Cru Wine getting the balance right with astute and nimble investments April 21, 2020 Very often timing is everything. That certainly proved the case for Gregory Swartberg when he started Cru Wine Ltd (CWL) in 2013, which he initially operated by himself around his full-time job as a strategic consultant for big names in the city. The 31-year-old Dutchman’s first employee came two years later, when he finally decided [...]
GBUK Banana provides a fruitful solution for moving and handling patients April 21, 2020 Although its name may indicate otherwise, GBUK Banana, a division of GBUK Group, has nothing to do with bananas at all. A ‘Banana Board’ is used world-wide to allow wheelchair users to move from one position to another, for example a wheelchair to a car. The Banana Team has developed, in collaboration with Diane Hindson [...]
Outside the box hitting it out of the park April 21, 2020 Specialist marketing agency wins award for blue-chip international trade. It is easy to understand why Outside The Box (OTB Agency) have won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise for International Trade, because they are a full-service specialist creative marketing agency that produces genuinely outstanding communications that continually raise the bar for their clients. Headquartered in Leeds, [...]
What is Ethereum 2.0 ‘staking’? April 21, 2020 Ethereum is the second largest crypto asset by market capitalisation. The Ethereum chain runs many of the top digital assets (e.g. the Dai stable coin, by MakerDAO), Decentralised Finance (DeFi) platforms, and almost single handedly powered Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). Thus it captures the vast majority of developer attention. Ethereum 2 represents a series of [...]
Crypto AM shines its Spotlight on Moneybrain BiPS April 21, 2020 What if Libra Was Live Today? The world was in a different kind of uproar for months after Facebook and their alliance announced Libra. Then it was that senators were foaming at the mouth and it was the central banks that came close to rioting. Amid similar Trump-inspired scenes of protest on the streets of [...]
INATBA plays crucial role as convener of global blockchain ecosystem April 21, 2020 As someone who has been engaged in the global blockchain ecosystem for more than five years, I believe in the vast and far-reaching potential of blockchain, and I work tirelessly with organizations that are committed to help the technology reach mainstream adoption and adaptation. To do so, however, the ecosystem needs to address points of [...]
Blockchain Start-Up and data centre Initiative against Covid-19 April 21, 2020 A partnership between several Blockchain Start-Ups and Data Centres has created immense computing power gained to support the fight against Covid-19. Nuco.cloud, CUDO Compute, Bitkern, Hetzner Online and e-shelter have joined forces to create a Distributed Computing Cloud. This decentralized supercomputer is based on the combined computing power of all the participants in this joint [...]
Cash is king…until it isn’t April 21, 2020 George Zarya is the CEO of cryptocurrency exchange BEQUANT. Founded in May 2018, BEQUANT Exchange averages over a billion dollars in monthly volume with more than 200 active institutional clients. The ongoing fight of the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the global trend towards cashless society. Here he argues the case that the days of cash [...]
Suvi Chi’s tips for women to get ahead in the City April 20, 2020 Suvi Chi, the founder of Koa Collective that supports people on furlough and are looking for their next job or sabbatical, believes finding the right managers to work with is key for women to progress their career. The half-American half-Finnish straight-talking 34-year-old has had a far from straight forward career, never being afraid to leave [...]
Coronavirus: A lockdown exit strategy to save the economy April 20, 2020 Releasing people aged 20-30 years-old who no longer live with their parents could provide the first step out of lockdown in the UK, researchers suggest. The strategy could help policymakers to balance the health risks associated with COVID-19 and the need to avoid an “extraordinary recession”. The UK is currently locked down in an attempt [...]