The Bid

Since the Global Financial Crisis, major central banks like the Federal Reserve in the United States and the European Central Bank in Europe have helped support record-long economic expansion. But cen...

27 Jan 202024min

Climate change will have a lasting impact on global economic growth – fundamentally reshaping finance and investment management. BlackRock has announced a series of changes that make sustainability ou...

14 Jan 202019min

It’s the top of a new decade, and there’s a lot to look forward to in the markets. Will China trade tensions persist? Who will win the U.S. election? And will stock markets continue to hit new highs?O...

6 Jan 202028min

Fintech went mainstream this year, in large part as technology companies started to bridge the worlds of tech and finance. But there’s another, more established side to fintech: enterprise technology....

19 Dec 201927min

2019 is nearly over, and stock investors can breathe a sigh of relief. The year brought no economic recession, the consumer sector is strong and unemployment is low. Is this as good as it gets, and wh...

16 Dec 201918min

Global growth looks set to rise in the first half of 2020. But rising income and wealth inequality and a surge in populism are testing limits across multiple dimensions. What does this mean for how we...

9 Dec 201924min

Rising inequality, environmental pressures, increased protectionism and the reduced effectiveness of monetary policy have put institutions globally under stress. But the tools and policies used in the...

4 Dec 201929min

This year, millennials surpassed baby boomers as the largest living adult generation in the U.S. And that’s not the only shift that’s underway. Millennials also make up the largest working cohort, and...

25 Nov 201924min