Across the UK, law firms are actively onboarding clients who’ve lost money to investment scams, authorised push payment (APP) fraud, and mis-sold products. This surge follows regulatory changes and fresh case law that shape who pays, how fast, and which forum is best for redress.
Why 2025 is different
New reimbursement rules for APP fraud took effect on 7 October 2024…
Investors have long asked whether crypto can act as a diversifier alongside stocks and bonds. The honest 2025 answer is “sometimes”—and only with careful sizing and rebalancing. Correlations between bitcoin and equities rose meaningfully after 2020, limiting diversification in risk-on/risk-off episodes; yet some studies and manager backtests still find that very small allocations can improve risk-adjusted returns over certain windows.
What…
Who will set the pace in global finance by 2026? “Financial leadership” blends macro growth, deep and liquid capital markets, competitive financial centres, innovation in payments/fintech, currency influence, and policy/regulatory agility. This forecast synthesizes the latest IMF projections, global financial-centre rankings, IPO data, currency and payments trackers, and reform agendas to identify the front-runners.
How We Ranked Potential Leaders
We weighed six…
Across Europe, governments and market infrastructures are coordinating on shared blockchain rails. The European Blockchain Partnership unites EU Member States with Norway and Liechtenstein to build public-sector blockchain services under the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI).
What The European Blockchain Partnership Actually Does
The Partnership’s delivery vehicle is EBSI, an EU-wide network of permissioned nodes that supports multiple protocols (currently Hyperledger…
Introduction: What Actually Drives Startup Growth in 2025
The growth landscape in 2025 is shaped by three forces: product-led experiences, AI-driven personalization, and shifting distribution (marketplaces, ecosystems, and social platforms). This guide distills the engines that consistently produce efficient growth this year, with tactical playbooks and KPIs you can ship this week.
1) Product-Led Growth (PLG) and Free-to-Paid Conversion
PLG continues to outperform…
Banks don’t need public, anonymous blockchains to benefit from distributed ledgers. Permissioned blockchain—used by regulated institutions—adds cryptographic integrity, auditability, and cross-organization coordination to existing controls. NIST’s blockchain overview explains how chained hashing, digital signatures, and consensus create tamper-evident records suitable for security and compliance use cases.
What Blockchain Adds To A Bank’s Security Stack
Tamper-evident audit trails and non-repudiation
Blockchains store transactions in…
Your financial potential isn’t just income; it’s how well your system converts earnings into freedom and resilience. Answer each question Yes / Somewhat / No and tally your score. After each question, you’ll see why it matters and a quick fix backed by reputable guidance.
How to score
Yes = 2 points, Somewhat = 1 point, No = 0 points.0–14: Getting started.…
Getting valuation right—and writing a plan investors can trust—means matching methods to cash flows, using disciplined assumptions, and presenting decision-ready analysis. This guide distills today’s best practices with links to authoritative sources you can reuse in your models and reports.
The three core valuation lenses you should always triangulate
Discounted cash flow (DCF) with FCFF/FCFE
DCF anchors value in forecast cash flows…
Expert closers consistently create more value and less risk in modern B2B deals. Buying groups now include multiple stakeholders, legal redlines are heavier, and small pricing mistakes destroy profit. This article shows when and why to bring in specialists—sales strategists, negotiators, pricing leads, and contract counsels—and what results to expect.
The buying side is complex—specialists keep momentum
Typical B2B buying groups…
How we picked these ideas (and why they’re timely)
We focused on problems with clear demand signals in 2025: enterprise-grade AI adoption, security & compliance pressure, real-time payments, data-center power constraints, and demographic shifts. This is backed by top-tier outlooks—McKinsey’s 2025 tech-trends roll-up, Gartner’s 2025 top strategic trends (agentic AI, spatial computing, polyfunctional robots, AI governance), and a16z’s “Big Ideas in…
Global stocks drifted while traders waited on two catalysts: Washington talks around a possible Ukraine peace framework and the Federal Reserve’s Jackson Hole symposium later this week. Rate-cut odds for September remain elevated, but policymakers may avoid pre-committing. Oil steadied after headlines around Russian supply and India’s purchases; gold firmed as Treasury yields eased from recent highs.
What moved markets…
Analytics is no longer a side elective—it’s core to modern business education. Employers expect graduates who can reason with data, and accreditation bodies now emphasize technology competencies in curricula. The result is a sharper focus on statistics, programming, experimentation, optimization, and ethical use of AI across top programs.
What employers want in 2025
The GMAC Corporate Recruiters Survey 2025 reports strong…
What “easy analytics on mobile” actually means
Modern tools unify web and app data, switch to event-based tracking for flexibility, and ship mobile apps or responsive dashboards so you can check KPIs anywhere. Google’s GA4 collects both website and app data in an event model and adds predictive capabilities and privacy controls, which is why many teams standardize on it for…
Executive Summary
Global growth remains positive but slower than 2024; the IMF’s July update puts 2025 at roughly 3.0% with 3.1% in 2026, while warning about tariff, inflation and geopolitical risks. Markets are hyper-focused on the Fed’s Jackson Hole messaging and a potential autumn rate cut; stagflation chatter has risen even as indices hold up.Flows are the headline: ETFs are pacing…
Understanding the real boundary of your “business area” is the first step to expanding it. This guide turns big frameworks into practical steps: define your market honestly, diagnose what truly constrains growth, and choose proven plays to unlock new potential.
Define your market with TAM/SAM/SOM and validate bottom-up; most overestimation errors come from poor assumptions and confirmation bias.
Your core competencies…