The metaverse is open for business, and financial services have a role to play. How can payments providers and their technology partners help create more open, and more secure, virtual environments – ...More
EJ Insight2022-07-25
The Correctional Services Department (CSD) has faced numerous challenges in recent years, including ageing facilities, serious staff turnover. To overcome these challenges, one must start from capabil ...More
EJ Insight2021-11-29
Over the last four years, there has been a massive increase in the amount spent on cloud services - Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS). ...More
EJ Insight2021-05-14
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s hasty revocation of a hastily announced Easter lockdown was surprising, even shocking, given her ever-calm demeanor. Even more extraordinary was the apology she issue ...More
EJ Insight2021-03-31
After the handover to China, the Macao SAR government ended the gambling monopoly of Stanley Ho and invited foreign companies to bid for a licence. The big Las Vegas casino owners were not so interest ...More
EJ Insight2021-01-26
The coronavirus outbreak has put millions of people out of job across the world. However, several leading banks such as HSBC, Citibank and Morgan Stanley have promised to delay their layoff plans. Tha ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-31
The shock to the global economy from COVID-19 has been both faster and more severe than the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC) and even the Great Depression. In those two previous episodes, stock mark ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-25
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be in isolation for two weeks after his wife, Sophie, tested positive for coronavirus, Reuters reports. Sophie Gregoire Trudeau recently returned from Londo ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-13
Banking giant HSBC has sent home more than 100 staff in London after a worker tested positive for the coronavirus, Reuters reports. The bank also has an employee in China with the virus who is in a st ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-06
Don't you wish you're a landlord? Once you've got a property to rent out, you won't have to work anymore. You can just laze around all the days of your life while your tenants work themselves to deat ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-05
Waymo, the self-driving unit of Alphabet Inc., said it has raised US$2.25 billion in its first external investment round and expects to add more outside investors, Reuters reports. The company also di ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-03
Four more people tested positive for novel coronavirus (Covid-19) infection over the weekend, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Hong Kong to 98, the Centre for Health Protection (CHP) un ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-02
