The first quarter of 2021 witnessed increasing institutional involvement in cryptocurrencies and public companies Tesla and Square join Microstrategy in adding Bitcoin to their balance sheets. Source: CoinDesk
Suhail Ahmad is one of UK's leading fintech entrepreneurs, a venture investor and trusted adviser to entrepreneurs and executives. Founder of the Financial Network, a group of companies and strategic partners that together form a boutique multi-disciplinary business advisory and investment firm.
Would you do a Vegan Christmas?
Would you consider a meat-free holiday season? I’m all for a beef-less Wellington with a few glasses of Nosecco. UK supermarkets (and around the world) there is a growing drive to provide more vegan options to support sluggish retail sales as consumers (finally) are being healthy and environmentally conscious.
Business Blockchain Solutions
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is on a path to disrupt many aspects of business and society that deal with the coordination of information and trust. DLT has the potential to become the new layer for economic value transfer within the modern technology stack (also referred to as the internet of value). It also has, through […]
The Impact of AI in UK
The UK was the crucible of the Industrial Revolution and is one of the crucibles of the Intelligence Revolution. It is home to world-beating artificial intelligence (AI) companies and world-class academic centres of AI research. It is well placed to reap great overall economic benefits from the development of AI, but it is not yet […]
London Emergence As Fintech Ecosystem
In the early days of fintech, much was made of the potential of start-ups to disrupt the retail banking industry winning over customers on the virtue of improved user experience and capitalising on a decline in levels of confidence in banks following the Global Financial Crisis (GFC)1. London proved to be a remarkably fertile ecosystem […]
Islamic Fintech Startups in UK
The Islamic Finance Industry holds much promise, with assets expected to reach $3.9 trillion by 2023 according to Thomson Reuters, however, Islamic Fintech is at the very beginning of an exciting, transformative journey for the industry, one still dominated by largely domestic and OIC-based financial institutions. A young, digitally native Muslim demographic that is on […]
UK Market-Based Finance
Ultra low rates, new regulations and the need to invest in updating their businesses mean many UK and global banks are struggling to make their cost of capital. This will drive changes to firms’ business models as they look to improve efficiency, resilience and customer experience. Technology is enabling unbundling of activities which historically were […]
The Immersive Economy in UK
Although immersive mass market products such as consumer headsets are perhaps most visible, business-tobusiness applications of immersive are also significant. We asked survey respondents what sectors they operated in. Almost two-thirds also identified other ‘non-creative’ sectors. Training, education, health and tourism are mentioned most often. A small poll of large organisations in Immerse UK’s network […]
Major Players In Fintech Ecosystem
Expansion, disruption and competition are the defining themes of our respondents’ outlook for 2019. The race is most definitely on. “It will be the year when more digital banks and platforms come of age, driving more competition between traditional high street banks and amongst themselves,” said one leading fintech. “Big banks will start stepping up […]
Financial Services Startup Bootcamp
The FinTech sector is not immune to changes in broader market sentiment or geo-politics – and 2016 was a year of unusual volatility. Eurozone anxiety is set to continue with elections in many countries looming large in 2017. In fact, investment in FinTech globally held up remarkably well during 2016. Innovate Finance data suggests there […]