News and Analysis

As of the first quarter of 2018, Twitter boasted of more than 336 million monthly active users (MAU), the key performance indicator tracked ...

Since the earliest times our social rhythm has been set by the natural world. The rise and fall of the sun and moon, ...

The 88-year-old Bank for International Settlements (BIS), a concentration of 60 central banks representing 95% of global GDP, does not like cryptocurrencies but ...

A new cryptocurrency startup, Reserve, with backing from investors including Peter Thiel and others, aims to solve one of the biggest challenges with ...

The SEC’s increasingly favorable posture towards decentralized cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ether, signals that a bellwether regulatory regime is emerging and with ...

When President Trump was elected his posture on global trade and the international system were quite clear. The campaign slogan “Make America Great ...

First launched in 2015, an update to the Lloyd’s City Risk Index, a collaborative effort with the Centre for Risk Studies at Cambridge ...

A particularly damning report published by the New England Journal of Medicine, which can hardly be characterized as fake news, shows the likely ...

Insurers are limiting how much coverage energy companies can buy to protect themselves against a major attack by hackers, potentially leaving investors, customers ...

At last week’s Blockchain in Insurance Summit, there were contrasting views about the potential for blockchain. The majority of incumbents focus on the ...

The profit motive, which has driven private enterprise since prototype multinationals emerged more than 500 years ago, such as Portugal’s Casa da Índia ...

At the Blockchain for Insurance summit in London, a gathering of major insurance players, technologists and thought leaders promoting digital transformation using blockchain, ...