The World Bank Group today announced the appointment of Paschal Donohoe as Managing Director and Chief Knowledge Officer.

Over course of the 2010s, the information superhighway came into its own. Social media platforms, such as Facebook and Instagram, matured and evolved into mission-critical marketing tools. Businesses ...

Jim Wolfensohn, the president of the World Bank from 1995 to 2005, who passed away this week, had many accomplishments. One achievement that has so far received scant mention in the many tributes to ...

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The Malaysia Hub sets an example of the Bank’s “hummingbird” role in transferring and leveraging knowledge finance My admiration for hummingbirds began in my native Brazil. The hummingbird’s flight ...

The Specialist Finance Academy has partnered with Knowledge Bank to help the academy strengthen its broker support for the growing demands in the specialist lending space. The partnership aims to ...

Even though the World Bank has worked hard over the past quarter-century to establish itself as a “Knowledge Bank” that disseminates the lessons of development, the demand for more and better ...

On April 3-4, Margot Brown, World Bank’s Director of the Global Operations Knowledge Management Unit (GOKMU), and Maria Gonzalez Asis, Manager Strategy and Operations GOKMU and Head of the Global ...

Mike Volkov often told the story of watching the Watergate Hearings as a teenager and being a seminal influence on his later professional life in the legal profession and government service. It was my ...

Knowledge Bank has launched its new tool AffCalc, marking its transition to full release. AffCalc allows brokers to make edits at any stage and re-run the calculation without restarting the process.

Business access to credit is getting harder. The cost of credit for those who can get it is incredibly cheap, but business access to credit is becoming more difficult. Good managers, though, can ...