What we can all learn about markets and speculation from the roller coaster of Crypto The point being made in this piece is that crypto is really only a chimera. If you play in markets where the underlying assets are purely digital and do not represent anything other than the ability to get punters (gamblers)…
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Here are the three most relevant developments in the world of structured reporting we became aware of in the course of last week. 1 First reports available as Israel gehts into the swing of Inline XBRL The first annual reports made by Israeli public companies in Inline XBRL (also known as iXBRL) are now available. The Israel…
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Last few months have seen private market investors pouring capital into promising insurtech startups, while the public markets sent the value of recently public insurtech companies lower and lower. The decline in the value of public insurtech unicorns has been an oft-repeating theme. Contrarily, global insurtech venture activity has been hitting new highs. In 2021,…
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Here is our pick of the 3 most important stablecoin stories during the week. Stablecoin innovation continues during Crypto winter! First, the bad news, Solana-based algorithmic stablecoin NIRV has become the latest stablecoin to fail after dropping 85% from its United States dollar peg following a hack on adaptive yield protocol Nirvana Finance on Wednesday. The…
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The economic situation is grim and some experts fear that we will end up paying a big price for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and persistent manufacturing delays from China because of the ongoing Covid pandemic. JPMorgan Chase CEO, Jamie Dimon went so far as to say “Brace yourself for an economic hurricane.” Everyone is preparing…
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Here are the three most relevant developments in the world of structured reporting we became aware of in the course of last week. 1 India gears up for digital sustainability reporting India is once again in the vanguard of digital reporting, as it enables filing of the new Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report (BRSR) in…
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Data ingestion from cars is gaining importance beyond shared mobility, where it was always recognized as significant. Fleet operators for car subscription companies, rentals, and commercial-fleets are leveraging data to reduce costs, increase revenues, and improve clients’ experience. They pull data from OEM telematics units found in most new cars, making vehicles digital-ready seamlessly. OEMs…
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Here is our pick of the 3 most important stablecoin stories during the week. How much and what type of Collateral is your stablecoin backed by? First, It’s not every week that regulators from both sides of the Atlantic ocean come together to discuss cryptocurrencies. But that’s what happened last week, with the European Union…
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Have you seen on Netflix the documentary “Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King”? It was released a few months ago and it talks about Quadriga CX – the Canadian Bitcoin exchange – and its founder, Gerry Cotten, who died suddenly in 2018 and took the private keys to $250 million in cryptocurrency…
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Do VC know what they are doing? For VC’s substitute lenders. A Chicago Business School analysed some 16000 VC investments and came up with some startling conclusions like they (VC’s) were making some “predictably bad investments” and “ They keep making mistake after mistake and were not able to learn even the simplest mistake from…
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