Harry Clynch

Binance is facing a class action lawsuit in Illinois, which alleges that the world’s largest cryptoexchange has unlawfully collected its users’ biometric data.

Digital Assets Sustainability ESG Technology

Tailored Investing with ALLINDEX

November 30, 2021

This is a trend that Swiss FinTech company ALLINDEX is looking to capitalise on. They are aiming to “democratise customised investments” – allowing individual investors to build customized indexes in a self-service fashion in order to reflect their own ambitions and beliefs.

Asia Business

Tokyo: A Global Financial City

November 17, 2021

Tokyo is often forgotten about as one of the world’s major economic hubs. This is something the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) is looking to fix.

Events Technology

Singapore Fintech Festival: Ben Horowitz on the potential of Web 3.0

November 11, 2021

Horowitz’s discussion with Pandit was fascinating in revealing just how revolutionary Web 3.0 could be. If Horowitz is right, it will fix so many major problems with how our economies currently operate.

Events Technology

Singapore Fintech Festival: Global Trends and Web 3.0

November 10, 2021

Today at the Singapore Fintech Festival, four CEOs gathered to discuss “global trends.” Chaired by Dawn Karen Tan of CNA News, the panel included: Dr Calvin Choi, Chairman of AMTD, Helen Wong, CEO of OCBC Bank, Mike Wells, Group Chief Executive at Prudential, and Piyush Gupta, CEO at DBS.

Artificial Intelligence Events Technology

Wonderland AI: How can federated learning be done differently?

November 4, 2021

Following his speech at Wonderland AI, we caught up with Nicholas Lane to discuss how the concept of “Flower” is changing the way federated learning is done.

Events Technology

Nick Clegg Interview: Facebook Has Always Been A ‘Hostile Place To The Truth’

November 3, 2021

Yesterday at Web Summit, Matthew Garrahan, News Editor of the Financial Times, was joined (virtually) onstage by Sir Nick Clegg.

Asia

Party cadres, and socialism with Chinese characteristics

November 2, 2021

This idea – of party appointees planted throughout China’s businesses and private sector – has its roots in the Opium Wars and colonial domination. Looking back at the Century of Humiliation, political theorists and Chinese leaders tried to work out how best to ensure this could never happen again.

Asia Sustainability ESG Technology

Guangzhou: The Beating Heart of China’s Electric Vehicles Push

October 20, 2021

The development of electric vehicles can almost be read as a case-study in the success of the Chinese economy since the late seventies: an example of the long-term economic planning, and shrewd government investment, that has allowed the private sector to flourish – albeit under the iron fist of the state.

Events

Chairman of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing talks sustainability at Sibos

October 15, 2021

The capital provided by Hong Kong’s markets will be crucial in financing China’s – and the wider region’s – path to a net-zero future. It will be to Hong Kong that businesses and entrepreneurs across Asia look to find the capital needed to build the green infrastructure and the transformative products of the future. As economies across the continent continue to develop, and become more economically sophisticated, it will be cash originating in Hong Kong that will wean them off coal and onto green energy.

Asia

The Unpredictability of Beijing

October 14, 2021

The opening months of MSCI’s new China indexes should serve as a warning. The CCP works in unpredictable ways, and sometimes in a manner that is deliberately economically damaging. For this reason, returns in China can never be taken for granted.

Events

Société Générale’s Frédéric Oudéa identifies his big three banking trends at Sibos

October 13, 2021

What did Société Générale’s Frédéric Oudéa identify as his big three “main trends” in banking?

Events

Citi’s Jane Fraser addresses Sibos with message of change

October 13, 2021

As part of Sibos’ “View from the Top” series, being run throughout this year’s Sibos and consisting of addresses from multiple CEOs of global banks, Citi’s Jane Fraser spoke yesterday afternoon to offer a message of change.

Cloud

Talking cloud technologies with Feedzai at Money 20/20

October 11, 2021

One company deeply involved in such technology is Feedzai, a cloud platform designed to fight financial crime using artificial intelligence (AI), big data and machine learning.

Capital Markets

Digitising Debt Capital Markets with Origin

October 8, 2021

Clearly the big advantage of this product is speed: Origin are making it quicker and easier to participate in the debt capital markets. We asked Raja, therefore, if the ultimate aim of this technology is to increase volume on the bond markets: would greater streamlining and more automated processes augment the amounts being traded in this space?

Digital Assets

How should we regulate cryptoexchanges like Binance?

October 4, 2021

How do the courts and regulators go about protecting consumers (and their money) from cryptoexchanges like Binance, whilst avoiding stifling innovation in this rapidly developing space? To discuss this, we spoke to James Burnie.

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