Can fintech bridge Colombia’s financial gap? Recent policy shifts and new leadership suggest it can. This article appears in the July/August issue of Global Finance Magazine. After several years of subdued growth, weighed down by weak fixed investment, high borrowing costs, persistent productivity constraints, and a complex political environment, Colombia’s next growth story is taking…
News release Innovative new proposals aim to establish the UK as a centre for the fast-growing captive insurance market. This will support economic growth, leverage the UK market’s expertise and cement its position as the location of choice for global insurance and reinsurance. Captive insurance enables businesses to manage their own risks through a wholly…
Photo by Brett Hondow, Pixabay The US federal government’s Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) has asked agencies to submit “high-impact and shovel-ready” project proposals for improving the use of technology in permitting and planning decisions, and in AI adoption. The TMF – a funding initiative created in 2017 by the General Services Administration (GSA) to modernise…
Labor markets around the world are being reshaped by powerful trends, including rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI), and population aging in some regions and youth bulges in others. AI’s impact on labor markets is multifaceted and complex: It has the potential to create new job opportunities and make many jobs more productive, but it…
In Season 1 of the TV show Severance, we learn that the main character, Mark Scout, once shared a life with his wife, Gemma, whose presumed death he mourns. In Season 2, the audience sees flashbacks of the highlights of their romantic life but also some profound pain they experienced (for example, a miscarriage). Maintaining…