Why 2020 was a year of explosive growth for DeFi and 2021 will be too January 19, 2021 Decentralised Finance or “DeFi” for short has had tremendous traction in 2020, even during the COVID-19 epidemic. The ecosystem has grown by billions just this year, surpassing $15B in December (source: https://defipulse.com/). People have been drawn to the DeFi space because it offers new suites of financial tools and services that you cannot get in [...]
Crypto AM reshines its Spotlight on CUDOS – The infrastructure token for web 3.0 January 19, 2021 Back in September, I was invited to write an Industry Voices article for CryptoAM.io, titled; Timing a Token Launch. As a global community of crypto and blockchain enthusiasts, we had all been affected by the pandemic over the previous 6-8 months and so I took the opportunity to share why we had paused our token [...]
Trust TV Highlights: Lowland Investment Company January 18, 2021 Whilst COVID-19 has undoubtedly brought its unique challenges, value has been predominantly out of favour since well before the emergence of the virus, and for most of the last decade. Right now, it’s rarely been cheaper … and the premium applied to growth never higher. Adversity brings opportunity. Has the pandemic ushered in an era [...]
Crypto AM shines its Spotlight on Trade the Chain January 15, 2021 Trade like a crypto insider: Trade the Chain combines the power of AI-driven sentiment indicators and actionable, real time alerts, and an expansive knowledge base with a global community of traders to help people make more informed trading decisions Hedge funds and other large financial institutions have long been able to make massive profits on [...]
For COVID vaccine distribution to be successful, we must do more to mitigate waste and build public trust January 15, 2021 That starts with vial-level temperature monitoring at the very first mile. As news continues to break about successful late-stage COVID-19 vaccine trials, people around the world are gaining hope that the days of lockdowns, social distancing and mask wearing will eventually be in the rear-view mirror. Yet, optimism that we can put an end to [...]
Leaning into lockdown – making the best of staying at home January 14, 2021 The arrival of not one, not two but three vaccines – which are being rolled out as we speak – has given us all a light at the end of the tunnel to look towards. It allows us to hope that life might soon return to normal, and with all of those things we took [...]
Is “Londonograd” hiding a culture of dirty tricks in banking? January 11, 2021 A legal dispute is coming to a head concerning an alleged banking fraud committed during the sale in 2016 of Vivacom the largest Bulgarian telecoms company. Vivacom, the largest Bulgarian telecoms company, was sold in August 2016 by VTB Capital Plc (“VTBC”), a UK-based investment subsidiary of the Russian state-owned VTB Bank, in a pledge [...]
Honouring those who went above and beyond in 2020 January 8, 2021 We all know 2020 was tough. Across the country lives were turned upside down and all of us have had to get used to restrictions that we never thought we’d ever see. But as we turn the page into 2021, it’s time to celebrate the highlights of a year that – for many reasons – [...]
Will Europe’s smaller companies deliver big returns? January 7, 2021 European equities have been largely unloved by investors for some time, having lagged their global peers over the past decade: the MSCI Europe ex UK Index has grown by circa 6% pa whilst the MSCI World Index is up circa 11% pa. European smaller companies have fared markedly better than their large cap counterparts however, [...]
The case for investing in financials January 7, 2021 Entire tomes have been devoted to investing in the financial services sector – hardly surprising when you consider its size, and therefore its significance to the world’s capital markets. To say the financial sector is large doesn’t do it justice. Of the total market capitalisation of the S&P 500, the world’s largest stock market index, [...]