On the surface, cyber insurance seems like the perfect solution for dangerous times. Ransomware attacks surged dramatically in 2022, accounting for a quarter of all breaches. So, if your company does ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-24
The world is becoming accustomed to the drip-drip of catastrophic headlines following each new climate-driven disaster. Increasingly frequent and severe heatwaves are causing wildfires in California a ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-23
Everything that can be wrong in Credit Suisse went very wrong in the 166-year franchise. But at least one thing it didn’t. The theme of its Asian Investment Conference this year – and probably the las ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-22
The world is in the midst of a global permacrisis. As interrelated shocks – the war in Ukraine, the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, the escalating US-China rivalry, climate change, and a looming fin ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-22
... f dollars". According to 2011 data, the total investment for the Shenzhen Supercomputing Centre was 1.23 billion yuan for a world-class supercomputer, and by taking account of inflation within these 1 ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-21
And so, she did it. Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian to win the Best Actress award in the history of Oscars. “Everything, Everywhere All At Once” also swept six other awards this evening - a crown ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-20
Technology trends are quickly evolving, and consumer expectations will likewise grow more complex. What has not changed is the pursuit of increased convenience in payment transactions. With rising glo ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-17
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank in northern California and Signature Bank in New York are the largest bank busts since 2008. Regional and mid-sized bank stocks have tanked, and depositors and busi ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-17
Disruption is coming to the agriculture sector. Around the world, livestock farmers are leaving the land, policymakers are targeting the harmful environmental and social effects of industrial meat pro ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-16
One of the first English sentences we learned from Primary One was “I go to school by bus”. Despite being Chinglish, it was a memory embedded in our minds for decades although the phrase has become an ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-15
The run on Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) – on which nearly half of all venture-backed tech start-ups in the United States depend – is in part a rerun of a familiar story, but it’s more than that. Once aga ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-15
... c research. This is good news for Hong Kong I&T, although a little late. Recently, I reported that the Biodiversity Geographic Information System (BGIS), which I had been waiting for nearly 30 yea ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-14
... cial order. Other countries would see those sanctions as yet another step in the West’s “weaponization” of finance. Fearing that they, too, might one day be on the receiving end of sanctions, governme ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-14
In selecting their party’s nominee for the U.S. Presidential Election in November next year, Republicans must choose between former President Donald Trump and a man whose policy platform is very close ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-14
As a maturing, cost-effective technology, electric vehicles (EVs) are a key part of the solution to planet-heating emissions. When paired with clean electricity, they offer a route to climate-neutral ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-13
We are at the halfway point for implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (from 2015 to 2030), but we are not halfway to achieving them. In fact, in many critical areas – from poverty to food sec ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-13
In January, I expressed optimism that a recession across the Western world (and beyond) was becoming less likely, and high-frequency indicators since then have indeed supported a benign outlook. This ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-10
Recent months may well be remembered as the moment when predictive artificial intelligence went mainstream. While prediction algorithms have been in use for decades, the release of applications such a ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-09
In my view, the most profound and insightful work of political economy written in the 2010s was neither a journal article nor a monograph nor a book in the traditional sense. Rather, it was an online ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-09
