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  • Tuesday, 18 July, 2023
    World Bank
    World Bank to ‘stretch every dollar’ with new lending measures

    Initiatives will involve taking more risk in pivot towards climate change and pandemics

  • Tuesday, 13 June, 2023
    Martin Wolf
    Developing countries have hit the financial rocks

    The dire situation on debt has become pressing — urgent action is needed

    James Ferguson illustration of a ship hitting rocks in high seas, with the hull of the boat represented by the southern hemisphere of the planet
  • Friday, 2 June, 2023
    FT Swamp Notes
    The west should pay heed to Ajay Banga Premium content

    His appointment is an opportunity for the World Bank to try to take centre stage again

    Ajay Banga
  • Friday, 19 May, 2023
    Moral Money
    A new experiment in blended finance Premium content

    Also in today’s newsletter, tech giants face a clean energy reckoning

    Ajay Banga
  • Wednesday, 29 March, 2023
    World Bank
    Yellen says she expects Ajay Banga to be elected World Bank president

    Former Mastercard chief executive has spent recent weeks on ‘listening tour’ touting his credentials

    Ajay Banga speaks in an interview
  • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
    Global Economy
    What the World Bank needs to do now

    The institution must work with the private sector if we are to meet the challenges that lie ahead

    Ajay Banga wearing suit and Sikh turban gestures with his left hand. Behind him is a background image of black children working a field
  • Sunday, 12 March, 2023
    World Bank
    Banga navigates geopolitics and tight capital for World Bank job

    Former Mastercard chief sets out credentials to run financial institution on international tour

    Ajay Banga
  • Monday, 27 February, 2023
    FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
    The future of the World Bank

    Major US employers report a dramatic improvement in hiring conditions despite official data

  • Saturday, 25 February, 2023
    Person in the News
    Ajay Banga, World Bank nominee must swap finance for climate

    The US pick for the institution’s president will face pressure to overhaul its approach to the environment

    Illustration of Ajay Banga wearing a Sikh turban and suit and holding a brief case with World Bank on it and with the World Bank logo behind him
  • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
    World Bank
    US nominates former Mastercard chief as World Bank president

    Ajay Banga tapped by Joe Biden as institution shifts to greater focus on climate change

    Ajay Banga
  • Wednesday, 25 November, 2020
    Due Diligence
    Wall Street’s advice to Trump: give it up Premium content

    Some big names have called on the president to welcome his successor. And he listened. Sort of

  • Wednesday, 26 February, 2020
    LexMastercard Inc
    Mastercard/Michael Miebach: benchmarked against Banga Premium content

    Upsides are harder to come by when the company you inherit is already a well-oiled machine

  • Tuesday, 25 February, 2020
    Mastercard Inc
    Mastercard announces Michael Miebach will be new chief

    Ajay Banga to step aside at the start of 2021 and move into executive chairman role

  • Monday, 3 February, 2020
    InterviewMastercard Inc
    Mastercard chief speaks out against nationalism and Facebook

    Ajay Banga says tech giant’s Libra project morphed: ‘I’m like, this doesn’t sound right’

  • Tuesday, 31 October, 2017
    Companies
    MasterCard earnings, sales jump on higher transaction volumes
  • Thursday, 21 July, 2016
    UK banks
    Mastercard buys payments processor Vocalink
  • Thursday, 2 July, 2015
    US & Canadian companies
    MasterCard cashes in on smart transit

    Credit card company promotes seamless ticketing in cash-dominated market

    Commuters pass the turnstiles during the evening hours at Se metro station in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on June 6, 2012. AFP PHOTO/Yasuyoshi Chiba        (Photo credit should read YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/GettyImages)
  • Tuesday, 2 June, 2015
    Simon Kuper
    The future belongs to the cities of the west

    These are places where today’s 0.1 per cent, the most mobile class in history, might want to live

    Rows of houses stand on Egerton Crescent in the Kensington and Chelsea borough of London, U.K., on Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. Egerton Crescent, close to Harrods luxury department store in Knightsbridge, is the most expensive address in the borough, with an average property value of 8.14 million pounds ($13.2 million), Lloyds TSB said. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
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