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Commercial property unlikely to spark a global crisis

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The diversity of the asset class -- offices account for 17% of loans to commercial real estate, while the more resilient multifamily sector accounts for 44% -- and the illiquidity…

Middle East states will look to Europe’s gas market

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MIDDLE EAST/EUROPE

Eastern Mediterranean countries are scrambling to step up production and develop export channels for their gas to meet demand from Europe due to the Ukraine war. However, they…

Competition in the AI value chain will be fierce

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This follows a similar launch by Databricks, a cloud-based AI data management platform. Companies along the AI value chain are increasingly launching new GenAI models to funnel…

GenAI will transform workplace tasks across industries

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Using machine learning algorithms, these tools leverage vast online datasets to create new and unique outputs, such as images, text, videos or code, that appear to mimic human…

Saudi Aramco will seek to manage rapid industry change

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SAUDI ARABIA

Yet this follows a government directive that the company cancel increases in its maximum sustainable capacity (MSC) of crude oil production from 12 million barrels per day (b/d…

I-Soon leak exposes scope of China's cyber activity

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CHINA

This leak included corporate documents and internal communications, and detailed a suite of spyware applications developed by Shanghai-based cybersecurity company I-Soon, a…

Russia’s car industry will struggle to recover

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RUSSIA

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and subsequent Western sanctions caused a severe crisis in the automotive sector. Supply chains were severed, output collapsed and exports…

South Africa faces fiscal reform challenges

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SOUTH AFRICA

However, there are question marks over his ability to deliver on the ambitious spending cuts needed as tax collection falls in a weak economy.

War in Ukraine will impel Kazakhstan to diversify

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KAZAKHSTAN

Kazakhstan’s economy has weathered well the turbulences created by the war in Ukraine. A new context for the country’s traditional aspirations to balance and diversify economic…