If workers end up in the future doing from home the jobs they did in offices up to last year, it opens up a fundamental debate on what exactly such a place is

For all its modernity, the country’s corporate sector is stuck in a peculiarly Korean time warp, and this is especially true of Samsung, which is now too big for the Lee family who controls it

Last week’s disastrous launch of the European Super League was yet another instance of how the world’s biggest sport has become enslaved by its own popularity

The scandal currently consuming David Cameron is an example of what can happen when a financier with a big idea encounters a captive audience unable to figure it out

The early days of the Covid-19 pandemic were dominated by loudmouths, incompetents and populists. Then the serious people took over

The world’s top lenders assure us they’re stronger than they were in 2008. But if Credit Suisse and Nomura can get caught on the losing side of a little forced equity-selling, what else are they doing wrong?

The special purpose acquisition company phenomenon is an asset class in search of assets and its emergence is hardly surprising, given the IPO market’s structural problems, but these issues must be sorted out once and for all

The Collison brothers now control the most valuable private company in Silicon Valley, with Stripe estimated to be worth $95 billion. But every new slate of investors makes their lives a little more complicated

The2010 debacle was chastening for many, but not at Davy, it seems, and the crisis now engulfing the firm is both depressing and enraging

The exit of Ulster Bank from the market has been followed by the resuscitation of a terrible idea which history tells us is not viable

Nigerian economist Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has her work cut out to tackle the current backlash against the principles for which the World Trade Organisation stands

Italy’s afflictions are often filtered through the lens of its enormous public debt and zero-growth economy. Yet its problem is more insidious – that politics does not offer solutions

Cryptocurrencies have their zealous admirers, including the Tesla chief, but critics insist they have no practical uses and facilitate online fraud and tax evasion

Climate change is now about business rather than emotion and Exxon-Mobil must reinvent itself if it is to catch up with its rivals in the transition to clean energy

It can be seen as the moment when populism stormed the citadels of high finance, but there are likely to be few winners when the GameStop trading episode is over

You don’t have to be a fan of investment bankers to think the French government acted hastily in the Carrefour affair

Not every company can be like IBM in eschewing political patronage. But if they want to play politics, boardrooms must think before acting

It was a good year for Elon Musk, with Tesla now more valuable than almost all its auto industry rivals combined

From athletes to protesters, and from young people to scientists, 2020 was shaped by inspiring people who gave the world reason to hope