The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued a final warning to humanity: unless we halve greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions by 2030, we will have no chance of capping global temperatur ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-04
If we look at the current geopolitical situation, it is hard for any company to be truly global due to the different sectors in different markets. Under the existing regulatory environment there is a ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-04
Given the environmental impact of proof-of-work crypto mining has always been a criticism of the industry, Hong Kong’s recent regulatory warming to crypto, as well as its ambitious sustainability plan ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-03
... lation between 1346 and 1352. When Europeans journeyed to the Western Hemisphere in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, they carried pathogens that decimated the indigenous populations. Military gl ...More
EJ Insight2023-04-03
... tely followed by the collapse of New York’s Signature Bank on March 12, and then by Credit Suisse’s troubles a week later. The latter, once one of the world’s biggest investment banks, is now being ta ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-31
... arguments were still raging in the 1960s, when Paul and Anne Ehrlich added fuel to the fire with their bestseller, The Population Bomb. Their fears were reasonable, given the data. By 1975, the global ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-31
... asset and wealth management market – ESG assets are on pace to constitute 21.5% of total global AuM in less than five years. Additionally, according to FIS’ 2023 Global Innovation Report, 63% of finan ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-31
Jerome Powell was clear on 22 March: the Fed, with the other government agencies, has the tools to address stress in the banking sector, which, as a result, will not undermine its objective of bringin ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-30
... n Award. “We are very humbled to win the award,” said Daniel Lo, founder and CEO of GogoChart. “We are a local start-up in digital and marketing. We started in 2016 with three people and now have expa ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-30
... ting followers to even the unlikeliest and wildest of causes, and spearheading changes and progress amongst trying times. Leaders need not be the smartest in the room, yet must be able to draw the bes ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-30
The shotgun wedding of UBS and Credit Suisse was hastily arranged in the spirit of ensuring our collective safety. As Swiss National Bank Chair Thomas Jordan noted, Credit Suisse’s size and global net ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-29
... . How are we to make sense of geopolitics? The first lesson I learnt in studying geopolitics, is that it is imperative to keep the right separate from the is. The right maps onto questions of what we’ ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-29
Recently, the fever of artificial intelligence-powered chatbot ChatGPT has swept around the world. Within just two months after its launch in last November, it reached 100 million users. But if you as ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-28
Looking into the decades that lie ahead, asset owners and managers have a great opportunity to think sustainably and act responsibly; it will bring enormous risks if we do not. Since no economic syste ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-28
Three years into the pandemic much has changed - online shopping has become the synonym for shopping and working from home has become the new ‘normal’. However, consumers’ desire for travel has never ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-27
... is: will we continue down the pre-pandemic path, or will we modernise our approach? If the recent budget is any indication, the city seems to be moving in the right direction. In addition to a renewe ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-27
When Edmundo, a waste picker in Peru, caught COVID-19, he had to take out a bank loan to pay for his visit to the clinic. Many of his colleagues also fell ill and subsequently went into debt, desperat ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-24
... . How can we turn the tide so that water empowers communities, secures our economies, and keeps the planet livable? As with global public goods such as a clean environment, there is a tendency to focu ...More
EJ Insight2023-03-24
