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The BitLocation system facilitates retail trading by providing real-time market values and, critically, eliminating the need for each retailer to maintain its own cryptocurrency inventory. Cryptocurrencies are highly volatile, meaning that maintaining inventory can quickly generate significant gains, but also losses. BitLocation will shield its retail partners from such risks.

BitLocation in talks to bring Bitcoin Trading to the High Street

By: EBR | Tuesday, October 10, 2017

BitLocation declines to name the UK firm, but describes it as one of the top-five FX retail groups and one of two in the UK it has had contacts with in recent weeks

Countries that want to achieve sustainable growth must cater for diverse forms of work and consider the rights of all workers. Our policy-makers need social innovations to fully embrace the idea of flexibility and social protection – “flexicurity” – by giving all workers the same rights and benefits, regardless of what contract they have.

3 ways the future of work can be fair as well as flexible

By: EBR | Friday, October 6, 2017

Setting the right course for labour policy in today’s rapidly evolving world of work is a complex challenge. Trends such as skills imbalances, the gig economy and digitization are transforming work so quickly that policy creation is lagging behind

A social business is a business that can create an impact on people, environment, employment and make reasonable profits that are invested back in the company. But a social business never remains a social business forever. Today, sanitation is a social business in India, but when the problem of open defecation will be solved and satisfactory sanitation facilities will be built, it will become a commercial business.

Rajeev Kher: ‘A social business does not remain a social business forever’

By: EBR | Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Social businesses are supposed to address social and environmental issues. But when the social issue is resolved, the social business becomes a business like any other, according to Indian social entrepreneur Rajeev Kher

Social Media and SMEs

By: EBR | Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Social media refers to online services that support social interactions among social media users through highly accessible and scalable web-based publishing techniques (Dutta, 2010), in order to co-create, find, share and evaluate the online information repository

The complete table can be found on pp. 11-16 of our paper. It enables firms and executives from any of the 61 economies covered to assess the magnitude of the challenges of operating in any of the other 60 economies – for instance, France is most similar to Italy, Switzerland to Denmark, and the United States to Australia. The text of our paper can then be used to gain a fuller understanding of what drives these differences.

The nine major ways of doing business in the world

By: EBR | Wednesday, September 13, 2017

A new measure for gauging and understanding the challenge of business abroad

What about younger customers who tend to think of Sberbank as a boring place where their grandparents go to open savings accounts and pay their bills? Russia now has a few branch-less banks targeting digital natives and Sberbank needs to change its image as a traditional bank in the eyes of this customer group.

Digitally enabling customer loyalty

By: EBR | Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Empowering the front lines with digital tools enables organisations to capture the hearts of diverse consumer groups

Business can help create a more collaborative and inclusive society, but first this needs to change

By: EBR | Friday, August 25, 2017

Cambridge – On whose behalf do business associations speak? Well, business. But who is “business”?

The Rise of Digital Workers

By: EBR | Friday, August 18, 2017

As more digital freelancers find work through online labor platforms, taxing their income will become increasingly difficult

Trust in the age of AI: We need cybersecurity by design

By: EBR | Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Artificial intelligence (AI) is making speedy progress in acquiring skills that were previously regarded as exclusively human

Although it may sound ominous, a dark pool is a legal mechanism typically used by large traders. It is an automated trading system that doesn’t display orders to the public; a consolidated tape of trade execution details is released at a later point. Available shares are deliberately not advertised; buyers are matched via automated systems only when sellers are present. Prices are gleaned from the lit market. But some dark pools offer varying degrees of pricing to the publicly quoted prices on public equity exchanges.

The dark and the darker sides of the market

By: EBR | Friday, August 4, 2017

Total transparency in financial trading can be costly

Given the great diversity of stakeholders’ interests, be they governments, advocacy groups, industry associations, think tanks or community organizations, a bespoke strategy for engaging with each group is required. To communicate its narrative, a corporation must take every opportunity to regularly check in with its constituents, to be present in relevant conversations and to join and actively participate in germane initiatives.

We’re losing trust in business. How can we get it back?

By: EBR | Friday, July 28, 2017

Business is “on the brink of distrust”, declared Edelman’s Barometer earlier this year.

The One Belt One Road project already has $1 trillion of projects underway, including major infrastructure works in Africa and Central Asia. Ahead of the Beijing summit earlier this month, the China Development Bank had set aside almost $900 billion alone for more than 900 projects. China’s Big Four state-owned banks extended an estimated $90 billion in loans to the economies related to the initiative last year alone.

