It is a picture well known to many CFOs: staring at spreadsheets that won't reconcile. A regulatory deadline looming on Monday morning, but the complexity of new IFRS standards has everyone second-guessing their work. Meanwhile, your board wants a strategic assessment of a potential acquisition by Monday's emergency meeting.
This scenario plays out across organisations worldwide as approximately 83% of financial executives report facing a talent shortage according to recent surveys. The question...

The West has a complicated relationship with intellectual property. We celebrate it when it protects our inventions. We condemn it as theft when others use the same techniques we employ ourselves. Nowhere is this tension more visible than in two industries that will define this century: renewable energy and artificial intelligence.China has now played a pivotal role in the world twice through what Western companies call intellectual property theft. First, by manufacturing solar panels at a scale...

I recently read an article in the Guardian that OpenAI is looking to float at a $1trn (a trillion, yep!) valuation. My initial cynical and satirical reaction to it was:
“AI — the greatest grift: First steal millions of copyrighted works, then pay poor people $2 an hour to annotate the data, make absurd claims about AGI and curing cancer and finally float at 1trn.”
But while this may be satirical and cynical, I am interested in what is really going on, on a deeper level as well, and not only in...

I remember 2019, I was in Greece for a friend's wedding, and Beyond Meat was the most anticipated IPO of the year. As both a vegan and a stock market investor, this was a company I was deeply passionate about. I sat by my phone on the Interactive Brokers mobile app for hours, waiting for the stock to finally open for trading to snipe it at first print.
The IPO was massively oversubscribed, and when it finally printed, it was far higher than the IPO price or where I thought it would open. Nevert...

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