When Moon? A momentous last week June 2, 2020 When Moon? A phrase often used in the crypto space to describe when a coin price will blast off in value. This week we have seen Bitcoin finally rebreach the US$10,000 and notably my friends at Cardano saw their market cap increase 52% catapulting it back into the top 10 cryptocurrency chart by value for [...]
Emerging technologies challenge lawyers too June 2, 2020 Douglas Adams has a lesson for lawyers. His rules about new technologies say that anything in the world when you’re born is a natural part of the world; anything invented between the time you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting; but anything invented after you’re thirty-five is unnatural. The point of the joke is [...]
High tech the solution for the returning High Street May 29, 2020 With Number 10 announcing that retailers can begin to re-open from June 15th, all eyes turn to the fortunes of the businesses which make up Britain’s high streets and bring colour to our communities. After three months of closure for most of these retailers, the news will provoke a mixture of reactions. Most are desperate [...]
The accelerating adoption of emerging technology May 26, 2020 During this time of Covid-19 virus lockdown, many people and industries are in a state of stasis with the hope that coming out of lockdown will recover everything quickly. Many commentators and economic advisors worry about the future, as the impact on jobs and companies could be damaging for many years to come. The emerging [...]
Covid-19: the inescapable truths faced by investors May 22, 2020 Investors will need to be more agile than ever as Covid-19 reinforces many of the trends driving the world economy prior to the outbreak. “At the beginning of the plague, when there was now no more hope but that the whole city would be visited; when all that had friends or estates in the country [...]
Hackers steal 9m Easyjet customers’ data in cyber attack May 19, 2020 Low-cost airline Easyjet said this morning that hackers had obtained the email and travel details of 9m customers, and the credit card details of a further 2,000. In a statement, the firm said: “There is no evidence that any personal information of any nature has been misused. “However, we are communicating with the approximately 9m [...]
The City View podcast: Money laundering and terrorism – compliance in the age of coronavirus May 14, 2020 Christian is joined by Charles Delingpole, founder and CEO of ComplyAdvantage, a compliance and risk management platform using AI and machine learning to keep companies on the right side of the law. Subscribe to The City View Podcast: Apple / Google / Spotify / RSS Sanctions, scams and criminal activities all pose huge risks for businesses but how has the pandemic affected [...]
Fake news websites exposed by their supply chains May 11, 2020 Fake news websites could be identified by the partners that provide their video streaming and advertising, research shows. The new approach could help search engines and social media giants, such as Facebook and Twitter, to flag untrustworthy articles more rapidly and prevent their misleading content going viral. Fake news stories and conspiracy theories have proliferated [...]
Coronavirus: We must future-proof our vital supply chains May 8, 2020 UK Government orders for social distancing and the closure of many businesses meant an extra 500 million meals and snacks—30% of all calories—were being eaten in UK homes every week in late March. And yet, according to Nielsen, consumers were adding just a single additional item to their average shopping basket on each trip. So, [...]
Health and wealth: ‘fit-tech’ steps up the pace May 7, 2020 Fitness is far from an obvious winner from government instructions to ‘stay home’. Gyms are firmly closed. People making the most of the ‘one form of exercise’ allowed by the government are the only people in parks. In these inauspicious circumstances, though, there is heightened awareness of personal fitness. In the early days of lockdown, [...]