Sustainable Finance and ESG have taken a hold of the market and are moving from niche to mainstream by now. Asset Managers (AMs) are changing the once recurrent question of why integrate non-financial factors—notably Environmental, Social & Governance—to ‘how’ it is actually done. For all financial market players, going into depth …
Digital skills imply the need to implement not only technological innovations, but also to prepare people to face emerging societal challenges like privacy and ethical issues, mental and physical health related to digitalisation, among others. Education and training play a key role in reaching this ambition of digital upskilling European …
The finance function in the alternatives industry has grown in complexity and the tendency seems to continue. In addition to the more intricate business structures as well as the increasing external stakeholders demands, joins the variable “digital transformation” that’s shaping the algorithm of the future. Designing a finance function that …
A tiny little organism has shaken the world and our well-established systems in unexpected ways. It has altered everything we’re acquainted with. Regardless of where the outbreak started and what the origin of COVID-19 is, this tiny virus, said to be 80 to 120 nm in diameter, seems to be …
“You get to a point where it gets very complex, where you have money laundering activities, drug related activities, and terrorist support activities converging at certain points and becoming one.” Sibel Edmonds In our previous article The Intensifying Fight Against Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Part 1), we deep dived …
A social listening analysis of the Food & Beverage sector The last few years have seen a focus on the role business plays in society. This has been exacerbated by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement. There is a sort of awakening, people seem to be …
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can do all the things humans do better, faster, and more reliably. That’s a bold statement. Because it seems that the next wave of Fintech is aiming to sweep humans out of financial services and who knows out of what else. One reads endless articles imagining dystopian …
“The only way to stop the flow of this dirty money is to get tough on the bankers who help mask and transfer it around the world. Banks themselves don’t launder money, after all: people do.” Robert Mazur, former federal agent who worked as an undercover money launderer In recent …
One day, robots will socialise with people. One day, we’ll be able to successfully teleport into a different city, country and continent. One day, we’ll have nanobots running in our bloodstream that will allow us never to get sick again. Do you think it’s impossible? While we might have a …
Think of corporate responsibility. Then, situations linked to people, nature, pollution, climate change and philanthropy come to your mind. Now, think of technology, and smartphones, drones, virtual reality and, almost unavoidably, artificial intelligence are recalled. We tend to dissociate them because, in principle, they belong to different dimensions, the real …
