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Analyst Opinions
Gradually, then Suddenly – Can DeFi become Viable Alternative to Traditional Finance?
DeFi is evolving to leverage blockchain’s properties like decentralization and transparency to provide financial services to any individual with an internet connection and a mobile device. They have proven to be a useful tool for crypto enthusiasts as they found new ways to earn income by lending their crypto assets on DeFi platforms. Beyond financial services, several industries including e-commerce, gaming, real estate, and sports have discovered various use cases of DeFi. Traditional finance is riddled with issues that arise...
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Company Insights
Alibaba Group Holding Limited – Enterprise Tech Ecosystem Series
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (Alibaba Group) is an e-commerce firm, which provides fundamental technology infrastructure and Internet content services that help businesses, merchants, and brands to transform the way they market, sell, and operate using internet. Its businesses include cloud computing, core commerce, digital media and entertainment, and other innovation initiatives. Its services enable businesses to establish an online presence and conduct commerce with customers and other businesses. Through its investee affiliates, Koubei and Cainiao Network, Alibaba also participates in...
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Thematic Analysis
Sustainability – The Most Important Theme for 2020 – Thematic Research
Yesterday’s business leaders focused on beating quarterly profit targets. Tomorrow’s successful business leaders will focus on sustainable profits. Public anger at the lack of action on climate change, corruption, income inequality, tax avoidance, and other social ills makes it harder for CEOs to ignore sustainability. The public is, after all, a company’s customer base. The reluctance of many CEOs to fully engage with sustainability can be attributed to the age-old view that it will hurt profits. However, according to GlobalData's...
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Company Insights
Competitor Profile: UBank
UBank is a digital-only bank that is a wholly owned but separately operated division of National Australia Bank. Founded by Gerd Schenkel in 2007, UBank has recently seen more than 10,000 new customers joining per month, growing 40% in the two years to September 2019. The bank has an app, though some features are not available on Android, while it also has a website and a seven-day telephone service. UBank also claims that its customer advocacy levels are the highest...
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Thematic Analysis
Sustainability – Thematic Research
Sustainability used to be just about saving the planet. Today it has morphed into an umbrella term for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues. While some companies are making concerted efforts to improve their ESG performance across many areas, others are simply paying lip service to the concept of sustainable profits. Momentum is on the side of the sustainability movement. Citizens, governments, regulators, and the media are turning the spotlight on corporations and demanding action. Social inequality, corruption, tax avoidance,...
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Company Insights
Enterprise Tech Ecosystem Series: Prudential
Prudential is a financial services group that offers long-term savings and protection products. Through its subsidiaries, the group provides retirement benefits and insurance coverage for various risks such as illness, death, and critical life events. It also provides investment solutions across various asset classes, including equities, multi-asset, ï¬xed income, infrastructure, and alternatives. The group offers its products and services through independent agents, regional and independent broker-dealers, wirehouses, and banks. Its operations span across Asia, the US, the UK and Europe,...
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Government & Regulation
UK Employee Benefits Market
This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the current employee benefits market, focusing on trends affecting this space as well as the challenges employee benefit providers and employers face. The report uses insight from our proprietary primary surveys of consumers and SMEs. Unemployment in the UK is at the lowest level since 1975 according to the Office for National Statistics. This means job seekers are more powerful in the current market due to the sheer number of jobs available. Having...
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Company Insights
Disruptor Profile: arc-net
Advanced Research Cryptography Ltd, (arc-net), provides a cloud-based blockchain platform for its clients and connects each and every step of their product’s journey, bringing transparency in their supply chain, ensuring product security and enabling compliance with regulations.
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Thematic Analysis
Cyber Insurance – Thematic Research
The continued digitization of everyday life has created an environment in which cyber threats are increasing in both number and severity. The continued development of cyber risks has created the need for an insurance product to protect both businesses and individuals. However, the development of cyber insurance products is still in its infancy, with products typically being designed for large corporations rather than SMEs. As a result, the next five years will see the cyber insurance market experience considerable growth,...
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Analyst Opinions
Smart Cities in Europe: Regional Status & Key Case Studies
"Smart Cities in Europe: Regional Status & Key Case Studies", a new Telecom Insider Report by GlobalData, provides an executive-level overview of the smart cities market in Europe. It delivers deep qualitative insights into the smart city market, smart city value chain, and ecosystem dynamics in the region. It also analyzes key trends and smart city projects being implemented in Europe. Smart city initiatives are developing in Europe as growing urban population and economy are consolidating the positioning of several...