Author and fintech expert Haydn Shaughnessy highlights bi-lateral trade corridors China’s opening with India and Africa.

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Why can’t the country with the world’s biggest oil reserves keep the lights on?

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Socure reveals a predictive model with a 98.8 percent success rate in using online and social data to validate consumers’ digital identity.

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Thieves are still able to steal information from cards’ magnetic strips.

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Visa’s new plan to help merchants speed checkout times for EMV chip payments sounds good, in theory. But in reality, it isn’t likely to have much immediate impact on either speeding EMV adoption or enhancing the user experience.

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A great idea doesn’t mean a whole lot in the world of business with hard work, patience and open-mindedness.

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Let me share a story with you that my friend and mentor Joe Polish, shared with me when I was first getting started out.

Joe started out in the carpet cleaning business and it was failing miserably. He was dead broke and living off his credit cards and then something happened that changed the course of his future. One of his friends from high school invited him on a boating trip where his dad, a multimillionaire real estate investor would be coming along. Joe thought he might be able to pick his friend’s dad’s brain. So he asked him, “What business would you suggest I go into where I could make a lot of money and turn my situation around?”

So the real estate investor responded and asked, “Are there people in your industry making money?”

Joe replied, “Yes” and the real estate investor responded by saying, “Then there is nothing wrong with your business. There is something wrong with you.”

After that conversation Joe buckled down and turned around his business, went on to make millions in the carpet cleaning industry and started one of the highest level masterminds in the world for direct marketers, called Genius Network. Read more: click image or title.

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Berlin-based e-commerce incubator Rocket Internet continues to bring in money for its various startups, but things are definitely not looking great for all..

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The multi-millionaire celebrity entrepreneur shares his secrets to drawing customers to your brand.

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised the growth outlook for the UAE with the overall real GDP growth moderating to 2.4% in 2016 from 3.9% recorded in 2015.

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From athletics to tennis, Guardian writers give their verdict on how competitors are working towards their medal targets for the Rio Olympic Games this summerHow are they shaping up? Mo Farah. Greg Rutherford.

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