Risk Mitigation Strategies in Emerging & Frontier Markets

Ralph Hamers on leading banking’s biggest digital shift: why banks must be tech-forward and how AI could redefine financial advice.

Every executive eventually hits a moment of truth. A new project, a bold expansion, a promising acquisition, and suddenly the hard questions are right in front of you: Will this venture be profitable? Will it generate cash flow? How much capital w...

Most research on social entrepreneurship highlights the positive effect of compassion on creating wealth for beneficiaries. However, while compassion drives social entrepreneurs to take prosocial actions that benefit others, the actions it motivat...

The six powerful shifts affecting a bank’s ability to operate in the future and why bank leaders cannot afford to ignore them

Switzerland has reached an uncomfortable conclusion: that UBS has become too large for the state to comfortably stand behind. The government’s plan to force the bank to hold roughly $20 billion more in capital is an attempt to close that gap, even...

Investor climate initiatives are facing unprecedented scrutiny at a time when the policy landscape is shifting rapidly, and the effectiveness of current investor actions is being actively questioned. Against this backdrop, this project reexamines ...

For much of the past decade, investor climate action has rested on a simple idea : if investors demand the right disclosures, set the right targets, allocate capital differently and engage hard enough with companies, markets can deliver economy-wi...

The structural forces reshaping global banking and the strategic decisions leaders cannot defer

The global banking industry is facing a structural inflection point. The pressure to change has been building for almost two decades. The near meltdown of the global financial system in 2008 fundamentally exposed deep vulnerabilities in prevailing...

The secondary market in venture capital is growing as companies stay private for longer, yet the market is extremely concentrated creating risks for buyers.