China’s $900 billion New Silk Road. What you need to know

By: EBR | Friday, June 30, 2017

You’ve probably heard of the Silk Road, the ancient trade route that once ran between China and the West during the days of the Roman Empire. It’s how oriental silk first made it to Europe. It’s also the reason China is no stranger to carrots

Yet since the law was implemented, Airbnb growth has exploded. According to the website Inside Airbnb, the number of listings in Berlin has increased by 54%, with over 7,200 new listings for a total of 20,576 — the most ever in Berlin. But even more ominous, the number of whole homes/apartments listed – which the law was specifically designed to curtail – has increased by 45% to 10,289 listings. So 50% of Airbnb listings are still for entire homes and apartments.

How the Berlin government could rein in Airbnb and protect local housing

By: EBR | Friday, June 30, 2017

If Airbnb knowingly facilitates criminal activity, it should itself be treated as a criminal enterprise

Agencies are crucial partners in driving growth and navigating a complex and still-expanding array of technologies, channels, and platforms

How to get the most from your agency relationships in 2017

By: EBR | Monday, June 26, 2017

Executives who know how to set up and manage agency relationships are best positioned to improve their marketing ROI. As January draws to a close, many of our New Year's resolutions have already faded.

As government regulation catches up and technology improves, recycling and conservation will become more profitable and reverse supply chains can proliferate. When the ownership of collected data is finally clearly defined by laws, then the interoperability of IoT data can take hold to increase its efficiency. As the CE expands into different sectors of the economy: farmers may remotely monitor their crops and use GPS guided tractors to perfectly plow and harvest, Governments can prevent depleting fish stocks by tracking fishing boats with IoT, energy companies can share their energy production responsibilities by attaching a connectivity-enabled solar panels on city roofs, in the infrastructure sector GPS guided driver-free smart cars can reduce congestion by taking optimal routes, in health care $1.1 trillion a year of value can be created with remote health care in monitoring chronic-disease patients, etc.

Turning the linear circular: the future of the global economy

By: EBR | Friday, June 2, 2017

Institutions, both in the private and public sector, can always reap the public relations benefits of doing good, even while still accomplishing their goals. As resources become scarcer, a major way to enhance social performance is through resource conservation, which is being underutilized

The current administration is also considering withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement which makes the likelihood of future international commitments to energy innovation less likely. And it has proposed steep cuts to the federal government’s energy innovation programs. Ernst & Young cites Trump’s executive order rolling back Obama’s climate regulations as one of the major developments behind the U.S.’s drop in its rankings.

Does Silicon Valley still care about climate change?

By: EBR | Thursday, June 1, 2017

Earlier this month, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins began the process of separating its cleantech investing from the rest of its fund

Even well-financed entrepreneurs still face other obstacles, some of them due to their own lack of experience. There is little formal education for entrepreneurs and only a handful of networks that support start-ups. Gender bias, too, plays a restricting factor. Nearly every economy in the Middle East and North Africa has at least one restriction that hinders women’s ability to get work.

Why it’s time for the Arab world to unshackle its start-ups

By: EBR | Monday, May 29, 2017

In a start-up hub in the heart of Cairo, some of the Middle East’s brightest minds are turning innovative technologies into exciting business models

Germany, Spain, the UK, France and Italy “lead the field in installed wind capacity across Europe” – the report says – and the European solar market has increased by 15 per cent of installed capacity in 2015.

Over 9.4 million people employed in the renewable energy sector

By: EBR | Friday, May 5, 2017

More than 9.4 million people across the world are now employed in the renewable energy sector, according to a recent whitepaper published by Allen & York, a leading technical recruitment consultancy.

”We don’t need a physical TV. We can buy a $1 app ’TV’ and put it on the wall and watch it,” Zuckerberg told USA Today ahead of his keynote. ”It’s actually pretty amazing when you think about how much of the physical stuff we have doesn’t need to be physical.”

Mark Zuckerberg: The end of smartphones and TVs is coming

By: EBR | Friday, April 21, 2017

It's no secret Mark Zuckerberg is pinning Facebook's prospects on augmented reality — technology that overlays digital imagery onto the real world, like Snapchat's signature camera filters

Once you have an idea, talk to your close friend and family about it. Then bring it outside your comfort zone and present it to people who might have experience in a similar field. Don’t be discouraged by the criticism. At the end it’s your idea, you believe in it and you go for it. It’s much easier to convince investors or donors once you are convinced yourself.

Q&A with Vietnam’s inspiring Social Entrepreneur of the year

By: EBR | Friday, March 31, 2017

Newborn babies shouldn’t die of cold or jaundice or breathing problems. But the technology that is readily available in the West - such as baby-warmers for premature or sick newborns - is inaccessible to millions of people in poorer parts of the world