Finance & Economy

This category is Finance & Economy, exploring global financial trends, economic policies, and investment strategies. It features expert insights on corporate finance, market dynamics, and key economic factors shaping business and industry growth worldwide.

Investors hesitate as China warning signs emerge

The global economy is like a funfair rollercoaster. It has relentless ups and downs, frightening twists and turns, and it can even make some...

Will Millennials Ever Retire?

Millennials are nothing like previous generations. A lot of young people are not planning to own a house and start a family. Look around:...
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Planning for your own retirement as a business owner

Retirement is the carrot at the end of an incredibly long race that all small business owners are on, whether they like it or...

What To Do If Your Loan Application Is Rejected

Are you all set to get that new car? Maybe you and your husband are just waiting on a call from the bank to...

Alternatives to Traditional Finance for Growing Businesses

If your business needs to secure funding in order to grow, you may want to consider steering clear of traditional methods. While traditional finance...

Investing Guide 2019

Investing has never been easier. With the latest advancements in technology, you are only a few clicks away from becoming an investor. However, being...

Disruption of Financial Services in Germany

By Peter Walburg and Boris Liedtke The crowdfunding industry in Germany is doing what many European banks are afraid to do — creating value by...

3 things you need to know when investing in watches

to give watches the time of day (pardon the pun). They are not only fashion accessories, but also nowadays a high technological device that...

How financial literacy can help business owners beat their competition

When you start a business, you can often get caught up in the day-to-day running and forget about all the important back-office tasks. These...

What Overheads Does an Online Casino Business Have?

One of the biggest benefits which online businesses have versus brick and mortar businesses is that they have significantly less overheads which impact their...

How to Ensure You Keep Up with Demands in Business

Running a business can be extremely challenging. There are so many tasks and things you need to take care of on a daily basis....

Maturity in trading comes with learning

It is necessary for all of the traders to get some good kind of learning in the system. From there, all of the best...

Embrace Disruption in Financial Services Because It’s Here to Stay

By Jim Tomaney The dinosaurs of old are ready to be challenged by businesses that have evolved and are hungry – This article discusses how...
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Driving Success Through Agile Banking: An Exclusive Interview with Sergey Khotimskiy

Started out as a local bank catering to a niche market, Sovcombank became one of the largest in terms of assets and most profitable...

VAT Financing Isn’t Necessarily a Bad Thing: Here’s Why

HMRC is an equal opportunity entity when it comes to assessing taxes. Anybody who buys or sells in the UK knows that all too...

How to Grow Crypto Assets

Crypto as a new asset class has opened up new frontiers in investing platforms. The 2017 Bull Run that caught many unaware raised billions...

How to Find a Top Auto Lender in 2019 Even if You Have Good...

When you make a purchase such as a car or a house, you can either pay for the item, which for most would be...

What beginners need to know about the EPS formula

The EPS formula is a measure of “rating” as such in the stock market that is very well respected by stocks market traders and...

How Banks Grow Now

By Piercarlo Gera, Alessandro Secchi and Luca Gagliardi Spending on customer loyalty keeps going up, but returns are diminishing. This article will tackle how banks...

NOTHING IS FREE: Data-driven optimisation unlocks freemium business models’ real potential

By Stefan Wagner and Julian Runge In today’s digital era when the marginal cost of (re)production and distribution of products and services tend to be...

AI and Digital Resources in Fintech: Creating an evolutionary analytic platform for “risk” estimation

By Stephan Kudyba This article describes the potential for AI to augment risk estimation for both individual investors and financial market assets. AI processes vast...

Take Back Control: Sherilyn Williams Casiano on providing the affluent true control of their wealth

What is the secret to sustain and grow your wealth in the most effective and efficient way? In this interview with Sherilyn Williams Casiano,...

When Technology Meets Finance: An Interview with CFO, Rabobank Asia Niels Boudeling

Finance leaders are aware of the tremendous impact of technological advancements and of the need to improve their business strategies to keep their competitive...

The Fintech Opportunity for Banks in Europe

By Elena Mazzotti and Francesca Caminiti Propelled by data-driven innovation, fintech companies continue to gain traction – taking some financial firms by surprise. For banks...

Machine Intelligence Will Shake Up Banking, But the Disruptors Won’t Be Fintech Startups

By Urs Rohner and Howard Yu Artificial intelligence and machine learning are being woven into the fabric of every aspect of our lives. The financial...

Limitless Vision Infinite Possibilities: The Story of Allied Wallet CEO Andy Khawaja and his...

“Keep on climbing, the sky is the limit and believe me you will never reach the top because it’s endless.” In this interview, CEO...

Sustainability: A $12 Trillion a Year Market by 2030

By John Elkington and Richard Roberts Leading companies today are starting to think of sustainability as a tool for growing profitability, using frameworks such as...

