Author: Naomi Chan

Bitcoin ETFs have accumulated $128 billion since their US approval — the fastest ETF launch in history. Institutional money has arrived in crypto. What happens next is more complex than the headline.

Inflation is proving stickier than the Fed expected, and higher-for-longer rates are forcing a fundamental rethink of corporate capital allocation. Here’s the new framework CFOs need to adopt.

Jerome Powell’s exit as Fed Chair is triggering the most consequential monetary policy transition in a generation. Here’s what the leadership vacuum means for markets, rates, and corporate strategy.

Real-world asset tokenisation has crossed $19 billion on public blockchains. BlackRock, JPMorgan, and Franklin Templeton are already live. Wall Street’s move to the blockchain is no longer a pilot.

Gartner projects that more than 40 per cent of agentic AI enterprise deployments will be cancelled by the end of 2027 — not because the technology does not work, but because the organisations deploying it are not ready. The gap between deployment speed and governance maturity is becoming the defining risk of the AI era.

As central banks hold rates at multi-decade highs and inflation proves stickier than expected, business leaders face a strategic environment that rewards discipline and punishes complacency. Here is what the new rate reality means for your cost of capital, your pricing strategy, and the decisions you make in the next 12 months.

The race for AI talent has become the defining hiring challenge of the decade — and it is no longer confined to Silicon Valley. From Mumbai to Manchester, every serious company is now competing for the same scarce pool of machine learning engineers, AI product managers, and data scientists who can actually build what the boardroom is promising.

Four years after the pandemic forced a global experiment in remote work, the debate over where people should work has generated more heat than light. This article cuts through the ideology to examine what the evidence actually shows — and what it means for leaders building their own workplace policies.

The Chief Data Officer has gone from a niche experiment to a boardroom essential in less than a decade. As AI reshapes how companies operate, the CDO role has become the connective tissue between data infrastructure and business strategy — and most organisations are still getting it wrong.

A new class of entrepreneur is hitting seven-figure revenue without a single employee, a venture capital term sheet, or a traditional business plan. The solopreneur economy is real, it is growing, and it is rewriting the rules of what a business can look like.