A leading Nordic bank and a quantum startup team up on an AI research unit in Helsinki. This article appears in the July/August issue of Global Finance Magazine. OP Pohjola and Finnish fintech Qutwo Oy are launching a joint quantum computing and AI research unit in Helsinki, aiming to bring quantum-ready artificial intelligence tools to…
By Nathaniel Rowe The conversation around wealth has changed. For years, many investors built their financial lives around a familiar mix of domestic property, public markets, retirement accounts, and business income. That approach still has value, but it is being tested by a more uncertain world. Inflation, higher borrowing costs, political volatility, housing affordability pressures,…
Finance leaders are taking over operations—and the new COFO role isn’t a simple shortcut. There’s a new acronym roaming the C-suite. The so-called COFO — a hybrid chief operating and financial officer — is more common than ever, marking a structural shift in how companies are deciding who runs the business. But the combined role…
If you sense a joyous exhale, that’s Team CodePen in crossing this launch milestone for the most ambitious professional project any of us has ever achieved. Today, we declare CodePen 2.0 officially launched. We do it, naturally, for you, as we set out to rebuild our online editor to better support what today’s developers want…
Described as a year of “forced maturity,” 2025 was the hardest year yet for Ukraine’s independent local newsrooms – harder, by their own account, than any point since the full-scale invasion began. Only 13% of newsrooms surveyed in the Media Development Foundation’s latest sustainability study – Who Will be Reporting the News Tomorrow? – called…
It’s a well-known fact that accountants and finance experts are a very detail-oriented group of people. This is to say that such individuals are scrutinizers by nature. This means that, even when such individuals are reviewing their own work, it is usual for them to scrutinize every detail of said work in search of errors…
“Technology now changes exponentially, but organisations change quite slowly” – Gard Steiro’s warning, delivered during a recent webinar on the Future Newsrooms Study 2026, sums up the tension facing the news industry today. As generative AI makes generic content trivial to produce, a panel of senior editors and strategists argue the real opportunity lies elsewhere:…
From New York Times Chairman and Publisher A.G. Sulzberger’s seemingly seminal speech criticising tech giants, to moments like the awarding of the Golden Pen of Freedom to visual journalists working in Gaza, to media leaders across the globe sharing their successes, failures, and lessons learned, the Congress and report captured the key issues facing our…
Jim Ovia steps down as Zenith Bank chairman after 36 years, passing the torch to CEO Adaora Umeoji. When Jim Ovia founded Zenith Bank in July 1990 at age 38, with NGN 20 million (then about $2.5 million) in capital, Nigeria already had a rich history of indigenous banking institutions. National Bank of Nigeria (1933),…
Marchel Espina, a prominent member of WAN-IFRA’s global Women In News (WIN) and SaferMedia programme teams, is facing criminal charges of ‘cyber unjust vexation’ in relation to an opinion article written by an external contributor and published in December 2024, during her tenure as editor in chief of SunStar Cebu. Four other individuals connected with…