A new World Inequality Report portrays a global economic structure sharply skewed in favour of a minuscule wealthy minority, revealing how concentrated wealth, regressive tax advantages, unpaid care labour, and climate impacts reinforce one another.   According to the findings, fewer than 60,000 of the world’s richest individuals — enough people to pack a football stadium — now possess more wealth than half of humanity combined. The authors underscore that extreme disparities

Italy’s far-reaching redesign of its online gambling framework is finally taking shape, and the results point toward a future where dominant incumbents thrive while smaller operators are pushed out of the market.   When the country implemented its long-anticipated overhaul in November 2025, it did so with the precision of a government intent on restructuring — not merely regulating — its digital gambling sector.   What had been discussed and delayed for nearly five years arri

French authorities again found themselves under intense scrutiny as new hearings in the Lafarge terrorism financing case brought forward sharply conflicting accounts of what government officials knew during the Syrian conflict and when they knew it. At the center of the proceedings were discrepancies between diplomatic narratives and corporate admissions, with the court poring over exchanges between Lafarge executives and state representatives that now frame a deeper investig

Financial crime remains an unrelenting global threat that constantly pushes authorities to adopt more advanced detection and prevention tools, and Bulgaria has moved decisively by intensifying its reliance on Open-Source Intelligence, OSINT, to reinforce its Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Financing of Terrorism, AML/CFT, architecture. The strength of any AML/CFT regime hinges on the sophistication of its Financial Intelligence Units and law enforcement bodies, which must p