“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 …
Summer reads anyone? Definitely! Should we get started? The COVID-19 pandemic might be taunting our usual definition of good, deserving holidays and, while many of us may not be able to relax on a beach or gather with a crowd of friends on warm summer nights, that doesn’t mean we …
Things are moving forward in the world of crypto-assets. The echoes of large and small events whisper major changes in the months to come. Perhaps the mystery behind the beginning of crypto-assets makes them seductive, or perhaps the growing interest in them has to do with being the “future of …
Your brand’s story and the stories of your brand have become one of the best assets to shape what clients, users or advocates feel about your business. Notice that the sentence refers to two different types of stories, both of the same importance. We will explain what we mean by …
Quo vadis Earth? The pursuit of relentless growth in a planet with limited resources, our heavy dependence on fossil fuels, the continuous growth and development of technology on a scale never seen before, climate change and mass migrations. These are only few of the growing global concerns unsettling decision-makers worldwide. …
