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Leadership and business dilemmas teaching finance under the new light of sustainability According to the best-selling book Reimagining Capitalism: How Business Can Save the World, “traditional finance may be the single biggest stumbling block to reimagining capitalism.” This can generate an ethical dilemma for somebody like Prof. Carlos Casanuev...
26 July 2021 /sustainable
Nikolay Zvezdin Founder and CEO at as.exchange
The year of 2020 has been among the ones which will be marked in humankind history – global lockdowns, spreading virus, race for vaccine, overleveraged economic decline, yet continuous capital market all-time highs (ATH). On the surface of reasons for ATH is the appearing never-ending quantitative easing by the Fed, which is now not the lander of ...
22 February 2021 /crypto /markets
Hemant Vishnoi Founder at EnKash
Businesses are incorporating Purchase cards into their business models to manage their working capital. Due to their boosted efficiency and vast variety of benefits, Purchase Cards, also known as P-Cards or Procurement Cards, have become the most widely used tool for both — payment and procurement. Purchase cards are a great way to replace paper b...
25 September 2020 /payments
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
The United Kingdom has one of the world’s largest and most influential economies. Over 66 million citizens of Britain share the GDP of around $3 trillion, making them some of the biggest spenders globally. Many internationally successful companies and trends were born here which gives the country particular significance. It was one of the first de...
18 September 2020 /payments /inclusion
Scott Raspa Head of Marketing at Hydrogen - www.hydrogen.tech
Can fintech and banking play nicely together? Although traditional banks might have once eyed fintech companies with concern or suspicion, the stance of traditional financial service providers seems to be evolving. Traditional banks and financial service companies no longer necessarily look at fintechs as intruders in the field but instead often c...
14 September 2020 /payments /inclusion
Amita Choudhary Marketing Manager at Princeton Growth Accelerator
Gold has been in a peculiar state on the market for quite some time now, and many investors seem to believe that the trend is going to continue in full force in the coming months and even years. It’s nothing new under the sun for those who’ve been following the markets closely, and it’s something definitely worth paying attention to for those with...
25 August 2020 /markets
Debbie Green VP of Applications at Oracle
There will be no return to ‘business as usual’. The COVID-19 pandemic has seen CFOs and business leaders across HR, supply chain, and sales make difficult decisions that balanced short-term choices with long-term impact. Now, finance teams need to consider all options and be confident they are making the best choice, whether that impacts employees...
07 July 2020 /cloud /covid-19
Quantitative easing (QE) programs, i.e. purchase of bonds by Central Banks, have been used to inject liquidity in the economy. Yet studies show that less than 10% of generated liquidity by investors effectively reaches ‘the real economy’. QE programs have created massive liquidity, deposited at Banks. The bottleneck Banks have a structural cap to f...
29 June 2020 /sustainable /covid-19
Hannes Van Rensburg Chief Commercial Officer at Clickatell
As digitalization has transformed businesses the ever-present threat of fraud has grown exponentially. However, banks and their users are increasingly realizing that using chat platforms to manage and mitigate fraud offers them immediate and significant gains. According to security company, Kaspersky, the number of unique malicious objects detecte...
28 May 2020 /payments /retail
Hirander Misra Chairman and CEO at GMEX Group
Will the crisis result in the rise or demise of the 4th Industrial Revolution? In its April World Economic Outlook, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) projects a decline in global growth in 2020 of -3 percent. This is a downgrade of 6.3 percentage points from January 2020, a major revision over a very short period. This makes the Great Lockdow...
25 May 2020 /markets /covid-19
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