The Finseta Blog

When it comes to currency, the US Dollar dominates all the others. No currency comes even close to having a similar power. The dollar accounts for nearly 60% of world foreign currency reserves and trillions of dollars of daily FX transactions. When this currency moves, the rest of the world takes notice. The Dollar’s reign […]

Another week is soon to come to an end, yet a new round of high drama in the UK has just begun.  At the time of writing, the Prime Minister has just sacked the Chancellor and seems to be in the process of fundamentally u-turning on the entire economic agenda that set the market plunging […]

In last week’s article we looked at ‘the next eleven’, those countries who are predicted to be the global economic leaders of the future. These are Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Korea, Turkey and Vietnam.  Each of these eleven countries has their own independent currency which we’ll take a brief […]

Cornerstone FS Plc (AIM: CSFS), the cloud-based provider of international payment, currency risk management and electronic account services to SMEs, is pleased to announce that it has appointed Simon Bullock and John Burns as Independent Non-Executive Directors, with immediate effect and from 1 December 2022 respectively. The Company also announces that Daniel Mackinnon has tendered his […]

Once again it’s been a bumpy week for the UK economy. Whilst an imminent economic crisis has been averted following a raft of government u-turns on economic policy, UK PLC still faces a perilous road ahead. The week was dominated by news coming out of the Conservative Party Conference which took place between Sunday and […]

Several years after the publication of the paper on the BRICS, experts and commentators began to ask the question, which are the other economies to watch in the future. Jim O’Neil who coined the term BRICs also coined the phrase “the Next 11’ which was a list of countries with economies that offered vast potential […]