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International Bank of Tajikistan is expanding open banking APIs and data-driven credit scoring, the bank said, as part of a strategy centered on premium banking, small-business lending and international transfers. The lender runs its business through a mobile app rather than a branch network. IBT became one of Tajikistan’s largest banks by assets in 2025, […]

The offer email arrives. The number is fine, maybe slightly less than you hoped, and the recruiter is waiting for an answer. Most people say yes. Knowing how to negotiate salary at this exact point is worth more than at any other moment in the job, because the employer has already decided it wants you […]

The busiest office workers are interrupted every two minutes during core hours. That figure comes from Microsoft’s own data on how people use its software, and anyone who runs a team will recognise it. Most productivity hacks are written for a calendar you control. The ones worth keeping are built for the calendar you actually […]

The alarm goes off at six. You hit snooze twice, get up at half past, and spend the first hour of the day feeling like someone else is driving. Most advice on how to become a morning person starts with the alarm: set it earlier and push through. That is the part that fails. The […]

How Chordify is making 89 million players feel at home, starting with the UK, Germany and Poland. Nine out of ten guitarists quit within their first year. Not because playing is too hard. But because learning scales is tedious. While all they wanted was to play along with “Creep”, “Someone Like You” or “Zombie”. Chordify […]

A project lands that your team cannot carry. The product launch is in four months, the two engineers you need do not exist on your payroll, and a permanent hire will take most of that time just to find. Staff augmentation is the usual answer: you bring in skilled people from an outside firm, they […]

Most people meet Alex Hormozi through a video clip: a muscular man in a T-shirt explaining, with some impatience, why your business is not making money. The books are better than the clips. Alex Hormozi books are short, blunt manuals on three problems every business owner eventually hits: customers who will not pay enough, too […]

Most of the decisions that shape a company are made on an ordinary afternoon, between two other meetings, by someone who is slightly tired. Decision making in business mostly happens in small moments: a yes sent from a phone, a hire approved because the role has been open too long, a price left alone because […]

Solidarity Group Holding has spent the past decade and a half turning a mid-tier Bahraini insurer into the region’s most acquisitive underwriter, growing revenue and net profit roughly 12x since 2012 through more than ten M&A transactions. The Bahrain-headquartered group now controls regulated subsidiaries in Jordan and the UAE, holds an estimated 35% of Bahrain’s […]

In Grand Junction, Independence Academy has grown fast by putting each child at the heart of everything it does. Independence Academy Charter School, home to hands-on learning in Grand Junction, Colorado, more than doubled its enrollment, and its results, teachers and culture remain strong. It went from 236 students in 2019 to 525 in 2026. […]