A new report finds global fintech revenues topped $504 billion as sector growth outpaced traditional finance. This article appears in the July/August issue of Global Finance Magazine. A shift in sentiment is underway in the global fintech sector. Two years ago, the industry was still recovering from the post-pandemic fintech reset, which brought capital shortages, plunging…
The International Criminal Court is in the trenches right now. Last week, its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, was voted out of his position. In a first-of-its-kind vote, 82 member states decided that he engaged in misconduct and a serious breach of duty. The vote comes after he was accused of sexual misconduct by a female…
A boat or personal watercraft collision is a stark reminder of how quickly a medical emergency turns into a financial one. When rescue crews arrive, the focus centers entirely on saving lives; emergency hospital bills are only the beginning of a long financial recovery. Emergency transport alone can generate significant debt before follow-up care begins—especially…
Liquidity relief today, balance-sheet strain tomorrow: The very structures that make private credit nimble—PIK loans—could also mask risk until it’s too late. When GoHealth Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on June 7, the writing had been on the wall for two years. The Chicago-based health insurance marketplace had inked a payment-in-kind (PIK) deal…
Whether you’re enjoying some well-earned time off this August or are jumping headfirst into a new project, how about some new desktop wallpapers to accompany you on all those big and small adventures the month might bring? Well, we’ve got you covered! Everybody loves a beautiful wallpaper to freshen up their desktops and home screens,…
Why Disconnected Finance Workflows Weaken Salesforce Accounting Integration An Order is ready in Salesforce. The customer details, products, prices, payment terms, and billing address are already there. Yet finance still opens another system, copies the same information, checks the VAT treatment, uploads the invoice file, and prepares the data for DATEV. This handoff may seem…
I almost shipped a bad AI integration once. The feature worked technically: the model answered questions correctly, the UI looked clean, and everyone nodded along in our internal demo. Then we put real users on it, and within 48 hours a product manager Slack’d me asking why 60% of sessions were ending with no response…
For Christian Bredlow, AI isn’t publishing’s first disruption – and it certainly won’t be its last. Having spent years leading digital initiatives within the media industry, he believes the lessons publishers learned during the shift from print to digital are just as relevant today as they were two decades ago. Today, AI is prompting organisations…
Baskar Subramanian, CEO of Vaultura, parent company of cross-border payments and settlements platforms Mobi and Canis, on why linking ASEAN’s national QR systems is real progress, and why it leaves the region’s harder problem untouched. Five founding members of ASEAN’s Regional Payment Connectivity initiative, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand have now completed the…
By Bihag Karnani As a senior product manager at Google, Bihag Karnani oversees the development of Reader Revenue Manager – a digital subscription service designed specifically for media companies. On average, he meets with approximately 50 to 70 publishers during the course of a year. In Part 1, we examined first-party data and habit formation…