All posts by Glen Munro

About Glen Munro

Glen Munro is a journalist and ghost writer, who has worked for numerous trade publications and national newspapers during his career. Some of the publications he has worked for include the Daily Express, Independent, Evening Standard and Mail Online. The topics covered during Glen’s career include personal finance, financial markets, travel, international and home news. Glen studied magazine journalism at Westminster University.

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  Modi’s Indian election win clears way for cryptocurrency ban

  The re-election of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi gives his BJP party the parliamentary muscle to push through its agenda – which looks set to include the banning of cryptocurrencies

  • Posted May 28, 2019
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  Singapore tops AI readiness index

  Singapore has been named as the country best prepared to realise the benefits of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in public service delivery, topping the 2019 Government AI Readiness Index. The

  • Posted May 27, 2019
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  IMF report highlights tax benefits of tackling corruption

  Reducing corruption could raise tax revenues by US$1 trillion annually, according to the IMF’s 2019 Fiscal Monitor, if the world’s most corrupt countries make progress in tackling the problem over

  • Posted April 22, 2019
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  Maltese audit office strategy aims to improve impact

  Malta’s audit office has launched a five-year strategy designed to improve its operations and boost its impact, enabling it to better “fulfil its role as the guardian of the public

  • Posted November 11, 2018
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  Kenyan corruption threatens to “engulf” the state, auditor warns

  Kenya’s auditor general has warned that the basic function of the state is under threat by rampant and coordinated corruption. The dire prediction by Edward Ouko follows a series of

  • Posted July 22, 2018
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  Nairobi civil servants to work in shifts, cutting congestion

  Kenya’s public servants will soon be working split shifts to help tackle congestion in the capital city, the government has said. The Public Service ministry has written to all civil

  • Posted July 10, 2018
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  Zimbabwean central bank bids to outlaw cryptocurrency trading

  The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has announced that it plans to challenge a High Court ruling which blocks its attempt to ban trading in cryptocurrencies in the southern African nation.

  • Posted June 18, 2018
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  Civil service ‘audit’ heralds clear-out in Sierra Leone

  Sierra Leone’s new President, Julius Maada Bio, has launched an audit of the African country’s civil service in a bid to stamp out political patronage, corruption and waste. The President,

  • Posted June 4, 2018
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  Charity warns of sexism in Chinese civil service recruitment

  The Chinese government is being urged to end the use of recruitment adverts that discriminate against women when filling positions in its national civil service. The call follows the publication

  • Posted May 24, 2018
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  New figures show falling numbers of black leaders in US civil service

  The number of African American officials employed at the highest ranks within the United States civil service is dwindling, a recent report has revealed. The figures were contained in the

  • Posted April 11, 2018
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