Europe’s Big And Expensive Energy Mistake
Europe failed to prioritize energy security and has now found itself overly reliant on Russian energy and paying sky-high prices for power France is dealing with this issue by renationalizing its largest utility in order to ensure the survival of nuclear power. Germany, which is arguably the country that has suffered most from energy security…
Read MoreHere’s How The Energy Crisis Turns Into Hunger And Then… War?
We have previously warned about a whopping food crisis and supply problems in the fertilizer market. Well, now is worse because that was BEFORE we had the natural gas crisis. Why is that important? Natural gas is THE critical input into making fertilizer. Urea is essentially ammonia in solid state, the process of which entails…
Read MoreTop US Fertilizer Producer Hit With Rail Delays To Midwest
A fertilizer supply shock is imminent for US farmers as CF Industries Holdings, Inc. warned Thursday that rail shipments of crop nutrients would be reduced to top agricultural states, which couldn’t come at the worst time as the Northern Hemisphere spring planting season is underway. The world’s largest fertilizer company said Union Pacific had hit it with…
Read MoreThe Commodity-Currency Revolution Begins…
We will look back at current events and realise that they marked the change from a dollar-based global economy underwritten by financial assets to commodity-backed currencies. We face a change from collateral being purely financial in nature to becoming commodity based. It is collateral that underwrites the whole financial system. The ending of the financially based…
Read MoreBlame the Bitcoin Bond? El Salvador’s Dollar-Denominated Debt Slides
El Salvador’s bitcoin bond is a contributing factor to a slide in its dollar-denominated debt, but not the sole reason. El Salvador’s dollar-denominated debt has taken a beating in recent weeks, with observers blaming President Bukele’s plan to issue bitcoin bonds for the sell-off. But there’s more to the decline than meets the eye. “Salvador’s…
Read MoreDubai Free Zone Becomes First UAE Government Entity to Accept Bitcoin
The free zone accepts payments in bitcoin, ether and the tether stablecoin.Dubai(Rasto SK/Shutterstock)Tanzeel AkhtarFeb 17, 2021 at 1:09 p.m. Updated Feb 17, 2021 at 3:52 p.m. Cryptocurrencies are now accepted as a form of payment at the KIKLABB free trade zone in Mina Rashid, Dubai. With the news, KIKLABB has become the first United Arab Emirates…
Read MoreEuroMed Capital co-organising blockchain conference for G-Global
EuroMed Capital is honoured to co-organise the first ever blockchain conference taking place during the G-Global congress. G-Global is a platform for communication and a recognised partner of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Other prominent co-organisers include the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD),…
Read MoreEmbedded Finance: What it is and What it Means for the Fintech Industry
The fintech industry is always evolving. But one development in particular is generating significant buzz and market-wide revenue predictions to the tune of over $7 trillion in just 10 years. That development is embedded finance, and every fintech enterprise or company needs to know what this is and how it may affect the industry at large sooner…
Read MoreCloud and complexity in IT
Companies are moving to the cloud for speed and agility. But many find they are not moving fast enough to reap the promised benefits. It’s an old story by now—cloud is the computing of the future. What has become evident in recent years, however, is cloud has established itself as the computing of the present—and…
Read MoreDiversity programs at top investment banks, and how to access them
Diversity is a big deal to investment banks when it comes to graduate recruiting. As an industry that has a reputation for being largely male, predominantly white and the home of the economically privileged, a lot of energy is channelled into ensuring that the analyst pool is as diverse as possible. If you fall into…
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