Artificial intelligence is giving wealth managers access to many of the same tools, data and portfolio-building capabilities. Anthony Villis, director and co-founder of financial planning firm First Wealth, considers what advisers can still offer when technical expertise becomes harder to use as a point of difference. He looks at the growing value of emotional intelligence, the […]
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The leadership architecture driving the United Kingdom’s small business and venture capital deployment is preparing for an orderly transition. Louis Taylor will officially step down as chief executive of the British Business Bank (BBB) at the end of September 2026, wrapping up a four-year tenure characterized by an extensive modernization of the state-backed development lender. […]
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The following is an analysis of the fintech, digital and wider economic development of the South American nation of Guyana. Few countries have experienced an economic transformation as dramatic as Guyana. For decades, the South American nation was known primarily for agriculture, gold mining, bauxite and forestry. Economic growth was often modest, public finances were […]
Explore MoreWhile short-term macroeconomic headlines frequently dominate public discourse surrounding developing economies, the long-term investment thesis for Emerging Markets (EM) remains anchored in powerful, slow-moving structural shifts. To cut through transient market noise and evaluate these fundamental trends, specialist boutique global investment manager Aubrey Capital Management and Latin American financial services leader LarrainVial hosted a high-level […]
Explore MoreThe modern operational mandate for financial governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) frameworks has moved far past standard reactive checks. As financial institutions face a highly complex regulatory grid, the ability to control, iterate, and protect proprietary technology infrastructure has evolved into a definitive competitive advantage. Responding to this macro shift, ACA Group (ACA), a premier […]
Explore MoreEnterprise communications software company LeapXpert has bagged $180million to expand its platform for capturing, governing and analysing business conversations held on messaging apps such as WhatsApp. Riverwood Capital led the growth investment, with existing investor Portage Ventures also taking part. LeapXpert did not disclose its valuation or the other financial terms. The company’s platform captures […]
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Frontier artificial intelligence models have reached a definitive performance plateau in corporate governance, now achieving up to 87 per cent accuracy on real-world compliance tasks. With the top four computational models scoring within a single percentage point of one another, the primary differentiator for financial and corporate institutions is no longer the underlying model itself. […]
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For the global payments industry, the rapid ascent of agentic commerce has sparked an intense race to solve a singular infrastructure problem: ensuring that merchants can fully trust the AI agents appearing at checkout. However, a far more urgent question is currently receiving significantly less industry attention: can consumers trust the underlying merchants that these […]
Explore MoreFor years, the narrative surrounding the United Arab Emirates real estate sector was told almost exclusively in historic superlatives, characterized by rapid-fire property launches, soaring prices, and record-breaking transaction tallies. This adrenaline-fueled environment naturally prompted global analysts to question the longevity of the macro expansion. However, market performance throughout the first half of 2026 suggests […]
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The following is an analysis of the fintech, digital and wider economic development of the most isolated nation on Earth – North Korea. North Korea is the last country most people would associate with fintech. It is one if the most isolated countries in the world. It has no venture capital ecosystem, no private […]
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