The FinTech sector is red-hot right now. It is becoming a major focus for nearly all firms, from traditional financial institutions significantly increasing their FinTech investments, to the tech start-ups looking to form strategic alliances with them. As one of the leading international legal advisers in the FinTech space, we...

The flexibility and versatility of 3D printing is being spotlighted at the moment, featuring regularly in reports about innovative initiatives to support the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. At the industrial scale, additive manufacturing is coming to the fore as part of the full digital manufacturing enterprise stack, generating efficiency...

The Internet of Things collects data and sends signals all around us and a key element in automation, optimisation, management of assets and infrastructure. It can generate simple visibility of issues which were previously overlooked, or can be scaled up to drive a full digital twin of manufacturing, of interactions...

An at-a-glance view of the scores for the 26 technologies alongside the 12 highlighted in the research – considering their ratings for impact, scalability and investment level by city. Download >

Open finance and open banking has the potential to promote innovation and benefit customers – but effective and ethical implementation will be challenging.

The initial deployment of Russian troops in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions this week has escalated into a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, bringing further sanctions from the UK and the EU as well as the US. Following the swift imposition by the UK, the EU and the US of the...

Fund costs are attracting the attention of European legislators as they tighten retail investor protection rules. The European Commission issued a proposal in May this year – the 2023/0167 (COD) – on the assessment of undue costs charged to undertakings for the collective investment in transferable securities (UCITS) and alternative...

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has introduced new guidelines for investment funds that use ESG (environmental, social and governance) or sustainability-related terms in their names. These guidelines are a direct response to the growing concern about greenwashing in the financial sector, where funds may misleadingly market themselves as...

What will the Future of Work look like? Where will people work? What jobs will they do? What are the implications for real estate? Discover our predictions for the future of work in our new interactive PDF. We explore some of the main themes, so you'll find some really interesting...

Technology has a crucial role in helping consumers, businesses and organisations meet their climate change objectives, and cities and urban environments will be crucibles in which the impact, the scalability and the investability of these innovative approaches can be tried and tested. As the 26th session of the Conference of...