So much for the concept of a “borderless world of business” espoused in 1990 by Japanese management consultant Kenichi Ohmae, a former senior partner of McKinsey. In his bestselling book, The Borderless World: Power and Strategy in the Interlinked Economy, Ohmae argued national borders had become less relevant to business than ever before. Ironically, US … Read more
Welcome to the December 2024 issue of the Latest News in Financial #AdvisorTech – where we look at the big news, announcements, and underlying trends and developments that are emerging in the world of technology solutions for financial advisors! This month’s edition kicks off with the news that the retail brokerage platform Robinhood is acquiring … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. China’s national technology champion Huawei is poised to launch its first flagship phone that can run its own apps on a fully homegrown operating system, in the latest sign of how technology is splintering into … Read more
Bulgaria held its latest parliamentary election on 27 October – the seventh parliamentary election it has held since 2021. Emilia Zankina, Yuxiang Lin and Tim Haughton write that despite Bulgarian parties promising to end the political stalemate, there is little chance of the vote producing a stable government. Some elections are change elections, but others … Read more
Aolan Li* *The author is a third-year PhD candidate in Law at Queen Mary University of London. Her ongoing doctoral thesis research delves into the application of Article 6(1)(f) of GDPR from a comparative perspective. Email: aolan.li@qmul.ac.uk Photo credit: TheDigitalArtist, via Wikipedia Commons A positive spirit has spread among business-side stakeholders … Read more
