Let’s start this topic with an important question: How will you categorize a company into high-growth? Many practitioners have defined that to be considered as high-growth, the company must generate organically a growth in revenues […]
What is Blockchain Blockchain technology is an innovation that arose out of the ashes o f the 2007-2009 financial crisis. The collapse of Lehman Brothers turned a strictly financial crisis into a trust crisis. Blockchain technology uses […]
Why to regulate Virtual Currencies The Bitcoin structure (and its peers) holds natural tension with traditional regulatory and government controls. However, there are a few aspects of Bitcoins that do lend themselves to regulatory oversight, and […]
What is Bitcoin Bitcoin is a virtual currency that utilizes blockchain technology. The genesis of this idea occurred in 2009 by an anonymous group of developers. At its core, a Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer virtual currency […]
Hedge fund Sentient Technologies is relying on artificial intelligence to trade stock, marking a potential breakthrough in the race between man and machine in investment. “For me, it’s scarier to be relying on those human-based […]
Peer-to-peer lending is growing up, and Wall Street is looking for a bigger piece of the action. The marketplace lending involves private loans between lenders and borrowers. It is usually arranged through websites such as Prosper, Lending […]
“Internet of things” is a convenient catch-all for all manner of technologies that carry common characteristics. They are capable of sharing their data not only with each other but also with other information technology systems. They […]
Internet of Things (IoT) can enable new approaches to driving and potentially new business models. Indeed, while taxi drivers couldn’t see Uber coming, car manufacturers can see self-driving coming. Beyond Uber, connected cars may be […]
By Tristan Van Iersel. Indexing is at the heart of a process that has moved the investment industry from art to science, and the growing popularity of index-based investment has forced all asset managers and advisers to improve […]
Are we resigned to a future where disruption rather than stability is the new normality? We saw what Amazon did to record shops and booksellers. We are seeing Uber decimate the cab industry. This fate, […]
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