Why Reward for Performance Fails to Deliver

By Jonathan Trevor Blind conformity can be very dangerous especially when it comes to managing your company’s talent. In this article, the author elaborates on...
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From Products to Solutions – Mastering Sales Force Incentives

By Johannes Habel and Olaf Ploetner As B2B companies strive to become providers of solutions rather than products, sales managers face significant challenges. Among them:...

The Burning Platform of Retail Banking

By Magne Angelshaug and Tina Saebi Without argue, digitalisation has changed many aspects of our everyday lives. With these changes come different challenges and one of...

Minding the Gap: Women and Angel Investing

By Susan Coleman and Alicia Robb In spite of the impressive growth of women-owned firms in the United States in the recent years, they are...

Your Customer is Not Just King. He or She Can Be Your VC, Too!

By John Mullins Are you looking for a venture capitalist to finance or grow your startup but you’re struggling in doing so? Surprisingly, perhaps, the...

The Quest for Operational Efficiency: The Story of DWIMBS

By Sherilyn Casiano To operate a successful business effectively and efficiently, you need to have relevant and accurate information regarding the performance of the business....

Why has Microsoft paid US$26 billion for business networking platform LinkedIn?

By Mark Skilton The Microsoft move to acquire LinkedIn is a better move than past buyouts, the infamous failure of the Microsoft purchase of Nokia...

Leveraging Collaborations to Create Shared Value

By Hervé Legenvre, Francois Bacalou & Hugues Schmitz In this article the authors discuss how the competitiveness of an organisation and the health of the...

The Secret Life of Crowdfunding

By Adam J. Bock and Denis Frydrych Crowdfunding is a much-hyped tool for entrepreneurs to access capital anywhere in the world. While media and public...

The Rationality of Risk, Part 2: Avoiding Risk, Keeping Busy, and Resorting with...

By Christopher Surdak, JD In part two of the series on the Rationality of Risk, Chris Surdak provides an overview of some of the avoidance...

Why The Circular Economy Matters

By Terence Tse, Mark Esposito, and Khaled Soufani A Circular Economy represents not just a paradigm shift that waste is reconstructed to resources through reuse...

What Companies Must Do Now That Better Is Also Cheaper

By Paul F. Nunes and Larry Downes Industry-disrupting products used to enter the market as inferior but more affordable versions of existing offerings, giving incumbents...

The Rationality of Risk: Creating Real Value After a Legacy of Easy Money

By Christopher Surdak In order to get back on the path of value-creation and rational, sustainable economic growth, businesses must first tackle their tendency towards...

Growth Principles from a Decade of Billion-Dollar ‘Startups’

By Josemaria Siota and Luiz Zorzella How did LinkedIn achieved a 35% revenue growth in 20151, after suffering media earthquakes in the previous months? Some...

For Whom the Bell Tolls, Really – The Impact of the Sanctions Against Russia

By Dan Steinbock The sanctions against Russia are working; but not for Russia, Ukraine, the EU, or even the US. In the 2nd quarter, Russia’s GDP...

How the Industrial Internet of Things Can Add to the Wealth of Nations

By Mark Purdy and Ladan Davarzani To capture the benefits of Internet-connected machines, national leaders must nurture the conditions that are needed to translate technological...

Will Europe’s Leading Companies Survive the ‘Lost Decade’?

By Dan Steinbock Growth in the Euro area continues to stagnate as Europe's “lost decade” progresses slowly. Dan Steinbock discusses where Brussels and the European...

What Could Be a Hidden Key for a Successful Merger and Acquisition Project?

By Mark Goyens and David De Cremer The way we engage, communicate and deal with people involved in each phase of a merger and...

Aargau, Switzerland: Home of Innovation

Welcome to Aargau – the Swiss high-tech canton with a Triple A rating. In Aargau, where the number of people working in R&D is...

The Ingenuity Challenge: What Big Data Really Means for Big Business

By Mihnea Moldoveanu Big Data presents a unique challenge to big business, one that intelligence as we now think of it cannot solve alone. Big...

Swarm Economics: How 3D Manufacturing Will Change the Shape of the Global Economy

By Olaf Groth, Mark Esposito and Terence Tse The collaborative economy and commons are challenging the way
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The Personal Wealth Revolution – Time to Formalise Your Family Office

By Sherilyn Casiano For the entrepreneur and closely- held family business owner, a family office, set up with the proper foundation, can be a huge...

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AI Search Revolutionises Brand Discovery – Here’s How to Get Noticed

By Claire Snook In 2025, AI-powered search is poised to become the foundation of how brands connect with their customers. Advances like ChatGPT, SearchGPT, as well as the strategic pivot from traditional search engines toward...
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The Lawbreaker: How Deliberate Rule-Breaking Drives Innovation 

By Doug Hall  Transformational ideas require a leap of faith. They require you to break free of your “adultness” to allow your mind to run free and unconstrained. This article presents one of the most...

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