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The value of transparency in business practices According to business.com, “transparency is defined as a lack of hidden agendas or conditions, accompanied by the availability of full information requi...
According to Deloitte, financial institutions that use AI in the investment process grow AuM by 8% and raise productivity by 14%. Now that financial markets have changed, Wealth and Asset Managers ar...
Milan Cundera once declared, "Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation." Even though ongoing studies demonstrate a higher Return On Investment (ROI) with investing in Marke...
We are entering 2023 with tighter belts this year. However, we leave 2022 with unmatched blockchain experience, both good and bad. Will trends from 2022 roll into the new year? We look at how the fina...
In the Chinese novel “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”, military strategist Zhuge Liang prays for the “eastern wind” as the final missing element to feed the fires that would rage across the ships and t...
From growth in the number of cheques, to startups with stronger economics and more specialised VCs: What can we expect in venture capital in 2023? With a new year ahead of us, the industry is rife wit...
Nowhere is cloud use being more dynamically adopted at the moment than in finance - just ask any cloud vendor, from hyperscaler to cloud service provider to SaaS provider, about how strategically impo...
Online shopping is set to take over the retail space, like how mobility has replaced desktops. According to Statista, e-commerce will account for 22% of retail sales globally, doubling within the nex...
The embedded finance market has been growing at pace since 2020. COVID proved to be a crucial catalyst, accelerating e-commerce, financial digitalisation, and consumers’ changing expectations. To add ...
Virtual IBANs: Removing Friction in Cross-Border Payments In the past, businesses wanting to engage in cross-border payments had to set up physical bank accounts in each jurisdiction. This was time-co...
It was a busy fourth quarter for regulations concerning foreign direct investment. It seems that not all were watching the World Cup. Several jurisdictions issued consultations concerning qualified ho...
One of the leading countries currently setting the bar in the developing fintech business in the Arab region is the United Arab Emirates. According to studies, UAE accounted for 47% of all financial t...