Finance

Banking leaders explore fintech innovation, AI, smart data, and digital transformation.

HSBC UK on why scalable businesses are built through resilience, cashflow discipline and steady momentum — not headline-making leaps

For years, many high earners relied on the same advisor they were first introduced to: a broker recommended by a colleague, a banker at the firm that handled their mortgage, or a representative tied to a particular insurance company. The advice often felt “free,” the relationship familiar, and the details of how the advisor got […]

From Canadian trading floors to more than $130 billion in digital asset volume, the Aquanow co-founder built a global liquidity and infrastructure business by standing his ground Phil Sham does not sound like a founder trying to sell a revolution.He sounds like someone who has spent years watching how markets actually work.Ask him about Aquanow, […]

Kasper Davidson discusses banking shifts, 2030 predictions, AI, and entrepreneurial lessons.

NatWest insights on scaling UK startups into global markets successfully

Inploi secures £3m to scale AI hiring technology platform

Prop trading is notoriously inaccessible to almost anyone who isn’t part of a financial institution or some other major financial entity with considerable funding. Tal Fromchenko, founder and CEO of prop trading firm Leveraged, has made it his mission to democratize this exclusive market and equip passionate traders with the tools and skills needed to […]

Financial media gets shaky fast when the subject is digital assets. Prices move hard, hype spreads faster than facts, and bad information has a way of sounding confident long before it becomes useful. Alessio Ippolito, an Italian financial journalist, Italian digital entrepreneur, investor, and Editor-in-Chief of Criptovaluta.it and TradingOnline.com, built his career inside that kind […]

The growth of digital asset trading has placed unprecedented pressure on infrastructure. As user volumes rise and markets move instantly to global events, a crypto exchange must do more than match buyers and sellers. It must maintain platform uptime during traffic spikes, regional disruptions, and extreme volatility. For many platforms, that challenge exposes architectural flaws. […]

Weakening VCT policy risks losing UK tech scale-ups abroad.

Careers often develop through a combination of timing, mentorship, early challenges, and personal judgment. For Peter Rose, one early experience that shaped his approach occurred during the market turbulence of Black Monday in 1987. At the time, he was in the early stages of his career on London’s options trading floor and was among those […]

While financial giants race to tokenize treasuries and equities, a sizable segment of the alternative asset market remains relatively underdeveloped. One startup is focusing on this area as a possible source of long-term value creation. When Larry Fink declared that “the next generation for markets will be tokenization of securities,” the financial world took notice. […]

Why Optimistic Business Plans Poison Otherwise Good Businesses

Vennre raises $9.6m to broaden private market access in MENA

Business success magnifies what already exists in a relationship. For this couple, it became the fuel for their shared emotional and financial evolution.

Entrepreneurs are often taught to view growth as a technical problem. When momentum slows, the assumption is that something external needs to be fixed: the strategy refined, the systems optimized, the execution tightened. For many founders, especially those who are purpose-driven and deeply invested in the meaning behind their work, this logic eventually stops delivering […]

In the volatile landscape of modern business, resilience is often regarded as a key trait for success and survival. But for Serhii Zakharov, founder and CEO of the payment ecosystem PayDo, resilience became an architectural blueprint. Guiding ventures through complications revealed a common, critical weakness in the digital economy: its financial infrastructure was not only […]

IPOs, AI, and the deep-tech opportunity

From pitch decks to rejection, an early-stage investor on what matters most before and after raising capital.

Patrick Carey grew up in northern England watching his father build machines from scratch. His father was a computer engineer and inventor who later became head of IT at a major UK financial institution. “Watching him excel at something he was naturally gifted at left a lasting impression on me,” Carey says. By the time […]

Despite widespread innovation, global trade is still heavily reliant on letters of credit, bills of lading, and other paper-based verification processes. Though wire transfers are a step in the right direction, tokenization may serve as the basis for new financial infrastructure. By replacing slow workflows with secure, interoperable, and automated digital equivalents, tokenized solutions are […]

The new reality for venture capital as we approach 2026

A tale of contrasting currents

Inside Michelle Robson's mission to redraw Europe's venture map

Founders used to be builders; now they're debt collectors. Here's what needs to change.