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...money may soon run out. Leigh Sparks explains how a High Street stalwart can come so badly unstuck...Department store BHS has gone into administration after failing to find a buyer. It is a worrying time for more than 10,000 employees and could be viewed as another piece of evidence that the UK high street is in terminal decline. Retailers have been battered by the...

...businesses and their counterparts around the world. Cross-border commercial contracts specify the currency in which payments are due to be made. What happens, however, when the value of the specified currency changes drastically and the amount to be paid no longer reflects the value of the goods to be supplied? To return to the recent headlines, Unilever, the owner of...

...money to finance their business ideas and most do so via loans. Usually, however, only someone who has collateral, such as capital or properties, gets loans from the bank. This is where microcredit comes in. It’s based on the applicant’s reputation and not on their collateral. One institution which offers this type of loan is Pro Mujer in Peru. WOMAN 1: [SPEAKING...