Uncategorized
SampathCards Puts Forward the ‘Right Reasons for a Bright Season’
Darshin Pathinayake, AGM - Card Centre, Sampath Bank. SampathCards has announced a series of wide-ranging discounts and benefits in line...
PLC Celebrates World Children’s Day
Sports and Welfare Society of People’s Leasing & Finance marked the World Children’s Day themed “Sihina Dakina Ape Lowak”....
India’s G-20 Presidency
Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and President of Indonesia Joko Widodo. Today, India commences its G20 Presidency. The previous...
World’s Top Five Military Superpowers Spent $1.25T on Defense Budgets
November 7, 2022 Jastra Kranjec. The world’s military expenditure jumped to over $2.1 trillion, marking seven years of continuous growth....
October 2022 Records the Highest Value of Crypto Hacked and Stolen in 2022 at Over $1B
November 7, 2022 Edith. According to an analysis by StockApps.com in October 2022, the value of crypto hacked and stolen...
$3.4 Trillion Outflows Market Capitalisation of the Five Largest U.S. Companies in 2022
November 3, 2022 Justinas Baltrusaitis In 2022, the global economy’s growth has slumped significantly, with the high inflation and...
Breach.gg CEO says Metaverse Games to Thrive in the Future just like the Early Internet
November 2, 2022 Jordan Major In an exclusive interview with Finbold, Remigijus Zinys, the CEO of gamified social platform Breach.gg,...
Bitcoin’s Trading Volume is 80x Higher than Apple’s Despite Six Times Lower Market Cap
November 2, 2022 Kris Lucas. While bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have had a tough 2022, a new study reveals that...
Blockchain Centre CEO Shares 3 CoreBlockchain Tips for Those Who Want to Start a Crypto Business
November 8, 2022 Jordan Major. In an exclusive interview with Finbold, Blockchain Centre CEO Gintautas Nekrosius shared three key factors...
Bitcoin Declared Dead Over 200 Times in the Last Five Years – Yet it’s Alive
November 9, 2022 Kris Lucas. According to the new research published by BitStacker, Bitcoin has been declared as being ‘dead’...
Jeff Bezos Says He’ll Give Most of His Money to Charity
Jeff Bezos and partner Lauren Sanchez with Chloe Melas from CNN. In an interview with Chloe Melas from CNN, Jeff...
Sampath Bank Moves Ahead Steadily to Prove its Ability to Withstand Strong Headwinds
Harsha Amarasekera, Chairman, Sampath Bank and Nanda Fernando, MD, Sampath Bank. Amidst widespread economic uncertainty during 2022, Sampath Bank maintained a...
The U.S. and China Account For 50% of the World’s Household Wealth
There are several ways of measuring a country’s prosperity. One way is to look at the distribution of household wealth. The...
What are the Origins of Cannabis?
A wild cannabis plant in Qinghai province, central China. ©Guangpeng Ren For years it’s generally been accepted that cannabis first...
Twitter’s Global Market Share Grows by 55% in 2022 While Facebook Loses 12%
November 9, 2022 Justinas Baltrusaitis. Social media giant Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) has recently recorded a gradual increase in its market share,...
Tech Companies Laid off 120,000 Employees in 2022
November 15, 2022 Jastra Kranjec. Last week, Meta Platforms joined the tech industry’s growing list of layoffs after letting go...
Group Chairman SLT Proposes Four Fundamental Policies to Transform Loss-making SOEs
Rohan Fernando, Group Chairman, SLT. While selling assets may be the easiest solution to ward off the national crisis Sri Lanka currently...
Market Cap of the Big Five Tech Giants Slumped by $1.5T in Less than a Month
Investors have turned their backs on tech stocks after a series of disappointing results from the biggest names in the...
Business Today Top 40 2021-2022
Giving Lessons in Dexterity and Resilience Business Today TOP 40 2021-2022 recognizes the top corporate performers who reported positive financial growth...
Recovery of Costs Through User-Pay is Better Rather than Making Exporters and Private Sector Employees Pay Higher Taxes
Damien Fernando The highest rate for employee income is now increased from 18% to 36%. The revenue planners of this...
Asia Pacific Institute of Digital Marketing Partners with Dialog Enterprise
Navin Pieris, Group Chief Officer, Dialog Enterprise, Dialog Axiata with Amitha Amarasinghe, Co-Founder/Chief Executive Officer, Asia Pacific Institute of Digital...
SLT-Mobitel Visits Northern Province To Understand Community Aspirations
Rohan Fernando, Group Chairman; Lalith Seneviratne, Group CEO; and SLT team during the visit to the North. Taking pride in...
HNB Ranked Amongst the Top 1,000 World Banks for Sixth Consecutive Year
HNB was ranked among the Top 1,000 World Banks for the sixth consecutive year by Banker Magazine. Jonathan Alles, Managing...
Interim Budget Speech 2022
President Ranil Wickremesinghe and Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena. Amendment to the Appropriation Act, No. 30 of 2021 August 30, 2022...
Dazzling in the Colorful and Contradictory Life of Politics
Politics indeed makes strange bedfellows. One-time SJB stalwart and vocal government critic, Minister of Tourism and Lands Harin Fernando, is...
Art of a Deal
To say that Wajira Abeywardana is a diehard UNPer is an understatement. Green, it seems, runs in his veins. With...
Freebies will prevent the country from becoming self-reliant, increase burden on honest taxpayers: Prime Minister Modi
Prime Minister Modi. Namaskar!Governor of Haryana Shri Bandaru Dattatreya ji, my cabinet colleagues Narendra Singh Tomar ji, Hardeep Singh Puri...
Speech by President Ranil Wickremesinghe
Ceremonial opening of the third session of the Ninth Parliament under the auspices of President Ranil Wickremesinghe. August 3, 2022 President...
The Political Centrist
Thusitha Halloluwa has donned many hats in his long political career. Rather not the typical politician but more a ‘cornerman’...
HNB Expands its ‘Walk the Talk’ initiative to World Bicycle Day
Jonathan Alles, MD/CEO, HNB (far right) and Dilshan Rodrigo, Executive Director/COO, HNB (center), with Head Office staff members participating in...