world news Nine billionaires created by discovery of COVID-19 vaccines, say NGOs The new billionaires include five people associated with Moderna and three from CanSino Biologics, a Chinese vaccine company. 20/05/2021
world news These billionaires are Europe's richest people, according to Forbes Forbes released its annual list of the world's wealthiest people. We take a look at the top European billionaires. 07/04/2021
world news World's poorest to recover financially from COVID pandemic in 10 years The 10 richest billionaires on the planet have collectively seen their wealth increase by €444 billion since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, while millions have fallen into poverty. 25/01/2021
Sport Cristiano Ronaldo is first footballer to earn more than $1 billion The Portuguese football superstar's 17-year career on the field has so far netted him $650 million with the rest coming from endorsement deals. 05/06/2020
View The Aliyev fraud case shows that financial advisors could get caught up in criminal probes ǀ View The Aliyev case demonstrates that professional advisors may become personally caught up in the UWO issues surrounding work they have done for their high net worth clients. Those professionals would be well-advised to take great care to protect themselves from unfounded allegations. 23/04/2020
View The refusal of Zamira Hajiyeva’s appeal is not the victory the NCA think it is ǀ View Enthusiasts for the UK’s still relatively new system of Unexplained Wealth Orders are cheering the recent victory of the NCA against Zamira Hajiyeva in the Court of Appeal. There are, however, at least two reasons why the rest of us should be more circumspect about cheering this particular result. 18/02/2020
View Capitalism is failing us all. Could Islamic economics be the answer? ǀ View Once we strip away the Arabic terminology, concepts like zakat can return our economies to the common sense-based, transparent and equitable set up that the architects of modern capitalism envisaged. 16/04/2019
