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Best Financial Innovation Labs 2025

Global Finance

Areas of concentration are determined in part by the lab’s “innovation radar,” a proprietary trend-indexing framework that systematically searches for potentially game-changing innovations. Perhaps most important to CTBC, though, is the use of AI in compliance management. Seventy companies applied for the program.

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The Green Investment Puzzle

Global Finance

There is no shortage of capital, but much of it is concentrated in a few mature green technologies, while more-innovative or unproven sectors struggle to attract funding. Electrified transport and renewable-energy generation sucked up more than $600 billion each globally in 2023, according to Allianz. How can both be true?

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Stars Of China 2024: Innovation Nation

Global Finance

That level of concentration defines ICBC, the world’s largest bank by assets and winner of this year’s Best Corporate Bank award. The bank leverages appreciation for Chinese culture by linking investment choices to value-added services and brand activities that promote traditional Chinese literature, education, and charity.

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Transcript: Stephanie Kelton on US Fiscal Policy and the ‘Deficit Myth’

Barry Ritholtz

And then at some point when you get to energy, you know, then all bets are off because it’s transportation, it’s fertilizer which gets food, which gets, and then it’s just, you know, we, we sort of lived that before in the seventies. But that generally involves leverage, right? We were just getting hit left and right.

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Transcript: Bill Bernstein on Navigating Uncertainty

The Big Picture

Barry Ritholtz : And footnote Roger Lowenstein, when genius failed, is so instructive, not just because of the things you are referring to, failing to learn from history, the danger of leverage and, you know, tiny inefficiencies. Because they tend to be overly leveraged and with inflation, their debts tend to get inflated away.

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Stakes Rising In The US-China AI Race

Global Finance

However, Xavier Ferràs, associate dean of the Executive MBA program at Esade Business and Law School in Barcelona, Spain, points out that China’s market and economic systems are less efficient in leveraging these investments. AI’s positive impact will be concentrated, initially, “in a limited number of sectors.”

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Members’ Profile: Rowen Pillai

CFO Talks

Rowen’s career in finance and leadership has positioned him as an influential figure, serving in executive roles across various sectors, including transportation, investment, and industrial management. Lastly, resilience and adaptability are critical.

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