to proceed with the Brexit?
Once again the Brexit process in the British House of Commons has come to a halt. And so that recurring question in this three-year dossier is on the…
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Umut Shayakhmetova: political unrest, protests and strikes affected the banking
For the modern Western people it’s hard to imagine the reality of Kazakhstan. Thirty years Nazarbev, once a CPSU-apparatchik and then the leader of independent Kazakh nation is…
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Puma has its best quarter yet
The German sports brand Puma clearly has the wind in its sails. The company closed the third quarter with much more profit on higher sales. CEO Bjørn Gulden…
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AstraZeneca updated the forecast
The British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has once again increased its sales forecast for 2019. This is partly because the company is growing strongly in China. The company also…
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In IT, Innovation and Startups
Softbank invested billions in WeWork
Tech investor SoftBank is pumping billions into WeWork, the provider of office workspaces that ran into problems in the run-up to an ultimately abandoned IPO. With that, the…
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Halyk Kazakstan lost 8.40 percent on ALMEX’s attempt to sell 130M worth of shares
Halyk Bank of Kazakhstan is one of the rare examples of CIS-based venture whose shares proved to be a profitable investment, at least in some cases. For example,…
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A victory for parents of killed teenager: British agents interrogate wife of US diplomat
British agents are going to interrogate in the United States the wife of an American diplomat who was involved in a fatal accident in the United Kingdom. Sky…
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