This week our experts brought you the following insights based on their experience as investors, entrepreneurs & executives. Monday Ilias Hatzis our Greece-based crypto entrepreneur (Founder & CEO at Kryptonio a “keyless” non-custodial bitcoin and cryptocurrency wallet, that lets users manage bitcoin and crypto, without private keys or passwords and Weekly Columnist at Daily Fintech) @iliashatzis…
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Tackling US tax returns is daunting at the best of times. Americans spend hours each year gathering W-2s, 1098s and other obscurely coded documents in order to complete their 1040s — aka the US federal tax return. This year, the filing date has been extended. The pandemic has added extra complexity. Tax filers need to…
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Macquarie has signalled that it will stop financing coal projects by 2024 in a symbolic move that coincided with a bitter political debate in Australia over banks’ withdrawal from the sector. The Sydney-based investment bank said on Friday that it expected its lending exposure to the commodity to “run off” within three years as it…
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Over the past several years, institutional investors had largely shied away from China’s e-cigarette makers, an industry that was teeming with shoddy workshops and lacked regulatory oversight. But investors’ attitude is changing as China sets in motion its strictest ever regulation on electronic cigarettes. Myst Labs, a Chinese e-cigarette maker co-founded in 2019 by Chenyue…
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Eurozone facing mass bankruptcies A leaked report from the The European Sytemic Risk Board(ESRB) which is chaired by Christine Lagarde and is the key risk watchdog within the EU is forecasting a huge increase in bankruptcies once COVID support facilities are unwound. While this is not totally unexpected many European banks were already carrying large…
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As risky, long-range technology bets go, they do not come much riskier or longer range than space exploration. The term “moonshots” is applied to other grandiose tech projects for a reason. But the mystique around space obscures what are often very mundane reasons for success and failure. That has been evident again this week as…
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With more than 1bn coronavirus vaccine doses administered to adults around the world, debate is turning to the contentious question of whether or when to extend vaccinations to children. The biggest vaccine manufacturers have all trialled their jabs on young people, including babies in some cases. Canada this week become the first country to approve…
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SoftBank has picked its bet in China’s flourishing industrial robotics space. Youibot, a four-year-old startup that makes autonomous mobile robots for a range of scenarios, said it has notched close to 100 million yuan ($15.47 million) in its latest funding round led by SoftBank Ventures Asia, the Seoul-based early-stage arm of the global investment behemoth.…
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Smart city technology designed to streamline public services could prove an “attractive target” for hostile states seeking to disrupt Britain’s infrastructure or steal sensitive data, UK spies have warned. The intervention by the National Cyber Security Centre, a branch of GCHQ, reflects growing fears in the intelligence community that local authorities may inadvertently enter risky…
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Scientists advising the UK government are set to recommend that Britons in their 30s be offered an alternative to the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, as declining Covid-19 infection rates mean potential risks from the jab may outweigh the dangers of the disease. An announcement is due from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation that under-40s…
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