Africa needs its own credit rating agency: here’s how it could work
Misheck Mutize, University of Cape Town - The credit rating industry in Africa is dominated by the three international agencies: Moody’s, S&P and Fitch. Together they control an estimated 95% of the credit...
UAE and India are now the best places to start a business, but western countries still beat them in one key respect
Sreevas Sahasranamam, University of Glasgow and Aileen Ionescu-Somers, Université de Lausanne - The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is the best place in the world to start a new business, according to the latest...
Severe Vulnerabilities Discovered in Software to Protect Internet Routing
Frankfurt and Darmstadt (ots) - A research team from the National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE led by Prof. Dr. Haya Schulmann has uncovered 18 vulnerabilities in crucial software components of Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI). RPKI is an Internet standard meant to protect Internet traffic from being hijacked by hackers. By now, all affected vendors provided patches for their products. The vulnerabilities could have had devastating consequences: Internet hijacks have already been exploited, e.g., for phishing passwords and other sensitive information, tricking certificate authorities into issuing fraudulent Web certificates, stealing cryptocurrency, distributing malware, and poisoning caches of DNS servers. The ATHENE team consisting of Prof. Dr. Haya Schulmann and...
Price inflation is slowing, but here’s why it still feels like we’re in a cost of living crisis
Özlem Onaran, University of Greenwich - The latest UK consumer price index (CPI) data has been hailed as a win for prime minister Rishi...
Renationalising Thames Water would be a gamble – but there is another way to help clean up the industry
J. Robert Branston, University of Bath and Phil Tomlinson, University of Bath - The privatisation of water companies in England and Wales was supposed to bring efficiency and investment...
Challenges to free trade reveal a big change in conservative ideology
Sam Routley, Western University - The pursuit of greater economic integration through expanded free trade has long been central to the economic policy of most western democracies, including Canada. Since the implementation of the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement in 1988, both Liberal and Conservative governments have pursued and continue to pursue more free-trade zones with additional partners in Europe,...
A stronger voice for workers in EU-based multinational companies
Workers will be better represented in EU-based multinational companies thanks to new rules for the so-called European Works Councils (EWCs). These Councils ensure that employees are involved in decisions related to transnational issues, like re-structurings. They...
England bans single-use plastic products and packaging
By Ingo Geiger - England bans single-use plastic products. From October, plastic tableware, Styrofoam cups and certain food packaging...
