How is Decentralized Finance making Wealth building more inclusive?
The emerging model of Decentralized Finance enabled by technology, driven by innovation with the immense need for inclusiveness for the less privileged is changing the investing landscape by bringing inclusiveness to the "less privileged"....
What Will Go Up In A Down Economy?
What will go up in a down economy? When the budget gets tightened, what items keep their spot on the shopping list? Even as signs of another impending recession loom on the horizon, there are...
A Brief introduction to Forex trading & technical setups
For most people Foreign exchange means an exchange of one fiat currency to another when we are going to an overseas location for a vacation or a business trip to pay goods or service...
Will Blockchain Transform the Stock Market?
Blockchain can make it easier to transfer property rights and other assets by reducing transactional costs and boosting trust between investors. But can it be used by the world’s largest stock exchanges? The rules that...
Startups succeed through persistence, not miracles
Lindah Mbaisi is a versatile entrepreneur. “Queen” Lindah, a public relations professional, founded Hans J. PR and Communications. She also works at Performers Rights Society of Kenya as the member relations executive. An expert...
The International Relations Debt Crisis
By Calling in US Debt at the Most (in)Opportune Moment, China Can End America’s Ability to Enforce International Sanctions Much is made of America’s debt, a figure that sits at what seems an astounding $22...
Volatility compels calm amid the storm
Few things travel in a straight line in nature, especially the economy. While investors and consumers hope for calm, volatility is often the norm. Knowing how to survive in volatile environments and markets falls in...
Why Twitter Can’t Make Money Charging a Subscription Fee
Twitter comes in a respectable second place amongst social media firms with a very respectable 336 million worldwide active users (67 million in the United States) falling behind only Facebook, which tops the charts at 2.27 billion (242...
The Art of Quantification
When it comes to policy-making, quantification is a necessary device to discipline the field in terms of providing empirical evidence in a systematic manner to overcome existing prejudices arising due to various ideologies within...
Know about green investments to repay debts and save the environment
Going green is a popular trend. The world is facing the imminent danger of global warming and the resulting destruction. Thus, countries are taking various measures to keep the situation under control. As a...
Doing Business in China: How to optimize your operations
China is a popular business hub for both local and foreign companies. Setting a physical presence in a country that offers many opportunities for your business operations is a strategic move. It takes advantage...
Why Inclusive Wealth Index is a better measure of societal progress than GDP?
You don't need to be an economic wizard or finance guru to know the definition of GDP. Even if you never took the ECON 101 class or have absolutely no inclination the financial side...
Economy is all about including people
Modeling, data and above all, people -- Dr. Tayo Oyedeji mixes in all of these ingredients in his recipe for an all-inclusive economy. "Economic inclusion, the opening up of economic opportunities to under-served social groups,...
Be Afraid, be Very Afraid… Why Fiat is Right to Fear Digital Currency
The aim of this article is to provide an extra perspective on a section in our recent (and upcoming) EU H2020 grant bids that outlines the history and function of fiat money in relation...
Ethereum & Tron upgrades didn’t move the Cryptos
It has been an impressive run for the U.S stocks for the past nine weeks ever since the recent market bottom on the Christmas eve last year. Although Dow snapped the nine week winning...
Lightning torch initiative – spreading the word about scalable bitcoin micro payments
Crypto developers spent most of the previous year trying to find scalable solutions for current blockchain networks which can be applied to real world use cases. The most well-known & talked about is the...
How technology drives Innovation for Financial inclusion & more…
“LEARNING IS NOT ATTAINED BY CHANCE, IT MUST BE SOUGHT FOR WITH ARDOR AND ATTENDED TO WITH DILIGENCE.” ―ABIGAIL ADAMS The lesson is to keep learning with diligence. For a daily dose on Technology, Finance,...
Power Bills And Taking Control Of Your Finances
If current trends continue, overall energy costs are expected to keep rising on through 2020. As almost one in three households are already struggling to make those monthly electricity payments, keeping the power on...
The Risks & Drawbacks of the current Global Financial System
You are bound to hear two very different opinions about the current global financial system depending on who you ask, a person with a good job, nice house & a stable income living somewhere...
The unbundling & rebundling of the Fintechs
According to a recent CB insights research report, global Venture capital funded deals topped $39 billion in 2018 - a more than 100% increase over the previous year spanning 1707 deals. Fintechs are reinforcing themselves...