The Power of FinTech: Delivering on the ESG Agenda December 9, 2022 Many point to the 2008 financial crisis as the birth of the current fintech movement. At a time of economic turmoil, innovators and new entrants stepped in to rebuild trust and resilience in the financial sector and provide better, easier, and cheaper services to the end consumer. Nearly 15 years later, the world is facing [...]
Blockchain could shake up ESG December 9, 2022 Meet Dr Jane Thomason International ESG Campaigner (Chair, Kasei Holdings, London) Dr Jane Thomason spent a lifetime working across the globe in international health care in emerging economies, and now thinks Blockchain can be the solution to many of the problems she experienced. From energy consumption, humanitarian disasters, to poor access to quick finance, the [...]
Solving The World’s Most Pressing Problems By Redirecting Capital Is At The Heart Of Emanuela Vartolomei’s Bid To Createsystem. Wall Street without the Walls.” December 9, 2022 | Sponsored Solving the world’s most pressing problems by redirecting capital is at the heart of Emanuela Vartolomei’s bid to create “real change to the financial system. Wall Street without the walls.” Her model uses artificial intelligence to measure 13 million companies at a “hyper-scale”, to “reinvent research” and propel firms and governments to ESG transparency. But [...]
Hex, National Theatre, review: Tonally weird and too macabre December 9, 2022 The National Theatre’s Christmas show isn’t exactly a Christmas show. Hex is a modern interpretation of Sleeping Beauty, a boldly imaginative spectacle that is more than a touch macabre. In terms of the plot, a fairy lives deep in a forest and one day a palace worker running from a baby-eating ogre stumbles upon her [...]
Bitcoin is dead! Long live Bitcoin! December 9, 2022 Jason Deane opens up the newspapers to see why the media so gleefully jumps on negative stories about Bitcoin and the wider crypto world.
MWek Solutions launches Regulatory Outsourcing and Technology business December 9, 2022 | Sponsored MWek Solutions comes to the market at a time of need, where regulatory and compliance uncertainty combined with opaque market activity has caused immeasurable damage. For those businesses left, having the correct internal processes in place have now become a priority for future success. Regulations and compliance will become a necessity and not a nice [...]
The Christmas gift guide 2022, by Morning Wire December 8, 2022 Ho, ho, hold up on shopping for Christmas presents on the freezing cold streets of London… we present you with the Morning Wire Christmas Gift Guide. Do your shopping online and find some seriously thoughtful presents in our guide, which is broken down into ten categories so there’s something for every type of gift receiver [...]
Flat market shows crypto investors are waiting for a sign December 8, 2022 Bitcoin continues to trade below the key $17,000 level at $16,832, while Ethereum is hovering around $1,233 this morning.
EP: 173 Cheltenham & Hong Kong December 7, 2022 The December Gold Cup and the International Hurdle at Cheltenham headline the weekend jumps racing in the UK, weather permitting. There are four Grade 1 races with an international feel at Sha Tin racecourse this weekend and Morning Wire Racing editor Bill Esdaile joins Wally Pyrah to preview the best of Sunday’s stellar card in Hong [...]
UK risks green ambitions with levies and planning hurdles, warns Siemens Energy December 7, 2022 The UK's planning restrictions and levies on renewable producers threaten what should be an attractive market for green projects.