We’ve grown accustomed to seeing a Mercedes leading the pack in Formula 1. We’re just used to the driver in that Silver Arrow being Lewis Hamilton, not Valtteri Bottas. The Finnish driver took his maiden F1 win at the 2017 Russian Grand Prix ahead of the Ferrari duo of Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen. It […]
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Digitisation shakes up corporate-bond markets
JUST a few decades ago, an asset manager wanting to trade shares, bonds or derivatives almost always had to call up the trading desk at a big investment bank. Today shares and many derivatives can be traded with a few simple clicks (or even in fully automated fashion, using algorithms). But buying and selling bonds, […]
A New York startup shakes up the insurance business
When insurance quickened the pulse IT IS not typhoons or earthquakes that insurers should fear most, but geeks alert to their businesses’ inefficiencies. Daniel Schreiber and Shai Wininger, tech entrepreneurs with no insurance background, spotted that the industry is huge (worth $ 4.6trn in global premium income a year, reckons Swiss Re, a reinsurer), distrusted, […]